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Mucking: Demeaning or meaningful work? Posted: 25 Jan 2010 01:27 PM PST A gripe about today's youth (and their parents/mentors) ![]() Enter Horse Hero and UK eventer Wayne Garrick! Once again I'll put in a plug for Horse Hero -- lots of videos, great topics, big names, sprinkled with humor. In this video, "Mucking out shavings ('Ritz' style) with eventer Wayne Garrick," we see that in the good old U.K. at least, top riders don't see mucking stalls as beneath them. Wayne's words echo the way I feel about mucking. It's important work. Horses work for us and we should repay them the favor. Look, if you really don't want to muck a stall, EVER, no one will make you (well, unless you have a good trainer, parent, or coach who wants to help you become a horseman/woman, not just a rider). If you really want to know horses, you have to take part in the widest range of tasks and jobs that are part of their world. Even the unglamorous ones... |
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