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Post by horselady on Apr 12, 2015 18:09:21 GMT
thehorseaholic.com/guy-mclean-and-spinabbey-accident-at-equine-affair/i read about this this morning and thought i would share. no matter who rides or who is the trainer who plans on doing what accidents happen. this one happened and thankfully both are ok. i read it in shock and keep playing the video over and over to see what happened. as Guy explained he felt (saw) the horse change leads which he should not have done. no one will ever know why. and the result was a change in direction and instead of jumping the arena wall Spinabbey crashed into it. their angels were on their shoulders protecting them.
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mistersmom
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Post by mistersmom on Apr 12, 2015 20:01:52 GMT
I saw it as well. I'm so glad everyone is ok. It was a good thing Spinabbey didn't jump the wall or else those specators would have been injured. Just shows you that even the best trainers/riders do have problems occasionally.
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Lipizzan
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Post by Lipizzan on Apr 12, 2015 20:21:05 GMT
Maybe the horse was going for a exit or light got him confused. I always think how it must be for a horse that is naturally a pray animal in a arena full of people that scream and shout, then all that light and comoshion.
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Post by hugs on Apr 12, 2015 21:45:40 GMT
Wow, I am so moved by the way Guy describes his relationship with his horse; of course, he is a poet
That is just amazing what happened and from what I gather the horse might have though he was cued to change leads then perhaps realized maybe not but still he thought his dad wanted him to hit the wall and by golly that's what he was going to do. Loyalty only begins to explain that.
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Post by horselady on Apr 12, 2015 23:45:50 GMT
From what i have been reading he noticed the horse changed leads. i think he might have felt off balance and when guy realized the horse was going to jump the wall than he turned him. you can see the horse waver just so slightly. he would have tried to jump that wall. and thankfully he did not. and no one was hurt.
When i saw him for the first time years ago i was just going to listen to a aussie person and rest my feet. and sit after shopping and seeing many clinics that day. well 10 minutes into his demo i was nailed to the bench. i could not move. i was in awe of him and what he was saying and doing with those horses. I saw him throw tarps at them and i saw him work them at liberty and i saw him ride one horse and have the others work as a team, he also had one horse lay down and the others stand over it and than he went under them and lie down next to the one that was on the ground. no ropes no tension to make them obey. they do it out of love and the willingness to listen to the man that loves them in return.
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Terry
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Post by Terry on Apr 13, 2015 16:46:33 GMT
Thanks for sharing that link, horselady. I had seen lots of well wishes posted on Facebook, and I had read what Guy McLean wrote on Facebook, but this was the first time I'd seen the actual video. WOW! What a scary situation! I'm so glad that both horse and rider will be ok.
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