Grand Prix show jumping is a physically and emotionally challenging sport for both the horse and rider. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader about Grand Prix Show Jumping. The following information will answer questions regarding six topics. This research paper will provide a brief history of Show Jumping, and explain why it started. Second, it will describe what Show Jumping requires and what Show Jumping is. Third, it will tell where Show Jumping occurs. Fourth, it will state how Show Jumping has changed. Fifth, it will share who the athletes are today and who the top horses and riders are at the Grand Prix level. Sixth, it will inform the reader of when Grand Prix events take place. The Grand Prix is the highest and most difficult level of Show Jumping. This sport requires that the horses be in excellent physical condition. Jumping at high levels puts a lot of strain on their joints and tendons, so it is important not to overwork them. With so much strain on their bodies, one false step could result in injury. Show Jumping originated in Europe. During the Middle Ages, the Greeks included jumping horses in their military exercise. A three-day event occurred that reflected the range of challenges horses faced in the army. In England, Show Jumping was derived from fox hunting. Throughout the eighteenth century, Great Britain passed Enclosure Acts, meaning that wealthy owners of land could build stone walls along their property lines. Fox hunters adapted and
Upon one’s initial glance the sport of barrel racing might seem as though it is a very basic, straightforward, and even easy sport to achieve a high level of success. However, barrel racing is exactly the opposite. To be a highly skilled barrel racer it takes far more than just agility, strength, and trust from both the horse and its rider. It takes a great deal of patience to learn, be taught, and to have trust in every aspect of this sport. This is a fast paced sport that requires a great deal of dedication, skill, and motivation from every competitor, and horse, regardless of their age or skill level. Along with the above stated skills comes an extremely high level of danger, that I sadly got to witnessed first hand. Every aspect of this
Rodeo is popular throughout the United States and is the official state sport for South Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, and Idaho. People think we are just entertaining the people and think the animals are physically provoked to make the cowboys look more impressive (Nielsen 1). Really that isn’t true its really how good of a hand you are and how well and experienced you are riding an animal. Some people make their horses hard in the mouth pulling back to much and that isn’t a good hand on a horse. A good hand on a horse has their horses mouth super light so with a little touch of the foot and rein your horse will turn a complete circle without pulling hard.
Horse Racing is very contronsival topic. Horse Racing is 39 billion dollar year industry. This is ,major sport and has a lot revenue. There are many people who go down to track and bet on these horses as entertainment day. It is filled with good times, booze, and gambling. All the thing you need to have fun. However, what happens to the horses?
Shasta Trampoline Club is renowned as being one of the most successful trampoline programs in Canada, but as the sport progresses, the club needs to advance the development of its athletes and increase the depth of the club to maintain the club's reputation for excellence. In the past fifteen years, there has been an influx in the number of trampoline clubs throughout the country. As these clubs gain traction, Shasta Trampoline club has maintained fairly stagnant and as a result, fewer members of Shasta Trampoline Club are qualifying for International competitions than ever before. With your permission, I propose to investigate new club developments that will improve competitive results. Having been an athlete at Shasta Trampoline Club for over ten years and recently transitioning to Shasta Trampoline Coach, I have an intimate knowledge of the club and its members, giving me the experience and expertise needed to conduct this research.
According to society, Equestrians are jockeys that race around a track. But to anyone who’s actually ridden or has a passion for horses, you know that there are two distinctive styles of riding - English and Western. There are both similarities and differences between the two types of riding. Regardless of the style of riding people participate in or favor, each world of riding opens up various activities for the rider to enjoy.
To evaluate conformation and gait analysis, an example of a thoroughbred racehorse was examined to show structure and balance; good conformation within perimeters; way of going through photographic evidence to support gait analysis. The horse is a 6 year old, 15.3hh thoroughbred racehorse who has a good pedigree, has won and placed in races on
“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” -Winston Churchill. Horses not only inspire their riders, but also the spectators. The art of equestrian is generally disregarded as a competitive sport. Being a rider not only takes raw talent but also devotion, skill, concentration, knowledge, and strength. With a variety of riding styles, it’s difficult to express which one is superior to the others. There is tension between the horsemen with different riding styles; each believe their accomplishments take more skill. Western Pleasure riding and English Hunter Jumpers are two distinctive techniques with diverse characteristics, but
Horses are trained by Heidi’s interns in basic dressage and jumping, very different from their past of galloping counter clockwise around a racetrack.
The all time favorite,most popular, and the one that poses the most danger is the high wire. High wire is the same as tight wire but at much greater height. Although there is no official height when tight wire becomes high wire, generally a wire over twenty feet high will be regarded as high wire act. Traditionally, the difference is in style of performance. Usually they will only use a pole to help balance them as they walk across, but have been known to also use a bike or unicycle too. The reason why this is the crowds favorite is because it takes a great deal of skill,fearlessness, and just the high risk of death it portrays. Many of people have in fact died doing this, and died doing what they loved to do.
Sports presented an opportunity as a release for England’s community. The utmost popular sport was bear-baiting which first became business in the mid 1500s. People's lives involved bull baiting and arenas formed to host these spectacles. Additionally, Philip Henslowe establishing a dedicated animal fighting arena in Thames shows how crucial the sport had become (Alchin “Elizabethan Bear & Bull Baiting”). The noisy, blood arenas
Shows will consist of bull riding, bareback and saddle bronc riding, steer dogging, calf roping, team roping, tie down roping, women’s breakaway roping, barrel racing and kids mutton busting.
In this manner, I will acknowledge the oppositions argument against the event’s cruelty; my broad understanding of the issue will instil some level of confidence in readers. A contrasting conjunction will be used however, to cut across the positivity that will be created and will hint at the author’s position on the issue; that the Melbourne Cup is cruel. Aiming to appeal to the audience’s sense of empathy, the excruciating training undergone by the ‘two-year-old horses’ will be explained with the consequences listed: ‘torn ligaments and tendons, dislocated joints and even fractured bones’ and ‘excessive stress’. This building up of sympathy prior to the introduction of the arguments will invoke in the audience the want to halt this cruelty already. The commonly recognized phrase ‘the race that stops a nation’ will be used effectively to convey the author’s point of view on the issue, serving as a pun. Intending to create guilt in the readers, the celebration on this day will be shown to cost the lives of the horses. Rhetorical questions will be utilized to belittle the opposition’s arguments, leaning on the side of sarcasm. The use of reputable sources such as the University of Melbourne, the RSPCA and the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses throughout will provide shocking statistics that support arguments, this will evoke moments of agreeance in
Since my parents are directly involved with horses they enjoy participating in these events and so do I, they are fun to watch and not to mention I love to ride horses. This community is heavily passionate about what they do it’s their hobby and also their life they take care of their horses every day. They express a feeling of joy with their animals and try to share it with the audience by competing.
2 and 3D Video techniques - following a large racehorse performing high-speed over-ground exercise over long distances (Khumsap S., 2004).
Marketing a new product requires strategic planning and research into the target market. The equestrian market is vast in size and diversity and is often underestimated by businesses (Graham-Suggett, 1999: 31). Due to the range of disciplines and activities covered by this market, targeting just one group could lead to increased sales through word of mouth