LOL Lets not even go there with the attraction between girls and horses *sweet smile*

Seriously though, it is an aesthetic thing, to watch the control and grace of a horse as it goes through its paces in a dessage routine. My favorite event to watch though, is steeplechase.

But as far as dressage goes, it is more than just the grace of the finished product. It is the fact that every individual gait, from the pirouette, to the collected canter, the piaffe, takes not just hours, but weeks and months to train a horse to do. A good dressage horse takes 3-4 years of intense training before they are ready for their first show. The horses you see competing at the Olympic level have been trained for years for this one moment, and even after all those years of training, it still five to six and pick em whether they will panic when entering the arena, or whether they will give their rider the performance of their life. Not to mention the fact that it is extremely physically demanding on the horse. After a 5 minute dressage course, the horse is ever bit as lathered as a racehorse after a mile sprint.

But its more than just a display of beauty. "Beauty" is quantified by the horse maintaining the proper pace, leg position, ease of transition from one gait to the next things like that. A good dressage routine is not only meausured by its beauty, but by the skill with which gaits are carried out.

But, I do love a good rodeo too though. But well, I have to admit, when I watch a rodeo, its not the horseflesh I'm ogling, its all those men in chaps. Nothing says SEXY like a well worn pair of chaps.

And thanks too for the compliment to my writing