[ SECRET POST #1046 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1046 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

THIS goes into effect starting with Submissions Post 151, as secrets were posted before the poll went up last week.

Secrets Left to Post: 15 pages, 353 secrets from Secret Submission Post #150.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2- not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [
1 2 3 4 5 6 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[eastcoastfilly.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, the outsider-looking-in deal. There's probably masses of story I'm missing. And if I made friends with an avid equestrian fan and took them to the track with little or no knowledge before the fact, they'd probably wonder why I'm getting so riled up about this trainer or that horse when their odds are saying nobody else is. ^^;;;

Cross country is actually pretty fun to watch. It's like the horses have to be so restrained and formal most of the time, but they actually get to run and be natural for cross country. The jumping events fun sometimes. They mentioned a couple of people with retired racehorses (now there's an idea I can get behind! Adopt and retrain a racer!) and one guy last year tried to pull some kind of rodeo cowboy routine to get a jump and his horse ended up crashing through it (he technically blew it, but it was fun to watch! Gutsy, too!).

But, I try to watch dressage every time and it's like the same thing over and over. I wait for someone to come out to music I actually recognize and wind up with one routine after another to opera and classical music. The last Olypmics, they made a big fuss out of one of the riders who paid a ridiculous sum of money to have a rather boring piece specifically composed and written for his routine...I couldn't watch anymore dressage after that because it just turned me off. It probably isn't any different from atheletes that pay ridiculous amounts of money for special swimsuits, shoes, or sports equipment, but it sounded so stupid. I want to reach through the TV screen and shake them. Lighten up! Blast some rock music! Have fun!

I probably should have rephrased it. Cross country and jumping are fun, but the dressage just leaves me shaking my head sometimes (okay, let's see if my foot-in-mouth disease acts up and gets dressage fans on me...^^;;; )

[flax.livejournal.com]

Haha, out of curiosity, do you work with horses at all or just follow racing? OTTBs are common in most horse sports, though not necessarily at the top levels except maybe in eventing. But hey, Hilda Gurney, who's a big name in dressage in the U.S. retrained Keen (http://www.usdf.org/halloffame/inductees/profiles/keen.asp) who was a retrained racehorse, even!

... But you are too late, I am a die-hard dressage rider! And I find horseracing super boring to watch, actually, but I do understand how tiresome dressage can be for the uninitiated. ;) Unfortunately, the music for freestyles is a little like in figure skating — I think riders and audiences alike would enjoy more fun music, but the judges and standards are very conservative (don't get me started on the judging wank, lol, the last Olympics were so mishandled), so they penalize riders for getting too out there, and also, I believe lyrics have to be relatively limited by the rules. :( But even so, people do fun things occasionally — Steffen Peters uses Safety Dance in his current one for his main horse Ravel, and Debbie McDonald, who just retired, had one with her horse Brentina that used Aretha Franklin's Respect. :D But you're right, dressage does have a long way to go in shedding its boring/stuffy image with outsiders, and I don't think the coats and top hats help.

Equestrian sports at the Olympics tend to be pretty ... um, lame, though. It's the World Equestrian Games you want to check out — more events and more important in some ways! Here, this video made the rounds back in the day even on non-horse sites and had people frothing about it, if you haven't seen it and it doesn't get you at least bopping along with it IDK what to tell you. :(