What IS this video about???

[STF]

Umm, what is the purpose??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVjC_-hx4i8&feature=related

[BoyleHeightsKid]

I don't know...but aren't there a lot of videos on YouTube like that? ;)

[Wellspotted]

It's about a brown horse leading a man in a red jacket across a stable yard. ;)

On a more serious note, Babel Fish says that "etalons" is "standards", and I think Tarbes is a city/town/region in Gascony (south of France)? And when I Googled "Etalons de Tarbes" I got some hits about Arabians, specifically Al Hfifa Arabians, and when I told Google to translate their Web page I learned that apparently "etalons" are "stallions."

So, apparently the video is about a brown (Arabian?) stallion leading a man in a red jacket across a stable yard. :cool:

[cheekyhorse]

LOL!! Why do people post stuff like that??

[~Freedom~]

It's about a brown horse leading a man in a red jacket across a stable yard. ;)

So, apparently the video is about a brown (Arabian?) stallion leading a man in a red jacket across a stable yard. :cool:



This is what I got also and a not very well behaved stallion also.

[grayarabpony]

The horse doesn't look Arabian; perhaps he's Anglo-Arabian, a popular breed in France.

He doesn't look well-behaved but he is beautiful and athletic.

[Liz Steacie]

says that "he is happy". So presumably it's just to show the man leading a "happy" stallion across the yard ;-)

[slc2]

It's a very busy place with a lot of noise, where a horse is behaving a little bit like a horse.

[~Freedom~]

It's a very busy place with a lot of noise, where a horse is behaving a little bit like a horse.


That is what makes my horse special, he would never do that. Good temperament training and all that stuff.:)

[hitchinmygetalong]

Looks like a stallion show with a horse either (depending on who is interpreting the VERY short clip):

1. Showing his "fiery" nature, or

2. Being an ill-mannered jerk.


I vote #2, and I believe the poor soul on the other end of that horse's shank would agree! :yes:

[erinwillow]

It's about a brown horse leading a man in a red jacket across a stable yard. ;)

On a more serious note, Babel Fish says that "etalons" is "standards", and I think Tarbes is a city/town/region in Gascony (south of France)? And when I Googled "Etalons de Tarbes" I got some hits about Arabians, specifically Al Hfifa Arabians, and when I told Google to translate their Web page I learned that apparently "etalons" are "stallions."

So, apparently the video is about a brown (Arabian?) stallion leading a man in a red jacket across a stable yard. :cool:

"etalon" means "stallion" :D and under the heading in the info section the poster of the vid has written "Lui il es joyeux". . which say "he's happy". . so. . .there you have a few second clip of a happy stallion . . oh and lovely haunches he has :winkgrin:

[hitchinmygetalong]

"Happy" or not, those kind of shenanigans should not be tolerated. It's one thing to have a stallion strutting his stuff, but rearing and leaping is dangerous to both the horse and the handler. I don't find anything admirable about it.

[slc2]

I don't find anything admirable either, but if it's a video of what i think it is of, that's a very knowledgeable handler and he knows how to handle his horse, and if that's how he handled it, that's the right way to handle it. I saw a couple things like this in France and visited some huge stud farms handling hundreds of breeding stallions - they know how to deal with their horses. They discipline them and the horses behave remarkably well in general.

But I also think it's silly to claim that there is ANY horse that would 'never do that'. Even a perfectly trained older horse will act up from time to time. Unless it's dead. The old saying - the only horse that will 'never kick' is a dead one is true. Any horse will jump around from time to time.

[grayarabpony]

I think the caption should read "energetic" if you want to put a positive spin on the video. :winkgrin:

[angel]

I don't find anything so horrible about this horse's behavior. He has probably been couped up in a stall the last 24 hours. Sure, it would have been better had he kept all four feet on the ground. But, this horse was only playing up a little...not striking, not kicking out. The horse coming around next is doing some of the same sillyness. The handlers are really not too concerned about the degree that the horses are playing up on the lead. Better to let a stallion play up a little in this controled fashion, than to shank them and beat on them until you make the behavior worse and more violent, just because the stallion begins to resent what is being done.

[~Freedom~]

But I also think it's silly to claim that there is ANY horse that would 'never do that'. Even a perfectly trained older horse will act up from time to time. Unless it's dead. The old saying - the only horse that will 'never kick' is a dead one is true. Any horse will jump around from time to time.

That is the joy of having a one in a million. Too bad SLC you never had that opportunity.

[goeslikestink]

Umm, what is the purpose??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVjC_-hx4i8&feature=related

simple its about selling a french neddy - ha ha or using him for mares haha

would i , nope, why. the bloke in read isnt attractive enough haha

[~Freedom~]

nope, why. the bloke in read isnt attractive enough haha

Oh my stinky you need to read this thread from post...59 onwards. You want something hot....hmmmm

http://chronicleforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=127906&page=3

[STF]

Well being I handle a few stallion, collect them, etc. I have to say, NO feet are to come off the ground at me or they "see Jesus, St. Paul and St. Ann". But....... some babies test their boundries from time to time. Even when I go collect Puerto, he gets uppy, dances and does his "Im gona get some" dance down the barn isle (beautiful piaffe - passge in hand, BTW). But he is about to collect.... and he knows it. During non breeding time he is like a big dorky gelding. *rolling eyes*

But that video did not make sense? The little turd is just jumping around and those front feet are a bit to "free", IMO. I was wondering what it said, but still...... could not figure the meaning of the video or what they were trying to show.

LOL

[egontoast]

The handler looked totally cool. I don't think it was any big deal to him.

The horse looked high more than rank.

I was expecting to see something a lot wilder than that to cause a thread to be started about it.

[MelantheLLC]

Same reason they post this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hprcaQ5xsUk)

If you look a few pages into the user's videos, there are a bunch of short ones from this event, which appears to be a public presentation of the stallions of Tarbes: (http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-3679639-tarbes_tarbes-i)

The town's only real highlight is the Napoleonic stud farm, Les Haras, entered from chemin de Mauhourat (guided visits by appointment only: July & Aug Mon–Fri 10am–noon & 2–5pm, plus occasional days otherwise; last tour 1hr before closing; tel 05.62.56.30.80; €5.50), best known for the cheval Tarbais, bred from English and Moorish stock as a cavalry horse. You can watch them drilling during July and August at 3.15pm.

Learn something new every day! A great little vid series, thanks for pointing it out!

There's a pony stallion acting up just as much. ;)

[Ajierene]

If you look at the very first few seconds of the video, there is a chesnut in the background that rears up a bit also. The chesnut is facing the dark horse in the foreground so there might have been something sudden going on that unsettled the horse.

You do not know the age of the horse, either. This could be a young horse that has not been to a lot of outings or what have you.

As far as why it is on Youtube - why not?

It could be there because someone put it up there to show a group of people. I know a few people on this bulliten board that have put videos on Youtube specifically for a thread.

It could be there because someone thought it looked cool and they wanted to share it with the world.

MelentheLLC - we posted at the same time! Thanks for the added info!

[STF]

Ok, then I need to get a short video of Puerto when I take him to the breeding area. He turns into an 19h, piaffing, prancing idiot. Yet afterwards, walks back on a long rein like a horse that just got a sedative shot.

[NoDQhere]

Ok, then I need to get a short video of Puerto when I take him to the breeding area. He turns into an 19h, piaffing, prancing idiot. Yet afterwards, walks back on a long rein like a horse that just got a sedative shot.

Amazing how quickly they go from SUPER STUD to old fart on the couch having a smoke, isn't it? :yes:

[slc2]

he's trying to tell you what he wants to spend his time doing...

[InsideLeg2OutsideRein]

I vote #2, and I believe the poor soul on the other end of that horse's shank would agree! :yes:

I thought the guy looked rather relaxed iand in charge of the general direction the two of them were going... :winkgrin: