Comments on: Featured Video: Bareback, Backwards Reining

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:45:37 +0000

Outstanding! Whether you love horses or don’t know anything about this event, you gotta appreciate the talent of both horse and rider to have achieved THIS performance!

By: Marion

Marion — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:01:46 +0000

All you negative nellies out there, you wish you had one tenth the knowledge, skill and ability to ride and train like Dan James. For the most part, there was slack in his reins, maybe not like a pleasure horse, but he wasn’t on the horses mouth! Take a good look at some of the upper and even middle class dressage horses, you think those riders aren’t on their horses mouths! Look again!

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:03:09 +0000

Really, your all complaining and tearing him down over his reins being tight and the bit being harsh, WOW!! That is the most impressive freestyle reining I have ever seen. I have never ever seen anyone attempt to ride a horse bareback and backwards and be able to to lope, flying lead change, spin and slide stop. I thought they were absolutly amazing together!!!

By: Merri

Merri — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 07:10:45 +0000

Amazing, would love to see the critics do this, and the horse was not in pain, give it a break, look at all the competions where the horses are held so tight against their natural headset…hope he and his horse won…

By: Kendra S.

Kendra S. — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:10:53 +0000

So you can ride bareback…backwards and cue your horse(FROM THE GROUND)to spin with just your arms but you can’t ride your horse without a bit??? Yeah…..that makes sense.

By: Cowboy

Cowboy — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:38:08 +0000

The bit is tighter than I have mine for my horse. But what do you say bout English riders whose horses are foaming at the mouth from that horribly tight but & unnatural head set? Really, that Smart Little Élan doesn’t look bad.

By: Nothing good about it

Nothing good about it — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 05:18:58 +0000

Sorry, but if it is necessary to use the reins so much and in such a hard way to make the horse stop or slide, there’s nothing about it that could be called “amazing”. It’s just misusing the bridle and causing innecessary pain to have some kind of show effect. A shame that no one seems to bother that the poor horse really is in pain every time he’s forcing it stop – don’t you all see how it’s opening his mouth trying to evade the pain on his tongue?

By: diane

diane — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:55:17 +0000

Amazing!

By: Marion

Marion — Thu, 22 May 2014 11:51:11 +0000

Just awesome, I’ve seen it on FB and Dan is just the greatest and so’s his horse!

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Mon, 19 May 2014 06:04:41 +0000

OMG, I’m addicted. Can’t quite watching the video.