The Kentucky Horse Park is the venue for the first ever on US soil International Equistrian Championships. This park is 1200 acres of everything "horse" including a jumping complex, hall of champions, carriage barn, breeds barn, international museum of the horse, steeplechase course, race track, tack and farrier shop, draft barn, (not beer), american saddlebred museum and you name it, it's here all spruced up for the expected crowd of 300,000.
We watched a show at the breeds barn which started out with our colors and the Star Spangled Banner proudly displayed and sung. A display of various horses and what those breeds are known for.
What absolutely blew us away was these two young Aussie men who trained two horses in four months to work together in unison without halters, ropes, saddles or being restrained at any stage of their demonstration. These pictures tell their story. There were many other tricks displayed but these were the most unusual. This horse let Dan stand on it's chest while it played dead!
See the whips in both hands of the rider, these are cracking over and around the horses heads and bodies and they don't even flinch. This is a very vulnerable position for the horse lying down and the standing horse has side stepped over it and Dan mounted it and then side stepped away.
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