| Hunt seat is a forward seat style of riding, the seat that you ride
in the Hunt field. There is no difference to the US style and the
UK seat. What do you call it?
Saddleseat is still "english" but the horse moves in a completely
different frame. The gaits are still walk, trot and canter (for
a three gaited horse, rack and slow gait added for a 5 gaited horse)
However, instead of a long low frame, the horse carries his neck
upright. His shoulders and legs do not reach out they go up. There
is much motion in the front, the higher the better. The horse is
very much off of his front end and carries much of his weight on
the back end. The hind legs must have action too which leads to
either English Pleasure or Park. English pleasure is a horse that
you would like to take down a trail, supposedly. He does not have
to have extream action or behave like a dragon (a lot of steam!)
This is penalized. A Park horse on the other hand is all show horse
the higher and more powerful the movement the better. These horses
often look like they are ready to explode (they sometimes do to)
The controlled energy is achieved with finesse on the riders part,
and makes for a very exciting class.
5 gaited horses are also exciting, but I do not know if they are
divided into pleasure and park. The rack and slow gait are very
smooth gaits with legs on the same side moving in the same direction
very much like the pace. The rack covers much ground and is
specifically a gait down by Saddlebreds. American bred, this horse was
developed in the south to be a large stylish but extreamly comfortable
horse (it is!) They have good free moving shoulders and they can
really move out.
The saddleseat style itself is very different. The rider sits farther
back to help the horse get the weight off of his front end. Long
toes and weighted shoes encourage the horse to pick up his feet. The
tail is "set" by either severing the muscles in the tail (now illegal)
or using a false tail called a fall. The saddle is low with no
deep seat and is cut back at the withers. The dress of the rider
is formal with long coat with matching pants, derby hat, gloves
and boots.
Show Hack classes here will hopefully follow along the same lines
as what you have in the UK. This is what it is supposed to do,
and it probably does in the Hunter world. However hunt seat in
the Arab world is a small section and that's where the difficulty
lies.
Hope this helps, if anyone out there can fix my mistakes or add
to please do.
regards,
stephanie
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Hunt seat is a working seat for jumping and flat work.
Saddle seat is Park riding, horses who have sometimes
flashy gaits but are not used (in that saddle) for jumping.
The saddle seat saddle is bigger and flatter, often with
a cut back pommel.
I wasn't offended by the cow-poo remark, I thought it was
funny, so I threw in the remark about side saddle. :)
Sherry
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