Videos tagged with "actual"

This is our song, and this one's for you ♥ [03:07]
So I went riding yesterday and came out with some ok clips. Yes, before you ask I'm stil riding Amazonic. I'm not gonna let one little fall knock my confidence, I've been riding for too long to let that happen. Amo was being a total star until we came to the last fence of our jumping course. Once again, she refused. I wasn't happy as I'd thought she'd have got over it by now. The jump was around 2ft maybe? Yet she still refused. My instructor lowered it (not for my benefit, but for the horse's - which is the most important thing) and she went over it smoothly. I'm sure she has a slight fear about big fences but I'm not exactly sure why. But, oh well! Nevermind, it was still a great lesson. I actually got told to get into a "jockey position" which is basically just a jumping position without the jump, hehe. First in trot, then in canter. Amo was such a happy pony after her extended canter. Being an ex-race horse who can blame her? I bet she misses her racing days, eh? We've also had a great and exciting surprise come to us on the 21st of April. Check out the "Little John Paddock's latest edition" video to find out! :D
Tags: Horse, Pony, Show, Our Song (song), Horses, Jumping, Riding, Dressage, New, Equestrianism, Equestrian, Hunter, Jockey

Jonathan Horowitz Announcing the 2012 Kentucky Derby at a Bar [00:55]
Interesting Kentucky Derby story... I was at a bar called the Green Room in Philadelphia watching the Derby. The bartender and some people at the bar asked me to announce the race, and so they turned the volume down on the TVs and had me commentate. The bartender took this video of the end of the race. I was actually quite pleased with my call announcing twenty horses off a TV in a bar. Before the race I approached the bartender with an empty beer glass saying, "I'll Have Another." She poured me another drink but refused to book my bet! I'm looking forward to returning to Arapahoe Park outside Denver starting at the end of this month. I will resist the temptation to call the races from a bar at the track.
Tags: Bar (establishment), Horse Racing, Race, Sport (Industry), I'll Have Another, Jonathan Horowitz, The Green Room, Philadelphia

WSH/ St. John 4/28/12 & 4/29/12 [02:56]
READ READ READ So I took Tora to his first gaming show of the year, and he did AMAZING. I went in not expecting him to do more than a trot/lope through with all his patterns, but i let him go his own pace and he did great. Obviously the first barrel run we messed up, and it was my fault for going to fast. & unfortunately my camera died after my 2nd event haha but he ran all new PRs. he is definately going to be going to more gaming shows this year. Also i ran at St. John on sunday with apachce, and if it wasnt for our knock in key we would have won high point. oh well, he ran really good for me and had the fastest time in barrels by over a second. no complaints for his first show off of an injury as well as his first actual hard running show of the year. I love my boys.
Tags: horse, horses, barrel, racing, gaming, ast, bay, paint, aqha, apha, pinto, pole, bending, cal, stake, arena, race, riding, pony, appaloosacrazy17

Stall handler gets kicked in head!! [00:14]
This poor guy gets properly back ended by a horse that actually won the race 10/04/12
Tags: horse racing

PC MPP John O'Toole speaking at Queen's Park rally for Ontario's horse racing industry [00:40]
On Monday, March 26, members and supporters of Ontario's horse-racing industry showed up at Queen's Park en masse to protest the Ontario Liberal Government's decision to close slot parlours at a number of provincial raceways and inexplicably walk away from the mutually-beneficial and highly-successful slots-at-racetracks contractual partnership. With buses from all over the province converging on Queen's Park, more than 1500 individuals, including MPPs, representatives from all of Ontario's horsemen's groups and other political representatives, congregated in order to let elected leaders and the mass media know that the industry will not take the Liberals' hasty, misinformed, and reckless decision in stride. In closing multiple raceway slots parlours and planning to step away from the economic machine which is the slots-at-racetracks program, the Provincial Liberal Government has essentially taken the stance that employing 60000 Ontarians, raking in more than $1.36-billion in direct annual revenue, and creating $2-billion in annual economic impact for the province is not worth trumpeting, let alone saving. Finance Minister Dwight Duncan has been falsely referring to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Slots at Racetrack revenue sharing program as a subsidy. His claim is that the Government has been providing a $345 million annual subsidy to Ontario's Horse Racing Industry. In a recent fundraising email to supporters, the Ontario Liberal Party suggested that they are "choosing ...
Tags: Ontario, Horse Racing, Horses, Breeding, harness racing, OLG, thoroughbred, standardbred, quarter horse, Liberal, Dwight Duncan, Andrea Horwath, Tim Hudak, farmer, farming, agriculture, casino, gambling, bet, Dalton mcguinty, jobs, employment, racetrack,