I never much liked horses, cows have always been a great deal more appealing to me somehow.
It struck me that dressage riders aren't really being pushed to their limits - surely an elegant trot and canter half-pass on a thoroughbred Lipizzaner is going to be a doddle compared to doing it on a two-ton Friesian.
It would also be nice to see cowboys and cowgirls acting with their beasts rather than against them.
A canter piroutte ought to be within the reach of the average Jersey, more complex manouvers such as the croupade might be left to more agile cattle such as Corriente.-- wagster, Sep 01 2009 Dressage? What's that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DressageIt's horse riding for show-offs. [wagster, Sep 01 2009] Camel Dressage http://www.youtube....watch?v=CnsWQ4kNG-wPerhaps more likely [csea, Sep 01 2009] Bull dressage (2007, CGI, fiction) http://www.youtube....watch?v=W9wh3kyMKJUIn Schweppes ad. [jutta, Sep 01 2009] largest Fresian ever http://www.google.c...t&resnum=4&ct=image [dentworth, Sep 02 2009] It's a start I suppose... http://3945.org/Bla...esMongo%20small.jpg [DrBob, Sep 02 2009] The next generation will get it down patty. http://www.kountryl...om/gallery/8671.jpg [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 02 2009] Percheron dressage http://www.youtube....watch?v=nqOEbp6CUMo [normzone, Sep 02 2009] Dog dressage (?) http://linkusblesst...6/dog-dressage.html [normzone, Sep 02 2009] Dict: Def. Cavalry - def http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cavalry [Dub, Sep 02 2009] I always thought it would be interesting to teach a horse (or cow...) to do the dressage routine on its own, without a rider. The judges would be so confused! (In fact, any horse competition would be funny without a rider - racing, cross-country, fox hunting.)-- neutrinos_shadow, Sep 01 2009 excellent!-- po, Sep 01 2009 In my experience, cattle do not have the brainpower to learn any reasonable sort of choreography. A more suitable animal is the camel [link].-- csea, Sep 01 2009 Passage and Piaffe are ideal for making butter, too-- Dub, Sep 01 2009 "I Can't Believe It's Not Lipizzaner" [+]-- FlyingToaster, Sep 01 2009 //cowgirls acting with their beasts//
Hah!-- skinflaps, Sep 01 2009 //two-ton Friesian//
Sounds like a lotta bull, to me. From memory, the heaviest bovine ever recorded was a Chianina bull, at just over 1700kg.-- UnaBubba, Sep 01 2009 I voted against, don't think its even remotely possible-- dentworth, Sep 02 2009 I voted for, don't think its even remotely possible but worth a try!-- DrBob, Sep 02 2009 I've always wanted to build a pyramid of living cows, balancing on each other's backs like cheerleaders. Cowgirls acting with their breasts! ...excellent idea[+]-- xenzag, Sep 02 2009 You did pretty well building a non-living cow.-- wagster, Sep 02 2009 Chilli is certainly tall, but much lighter than I imagined he would be, [dentworth].-- UnaBubba, Sep 02 2009 //Cow dressage//
I'm assuming the cow would wear something in a floral pattern?
//Cowgirls acting with their breasts// What, you've never seen the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders in action?-- RayfordSteele, Sep 02 2009 I usually watch the udder cheerleaders... umm... as you were.-- UnaBubba, Sep 02 2009 I've always thought that elk had dressage potential. I have ridden bareback on a Belgian, but a dressage rider I am not.-- normzone, Sep 02 2009 Would the rider be a Bovalier?-- Dub, Sep 02 2009 I googled that word, struck out, came back here to ask you (wtf?), and figured it out looking at your anno again.
I have seen a photo of a girl riding a bull cross country, with a bar through his nose for a bit, but she wasn't making him do flying lead changes.-- normzone, Sep 02 2009 Brings a whole new meaning to the word "dainty". I'll give you a bun, but I'm not sure why. Must be the visuals. (doesn't jutta's link kind of bake this?)-- blissmiss, Sep 02 2009 I would think more like preheat. I think to bake something you have to do it, not just fantasize.-- normzone, Sep 02 2009 [normzone] What //Bovalier//?I made it up. But figured along the lines that a Cavalier rides horses "Cavalry" (//French cavalerie, from Italian cavalleria, from cavaliere, cavalier, from Old Italian; see cavalier.]// Linky) and cattle are Bovine - Thus Bo-prefix-- Dub, Sep 02 2009 Yeah, I got there starting from chevalier and bovine. But you had me thinking I was about to learn something new at first.-- normzone, Sep 02 2009 Sorry.-- Dub, Sep 02 2009 Maybe 'boefier', to use a French rather than Latin base, would be a better analogue for 'cavalier'. The Latin would be more like bovarius.-- spidermother, Sep 03 2009 <sings> This is the dawning of the age of Bovariuuuus - Bo-var-iii-uuuuuuuuusss...-- egbert, Sep 03 2009 Heh [norm], to me they are the same.-- blissmiss, Sep 03 2009 Wow, what a linkfest!
[jutta] - That's *exactly* what I had in mind.-- wagster, Sep 03 2009 Cavalier [French, horseman, from Old Italian cavaliere, from Late Latin caballrius, from Latin caballus, horse.] is a mounted soldier or a knight.
Chevalier [Middle English chevaler, from Old French chevalier, from Late Latin caballrius, horseman; see cavalier.] means horseman but when used as a title it is equivalent to a knight.
I have enough experience to be a horseman, but I have not been knighted. I don't speak any french either.
There must be french equestrian equivalent term(s) for cowboy, rider, hacker, trail rider, etc.-- normzone, Sep 03 2009 I like your Canage link. [wags] B...But... that's bull!-- Dub, Sep 04 2009 + oh yeah.-- xandram, Sep 07 2009 *feeling cow-ardly she changes her vote, It's moooot afterall.*-- dentworth, Sep 07 2009 halfbakery