How...

...Dick Francis gave up being a jockey. Well, this was the year before he retired.

He's clearly going to win. Clearly.

Commentator: "Devon Loch can't lose."

It looks like something spooked him (Don't worry, he wasn't injured).

So...

...it's a tradition at Hindu weddings for the groom to ride to meet his bride on a white horse.

This guy can't ride, and that was clearly known from the fact that the horse's handler (probably, she rents horses out for just this purpose) was leading it in a halter, but the horse freaked out - perhaps something to do with how he landed in the saddle?

Either way, oops.

Riding on Rotten Row...

...is still a thing, but it didn't go too well for one of this group. (I think it's the local Pony Club doing a rally).

...can't catch me!

No sympathy...

...for the guy who jumps on a burro (not a wild donkey as the video says, these belong to somebody and are just being run on the range). Of course, he picks the jack!

This is literally...

...how all supplies get to Phantom Ranch. Yes, everything. Actually, these guys are coming back - hauling trash!

I just wanted...

...to share a herd of itty bitty Shetlands representing their breed!

Yes, they do come in every color!

Wow...

...they didn't even get to the start. Apparently a line broke, but...yeah.

Ow....

...sit back!

More longears...

...mules doing one of the things they do best. And cowboys showing off. The one who ended up hanging off the tail deserved it! ;)

I needed...

...the cute. So I share.

Who doesn't want...

...to be chased by that!

Grump

What a grouch - not sure what's going on here, but a distinctly grumpy horse who doesn't seem too fond of the horse on the other side of the fence.

How...

...not to treat a foal.

Some of what this guy is doing is fine. Some of it is pushing a weanling too hard, and the neck tether with a rope like that is pretty dangerous if the foal panics. And...he's going to injure the horse with pulling its legs sideways like that.

(If you're looking at the foal's ears - it's a Marwari horse, they come that way).

Splash!

Quite embarrassing. And apparently it was cold too.

Zoooom!

That's a roadster. You know the origin of "buggy" was the bugs that would hit you when going that fast...

I just...

...adore these gorgeous draft mules. Look at those big fellows.

Scary!

Even scarier than my riding incident yesterday - I got taken off with. By a draft cross who was kind of mad with me for making her do her job. That's worse, though. Apparently the jockey was not seriously harmed.

This is...

...insane. I don't know how these guys manage to do obstacle courses with a full-size four-in-hand in this arena!

Just for ridiculousness...

46 horses hitched together. 46. One driver.

Look at that...

...for pure horsepower.

Who can do dressage?

I can, says the little draft pony!

I needed...

...a foal playing football. Do you need a foal playing football?

Thud...

...ow.

He says he was going too fast, but it's more like he and the horse took off at different times...