How to break your horse to drive...

Put (half of a) harness on.

Lunge for five minutes.
Hook up to cart.

Apparently this is how these people start a driving horse.

It might have been less of a disaster if the harness had fit. Or been complete. But clearly this horse needed more preparation. And because the harness wasn't complete, the horse was able to repeatedly get itself into trouble.

I hope it took them a long time to repair the cart...

Sometimes...

...the best thing to do is just to bail.

Even if it's a long way down.

Ow.

Sour? Sore? Either way, this racehorse was not about to tolerate running today:

Spectating...

...can be very dangerous sometimes.

Ow.

Oh my...

It does seem that I'm posting a disproportionate number of driving crashes; but when things go wrong in harness, they really go wrong.

As this demonstrates.

There was nothing either driver could do. Nothing. Check your equipment is the only take home lesson I can dig out of this one.

I Love...

...how the commentator completely ignores what's going on in the ring.

He just keeps reading his script...

Ah, ponies...

Little...white...ponies...



I know one that looks very similar...who does that to kids all the time. Ooh! Grass! YANK.