I’m UK and yep, size 14 on a 16.3hh ISH. To be fair, I’m at that age where it’s difficult to shift weight despite exercising outside of having horses, but yep, I was referred to as a bigger girl
it’s fair enough - I’ve weight to shift but I was surprised as I’m also 5’10 so not short and stumpy! That’s actually ridiculous unless your horse has a health issue like arthritis. How patronising to call you a ‘bigger girl’ too. Rude.I’m UK and yep, size 14 on a 16.3hh ISH. To be fair, I’m at that age where it’s difficult to shift weight despite exercising outside of having horses, but yep, I was referred to as a bigger girl
I saw a girl on TikTok the other day who was a uk 10 and told to go back to the showjumping yard she has applied for when she lost weightI’m UK and yep, size 14 on a 16.3hh ISH. To be fair, I’m at that age where it’s difficult to shift weight despite exercising outside of having horses, but yep, I was referred to as a bigger girl
Jumped fence 9 after fence 3 and got eliminated and her de-brief is just so refreshing!Does she do carrot chopping lives? She’s a bleeping twit, if you can't handle people asking questions tiktok live isn’t the place for you. She always avoids questions and work and how she affords all the horses.
Yes!! Like especially when she claims to be ‘educational’ but then if anyone asks a question she will literally call them stupid and be rude and mute or block them!
I wonder if she would have said anything if you were a male rider weighing a similar amount.
Counselling will help you extricate yourself from your mum and develop your own relationship with food (genuinely!)
Looking at the size of her, she’d most likely be eligible for ozempic to help her keep it off long term. Loosing weight is very hard and many have complicated relationship with it. But that being said, it’s so unfair on the horses who will most likely develop their own health issues
100% does! I knew her before this wimpy bollcoks and she is an out and out chav
I just don't understand it. The judges are enabling animal abuse. I don't give a flying about her rights to be huge or whatever she would say, and her cronies. If she wants to kill herself by being so disgustingly overweight that's fine, but her horses should not have to carry her. How she can look at videos and pictures and not see it is beyond me. And how much must she physically eat every day?!
maybe they are wakening up to her. But then gets 74.4% this week and that judge is right.This is ridiculous, I’m 5’8, 11 stone and a size 8/10
it's not that ridiculous... being too heavy for a horse doesn't mean overweight, it just means too heavy. A 6ft muscular man could easily be too heavy despite being very fit. I would assume they've set that weight based on the horses/ponies they have available, and probably underestimated as more novice riders will "ride heavy" by being less balancedThis is ridiculous, I’m 5’8, 11 stone and a size 8/10
But that is the very point - many who may want to ride may not fit the requirements, and that's okay. It's not for the riding school to risk the welfare of thier horses and there needs to be a (excuse the pun) one size fits all approach to make it fair and easy to stick to. Everyone agrees that the rider weight issue is important but some get itchy feet when they realise they're close to or over the weight limits being imposed - there's plenty of hypocrisy around it. I think the main issue is that horse riding isn't seen as a sport in the same way others are - so riders/athletes often aren't putting in the homework of training, balanced diet, conditioning to perform when in the saddle. Plenty think as long as they can get up in the saddle, it's okay - as seen with the state of some topics of discussion here!!This is ridiculous, I’m 5’8, 11 stone and a size 8/10
