Matt Mathews decides to attempt to educate Kail Lowry to barrel race…
… and it doesn’t go nicely.
Monday already is the crappiest day of the week, so it solely is sensible that we make issues official. Right here’s our newest “oh crap” second.
Watching somebody be taught to experience is all the time a raffle. Watching somebody be taught to experience on digital camera, with confidence ranges wildly exceeding expertise, is a present. And when that somebody is Kail Lowry and the trainer is Matt Mathews (whose instructing fashion can finest be described as supportive chaos with a southern accent), nicely… you buckle up and say a small prayer for the everybody concerned.
This video has every part: enthusiasm, questionable steering, verbal encouragement that will or might not qualify as emotional injury, and a rider who’s clearly rethinking each life alternative that led to this second.
Matt is attempting. Kail is attempting. It ends… not nicely. It’s a kind of stunning, unfiltered equestrian moments the place ambition meets actuality at pace, and actuality wins by a landslide.
To be honest, Kail was a reasonably good sport. She did are available and try and do the work that goes together with driving a horse (even when her response to selecting out the hooves was hilarious). And Matt tries to clarify the caliber of horse she’s about to experience (“It is a skilled barrel horse. Okay. So this isn’t identical to cutesy — this ain’t the 95-year-old ribby horse that you simply rode on the seaside in your little trip. This horse has a job. He is aware of his job. He loves his job.”)
You’ll be able to see the complete video right here:
Go forth and deal with your Monday, Horse Nation.
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