GotCow wrote:
See N Spots, you keep using ballet as the human equivalent of Western Pleasure and I just can't agree. I think ballet demands a lot more from the human body than WP demands from a horse's body.

I never actually compared ballet to western pleasure but thank's, I think you've hit on something there...LOL. We are talking about showing in western pleasure versus goin out on the back 40 on old blue aren't we????

I'd envite you to frequent a good western pleasure trainer's facilities and see the amount of muscle building needed for this discipline. No, they are probably not going to get down in the dirt and chase a cow and win anything in ncha but then again, a good cutting horse probably couldn't collect himself up and lope around an arena and look good doing it.