On Aug 15, 2:18*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:20:26 -0400, Dave Smith
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> >On 15/08/2012 3:26 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
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> >>> An elderly aunt gave me some good advice many years ago: "Never marry a
> >>> woman who has horses. *The horses will *always* come first!"
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> >> Auntie wasn't lying... of course woman-horse love is normal... there's
> >> good reason for the adage "hung like a horse". heheheh
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> >And the male horses that most girls may ride are gelded, so that thing
> >is little more than an ornament.
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> >The horse riding world is a puzzle. When I was a kid there were a lot of
> >westerns, in the movies and on television. They were ridden almost
> >exclusively by cowboys and other males, rarely by women.
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> Dale Evans... many of the westerns from the '50s featured females
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> >I took up rising in my 50s. The stable were I rode had only two male
> >riders, me and another guy who was about 40. There were more than 50
> >female students, many of them teens or younger.
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> >When you go to local schooling shows the competitors are almost all
> >female. I was usually the only male competing, and there would be 30-40
> >females from age 8 to 60. *When you get into the regional competitions,
> >the male participation increases from less to 5% to maybe 15%. The
> >higher you go in the horse show world, the higher the percentage of
> >males. When it gets to the international level it is about 2/3 male.
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> Then why are all jockey's male... and polo players?

There are a number of female jockeys.