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[quote=Anonymous]As a horsey person, I hate that this is a thing.  It is a way to make money off people who don't know anything about horses, but it is terrible for the horses themselves.

Riding a horse on deep sand is horrific for the horse's legs.  This is NOT the same as riding in a carefully manicured arena that uses shallow sand.  Deep sand causes the horse's fetlocks to move in ways they wouldn't normally move, and forcing a horse to do this every day for hours is going to cause injuries.  Especially if the horse is "ridden" by people who are inexperienced riders, and will be sawing at the horse's mouth and shifting their weight all over the place as they attempt to balance themselves.  The horses used for these tourist trap money pits will be placid, older animals that are gentle enough to take daily the daily abuse of trudging through deep beach sand while carrying inexperienced riders, and it will break the horses down quickly.  Nobody cares about the horses themselves: they will forced to keep going when they develop wind puffs and other injuries, and discarded when they finally succumb to the inevitable, more serious injury.

And all the while, the tourists are thinking about how "romantic" it is to be riding a horse on the beach.

I've seen various such horses/riders on various beaches, and I can always see the results on the horses' legs (which are NOT apparent to people who don't know horses: to you, everything looks fine).

I hate the owners of these horrible enterprises.  If you care about horses, do NOT do this kind of thing.[/quote]

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