Horse farm in the Netherlands determines the weight limit: women are allowed to weigh up to 90 kilograms, men heavier - but why?
Horse farm in the Netherlands determines the weight limit: women are allowed to weigh up to 90 kilograms, men heavier - but why?
Strong weight restrictions on the Dutch Reiterhof ensure excitement
The happiness of the earth is on the back of the horses, they say. So off to the saddle and relax. In the Netherlands, this becomes a problem for some. Why?
At first, one or the other will think safely: "Tell me nothing about the horse now!" After all, this good, old saying stands for it when you get something, what you think is untrue. But the operators of a equestrian courtyard in the Netherlands make serious and bind their guests - in order to stay in animal language jargon - absolutely no bear.
If you do not meet a specific condition, you are not allowed from horse. Ride painted! A real excitement. And in the truest sense of the word a thick thing.
It is even black on the house rules of that Reiterhofs in Glimmen in the north of the Netherlands: "We allow a maximum weight of 90 kilos for riders and 100 kilos for riders". This happens, according to Simone Lameijer, employee of the horse farm "de Bongerd", in the Dutch daily "de Telegraaf", "For the good of the animals." If you want in the saddle, you have to weigh on the scales in Glimmen - with clothes. It will be weighed. After all, you don't sit without clothes on the horse.
Background of the curious action: Due to the Coronavius pandemic, many riders would have increased some weight. Too much for the operators of the Reiterhof in Glimmen - in two ways: too many kilos. And to have too much to have understanding for that. Therefore, every woman who weighs between 91 and 100 kilograms is sent away again. For men, on the other hand, the horse has remained taboo from 100 kilograms. Where is the difference, whether a woman or a man weighs 91 to 100 kilograms? That is probably in the stars.
"Our members only want the best for the horses, so fortunately they understand," quotes "de Telegraaf" Reiterhof employee Simone Lameijer, who also says that it makes a difference whether an experienced or even inexperienced rider is in the saddle. In experienced riders, the pounds would rather make up less. Riders who don't have as much experience would be shaken more easily and bang the horse with its kilos on their backs.
It was difficult to set a weight limit, the report says. After all, not every horse is the same. One tolerates more, the other less. But the obligation to climb onto the scales first and then - at best - also to get on the horse. Even a slim rider who believed that she did not have to be weighed was not avoiding this procedure, Lameijer explains: "We don't want to make any difference, so everyone stands on it."
And some of them endure the - sorry for this pun. Just like in the case of a rider that the riding stable can certainly say that it is too heavy. The happiness of the earth on the back of the horses in glimmer in the north of the Netherlands remains failed. Instead, the person concerned has agreed that he is going hiking three times a week for the time being.
"Then he can come back soon", Reiterhof employee Simone Lameijer is sure ...