05/18/2025
Taylor Unke breakaway is too morbidly obese for that horse, A rider plus tack shouldn't weigh over 250 pounds or 10 to 20 percent of the horse's weight and she's clearly over that limit. When you're wider than the horse, then you're too heavy. This puts undue stress on the horse's joints especially when it has quick starts and stops. The PRCA, CPRA, and WPRA need to have a weight limit requirement for rodeos for riders. That poor horse. These plus size ladies need to lose weight before they even think of getting on a horse. Is the CPRA, PRCA and WPRA afraid of hurting some morbidly obese persons feelings instead of looking out for the health and safety of the horse? These women think it's ok to put that much weight on the back of horse and run it into the ground and destroy the horse. Lose the weight, then get on the horse or go do something else that isn't going to injure a horse. Rodeo isn't for plus size women or men. It puts too much strain on the horse competing at a high rate of speed. There's an epidemic of morbidly obese women in break away because they can't barrel race and it's lazy because there's no physical exertion required just throw a rope. The horse does all the work. Breakaway seems like something that kids would do as a competition not grown women it seems so juvenile to just throw a rope over a calf's head with a flag. Redding Rodeo May 16 2025 perf 3 It's abusive to the horse to put morbidly obese women or men on their backs and these rodeos aren't doing anything to protect the horse. She's going to ruin that horse.