As an equine major the majority of my writing in classes are reflections. As a sport most of the learning is slow and comes from trial and error. However, now using other resources in teaching like articles and books to add onto the physical learning helps speed up the process. I think by adding both the mental and physical repetition to our learning allows for reflections to be used to reinforce the learning. Reflections give students more time to process what we just learned and try to fully wrap our heads around a sport that is mainly learned by physical aspects.
As a future professional in the equine industry most of the writing I will need to be doing will be business related. Professionals find themselves writing everything from ads, to sales contracts. Ads are simple and seen everywhere, however creating boarding, sales, lease, and lesson contracts require a full understanding of how to protect themselves and their business from liability that comes with the sport.
In the media people don’t get to see what the equine industry is really like. In movies all you see is a emotionally damaged teenager who gets sent to an aunt or uncles farm and somehow with no past horse experience tames a wild horse and wins a rodeo to save the whole farm. That is not reality. Sadly it is really all people see. In reality the industry is full of hardworking equestrians who have been working day in and day out to create top athletes. In the media the expertise in the industry is very misrepresented to were it seems like anyone and everyone could figure this horse thing out.
I think the job is exciting in real life, however the media doesn’t show it for what it is. Yes it is tiring and hard and you work in every single type of weather condition just to maybe place well in a class but by no means is the equine world boring. There is always something going on. The media makes each equine experience look like just a simple bond between a girl and her horse, and while that is a part of it. Most of the industry is making good bond with other professionals and allowing yourself to make a good reputation. Frankly when real equine professionals see people who act like horse people in movies try to join in on the community, we laugh at them and they are totally disregarded from the competitive world as a whole.
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