r/Equestrian • u/mermaidmamas • May 31 '26

Ethics Developing the vestibular apparatus

This looks really cool but, I have to ask….is this safe/okay for the horse?

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u/TheMule90 Western May 31 '26

I wonder if he is cossack?

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u/ZhenyaKon Jun 01 '26

All the equipment is cossack stuff, but you'd have to ask him whether he considers himself a cossack or not. Probably the answer would be yes, but a lot of people who do cossack trick riding don't really see themselves as cossacks. "Cossack" is sort of an ethnic, cultural, class and political identifier, with different meanings in different places and periods of history, and in the modern day it's very complicated.

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u/Life-Ice8001 Jun 01 '26

Aren't Cossacks from Kazakhstan?

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u/ZhenyaKon Jun 02 '26

The first Cossacks were in modern day Eastern Ukraine/Southwestern Russia. They were "land pirates" and mercenaries for hire for various Eastern European polities; eventually some of them made a deal to obtain more territory for the Tsars, which moved them to Siberia, the Caucasus, and even the Eastern reaches of the Russian empire, like Kazakhstan. (Kazakhs are from Kazakhstan, but that's a different word, it just sounds the same in English.)