Like father like daughter! Video of Thai girl riding horse to school goes viral

[webfact]

Like father like daughter! Baibua is following in cowboy dad's footsteps!

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thai social media was widely sharing the story of a seven year old Thai girl in Songkhla who is following in her dad's footsteps in becoming a cowboy - well cowgirl!

 

Baibua - real name Kornkanya Thapnakha - has just started the second year of primary (P2) at the Thetsaban 2 Orn-Uthit School in the southern Thai province. 

 

After school she goes to the beach where she helps her mum sell ice cream and helps her dad run a business giving rides to tourists. They are based at Laem Samila beach. 

 

She was seen on social media riding her favorite horse - Jao See Thong - or "Golden", aged 10. 

 

She said that she doesn't go to school on her horse - but she does ride him all the way home.

 

Proud dad and aspiring cowboy Wanchalerm Thapnakha, 33, said that Golden has a great disposition and is ideal for his daughter who has been riding since she was four. 

 

He lets her do a seven kilometer round trip alone on Golden as she is already an accomplished cowgirl...even at age 7. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-05-29

Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info

 

 

[Briggsy]

Her father is not a cowboy. He hires out ponies for walks on the beach.

 

Cows are usually herded by Burmese in Thailand on foot or perhaps from a beat-up Honda Wave waving a long flexible stick and shouting a lot.

Edited May 29, 2019 by Briggsy

[steven100]

10 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

Her father is not a cowboy. He hires out ponies for walks on the beach.

 

Cows are usually herded by Burmese in Thailand on foot or perhaps from a beat-up Honda Wave waving a long flexible stick and shouting a lot.

he's a wannabe cowboy ....

[Mexlark]

How about we just call him a wannabe rhinestone cowboy?

[jaiyen]

She should be wearing a helmet !

[Raymonddiaz]

It's good to get some good news , bad news are so depressing.

[Artisi]

5 minutes ago, Raymonddiaz said:

It's good to get some good news , bad news are so depressing.

This is news, you're easily pleased..... 

[PatOngo]

1 hour ago, Mexlark said:

How about we just call him a wannabe rhinestone cowboy?

Better still....a nine stone cowboy!

[Vacuum]

3 hours ago, steven100 said:

he's a wannabe cowboy ....

...but realized that 'real work' was involved.

[Vacuum]

1 hour ago, jaiyen said:

She should be wearing a helmet !

Sand is soft...

[Dumbastheycome]

I am sure that if it rained naked virgin women there would  be copious numbers of TVF  diehards who would  complain they did  not arrive with kegs of cold beer !

[dunroaming]

3 hours ago, Mexlark said:

How about we just call him a wannabe rhinestone cowboy?

how about praising him for a good PR exercise.

[marquis22]

2 hours ago, jaiyen said:

She should be wearing a helmet !

Also, shorten the stirrups leathers so her feet are in the stirrups. Very dangerous if the horse shies and she falls off, her feet would probably not come out of the stirrup leathers and she would be dragged along with head dangling on the ground or kicked by his back legs.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, Vacuum said:

Sand is soft...

She was riding on the road... concrete is hard!

[monkeycu]

6 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Her father is not a cowboy. He hires out ponies for walks on the beach.

 

Cows are usually herded by Burmese in Thailand on foot or perhaps from a beat-up Honda Wave waving a long flexible stick and shouting a lot.

 

Screaming while riding a beat up bike is a Thai thing or so I thought

The only difference is the Burmese work

[khaowong1]

More like ponies than horses.  This is a horse.  

[marcusarelus]

10 minutes ago, khaowong1 said:

More like ponies than horses.  This is a horse.  

 

Yall need to read this.  https://www.wikihow.com/Tell-a-Horse-from-a-Pony

Edited May 29, 2019 by marcusarelus

[gk10002000]

9 hours ago, jaiyen said:

She should be wearing a helmet !

Not wearing a helmet starts early in Thailand, be it for scooters, mopeds, bikes, horses, etc

[Tomahawk21]

16 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Sand is soft...

so are thai heads 555

[robertson468]

She also needs to be taught the rising trot for the benefit of both herself and to make life a little easier on the horse.

[wotsdermatter]

On 5/29/2019 at 11:17 PM, robertson468 said:

She also needs to be taught the rising trot

Depends on the style of saddle used.  Have ridden horses in many different countries, the rising, aka the posting trot, is not used in most because the saddle is inappropriate.  For example, the rising trot is rarely used on the U.S. and Australian saddles, the traditional Japanese saddle and on many eastern saddles.  Also, the rising trot is not used in some styles of riding and a lot depends on which type of trot the horse is in.  A prime example of that is in high-level dressage where it is definitely frowned upon.

'nuf sed

[lonewolf99]

I went to the link site about ponies and horses - it shows a "hand" lengthwise as being 4 inches and being the size of a grown mans hand.......wrong.

A hand is across the width of a hand i.e. edge to edge.

Good old wiki - never ceases to give duff info.

As for helmets on horses - waste of time. Falling from 6 feet up at speed was the demise of Christopher Reeve - "Superman".

Horses are deadly, they kill and cripple more people than any other animal. Here is a better link about how deadly.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-38592390