Most rodeo bucking horses are either geldings or mares. They have no testicles.
Bull riders ride steers as well as bulls. The steers buck just fine. Steers have no testicles either.
There are multiple references on this subject, including proper methods of putting on a flank strap, veterinary articles, and photographs. All of this is easily found.
There. You're standing there with your pants around your ankles, shoes four feet long, and a honking red nose, all because you have the kind of mind that cannot be bothered to actually find out if something is true or not before shooting your mouth off in absolute certainty of your rightness. I wish you were the only one.
Happy now?
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All right.
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- In defense of the rodeo
- An article on rodeo bulls
- Watch these 10 rodeo bronc riders in 2010. Notice the strap around the testicles.
- Now bull riding. Watch the fellow pull up the strap around the testicles as the gate opens.
- Those are flank straps.
- See that strap back there? The one over the testes? That they pull at the last moment?
- All right.
- Absolutely the best demonstration of willful ignorance we could have. And it's only one of many.
- You aren't that stupid and you aren't blind. So what is it?
- Why is that cinch strap around the testes pulled when the gate opens? Why is that strap there?
- That strap around the testes, with the quick release feature, that is cinched when the gate opens, is for what?
- All right.
- Well, what do you think that strap around the testicles is for? The one that's tightened as the gate opens?
- 5 seconds of viewing would show you two straps. One pulled at gate opening.
- See that strap back there? The one over the testes? That they pull at the last moment?
- Those are flank straps.
- Now bull riding. Watch the fellow pull up the strap around the testicles as the gate opens.
- That actually helps me alot TB
- Watch these 10 rodeo bronc riders in 2010. Notice the strap around the testicles.
- You'd absolutely love bullfighting.
- Barrel racing is fun to watch.
- Nice post. Thanks!
- An article on rodeo bulls
