Ummm you clearly have never been to Timefaults at Spruce Meadows. Don’t worry the sex and infidelities are covered for sure
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It reminds me a bit of the Dressage horse Anne Romney sold, at a profit, that was lame
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I considered it, to donate my eggs
So did I until they told me I was too old. 
I guess 32 year old eggs aren’t as viable?
More at risk of genetic defects
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She was the first person I thought of when it was mentioned that his face was disfigured from cocaine. Hard to believe how much damage it can do.
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What is the purpose of that exactly?
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This is not HSD
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In the spirit of derailing and six degrees of separation, she moved into my old place in Essex.
Absolutely trashed it.
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Jeepers, it’s a small world. Anytime I think of someone trashing a place I immediately think of Katie Price and what she does to any property she gets her hands on. Anyway, back to scheduled programming (though she’s slightly horse related). 
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I think this is a useful time to repost this gif to this thread… it’s a running theme…
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I’m about 50 replies behind so maybe it has been said, but I can totally see wealthy clients getting swindled out of two horses exactly thus:
Dobbin#1 purchased, Dobbin#1 sucks. Trainer (Eric) tells owner, listen sometimes it takes a little while to figure out new Dobbin’s prep, or maybe he needs 30 days u/s with pro for a tune up, or maybe it’s just taking a little while for you two to gel. Let’s get him in full training and IN THE MEANTIME, let’s buy something else that is more turn-key so you don’t miss too much time showing/don’t get too far behind on equitation points/qualifying lists/etc.
Purchase Dobbin #2 to presumably act as the “good enough for now” mount at horse shows while owner has Dobbin #1 at home “learning how to to ride him.”
I’ve seen this happen a few times; however not in the nefarious or malicious ways that EL was implementing it. It’s not unheard of for somebody’s horse to maybe be a bit too green or have a stuck point so they lease another that they can immediately ship to, say, Harrisburg. Or Welly or WEC or whatever.
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That makes complete sense to me. We were excited to buy a high-level horse so that I can move up, beyond the scope of the horse that I am doing well on now.
But now that the new horse is home, whoa, maybe this horse is just – too high-level? I thought I was ready for him, but … So it’s me who can’t get the timing right and is causing rails to fall? Who can’t correctly apply the aids that he understands for rideability? It’s me who is getting nervous and causing the new horse to get strong and hard to ride on course?
A scenario like this made-up example can happen any time that not-enough rider is on too-much horse. Of course it can also happen if the horse is being asked for more than the horse has to give, and/or for work that is beyond their training.
Especially for riders who are first time moving up to the level, it makes sense to me that they would be easily convinced that they are the problem, not the horse.
In fact the narrative “it’s you, not the horse” already happens on the daily in lesson rings all over the world, doesn’t it. And probably usually it’s true. It’s not the first time a rider has heard and bought into that narrative. I can see how this could happen.
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I still remember the day many years ago when a teenager coming off a very sweet children’s hunter got a fancy new young horse that was supposed to be a world beater. And then in her first lesson on the new horse, with everybody in the barn there to watch, she could not get the horse to pick up one lead. Could. Not. Get. It. At. All.
The kid was practically in tears, the trainer was about to pull her hair out, and all the spectators were agog. Finally the assistant trainer got on him to demonstrate how to pick up that lead, which the horse obviously knew how to do.
That kid did eventually learn how to ride that horse, won a lot with him, and he did, in fact, go on to be a world beater for years and years with subsequent owners. But that was a very rough first day.
However, as I recall, there was never any question of getting a replacement horse in the meantime while the kid learned how to ride that one.
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This is my fear if I buy a well started horse. I’ve always trained my own, so what if I can’t actually ride it?
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This happened to me.
I learned more in 6 months on a schoolmaster than I did training and winning on my own horses for 20 years.
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It’s funny, I get on the schoolmasters at my barn and I feel like I suddenly CANNOT ride. They bulge into my legs left and right, run me into the wall then cut the corner, etc. I get on my difficult horse and she does all the things 
it makes me feel like a pathetic rider.
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Sounds like a missed opportunity to tell him about everyone’s background and how they got accepted in to vet school. He’d probably be impressed.
I sincerely doubt it.
You’d have to meet the man to fully appreciate his level of obnoxiousness.
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