Some of my favorite trainer sayings:
“Stop running like a wild banshi out of Hell.”
“Get my hat and chaps.”
-Wendy Carter
(right after the banshi out of hell thing)
“Were you counting?”
-Misti Cassar
(When I add in a line)
“I’m not sure it looks like 3’6”."
-Debbie Olsen
(Her awnser to how high the jump is when it is really like 4’6")
“You look like you are starting a lawn mower.”
-Mike Henaghann
(When my hands get busy.)
More to come…
“OK, just once more” - TEN TIMES.
“Don’t ‘TRY’. DO it, or DON’T do it.”
“Don’t just sit there like a bump on a log…”
“Stop looking at the ground—unless of course there are diamonds down there you need to be picking up. Then by all means get your @ss off the horse!”
I hear this one about once a month!
“If you want to act like a chicken, I’ll get you some feathers! Now get your @$$ BACK IN THE SADDLE!”
(I have a tendency to hollow my back over a jump, therefore making my butt stick out. Like a chicken, she says. 
)
~~ … and the #1 horse-product that has yet to come out: Caffiene-free Thoroughbreds!~~
This is a fun topic. Thought of some more. When my hands start going horizontal by mistake – “Stop playing the piano.” or “Hey piano fingers!” If I pick up the wrong lead. “When I do it, it’s a counter-canter. When you do it it’s just the wrong lead!” Thanks to the person who wrote the one about headlights to heaven, heels to hell. I keep chanting this now when I ride and it is very helpful.
Trainer: “I’m tired of that mistake, could you think of a new one?”
Former Trainer ( foreign accent:): ‘YOU HAVE TO GO A SLOW’ as we would fly by, careening around a course totally out of control.
'COME AND REFUSE THIS FENCE"—never figured out why but whenever he said that, even the most reliable jumpers would stop.
Curent Trainer: 'YOU NEVER LEARNED HOW TO COUNT STRIDES, YOU RIDE OFF YOUR EYE, BY INSTINCT, WITHOUT HAVING LEARNED THE MECHANICS FIRST, YOU LEARNED EVERYTHING BACKWARDS. OK< I’LL JUST HAVE TO CHANGE THE WAY I’M TEACHING YOU."
It is truly the astute and exceptional trainer who can not only recognize but is willing and able to adapt his teaching methods to a student’s rather unconventional background, and build upon it, without making the student have to start all over again from the beginning.
My trainer: You’re going to send me to an early grave.
Me: Don’t worry, at this rate I’ll be gone long before you.
Me when my horse acted up screaming: Oh Sh–t.
Trainer: Never use voice commands other than whoa or tch, tch for go or you’ll confuse your horse.
Me: Don’t worry, by now my horse knows what the Oh Sh–t command means.
oops, how could I have forgotten the famous:
“See how much better you ride when your life is in danger?”
Hahahaha that is so funny, I have heard EVERY SINGE ONE OF THOSE PHRASES soooo many times! I always get the
“Thats the canter you picked so STAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY RIGHT THERE, STAAAAAAAY RIGHT THERE”
and
“Okay, now do that again so I know it wasn’t just a mistake.”
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by WestarGirl:
“you were pulling so hard on that rein I could see the veins through your sweatshirt”
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sigh I want to be wearing a sweatshirt right now. 
Today I was practically naked while I was outside and I was STILL dying from the heat! 
~Sarah~
~Southern Comfort~Diablo Blanco~
When not sitting up straight -
When in doubt- TUMMY OUT!
My variation of the STAAAAAAAAY there -
That’s ALLLLLLLLL you need, no more CANNNNNNNTTER!
When I’m looking down-
Do you like arena sand or something, because you seem to be seriously attracted to it!
-or-
My, the view must be wonderful today down there!
When you’re going too fast-
You’re not cantering a course, you’re gallopping off into the sunset!
I have a lot more but I can’t think of them so… that’s it
~~Lauryn*~~~
<3 Justice Served <3
<3 Nip N Tuck <3
“Riding is sort of like Nuts and Bolts- If the rider’s nuts, then the horse bolts.”
Did You Hug Your Horse Today?
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Much to my eternal embarassment and in front of several BNT at Raleigh one year, my old trainer yelled at me during a hack “Sara does your crotch itch or what, cause you sure are burying your hands in it!”
Proud Member of Wood Hill Farm who’s motto is “I’m not going sober!”
My personal fave is:
“OK, that was OK. All you have to do next time is just try to ride more forward and use more leg, but be sure to package him a bit and don’t let him get to fast. Then maintain your pace and keep your eyes up so that the distance comes to you. After that, really ride the corners and set your pace and make sure that you re-balancing when you feel him get out of line. Look ahead to set up the next distance and if you get in long, sit up a little but if you’re a little tight you’ll have to close your leg. Over the fence try to keep him straight so that you set up the departure. Why don’t you try that again?”
Me: Well, OK then, is that all I have to do?
–R
Rack me, I’m out.
Ok Miss.Primadonna…go back and do that again. 
Andrea and Dreamer
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
- Sophocles (c. 450 B.C.E.) (IHFLC-Founder)
From a Susie Hutchison clinic:
“Well that was a whole lotta nothing.”
“This is not a vacation, it’s a quest: a quest for fun.”
Donna’s favorite saying is “Just do it regular like” She only says it to a few of us who have beeen riding with her for ages. Usually when we are on greenies who don’t need quite as much help doing their job as we would like to think they do. She said it to a new customer and the little girl just looked at her like she had three heads.
Another fav. is “you need to normalize your canter”. I know when people hear her say these things while we are schooling they think we have to quackiest trainer of them all.
My trainer:
“He (horse) looks like he swallowed a broomstick!”
“Ok so can you feel that you’re doing (this and that) wrong?” “Yes” “Really?” “No” “I didn’t think so.”
“FROG LEGS!!!”
(when going through a tight space) “Think thin.”
My old trainer was a riot:
“What’s that thing swinging down by your girth?! Oh, my mistake, it’s your leg.”
“If you’re this off center to the jumps on course, I don’t even WANT to be on the road when you start driving.”
I think we should also add in rider quotes…for example, my friend was in a lesson and couldn’t understand whatever she was suppsed to do and said “my BRAIN! it’s just like…like…SCRAMBLED EGGS!!!”
~mp
I’m nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore, I am perfect
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