Based on a post from 3 days ago it sounds like there is a lot of fighting over the fence and her gelding challenges the mare when people are in its paddock.
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I think a significant part of the issue as well is that the OP is a notoriously unreliable narrator, and other people who have interacted with her in other threads remember this. And then when they ask for clarification, she flies off the handle (which, again, typical of her behavior in other threads on this board). There’s no sorting things out with someone who is incapable of accepting that they might be part of the problem. She doesn’t come here to help herself be more self-aware, she only comes here for validation. And if you don’t provide it, well… You see how this is going.
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Thanks for your comment. I disagree with you. Blanketing is a skill and I don’t think it can be taught in 5 minutes or less. But that’s me. One has to have experience in reading horses to do anything around horses, including blanketing, tacking-up or untacking horses. I guarantee you that I (or any other experienced horseperson) would respond very differently to a horse horse hitting a hotwire than an inexperienced person. This horse has never hit the hotwire when being blanketed previously, so I suspect something about the way she blanketed him made him lift his head out of his precious food bowl and hit the hotwire. If the horse freaked out, I would know what to do to try to keep the horse from running me over. It’s a reflex. An inexperienced person wouldn’t have those skills/reflexes.
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But the horse didn’t run over the inexperienced idiot in your story.
So…no. Apparently experience isn’t required to keep the horse from running over the person, even if they don’t have extensive training in blanketing a horse.
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Thanks for this personal attack. Posts like this are why I don’t respond here much anymore - these types of posts only serve to insult me and twist my intent. Oh, I respond to people who specifically tag me- you should have picked up on this- so I don’t have to wade through the “mean girls” posts. Your post is totally inappropriate and just mean.
@Sdel, there is “some” fighting over the fence with the addition of the mare, esp when she was first added. Most of the time now, they all hang out in their run-ins peacefully. The mare really shook up the “bro” culture, esp when she’s in heat, but they all seem to figure things out. @LilDunFilly He’s never hit the hotwire in the months he’s been fed below it, I think he may have reacted to the way she blanketed him. As I mentioned above, I don’t believe someone can be taught how to blanket a horse in 5 minutes unless they were to be blanketing horse statues.
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No the horse didn’t. I was responding to someone who stated that a person can be taught in 5 minutes to blanket a horse. Did you read the post I was responding to?
Do you believe a person with 5 minutes or less of training is qualified to blanket your horses? Are you comfortable with such a person blanketing your horses? Do you actually think an experienced horseperson can deflect a spooking or shocked horse better than someone who was trained for 5 min or less to blanket a horse?
You aren’t responding to my actual post, I’m a little confused.
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It’s not a personal attack - it’s an observation. One many people agree with, based on the number of notifications I’ve been getting. It’s interesting that you seem to be incapable of any kind of self reflection. I know if I started a thread like this and the vast majority of answers didn’t agree with how I thought things should go, I’d be doing some internal reflection, not continuing to come here and deflect and twist and change my story and continue to blame other people.
I don’t need you to respond, so I don’t tag you 
unlike you, I’m not here for validation. I’m here to learn from other people’s experiences. Even if I may not always agree, there’s a vast trove of knowledge here if you (g) are not too blind to see it.
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You don’t seem to recognize what a personal attack is when you sure seem comfortable delivering one. and 'doubling down" on the personal attack when it is pointed out to you. I disagree with how people have twisted the facts to make an alternate narrative. Including yourself. I tried to provide specific information that people didn’t want to hear because it changed their narrative.
Unlike you, I respond to people who address questions to me. I leave the BS gossiping of “mean girls” to the “mean girls” who think they know everything about the situation but are not interested in learning the truth.
You’re welcome to view my post any way you like 
you clearly live in your own little world. Blessedly, that’s not my problem. And you can’t stop me from calling it like I see it
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Your response is exactly what I thought your response would be.
Yes. It’s not rocket science.
Sure. It’s not rocket science.
Your story here demonstrates that an inexperienced person does just fine.
But I’d never set up my place to have a loose horse being blanketed–by anyone–on top of hot wire. So.
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I’m going to have to give my DH a medal or something, he’s been blanketing horses for years without issue and was not a horse person when we met
Maybe some sort of certification with levels. Blanketing apprentice. Blanketing expert. Blanketing master.
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Wow. Civility is just not in the cards.
My story could have gone other ways, except my horse is pretty cognizant of people because of his training.
You and I will agree to disagree.
Pot, meet kettle. You have been INCREDIBLY rude and dismissive when people have attempted to give you constructive advice. Including acting like they couldn’t possibly know ANYTHING about horses. Which is ridiculous.
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Again, civility is just not in the cards.
Man, my kingdom for a laugh react instead of just the heart
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As we generally do.
But reality doesn’t seem to bear out your dire predictions regarding the risk of having someone incompetent blanket a horse, even your “sir spooks a lot.”
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I’m not going to take the time to go back through 500 posts in this thread and pull out the number of times you’ve been rude, because frankly you’re not worth the effort, but if you can read every one of your posts on this thread and think you’ve been civil, then literally no one can help you keep on dwelling in delusion.
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Dire prediction? We again will agree to disagree.
I’m glad that you will be OK with incompetent people working with your horses. Or with other peoples’ horses. We will agree to disagree.
