Kylie Jenner buys $200k pony hunter for toddler

[PeteyPie]

@Mardi

What does this mean ?

I think it was a typo. I think jvanrens meant “the horse that wouldn’t pace a lick without hopples will under saddle.” The horse was a pacer, a Standardbred used for racing. Pacers wear hopples, a loosely-fitting bit of harness on their upper legs that encourages them to stay in a pace and not break into a trot (or a gallop, I would assume). I think of it as a martingale for the legs. So the horse in question would not maintain the proper gait even while wearing hopples until they started riding it, at which point, it paced naturally under saddle.

@jvanrens Did I get that right?

[PeteyPie]

A pacer wearing hopples:

https://eliteequestrianmagazine.com/captaintreacherous-is-pacer-of-the-year/

[Peggy]

@hairystockings

Oh God, why would he do such a thing? That’s horrying. We all know but we don’t need to see it in data form…

He was not a horse person. And was a data/CIO type of person.

[Maythehorsebewithme]

@Peggy

A friend’s husband made a pie chart of their expenses. Horses were an alarming chunk of that pie.

I actually projected something like this before we married. I wanted DH to see what he was getting into because no way was I giving up the horse after marriage, and I saw too many of my friends asked to do just that.

The number surprised even me. As people have pointed out, as a percentage of wealth, I am way more spendthrift than KJ.

DH (bless him) was and always has been fine with it.

[Maythehorsebewithme]

@Peggy

A friend’s husband made a pie chart of their expenses. Horses were an alarming chunk of that pie.

I actually projected something like this before we married. I wanted DH to see what he was getting into because no way was I giving up the horse after marriage, and I saw too many of my friends asked to do just that.

The number surprised even me. As people have pointed out, as a percentage of wealth, I am way more spendthrift than KJ.

DH (bless him) was and always has been fine with it.

[Mardi]

@PeteyPie

I think it was a typo. I think jvanrens meant “the horse that wouldn’t pace a lick without hopples will under saddle.” The horse was a pacer, a Standardbred used for racing. Pacers wear hopples, a loosely-fitting bit of harness on their upper legs that encourages them to stay in a pace and not break into a trot (or a gallop, I would assume). I think of it as a martingale for the legs. So the horse in question would not maintain the proper gait even while wearing hopples until they started riding it, at which point, it paced naturally under saddle.

Hobbles. They’re called hobbles. I know what they are and what they do.
“Hopples” threw me. :)

ps. I’ve attempted to add a smile twice, but it’s not showing.

[PeteyPie]

@Mardi

Hobbles. They’re called hobbles. I know what they are and what they do.
“Hopples” threw me. :)

ps. I’ve attempted to add a smile twice, but it’s not showing.

No, they are called hopples. Hobbles are a different thing, used instead of tying a horse and as you know, worn very differently. Great Scrabble word, don’t you think?

Jacks brand Hopples with Trainers, from the BidD tack store site
https://www.bigdweb.com/product/code/497F.do?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7MnV_e316gIVGh-tBh2sBAw3EAQYAyABEgIrtPD_BwE

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Hobbles from the BigD
https://www.bigdweb.com/search.do?query=hobbles

[izzy98]

@Peggy

He was not a horse person. And was a data/CIO type of person.

My parents are both data people. I never knew how much my mom had become a horse mom, for my sake, until I found out that she was splitting up horse expenses in Quickbooks in creative ways so my dad wouldn’t realize just how much of their income was going to horses! It horrified her when she saw it all lumped together.

[jvanrens]

@Mardi

What does this mean ?

It’s supposed to be pace, ugh, autocorrect. It tried to change pace to peace while I was typing this response. Moe wore pacing hopples when he raced or trained to keep him on gait.

[jvanrens]

@PeteyPie

I think it was a typo. I think jvanrens meant “the horse that wouldn’t pace a lick without hopples will under saddle.” The horse was a pacer, a Standardbred used for racing. Pacers wear hopples, a loosely-fitting bit of harness on their upper legs that encourages them to stay in a pace and not break into a trot (or a gallop, I would assume). I think of it as a martingale for the legs. So the horse in question would not maintain the proper gait even while wearing hopples until they started riding it, at which point, it paced naturally under saddle.

@jvanrens Did I get that right?

Perfect! Thank you. 🙂

[jvanrens]

@Mardi

Hobbles. They’re called hobbles. I know what they are and what they do.
“Hopples” threw me. :)

ps. I’ve attempted to add a smile twice, but it’s not showing.

It’s often pronounced hobbles depending where you are, but it’s spelled hopples. Weird huh?

I can see your smiles, there’s two of them! 🙂🙂

[Equkelly]

I just saw an article about how Twitter was apparently outraged that she would buy such an extravagant pony during hard times like this. I think that’s absolutely the wrong attitude. For 1) It’s her money and she can spend it however she wants. 2) Her buying a fancy pony means more business for a vet, a ferrier, a trainer, a barn manager, a groom, barn staff, a shipper/ hauler and more all of whom are people that could probably be struggling during these times. This is a good thing for those people.

[Peggy]

@Equkelly

I just saw an article about how Twitter was apparently outraged that she would buy such an extravagant pony during hard times like this. I think that’s absolutely the wrong attitude. For 1) It’s her money and she can spend it however she wants. 2) Her buying a fancy pony means more business for a vet, a ferrier, a trainer, a barn manager, a groom, barn staff, a shipper/ hauler and more all of whom are people that could probably be struggling during these times. This is a good thing for those people.

A trainer friend once said that spoiled rich girls keep a lot of people employed.

Not saying that this child is necessarily spoiled; just repeating the quote as originally stated.

[snaffle1987]

Hopefully it gets a long term loving home and is well cared for and isnt dumped somewhere after a year or two because the toddler got tired of it. These are people who think stuff is disposable just like money

[SilverDragon]

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[endlessclimb]

Well, why don’t you tell us how you really feel?

Do you know the new owners personally, or are you just spouting off?

[SilverDragon]

• didn’t mean it. I was just set off.

[trubandloki]

@SilverDragon

didn’t mean it. I was just set off.

If posting mean and rude things on a horse forum is what you tend to do when you are set off, probably should lock your internet when you are feeling you are about to be ‘set off’.

[alternate_universe]

@SilverDragon

didn’t mean it. I was just set off.

[edit]. No one held a gun to your head. That was a hateful, nasty comment that you voluntarily wrote.

No other person’s sexual behavior is your business.

A person’s sexual behavior has no bearing over whether they are a “good” person or not. Sexual behavior does not inherently have any effect on one’s morality or ethics.

I fail to see how being rich is a problem here. If anything, it suggests that this pony will be well cared for as long as it lives under her care.

If the breeder is of quality I would imagine he wouldn’t sell the pony to someone he believed wouldn’t care for it well. A loving home trumps any amount of showing, full stop.

[dags]

I mean… as one of many people that also know Roy Wilten I’m going to go out on a limb and say landing a pony with a Kardashian is pretty on-brand.

The pony will be fine. Absolutely f i n e.