No flamming needed…
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your horse is like a paper bag…a brown paper bag…ordinary…ugh
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you are so equitatey…ick
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it’s a chestnut mare…what do you expect
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that was years ago…hunters don’t go round on a “loose” rein now
yours?
“Nice saddle, too bad she didn’t buy a horse good enough to wear it”.
‘I hate this fruitbatting horse! If I had a gun, I’d shoot him.’ and meant it. :no:
a bnt told me in my first ever clinic with my first ever horse that i should quit riding and go to the gym instead.
ouch, i didn’t ride for months and months i was so bummed.
big ole meany witch!
So I did my first class on my new horse and fell off…
trainer doesn’t move from the rail but SCREAMS into the ring “what the f*** was that?!”
I was 16.
I think it was 1969 a local hunter trainer in central PA (well respected supposedly) told me I’d get killed on a horse I had.
Four years later same horse was described as a push button baby sitter by a very well respected dressage trainer in NY. Go figure…:rolleyes:
Also, same horse was described by a German colonel teaching at the Potomac Horse Center in MD in 1972 as the best X-C horse they had.
I will say that in the 50 yrs I’ve had horses, that particular horse was the ONLY one I totally put my trust in 200%. :yes:
“I have never met a mare I lieked. I just dont like mares”.
I had just moved there with 2 mares to train, at over $1K per month. And you didnt tell me this before why?
(I got the last laff–that trainer now owns one of those mares and will keep her until theres nothing left to eat.)
“it’s no mistake she is the ONLY Arabian here!”
“You know, your daughter will never even place riding that Arab.” They all rode AQHA at the open shows. My daughter was “trained” by a nobody young woman. Trainer wanted My DD in her barn.
My daughter was always in the top four in pleasure against this trainer’s top kids, and always came in first against them in the equitation classes.
“I’d be crying if I were riding like that,too. Now do it again”.
KOC, back when she was practicing for her ICP certification.
Said to my then 11 year old daughter “Your thighs are too big and you’ll never go anywhere with your riding.”
Said by the same trainer “Your horse is lazy and will never amount to anything.”
Wrong and wrong!
I just hope all of you took your money elsewhere when spoken to that way. I certainly would have, after giving said trainer a large piece of my mind.
LBR
To another girl in the lesson:
“It’s a good thing you don’t want to be a pro, because you don’t have the body for it” (because her legs were too short!!)
After complaining about my thighs one day when squeezing into full chaps, I had one trainer tell me that coke was a great way to lose weight.
We parted ways not long after.
“You know, you are too old to be famous”
This was told to me by my former trainer when I expressed my desire to qualify my own horse for Devon myself.
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I just hope all of you took your money elsewhere when spoken to that way. I certainly would have, after giving said trainer a large piece of my mind.
LBR[/QUOTE]
In my case it was not my trainer, it was said about me, behind my back, as we were lined up for our pattern work in a horsemanship class. The unfortunate part was that the trainer had a distinctive voice, so it was not hard to guess who said it.
“You look like a lump of pig fat on that horse!” I was about 17. Back when skinny hunter instructors wore lots of turquoise jewelry and smoked cigarettes while riding.
I had a trainer make me cry. She seemed to think that I wasn’t trying (which is quite unfair as I often try so hard when working with an instructor that I ride myself to exhaustion) and she screamed at me to get the f*ck off my own horse. I was stunned and stumbled off, handing her the reins.
Ten minutes later I regained composure, walked out, stood in front of her riding my horse and told her to get off him and that I was taking my horse, bad riding, and money elsewhere.
Needless to say it wouldn’t take me tears and ten minutes any longer to tell someone like that exactly what I thought of their unprofessional and ghastly behavior. I prefer to get that out of the way asap :D.
To be fair on my part, this particular trainer, while being an excellent horsewoman, has a notoriously moody personality and I was only one of many that she lost to it. Too bad, I probably would have learned quite a bit from her.
A dressage trainer (and now judge) told one of my friends who was NOT FAT that she needed to lose at least 15 pounds to ride well. She was maybe a size 2 and in treatment for an eating disorder at the time.
ddashaq, that’s really disgusting and irresponsible of that trainer!
Worst I ever heard? “That horse is ugly and stupid, and should go straight to Mexico!!”
Thank God it wasn’t her horse. This was said to a friend of hers…I don’t know where the horse ended up, but I don’t think he followed her advice. She meant it, too.
