I would love to hear the perspectives of those barn owners/managers unfortunate enough to have him as a client. Though I guess some of them are in the “I’ve seen/heard/experienced it all” camp and to them, Nick is just another one of “those” clients.
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This perfectly encapsulates a thought that has crossed my mind while reading the security guard incident & several other NP anecdotes where he feels he was wronged. The fact he’s trying to touch these horses in and of itself is quite telling. While security might not hassle me for being in the barn areas (especially if I have appropriate credentials displayed) they’re not doing their job very well if they allow me to walk right up to a 7 figure horse standing in cross ties, boop it’s snoot, & try to feed it something I pulled out of my pocket. Not to mention, a lot of high-octane, high-vibration horses don’t tolerate strangers coming into their personal space. Some, especially stallions, can even be dangerous.
There’s no reason to be touching a horse unless explicitly invited by the owner to do so. His insistence on doing so smacks of hubris, naiveté, or maybe both.
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It is Black Stallion Syndrome crossed with a heaping helping of Horse Whispereritis. The belief that you and you alone have a magical connection and rapport with any equine and your mere touch communicates to that equine what a special being you are - cue galloping down a beach bareback etc.
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Could you imagine the outcry of a failed drugs test, and some security guard admitting he saw someone wandering through trying to feed a horse?
From every interaction I have seen online, he reacts badly to being confronted, so unlikely to have offered an apology, or an admission of being in the wrong, just straight to belligerence “I have a pass, I’m allowed to be here”
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Probably anyone who has ever given him a pass to anything regretted doing so. Nick does not respect boundaries.
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I’d never have imagined that I’d see a 2066 post thread in the Dressage forum about erotic fan-fiction. Nope!
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I read a different horse book today.
The foreword and dedication is so different and like it should be, not only thanking people but also thanking the horses that they were taught by.
The book is full of photos of things to aspire to, showing both incorrect and correct and how to fix the incorrect. Where this is not possible diagrams have been used instead.
Every sentence needs bottling and could be discussed. Each sentence shows years and years of experience and the love for the horse.
If up for review each review would be glowing and they would not need to write their own.
It blatantly shows what drivel Nick Peronce has written.
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Wow. That is the epitome of the best review yet.
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I’d like to read that book.
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It is called Horse Training In-Hand. A Modern Guide to Working from the Ground. Work on the Longe * Long Lines * Long and Short Reins by Elken Schuthof-Lesmeister and Kip Mistral.
I bought it for $10.00 at a Carboot Sale.
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Highly recommend. Kip is a long time student of the equestrian arts, a scholar of proper riding and training, a great writer and a very nice person. She also has a collection of old equestrian books and art.
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Yes it says she is classically trained. So am I. Every sentence brought back memories.
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Yes she is.
LOL Another difference . I say something is in the book, you confirm it is true.
Instead of everyone pointing out the lies in Nick’s book.
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Another big difference: Kip is dedicated to being an advocate for the horse. NP is only an advocate for himself.
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Compare and contrast. Some of my favorite writing assignments were compare and contrast. It’s a wonderful way to showcase a point, or points. While it can seem pointless, at first, to compare things that are dispirate, you can really highlight qualities, or the lack of qualities, by playing them off each other. Who would think that comparing Nick’s book, a slovenly produced pamphlet of the perceived slights and anger of an egoist, against a celebration of possibilities and joy which in themselves can create harmony and partnership with our horses, found in Kip Mistral’s book, would serve to show us what the love for our sport and love of horses is really all about. Kip has qualities Nick Peronace claims to bring to the table, yet has failed to accomplish entirely, and his failure to care bout us and our horses is demonstrated in this book.
Many, many people have found a small corner of horsemanship to excel in, and contribute even in some all way towards the love of all things horse. Nick has apparently pursued horses as a way to garner attention and accolades, and failing that has lashed out in this book against the very people he wants to have embrace him. For Nick, it seems it could have been race cars or hot air balloons if he thought he had an entry into that world. He doesn’t appear to love the horse, or the people who love horses. He claims to have sought adoration as his goal, and failing that, has lashed out with scary stuff, in hate at women, anger, threats of violence, bullying online, scare tactics with “large men”, actual stalking, and sympathy for mass shooters. Even by the very declaration that he is " 'umble, so very 'umble" he confesses how much he needs to be reveared.
The people we want to have teach us, train our horses, help us achieve our goals of partnership and companionship, are the Kip Mistrals of the world, not people like Nick Peronace.
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Naiveté? How about ignorance?
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Make that willful ignorance.
Every rider has the same access to information, knowledge, theory, and the basics of dressage.
NP has spent his life eschewing all of it, and makes a point of rejecting and repelling all instruction and help. Only HE “knows everything”; the classic sign of insecurity, incompetence, and pomposity. He is dressage’s version of his Hero the Cheato - all hot air, ignorance, and self-aggrandizing gasbaggery (with a side of narcissistic personality disorder and “poor little Me“ syndrome.)
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Anybody who says “I don’t take lessons, I give them,” has proven they understand nothing about sport in general and this sport in particular. The best of the best take lessons - it’s precisely that willingness to learn and be taught which makes them the best.
Thank single sentence, typed often by Mr. Peronace, tells me everything I need to know about him and explains why none of us here in Swampland took him up on his offer of a “free” clinic (provided we pay his transportation, accommodations, meals, and insurance costs).
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