If you haven’t already done so check to see whether they’ll allow you to use your own saddle. The saddles on racewood simulators can be changed.
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Yep. Book’s here and I’ve started on it. We’re taking a trip to the Keys – so my progress through it will be hampered. Tempting to take it as “beach reading” and have the tides take it away…
It’s been a while since I read through other’s impressions of the book – I’m ASTOUNDED at his bad luck finding riding teachers/camp instructors. They’re all such big fat meanies!
I doubt his assertions that camp instructors/directors used the F-bomb. Not around kids in the 80’s.
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Has the security guard at the horse show threatened to shoot him dead yet? Actually take his gun out and shoot a child attending a horse show with his dad? Ah, memories. You’ve got so very much to look forward to. 
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Ah, you’ve already discovered one the recurring themes: The evil Keepers of Horse Knowledge have conspired against him his entire life. Poor widdle Nicky!
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Talking of humping, and dressage simulators…I was videoing my Granddaughters lesson and got distracted by this
Seems they have a simulator in there…
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Does anyone remember the inch worm thing you had to hump to make move?
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Does anyone remember something from way back regarding NP staying with a person hosting a clinic and creeping them out? Or did he WANT to stay at the host’s house and that creeped them out?
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Yes. Can’t remember who it was though.
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For those of you now reading this bizarre rant for the first time, remember you can review it on amazon.
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I think it was some comment about what he wanted to do given his wife was in a different state and he was therefore free to explore other options, or some such thing. I feel like it was the clinic where he cooked pasta, but I could be mis-remembering.
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I recall that one of his clinic requirements was a shower on site.
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Super thoughtful. After intense exposure to Crotch Paws I’m sure all the clinic participants would feel the need to hose themselves off at the end of the day. Or sooner.
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Yes! And then afterward, you’ll be taught our secret handshake, given access to the Dressage Decoder and Judge Influencer handbook, and awarded a complementary bathrobe, suitable to wear in any basement or underground shelter. 
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By pasta, do you mean… 2 minute noodles?
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That would never happen, because Applebee’s would sue him for revealing corporate information and proprietary cooking techniques, all stolen from them when he was employed as a line cook. Even the Minestrone Maestro can’t face the might of Corporate America head-on.
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Okay, just the phrase “2 minute noodle” makes me laugh. Because… well… 
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LOL! That would be wishful thinking on someone’s part. Thirty second noodles 
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The “Minestrone Maestro of Minute Rice Risotto and the Mower Monologues.” 
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I could see that as a book title,
Could add the moanings of the mediocre.
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