Spelling and grammar skills are pretty bad in Nick’s family.
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Fixed it for ya!
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Of course you can! We’ll work with our undercover liaison within USEF and USDF to concoct whatever score at whichever level you desire. Because we can. We have that power. 
Oh, just as a sidenote, your “horse” will be named Farnley Fescue, as a nod to our cleverness.
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With all the grammatical blunders, misspellings, and just plain stupidity, the Maestro could have used a few more editor’s [sic] rather than just the supposed three.
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I’d like to see someone make a post of his grammatical errors, please
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I don’t think there’s enough room on the internet for that.
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That was my original intention – but I DO have a life beyond the keyboard. Oh, so many errors, so little time!
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You are slaying it! 
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Well, you have to cultivate a sense of humor to get through this life relatively unscathed. Especially true if you own or ride horses! 
I tend to think that if Nick had maintained a scintilla of self-deprecating humor he might’ve turned out to be a less bitter, less vindictive human being. But alas, that was not to be.
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He deleted his last FB post when a woman started asking reasonable questions, wonder how long it’ll be before this one goes as well?
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I wonder what would have happened if he had never watched Robert Dover. Perhaps he would have continued to allow himself to be instructed and would have emerged as a more educated rider in the end?
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I sense a tidge of wistfulness in his latest FB post. I’ll give him this: I’m glad that he has pleasant memories (as misguided as some of them seem to be), and that he feels fortunate to have experienced them. We should all have fond memories of our early days on horseback.
But similar to what @Night_Flight said, I wonder how different NP’s riding career might have been, had he taken a different approach. What if he’d taken the inspiration he gleaned from Dover and Nuno and channeled it into being the best horseman possible, within his personal financial constraints and logistics? It seems like he had an excellent trainer; he certainly never bested her. What he lacked was humility. So instead, he saw himself as an uber talented prodigy, and taught poor Chevy to rear (levade) and do the jiggity prance (piaffe). And then he became maestro.
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Wonder where he got this leg hits the belly thing from. Maybe Nuno said it somewhere. Curious how he can remember that but can’t remember that a piaffe requires the the haunches to sit. Chevy looks like he is doing the funky chicken. Nick parades these pictures around but the movements are incorrect or nonexistent and even if this were a bad moment in time, the musculature of the horse tells you this is not a horse accustomed to upper level movements. He is oblivious.
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& I wonder if pigs could fly… 
Some people are born toxic & no hope of changing for the better.
He’s a Bad Seed 
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The barn/apartment in the first picture looks like a cool place.
It’s too bad his complete lack of humility and self awareness has prevented him from being able to just enjoy horses.
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Excerpted from Bettina Drummond interview re: Nuno Oliveira:
Toward the end of his life he went much more completely into a Baucherist system, because he told me “now I want to be focused only on that.” I asked, “why are you doing this, only this?” particularly since I did not like the way the horses’ backs looked at that point. He said, “I am tired. I am at the end of my career. I have ridden all of these horses. I want to explore how high I can send a horse’s hock.” That is when I saw a horse passage and hit his belly with his hind leg. It was little Swant, a tiny little horse with a weak back end who managed to hit his belly three times in a row in passage with the back of his pastern. I have never seen anybody do that with any breed, particularly with a weak horse. But it was an exaggeration because all of a sudden Mr. Oliveira’s focus was completely tight on that.”
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Nice find. Thanks, that was interesting to read.
The Beefman certainly feels very deeply for Nuno. Makes him bashing gay males even more ironic.
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