I keep coming back to the idea that he hasnāt written alot of the personal congratulations to himself for people who know anything about horses. Saying he won all his classes, and showing all his ribbons, just might ring fabulous to a non-horse person, who has no idea what the ribbon colors mean. For all they know, first place is a different color depending on the class.
I still think what he is doing is running a big con, mostly convincing his family and family friends and beginner horse people who have met him that he is a winner and fabulous. They have no clue that it is not true because they have no understanding of how horses works, so its just as well for them to believe heās great. He knows more than they do, so we must all just be nit pickers and jealous. Works for him and them.
We keep thinking we are his intended audience, when we arenāt. Heās correcting his reputation among his family, parents, non-horse people and uneducated horse people. Those are the ones he wants to impress, the ones who have thought he is a failure most of his life and who think he has no accomplishments in life. If he can garner some beginner horse people to worship him, or at least hand over money, he can make a tidy career for himself out of them, but they keep getting educated and realizing he isnāt all that, or he screws them over some how and they fade away, or they end up hearing more about him in the small community he operates in, and some even tap into his online exploits of how he treats people and what his con really is, and the honeymoon is quickly over, when he backs up their suspicions of incompetence by acting out or welching on an agreement.
I think he fails himself pretty much with most of his contacts trying to train, but when āweā watch him and discuss it, he finds it easy to blame us for poisoning the well he thinks should water him with so much success. Thatās how I think his ātruthsā gets confused, or how he tries to spin it to get himself out of the losses he makes for himself.
As for the ribbons, in his brain, no one was there who is being told about the day, so if he says he won every class who is there to say he didnāt? Why he shows third and fourth place ribbons to back up his story is a mind blower, unless we just arenāt his target audience, and those who count will never know he didnāt reall āwinā. Unless meanies tell them about it. Then its conspiracy.
Thatās the only way I can follow the insanity of what he writes. Whether there really is any logic for him to what heās saying or not, heās clearly a seriously mentally unstable person. What he thinks all this will get him is anyoneās guess, but there must be someone who will read it that he thinks will believe it, and will give him points for all of this. As I said, I think its parents, and family. Not the horse community.
We just didnāt know the technical term at the time.