I believe he was evicted from several barns during his “Carpathia” period.
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He was. Snuck out of one barn in the middle of the night the night. In another, had a agreement to train lesson horses in exchange for reduced board, but he stopped showing up at the barn during the winter, saying he didn’t ride in weather below 40 degrees. Prior to that, the horses he did ride became dangerous, ducking out the ingate and other behaviors. In April, he was told to pay up full board or leave. He chose to pack up and leave at noon in the middle of the barns spring schooling show. Seems him hoping barn owners too preoccupied to supervise him leaving, or ask for money on the way out. Wierd.
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In general though, if someone receives something as a gift they are still valid reviewers even if they themselves didn’t make the purchase.
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Is he claiming those exact words are in his book? I only have his interviews with himself left to read, so maybe that is there. But I am pretty sure I know where this would be if it was there worded like that. And though he says basically that, that is not a direct quote from his book.
Does he not know what ‘excerpt from my book’ is supposed to mean?
My favorite part from my bit of reading last night is bits about horse care that NP randomly tossed into his book. Oh my, he anthropomorphizes worse than a tween girl does. He says that if your horse is standing around outside doing nothing, wouldn’t they rather be in a comfy stall with a snack, etc.
He didn’t like one barn because the horses were turned out too much and too much turn out is just the barn owners being cheap trying to save money on bedding.
And here we all are trying to find barns that turn out more…silly us. Dobbin needs to be napping inside, not outside. I am so going to tell my horse that when she naps in the sun on a spring day that she is doing it all wrong and that she should go back into her stall and nap there. Darn it. Nick says they like stalls better.
Edit to add: Though by posting that he is making it known that his references to The Journal Of The Horse in this book are really COTH. (Which I realize we all knew.)
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That Trumpy crowd have glommed onto the term gaslighting, but they never use it correctly. In almost every instance it is a classic case of: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
People who do a runner like that are such low lifes. But, I bet the BO was happy just to have him gone w/o him threatening her with a gun, or having his back-up buddies harass her, or taking out a sex for hire advert in her name.
Honestly, no genuine good, kind, decent, intelligent, Christian person (b/c he mentioned Jesus) would even think of such revenge, let alone actually do it. None of the stuff he admits to doing is evidence of good character, fitness to teach/train, or even socially acceptable adult behaviour. NP needs to get Jesus’s name out of his mouth because his actions are some of the most un-Christlike behaviour imaginable. And, of course, he only mentions love in terms of a “weapon”. Yeah, WWJD, indeed. 
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He’s a real nice guy!
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I thought his book was supposed to be about The Industry?
Rather than a whine fest of personal grievances he’s accumulated during his short stints at low level, local barns, in one very small region of the northeast?
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Omg, that is really desperate, isn’t it?
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I know someone who insists she “titled” in western competition. Not sure what she was talking about and thought she meant a year end award. I went in the tack room to look at her 5 ribbons and assumed she meant the one class where she placed first.
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It’s exactly what we expected, though, isn’t it? He even gave that game away when he first announced his intentions to write it. It was a rage-response to the negative reviews of his first book (which he of course blamed on COTH rather than admitting that the book was a barely coherent jumble of prose desperately seeking a competent editor).
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No, that is from his Dressage supporters page, which is public. At least we know he’s reading this thread.
He showed screenshots from the book of “haters” posts. The rest is on his blog.
Hey wait, are you saying my horse doesn’t need a king-size mattress in his stall to be comfy? I think you’re wrong. Turnout is over-rated.
/s
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A king sized mattress seems horribly under sized. Duh. How can you make your horse suffer like that.
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My horse wants a Sleep Number saddle.
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On the topic of the book - Nick says in his book that we talk about him and research him because of “insane jealousy of my abilities”.
If this was the case (for me and I think I speak for most others), I would be doing lots of research and talking about lots of very talented people that I am willing to admit that I do have jealousy (not insane, just normal human levels of jealousy) about their abilities. But here I am…not doing that.
So many people in my world, not just horse people, whose abilities far exceed mine, and I am not researching or talking about any of them.
My boss at work is a great example (totally not a horse person). Darn she is smart. She is creative too. Raised three great kids. Just an amazing woman. I take all her amazingness at face value. I can be in awe or her and feel no need to even slightly wonder if she is truthful, etc. I doubt anyone who encounters her feels the need to look up the details of her life, just because she is amazing.
Thinking someone is amazing does not equal wanting them to not be amazing.
Thinking someone is less than amazing and that they are scamming people who do not realize it is when people jump to action.
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You’d think that a trainer/ coach/ expert / whatevs with accolades out the wazoo (according to said person) would know better than to generalise and say ALL HORSES WANT TO BE IN A STALL.
My dude, horses are not machines, amiright? In your 30 years of ‘working with horses’, you’ve gleaned this to be a fact, yeah? A sweeping generalisation such as ALL HORSES WANT TO BE IN A STALL is a logical fallacy. I may as well say if you’ve ridden a horse, taken lessons and wished hard enough, this makes you a trainer and you should write a book You see? It’s the same principle… a general statement applied to something which cannot be supported. Can’t do it. Makes no sense. Logical fallacy. Otherwise there would be a veritable mini-Everest of books being self published by people who shouldn’t be doing that, right?
Oh. 
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Ironically, Nick does illustrate what is wrong with the horse industry in that anyone can call themselves a trainer. The industry is rather unregulated in the US. There are also people wanting to ride well and do what’s best for their horse, as newcomers to the sport, and they get swindled by frauds such as NP. It is shown that one can declare themselves a GP rider and trainer based off of…nothing, really. Some more experienced and savvy equestrians could easily look up his stats, but a newcomer or someone naive, may not know where to begin.
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I am banning the term “gaslighting”
I am so sick of its overuse/misuse.
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YES!!!
You nailed it!
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Well spoken. One of the biggest frauds in dressage used to live just down the road in the SF East Bay. Now in Palm Springs (perfect). Walks on water on this board. And has books! A poster (certified GP rider who I’ve known for years) accurately (IMHO) compared him to NP in one of the old NP threads and was called a big meanie.
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