The Maestro has written another book

[CleverUserName]

I’m not saying the glowing reviews are fake, but if I was gonna make up a fake name, I’d use something like…oh, the number one most common first-name in the world (Maria, for example), and something like in the Top 10 most common surnames in the US (Garcia, for example).*

Doing something like that would make it a lot harder for ‘haters’ to be able to find the ‘real’ person to verify they wrote the review, seeing as how there’d be 10s of thousands of them.

I’m sure there are many Maria Garcia’s who are absolutely lovely people, and have uttered the phrase ‘no, I’m not that Maria Garcia’ on more than one occasion. Let’s hope, just like Slim Shady, the real Maria Garcia stands up.

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[skydy]

@trubandloki

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” .

Well, no one would be jealous of his equitation. He needs to take some lessons to improve his position before he even thinks of teaching beginners. You can’t ride effectively with your hands in your lap.

[WXWatcher]

He seems to forget, as usual, that there is no way he could train, either in present or the past, a horse to what HE considers as “at the grand prix” level, when he can’t identify a late change.

At one point he admitted he didn’t know how to teach changes to horses and he always advertised for a horse that had changes…that’s why he, or rather his father, bought Carpathia, but, she always had hunter style changes…he never got a clean change on her.

[Paint_Party]

@trubandloki

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.

Tsk, tsk. Everyone should be like me and just combine the best of both worlds: Put your horse’s bedding in the turnout or pasture. Like this:

[Angela_Freda]

@WXWatcher

she always had hunter style changes…he never got a clean change on her.

He doesn’t know the difference, really between hunter changes and Dressage changes… Besides not recognizing clean changes

[J-Lu]

@Paint_Party

@trubandloki

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.

Tsk, tsk. Everyone should be like me and just combine the best of both worlds: Put your horse’s bedding in the turnout or pasture. Like this:

I don’t see a king sized mattress!!! Abuse! How could you expect your horse to perform when it is outside on what looks like a camping matt? Don’t you care about your horse? and What the hell are you covering him with? Don’t you know only various weights of goose down applies? Or a nicely woven supper alternative? That looks so uncomfortable! No wonder your horse doesn’t passage correctly. Why should he when you’re giving him crinkly stuff to sleep with? And where’s the coffee maker?

Learn the principals of dressage, @Paint_Party . Geeze!

[Old_Mac_Donald]

Not sure if you know, but that is Rumba doing the snooze. He was bred and trained by Georgia Bruce, who is a paralympian bronze medallist. Rumba actually does a piaffe bridleless.

Random info for ya.

[Old_Mac_Donald]

First time trying a piaffe pirouette with Rumba...Click! Clicker Training...

Georgia and Rumba

[Griffin]

A weighted blanket would be appropriate for the neurotic horse

[Squirt]

what a lovely horse and rider!

Now that is someone to emulate!

[hoopoe]

she has lovely legs

[Paint_Party]

That’s beautiful!

[Paint_Party]

@J-Lu

I don’t see a king sized mattress!!! Abuse!

Oh, you! The nice mattress is reserved for my registered Thelwellian dressage pony. The mattress even sits on fancy box springs. (They’re iron springs ).

[Unfforgettable]

I’d like to thank the extreme power of the COTH Dressage Judge Influencers for usIng their magical abilities this week while I was showing at Nationals, because I’m absolutely certain I could never have placed in the top ten (4th overall out of 38 entries) without somebody telling the judges what scores to give.

[Old_Mac_Donald]

Well done! I made sure to tell the judges how connected I am

[Mara]

Congratulations!

Imagine - you could have been Supreme Greatest Ever Legendary Grand Champion of The Dressage Universe if some people on COTH weren’t so stingy with their bribery donations.

All kidding aside, that’s an accomplishment to be proud of.

[Paint_Party]

@Mara

Imagine - you could have been Supreme Greatest Ever Legendary Grand Champion of The Dressage Universe if some people on COTH weren’t so stingy with their bribery donations.

Hey! I couldn’t afford a bigger donation. I just spent $20 on a book!

[KBC]

Seems like his positive reviews have been published…what a load of old tosh.

[LiberalSnowflake]

Dawn is the new owner of Carpathia, the Grand Prix horse he originally advertised for $25K and sold for about $1,500 in the end to the Wyffels, who seem like a decent family with a few hack about horses.

[Ambitious_Kate]

When it comes to evil and ugly people, no chance she’s referring to Nick?