Yes…and I’ve noticed how each of his fake reviews cover a different topic of his greatness from his rants in the book, like he is trying to drive home different points with each review.
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I’ve also never seen/heard any trainer, in any equine related discipline, refer to their “customers”. Students or clients, but never “customers”.
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Nick certainly nurtures his grievances. I bet he has had an enemies list since childhood or at least adolescence. He doesn’t seem to have outgrown them.
He’s not overlooked or slighted - he is bullied and victimized by strangers! He didn’t run into the problem of limited funds, time, talent, etc. - he was mercilessly taunted by trainers, underappreciated, overworked and WRONGED.
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Well, at least we here on COTH have the NP target on our screens! It’s nice to know we have accomplished something as a unified group!
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"The book is well written."
Based on my education, my professional credentials and as a speaker and reader of the English language, I can absolutely refute this claim.
That… “book” 
… is horribly constructed, an issue even a novice editor would’ve corrected. The text, filled with incomprehensible word choices, misspellings and incorrect grammar, seems to lack even a cursory look from a proofreader.
He should stop insisting that the book is decently composed. It. Is. Not.
If this insistence is an example of how Nick Peronace sticks with his version of reality, even when presented with factual evidence otherwise, then I can’t believe any of his other claims.
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The book is a good example of why NP struggles so much. If he would just be honest with himself about his abilities, his life would be so much better.
Why not just enjoy that you (NP) wrote a book, admit you had it “edited” by someone with no professional editing experience and then go back to enjoying the fact that you wrote a book and modern times allow you to self publish and actually sell some copies.
No one who has actually read any amount of books will believe you that you used a real editor, so why lie about it?
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Sorry @SillyHorse! Not meant directly to you… unless you’re secretly Nick! 
What professional dressage trainer or accomplished dressage rider would concur that dear ol’ Chevy was a “Grand Prix schoolmaster”?
Seriously. I’m asking. For instance, I can execute a reining pattern on my little tobiano mare. We can do all the wild cowgirl skillz. We even work cattle. (Slow cows, but technically “cattle”). I can dream and fantasize that I’ve trained her to be an NRCHA Derby prospect. But no one with any real world credentials would agree with me.
Believing something based merely on one own’s foothold on reality is unwise. 
#RearingisnotLevade
Not that big of a deal. When it’s a 14-year-old, unhalter-broke mustang, get back to us.
He has created this special hell he claims to live within, by embellishing his resume and displaying vulgar behavior whenever his charades are revealed. Why can’t he see that? 
It seems like his prime motivation for doing this-- beyond bolstering his own ego-- is to earn some extra $ for his family. Maybe he needs another gig to pay the bills. Okay. But go about it honestly, with humility and virtue, like the Christian man he claims to be.
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I love the hashtag.
#rearingisnotlevade
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In the glowing review he recently posted, the idea that Nick has thought about self-harm in his past. Anyone know anything about this?
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In the book he says something about knowing why people do mass shootings or commit suicide.
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One of these is not like the other. (though as much as I like dissing NP on COTH, I’m not sure we need to discuss his self-harm or suicidal tendencies at length)
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Yikes.
“Knowing why people do mass shootings?!?!“
He definitely has a screw loose, as well as some profound issues with rage and anger management, along with being a narcissist, a bully, a coward, a pathological liar, and completely delusional. A legitimate psychiatrist would have a field day with him!
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Another t shirt
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I have a very real problem with people who toss off remarks about being suicidal for the purpose of attention-whoring.
Sorry, but I don’t for a minute think that Maestro was pushed to the brink over having his schemes exposed.
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Agree; he is simply trying to garner sympathy, and any attention is good attention in his book!
Of course he has zero sympathy for other people, it’s always a one-way street with NP.
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Speaking of, wonder how many of Nick’s free t-shirts will be on the grounds at Dressage At Devon? 
Maybe one, if he himself attends.
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You found me out! 
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Certainly not the GP-level rider that the woman he sold Chevy to asked to ride him. The rider said the horse pretty much doesn’t know much. Nicked stepped in with lots of drama and flair to tell her to ignore that person.
Hey, I work cattle with my hypervigilant Westfalen gelding. (when I say “cattle”, I mean steer and heifers a friend of the trainer’s brings to the barn. He trains sheepdogs on them and has a large Angus ranch. But they’re still “cattle”!) I can herd them, cut them, and I can even make one touch it’s nose to any pre-determined surface. I don’t hang a shingle out to train off-breed horses like warmbloods to work cattle. Real cowboys would laugh at me (and I know this because real cowboys laugh at us working cattle now. I am to cattle work like Nick is to dressage work).
I think the OTTB he sold schooling upper levels was Carpathia. I’m somewhat heartened that Nick admits the horse isn’t trained to upper levels but is simply schooling them. With his scores in the 40 percentile, he was likely schooling second. He showed his “warmup” to fourth level in a video but didn’t perform ANY of the required movements like half-pass, tempi changes, working pirouettes, etc. or tested the adjustability of Carpathia from collected to extended work. In other words, he didn’t actually warm her up for the work ahead and get her thinking on the ball. I lightly warmed up those movements when I showed fourth as did everyone else. I don’t think anyone warms up for Fourth by riding their horse is “working paces” in large circles as he did. He said the judge knocked him down for the horse raising the head and resisting at the half-pass. He has not shown that he can ride or the horse can accept doing any kind of sideways movement between the required letters in this warm-up. I wouldn’t be surprised if the horse resisted in him suddenly asking for something very difficult.
#RearingisnotLevade !!!
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I wonder what happened to the houseguest on this thread.
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Hmmm… Until proven otherwise I’d keep the eagle in the aerie.
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