Nah, wouldn’t wish that on any horse.
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He’s stated it too many times for it to be true. He has simply learned that if he tosses out the words “bullied” and “suicide” or even hints around the edges at self-harm, many people treat him like some poor little lamb and tell all the meanies who are calling him out on his lies to stop or his blood will be on their hands!
Fat chance. Nick laughs up his sleeve and carries on overstating his accomplishments, abilities and pretends that he has something to offer that will be of lasting value to a rider instead of a terrible habit or incorrect information that will have to be flushed.
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If that houseguest hadn’t started another thread some months ago in the Breeding subforum (My Poor Mare), I would seriously have wondered if she wasn’t another Peronacian incarnation. Well, that and the spelling. She is/was mostly active in CE, being deliberately inflammatory and trollish (kind of like her one post here) and her views mimic Nick’s pretty closely.
Mods, if I crossed a line with that information, feel free to delete the post with my apologies.
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I love this post.
Here’s the thing: I adored my childhood horse, and I taught him a bunch of stupid, not-useful things. (Not to rear, thank dog.) I was sure he was capable of winning the Grand National, the Kentucky Derby and a Nations Cup, all in the same year, if only the Jockey Club weren’t such sticks in the mud about registration papers.
He was, in fact, a really lovely horse who deigned not to kill me or punish me for my numerous stupid teenage moments. He was also, upon adult reflection, a modestly talented, indifferently bred horse that was at least half TB. I hung a lot of my wild fantasies about him around that he had been shown as a jumper by a BNT. I was a little sketch on the details - did the BNT show him more than once? Did he win? How exactly, did he make the journey from jumper shown by BNT to not-very-popular school horse to my sweet backyard horse?
Nick’s stories about Chevy are like my stories about my childhood horse. Nick’s levade/pesade/airs about the ground are like my jumping a single, badly constructed 4’ 6" fence and living to tell the tale because of my saint of a horse and then constructing a jumper resume for the horse around that event.
The difference is one of us grew up, learned better and did better. Knowing better and doing better in no way diminishes my love and appreciation for that lovely, lovely horse who put up with my crap and didn’t kill me.
Nick is still that 14 year old, insisting that a horse that doesn’t accept contact or even remotely go on the aids is “classically trained” and “light” and knows the “airs above the ground.”
As I believed my beloved horse could TOTALLY win a Gran Prix jumper class if only someone who understood the way he needed to go were riding him.
I was a LOT younger than Nick when I understood how fantastical my own beliefs were. It’s kinda sad to see a grown man with a family so firmly attached to his teenage delusions.
ETA: If anyone is even remotely interested, I will PM photos of said lovely horse saving my stupid tween ass. Warning: boot garters and contrasting chokers will be involved; it was a long time ago.
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That’s his Beefman background shining through. Though IIRC, none of those customers were very satisfied lol.
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I feels ya’. 
I’ve had numerous less-than-perfect horses throughout my life. I could point out every one of their conformation faults, their behavioral idiosyncrasies, and what they lacked in movement, type or jumping style that kept them from being a top performance horse. Yet I didn’t love them any less. In fact, in some ways I appreciated them more for what they taught me about accepting the shortcomings, and embracing the uniqueness, in every living creature.
Pretending gets you nowhere. Not in life. And especially not in horses. 
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McGurk - I tried sending you a PM, but I don’t see it in my box. I would love to see photos of your childhood horse.
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Well, unless your career is acting. Then pretending is a very important skill set that you will get paid a lot of money for.
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PMs with photos sent. When y’all stop laughing, please let me know you received them.
It was fun digging them out and looking at them. What a saint.
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I cant speak for JLC but WF not only whines on his fb page but asks for donation so he can sue >;-D
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So he can sue whom?
Me 
For “slander, and spreading filth”… ie for exposing his made up bona fides and posting photos of a horse he had in training for years, wrecked an lame at age 12. And for making fun of his soft porn movie Clothing Optional, and for remarking on his role in a movie about tampon sucking vampires. And for posting about the euthanasia of young horse as result of his temper and impatience. For posting that hes been kicked out of every facility h has been in in San Diego.
And threatened to sue the admin of Definitely Dressage BB for posting negative comments about him.
Hes a piece of work, old Wilbur.
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Who is JLC?
Jean Luc Cornille. Just a guess.
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Yes, that’s who I meant.
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I can so relate to your story! Based on constantly checking out Podjasky’s “My Horses, My Teachers” from our public library, my ten to twelve year old self tried to teach those "tricks’ to her pony. We actually did get tempis down to every three, but highly doubtful they changed behind first. And if I trotted her up a hill and held her back with the reins, presto! Piaffe!
And like you, I grew up, matured, and realized I was clueless and wasn’t doing any of it right, much less being able to claim it as dressage.
I’m glad I grew up. Star was a wonderful pony and taught me so much! But she never was a dressage pony, just learned a few parlor tricks.
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He’s now claiming to be “the number one most cyber bullied person in the equestrian world”.
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He earned that number one title by being the number one most obnoxious, arrogant and clueless dressage “trainer” in the world while telling the rest of the dressage world that he is the only one who is right and knows the correct way to ride.
(ps…and it isn’t bullying when people are speaking the truth rather than buying into his invisible fantasies and lies).
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Speaking of cyber bullying: two ladies (the poster and the admin of the group) on a FB group about nonviolent equestrians decided to share a video in their group. The video was of a small child riding a very spirited pony over cross country, and doing a bloody good job. Their commentary about how “appalling” the video was, how terrible the child was, how the pony was traumatised etc… was disgusting.
Child’s mum found out, tore them a new one on her business page (they rehab racehorses from Asia that are repatriated to NZ). The child is honestly a future Olympic eventer, seat like glue and very sympathetic.
Group admin… bribes horses to wander beside her, calls it horsemanship. The admin is red.
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