Thanks for sorting that out. Sorry if I confused things.
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I can certainly understand why the lessons were so short. 
He probably ran out of knowledge of things to teach about five minutes in.
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Yes, this is what I was trying to convey. Sorry if it was misconstrued.
This story is in the book and yet again has a slightly different retelling. Nick never admits to any problems riding the mare. Instead, he notices a myriad of issues while the woman is riding and opts to school the mare on the longe line. Then he puts the woman on again and, as I recall, walks alongside her on the ground, sort of coaching and encouraging her. Voila! She can trot! (Probably now using Reins of Silk). Thus Nick comes away believing, in his own mind, that the entire day has been a success because, âYou were trotting by yourself!â
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I believe he very much could afford to ride as an adult ammie or a low level professional. Heâs just resistant to working his way up the ladder (in anything in his life).
His parents were his sponsors for Carpathia. He showed her at third and fourth when he (and she) were freakishly unprepared to do so. He could have hung his shingle out as a first level rider and shown first level on a OTTB to show how he could train a OTTB. He could have done clinics and lessons and worked up the levels. But no. That was HIS choice.
Also, he could have been humble enough to find a horse that needed a rider. I did that before I owned and got the ride on several nice horses. I took lessons and did clinics and showed those horses up levels. I didnât pay horse costs, just lesson/clinic/showing costs, because the owners were happy to have someone riding and âdoing somethingâ with a nice horse they just didnât have time for. He could have tried to find such a situation and humbly work out a win-win situation. But no. That was HIS choice.
His ego prevented him from having a really fun life with horses.
Oh, Janet Foy will tell you that you ONLY have to ride some schoolmasters to become a FEI 5* judge. Itâs that easy. /s
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I agree. It is his choice that he canât be an adult ammie. If he wonât take lessons because he believes he knows all there is to know, he wonât learn.
If he wonât take lessons he certainly wonât learn to ride more effectively and he canât train a horse or rider if he doesnât improve.
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I think the problem here is that he DIDNâT train an OTTB. Carpathia (Lacey) was an established lesson horse from a riding school when his parents (the sponsors in the book) bought her for him. She may have come off the track some years before, but he certainly didnât get the raw product to work with. If heâd actually got his hands on an OTTB and trained it to first level, itâd be a whole different story.
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Heâs not Canadian, heâs not successful, and he has never called her out for her lies and bullying. It seems those are SWâs usual criteria when choosing whom to publicly trash on DH.
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It is unfortunate that he seems to feel that continuing to lie about his ability to âtrainâ horses will be of some help to him. It has not been, and it will not be.
Again, I hope that he will give up trying to mislead people about his experience and stop trying to sell himself to people as a âtrainerâ.
Whatever motivates his dishonest behavior really doesnât matter.
For whatever reason he continues to attempt to sell himself as something that heâs not. The only reason to pay any attention to him is to warn people of his lack of qualifications to teach anything related to riding or training horses.
His desperate and bizarre penchant for using photos of other peopleâs farms, people that he doesnât work with or even know, to pretend that he is associated with them, is beyond the pale. That behavior is unhealthy and skirts the line of being criminal.
People need to know that if they allow him on their property, pictures of their farm and their horses will be used by him in an attempt to legitimize himself.
I do think that the people who have met him know that he is a con man and I doubt that anyone will be paying his way to their farm for him to give a âfreeâ clinic.
If everyone that has noted his lack of credentials and dubious background is, to him, a big bunch of bullies, than so be it. We actually care about others and donât want to see people taken in by a scammer.
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And speaking of Janet Foy, what is DH on about with this photo as her âproofâ that Janet is âmanipulatingâ scores in favour of her friend Susanne Hamilton? Why no similar conclusion or online rant that Christoph Umbach must be friends with Michael Bagdell and inflated his score?
My guess is Janet once either judged DH in a show or taught her in a clinic and gave her a bit of a reality check about her own riding âskills,â thereby putting a target on her back. Of course there are plenty of people like NP who donât know any better and believe that DH actually cares about the betterment of the sport.
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My mind can simply not wrap itself around the need to be something you are not. And I am not saying that everyone should just give up and accept they suck, or not try new things, or any of that. I am just saying I do not understand a person not being happy with being the level that they are (or the process of moving up the levels and learning), and making that work for them. Why lie about being amazing?
Oh well. He has provided us with quite a bit of amusement while he insists he is something he is not.
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Did you know:
This thread has surpassed the original âNick Peronace Dressageâ thread by seven posts now.
Edit. Eight. Forgot to count this post!
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Most of his original posts got locked, so that might explain why this one has more posts.
(They got unlocked on when transferred to this new format of the forum, but were locked before.)
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Heâs shilling it on DHâs Janet Foy bashfest to the tune of two âlikesâ probably from the PETA people.
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Ah, well, I guess he can attribute that score to the draft and the unfair advantage of riding a schoolmaster, like he suggests of Foy and others?
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Oddly enough he either missed DHâs repost of his video as the pageâs #1 most-hated video of all time, or heâs deliberately ignoring it, as starting a fight about it would get him blocked from the page.
Someone commented that NP thinks DH is one of his biggest fans, to which she responded, âlol, well, I can change that!â
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I donât have the book in front of me anymore. Didnât he say something positive about DH in the comments at the back of the book?
Yes. He thanks SW along with a bunch of other people.
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Instead of taking this thread on⊠and on⊠and on⊠(I think weâve probably taken it far enough by now, eh?), why doesnât someone buy this:
And just write out everything he has done. The good news is that the COTH posts are the second hit when googling his name, so anyone with half a brain will get warning of who this ding dong is before they give him money.
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I always find it humorous when heâs complaining about people riding school masters. Does anyone else remember when he was trying to find a Grand Prix horse to borrow for a week? He wanted to be free to film himself riding and take photos but was adamant that he be left alone with the horse and the owner could not be there during his rides.
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What could possibly go wrong wit this idea? 
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