Does anyone know her? It’s interesting a journalist could give this book a glowing review and seem not to mention the grammar, lack of clear storyline, etc.
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She’s not exactly a journalist, in the reporter sense and certainly doesn’t mention it on her own Facebook page. She has written marginal fluff pieces that got published in horse newsletters and magazines, mostly years ago and none of it terribly relevant to anything. She seems to be in her own little world like Lil Nicky, so it’s possible she legitimately gave a glowing review because she empathizes with him, as a fellow Misfit and all that.
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Yes, she seems to have her own niche doing therapeutic riding and older beginners and groundwork. With mules.
https://eclectic-horseman.com/horsemanship-instruction-for-older-riders/
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It sounds like her clientele is Nick’s target audience.
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I think Nick wants clients who actually ride, not groundwork. But otherwise, yes.
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Hmmmm… there’s lawn mower racing. Maybe we can start lawn mower dressage and learn to make 10m circles in our lawns. Too bad Wheel Horse mowers don’t exist anymore. LOL
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I see she doesn’t use t-post toppers. That is a terrible accident waiting to happen.
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Can the official lawn mower dressage uniform be a bathrobe?
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It does. From what I read about her, she gives clinics herself, to older reriders, emphasizing natural horsemanship from the ground on clients’ horses. She’s in Idaho. Im not sure what his thing is with Idaho, which is where the two clinics he gave that time were. Maybe he’s been soliciting low level barns who dont’ know much about dressage out in Idaho, and he got her to read his book, or at least to write a review.
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It is hard for me to believe that anyone who has written anything that was published, no matter how small of a piece, would write a review about Nick’s book that does not mention the horrible grammar and spelling - even if they for some reason believed the content.
When someone who sucks at English as much as I do (and yes, it is my only language) can see the mistakes, I would hope someone who is a professional would see them too, and that is not something that should be ignored in a book review. This is not some pamphlet he sent out, it is a published book (where the people he seems to hate the most had to tell him how to spell foreward).
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As long as you are wearing a top hat!
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Does it have to be black or can we have different colors? Patterns? CAN THEY CLASH? What kind of footwear - can they be brown paddock boots or do they have to be tall black boots?
Too bad “The Swamp” can’t sponsor a special lawnmower dressage class at Devon with a really tacky trophy for the winner. In honor of Nick.
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Ok. I’ve got it. The official uniform for the United Swamptown Lawnmower Dressage Federation shall be as follows:
Bathrobe (no solid colors allowed, patterns only, the tackier the better)
Top hat
One black tall boot and one brown paddock boot
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It has to be fluffy slippers or pastel-colored Crocs. Boots are too high-falutin!
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Headgear???
Top hat gets my vote.
Puppy dog slippers.
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I think Nick wants clients who actually ride, not groundwork.[/quote]
Because, sadly, getting on a client’s horse is his only opportunity to ride.
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