Response to a youtube video advertising my horse for lease:
“u cant lease a horse.
u can only lease cars,and buildings”
Mmmm hmm.
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Response to a youtube video advertising my horse for lease:
“u cant lease a horse.
u can only lease cars,and buildings”
Mmmm hmm.[/QUOTE]
That is awesome! I wonder what other fascinating tidbits of advice that person offers unsolicited?
While at her first show, my cousin needed to use the restroom, so I walked with her to find the portapotties. I waited for her to finish, and when she came out she announced; “Wow! That’s a really nice portapotty! It even has a sink.” I replied saying “There’s no sink in that portapotty”. I guess she figured it out because I’ve never heard anyone scream “ewwwww” so loudly.
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That is awesome! I wonder what other fascinating tidbits of advice that person offers unsolicited?[/QUOTE]
Well, her profile says that she is 40 and “a [sic] expert on horses/riding”, so maybe she’ll have a book out soon.
This appears to be her latest riding video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3oZ8fytalc
(it just gets better and better)
That’s got to be a little kid or someone with a deminished mental capacity. I like to mark my videos as “no comments allowed” or whatever the option is. 
I have seen portapoties…
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While at her first show, my cousin needed to use the restroom, so I walked with her to find the portapotties. I waited for her to finish, and when she came out she announced; “Wow! That’s a really nice portapotty! It even has a sink.” I replied saying “There’s no sink in that portapotty”. I guess she figured it out because I’ve never heard anyone scream “ewwwww” so loudly.[/QUOTE]
WITH sinks, very few and far between, but a few…
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That’s got to be a little kid or someone with a deminished mental capcacity. I like to mark my videos as “no comments allowed” or whatever the option is. :)[/QUOTE]
Is the sound good?
I can’t hear; I don’t have speakers at work.
The last time I seriously headdesked over the internet it was a bunch of kids critiquing Tammy Provost winning a hunter classic on Daiquiri, saying, “Oh, she can’t ride at all look at her eq some ladies just spend a lot of money and the horse carts them around.”
I was like, “That is Tammy Provost and she is a PROFESSIONAL, you tools, not a rich ammy.”
On the one hand it is SO OBNOXIOUS but on the other they are 12 with no parental guidance on manners. By now I just repeat, “12yo kid, 12yo kid, don’t lay the smackdown on a 12yo kid.” Oddly their very stupidity and obnoxiousness makes me feel guilty about zinging them.
Le sigh.
I have seen the same thing. It was about Michelle Spadone riding in the video part of the PH Article that Emil did. These posters were talking about how she was riding so poorly and making the horse jump so badly. Umm, I don’t know if anyone else saw that article, but the horse was jumping freaking FABULOUS!
I always just have to roll my eyes at people like that.
They can get a 2-fer with mine. I tell them I’m going to sell them on e-bay.
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Snort, I am glad I am not the only sarcastic parent out there! There’s going to be a self-help guru out there for our kids, “learn to let go your fear of gypsies and closets under the stairs!”
This one is great, it was me that did it. :lol: I sent a friend out the wrong way on a course. :lol: WHOOPS, she did the whole course backwards :eek:
Oh, that’s so sad. I just hate to see kids talking like that online.
That’s why I tell my kids that if I ever catch them doing stuff like that I’ll lock them in a closet for life, beat them black and blue, or sell them to the gypsies 
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This one is great, it was me that did it. :lol: I sent a friend out the wrong way on a course. :lol: WHOOPS, she did the whole course backwards :eek:[/QUOTE]
That’s okay, a trainer when I was 13 sent me out to do the wrong course at WEF one year. It was a catch ride (so not my trainer schooling/helping me) and I had won the other over fences that day so was hoping for a tricolor.
Worst part was I told him the course was wrong (I’ve always learned my own courses early in the day, even back then when I was doing mainly hunters…just was too young/inexperienced to really stand up for myself and he WAS a pro), he told me that I was wrong, should just go do it and stop questioning him. Ummm, okay? Jumped one fence and heard the dreaded “rider off course” announcement.
That was the last time I ever listened to a trainer about course order.
:rolleyes:
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this entire thread is full of riots!
I know abbeyroades would have liked to post this herself but I’m going to once more bring attention to her adorable dad who when prompted to hand graze her horse at a show proceeded to find a quite spot where he could sit down and feed the noble steed in question grass straw by straw from his very hand!
Noting that this particular father was voted one of the top ten lawyers in NJ that year just makes it a so much more precious moment to me![/QUOTE]
That is so cute
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That is so cute :)[/QUOTE]
Haha thanks…He totally didn’t get what he was doing wrong. I started cracking up and he just couldn’t figure out WHY. My horse thought he died and went to horsie heaven Lol
Loving this thread. No show experiences to share, but I have two from a lesson I took with another trainer (not really by choice).
My first lesson with her, and she had never seen me ride. Gives me inch long spurs :eek: . As I was riding, she told me to use my leg, and I explained that I was a little nervous, as I had never ridden with spurs before. She then instructed me to “poke a hole in his ribs!” with them :eek::eek: .
At the end of the lesson… one of her other students was there, and she told her to “give [the horse] a scoop of bute when he’s put away… he might have already had one today, but he could use another.” :eek:
Thankfully, I didn’t have to ride with her much longer.
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I have seen the same thing. It was about Michelle Spadone riding in the video part of the PH Article that Emil did. These posters were talking about how she was riding so poorly and making the horse jump so badly. Umm, I don’t know if anyone else saw that article, but the horse was jumping freaking FABULOUS!
I always just have to roll my eyes at people like that.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I saw that, too. Thought it was funny because I use that video as my inspiration when I’m jumping. I want to be that graceful and light in the saddle.
I let my horse out in a little side pen at a showgrounds so that he could roll after I’d ridden him and before I gave him a bath.
I was encouraging him to roll after he’d had his few bucks by telling him to woah and then telling him he was a good boy when he laid down to roll. He rolled, a few times on one side, then rolled all the way over and got up. I said, “Ok, now shake…” and he did.
I didn’t realize that one of the barn dads was standing a few feet behind me because my trainer had sent him looking for me. When he told me the trainer needed me for something… I told my horse to “Come’re” and he did. As I put his halter on the barn dad looked at me and asked, “How did you to teach him to roll over and shake like that?”
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Originally Posted by lcw579 View Post
My favorite things to tell my children were:
A) I’m going to sell you to the gypsies
B) I’m going to beat you black and blue
Now that they are bigger I just tell them I’m going to beat them with a stick!
Guess mine will be right there on the couch with yours SuperSTB! </quote>
LOL my old trainer used to tell me if i don’t behave (this is when i was younger, of course) that he will sell me to a groom’s mother back in colombia :lol:
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Ding ding ding ding ding. We have a winner and official number one top 10 brain dead quote.
“Why is he lame. Just canter.”
Anybody top that one?
Possibly this is a good example why we need trainer certification on a national level.[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, in MASS, those very people are often the ones who are very, very able to pass the exam.
I saw the test, and it has q’s such as how many gallons of water should a horse have each day, instead of an open response type questions such as “a student’s horse runs out at a fence. Offer two methods you might give her to rectify this.”
Or…“your student misses the distance coming into a fence. Give her two options to rectify her mistake and get the correct distance.”
Questions such as those MIGHT help us out in MASS…<searching for rolley-eye icon>
