:eek: Boy, that’s right up there with all AA level Hunters hack in a Pelham.
To think these words of wisdom were PAID for by clients of these people.
So I have a muchkin in the ring during the schooling break before the Walk Trot section of a schooling show (picture lots of little kiddos with all their extended family there to watch), when I notice a much older girl riding around on this poor horse who is three legged lame. The “trainer” of this girl walks around the corner and upon seeing the thing limping around screams “WHAT THE F**K, why is he limping??? Just CANTER!” I am not even kidding. This is just wrong on so many levels…and people actually PAY HER! :no:
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.
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I am sure I heard a bajillion while I was working end gate at a local show circuit but I can’t remember specifics. :lol: I think my favorite one though was from my dad, bless him. We were at a winter show, Swan Lake actually. My trainer was sitting on my horse, waiting for her flat class. I was standing beside her and we were watching the jumping finish up. Now, to be fair to my father, the horse had been bodyclipped about three weeks beforehand and was wearing a cooler, but still. He walked up to my horse, gave her a big pat on the shoulder, and asked my trainer “So which horse is this one then? Is it new?” :lol: My trainer, ever patient, laughed and answered “This is Lola; you own her.” He has yet to live that one down. 
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didn’t hear this one personally, but…
A trainer we had working with our horses, many many moons ago, was big in showing Appaloosas, he had a friend always teasing him about getting in some REAL horses, meaning Palaminos, one of the next times that friend was over, he was taken back into the barn to be shown the NEW horse the trainer had in, and just started RAVING over the new gelding, being palamino, of course… BTW, it is winter there, now our trainer pulls the blanket off the horse, and it has a Withers back App blanket…:lol::lol::lol:
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Indeed. I meet people like this who make a living training horses and riders and think that if only I had less ethics, I too could be out there. I mean, hell, I know that AA hunters don’t all hack in Pelhams and that you don’t start a WP horse (or any other horse, for that matter…) in a mechanical hack - so I’m already ahead of the curve, even though I’m an eventer! :lol:
This isn’t so “stupid” per se…but it made me giggle as I was a bit torqued off up to this point.
Long and short, I had never shown OF before. In fact, to this point, I’d only jumped an entire course 6 times. But trainer was holding a schooling show and offered for me to ride the little mare I’d had a few lessons on as my horse wasn’t quite ready.
Day before show, she informs me that mare will not be available, but another semi-retired horse in the barn was. She assured me that I would be schooled on him before my classes and she’d be telling me what to do…no worries. I figured, heck…why not.
So I arrive at the show w/o my trusty and experienced side kick/BF/BO who normally is at least available to remind me to breathe–to do my first OF classes on a horse I’d never ridden.
I found that trainer had entered me in several classes…one being the medal. Not even knowing what that WAS, I took care to write down all of the courses so that I could study them.
Go to warmup and I jumped exactly one single. The only cantering I did was immediately following that single and then I was dismissed from the warmup ring. Holy crap. So there I was, no sidekick, not breathing, on a horse I didn’t know and was going to go JUMP. EEK!
I sat there on my horse and carefully reviewed my courses again and again. I made it rather well through my first two OF courses and was waiting for the medal with the other riders (also students). They had no idea what the course was and trainer was busy schooling other riders, so I offered them my drawing and walked them through it several times.
Moments before the class was to begin, trainer hollers to us (the whole group), “Can someone make sure that BuddyRoo knows her course?”
Student yells back, “Uh, yeah.” then mumbles, “She does. She just taught all of us.”
For all the nerves and pukey anxiety of the day and frustration at feeling like I had no clue…THAT made me feel good. (oh, and I got 2nd. I was geeked! nailed the roll back. whoot!)
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Me, at ingate upon hearing my horse pin well:
“BUT HE WAS BAD!” :eek:[/QUOTE]
Oh I’ll admit I did worse than that one time.
Background ~ My poor guy was just starting to REALLY show the signs of Cushing’s (talking downhill in a 2 week time period). But he is honest as the day is long if the rider gives him a chance. Did decent in his O/F classes… but our shock and my never to be lived down comment came in the Hunter Hack.
He WON the class - and out of my mouth was “What? It was a decent round but physically he looks like crap right now” - as soon as it left my mouth I slapped myself for saying it out loud.
Of course his rider came out and said “he won that class on his own merit cause sure I wasn’t any help to him at all” (she was sick and trying not to cough the entire class) - apparently the flying change I thought she got to get the correct lead was all his idea, as was the easy transitions up and down withing 2 strides of them being called.
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I was 13 years old warming my first horse up at a winter dressage show. A trainer that a friend of mine worked with (I’d never worked with him although I knew him because she did) says to me " Your horse looks great! He’s gained some weight! (Pause) So have you!" :eek::eek::eek:
The first part was a compliment my new horse had been skinny when I got him a few months before. The second part? WTF?!?! Who says that to a 13 year old girl? For the record while I was by no means a Barbie doll I also was not fat! To this day more then 10 years later I still do not like that man.
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Good enough for #2. Keep 'em coming.
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At a AA show a few years ago…sitting near one of the barns…kid on pony and in tears throws reins to the groom and stomps off where she is hugged by her mom…mom says, “We’ll find you a different pony, honey.”
If I stomped off or cried and threw my pony at anyone as a kid? Um…mom would’ve said, “I’m selling your horse.”
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Horse and amateur rider go careening around a turn while on course. Trainer says “whoa, whoa.” Client turns head towards trainer and says, who are you calling a ho?!?" (I think she was kidding)
(this one either happened at home or at the schooling day before the show started, but it’s too good not to share). Rider reverses direction across the diagonal at the canter. Doesn’t keep horse straight, doesn’t make a great effort to get a change, horse sort of flops around and cross canters. Trainer asks “What are you doing?” Rider responds in a sing-song voice “Ruining my horse!”
Trainer (?) of small pony at the beginning of a Green Rider U/S class (division jumps 2’3"-2’6" and is open to all ages). “I didn’t know that there were going to be all these big horses in here.” There were 12 equines in the class with three ponies, including the one whose connections made the comment. Said pony darted out the ingate during the reverse and, despite their best efforts to push it back in the ring, won the battle.
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-“Why aren’t there numbers or something on the fences? This looks complicated” (18" Hunters)
-“That judge just liked the Clydesdale better because it was fancy. You should have won!” (Hunters. Other rider had a dark bay TB.)
-“Which ring do they do the shooting in, and when does it start?” (misinterpreted meaning of “Hunter” horses)
OK here is brain dead from the judge!! I was showing a nice horse in a training level dressage test at a schooling show. We enter at A, halt at X, horse decides RIGHT NOW he has to pee!! He stretches out, and pees, and pees, and pess, with everyone laughing and giggling. I patiently wait for the flood to stop and then proceed with my test. The judge had the NERVE to give me a “1” for the score for the halt, stating "prolonged halt at X’ well…duhhhh!!! Course I got my revenge as NO HORSE that day had a nice straight entry and halt as none of them wanted to swim the puddle we had left!!!:lol:
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…Rider reverses direction across the diagonal at the canter. Doesn’t keep horse straight, doesn’t make a great effort to get a change, horse sort of flops around and cross canters. Trainer asks “What are you doing?” Rider responds in a sing-song voice “Ruining my horse!”[/QUOTE]
I LOVE that. Totally something I would do/say. :lol:
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I am an older adult- actually really old, but anyway- I was at a big show in Bend,I was riding with a BNT at the time- for the season- I completed a course, after having been told where/when to turn etc-, well, I left out a stride on one line and failed to make the turn, so when I came out, I said “sorry about not making that turn:” where upon the BNT trainer, said- “God did not want you to make that turn”- I almost fell off luaghing- I won anyway- another time- an Adult Classic at Evergreen- the rider before me whipped around the course like a mad woman- the BNT said as he watched- “you do not have to go that fast” no kidding- I felt lucky to get into the ring:)
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This was at a big show but I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever heard!
Spoiled girl rides beautiful horse horribly and is called last in the jog. Trainer and Dad are standing by the ring, I was behind them on a bleacher.
Dad: “I was under the impression that for the money I spent on this horse, it would be winning.”
Trainer: “And I thought, given your success in business, you would be able to recognise a poor investment when you saw one.”
He was talking about the kid. I have no idea whether Dad and trainer parted ways or what not, because both stood up and walked over to meet kid, but I was so tickled I thought about walking over and handing my business to that trainer!
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I was at a local schooling show in a jr. jumper class and made a oops moment. When me and my horse got to a big oxer he over jumped it, the jump was only 3"6’, but he jumped more like it was 6 ft, well I let out a very loud F bomb and finished the course. The bad thing it was right in front of the local 4-H kids, plus when my trainer motioned it to me I didn’t remember saying it!!!
I was red faced the rest of the day, trainer almost washed my mouth out with soap, but decided not to since she had never cuss before. The soap was my dads idea.
Okay, not a horse show moment, but one that happened in my barn last weekend.
My m-i-l was in the barn and I had Aero in the cross ties after I’d ridden him. I was scratching the calic in the middle of his forehead explaining that he like that. I then said that he is part moose and that he likes to have his antlers rubbed - the boney part of his scull between his ears. He loves that area to be scratched. My m-i-l actually said
“Oh, when will he have his antlers? I didn’t know they get antlers.”
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:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
I think some trainers would like to use that line when the client insists on horse shopping without them, but then expect trainer to work a magical miracle when they buy an inapproriate (and over priced) horse.
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