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Of course, NYers in the know know that whips and crops are always cheaper at the “shops over in the West Village” than at Manhattan Saddlery. Usually a better selection, too. :lol:[/QUOTE]The reverse is true at the Pleasure Chest in Hollywood. One of the few instances where the horse-related store is less expensive.
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What is with the oversexed people? :lol: And you have to wonder what the canter/sex trainers are telling boys…[/QUOTE]
I don’t even want to think about that.:dead::dead::dead::eek::no::dead::dead::dead:
[QUOTE=Kirsten;3558525]
On watching video of a clinic I rode in, my husband saw me having some trouble getting our gelding to come through and soft. He’s tricky that way. The clinician, an Olympic European dressage rider, got on and within a few minutes naturally had the horse looking very nice. My husband, totally serious, said “You should make him put his nose in like that guy’s doing!”. Gee, you’re right! Why didn’t I think of that?? :D[/QUOTE]
That was too funny. I just posted it to my facebook. :lol:
[QUOTE=Sudi’s Girl;3565265]
haha - hahaha. My sentiment: Arab’s are only as crazy as their owners. :D[/QUOTE]
Hey! I have an Arab and I’m not crazy. Well…just a bit hyper…like my Arab!:winkgrin:
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Hey! I have an Arab and I’m not crazy. Well…just a bit hyper…like my Arab!:winkgrin:[/QUOTE]
I’ve never met a crazy arabian…
crazy arabian owner… is a different story hahaha.
Out of the mouth of a VERY bnt…“fake it, fake it”…this was in the jumper ring. I have no clue what they were supposed to be faking. Maybe riding???:winkgrin:
I am at a HITS show several years ago warming up for the adult jumpers. I am sharing a fence with a middle age male and his ex grand Prix horse. His big time jumper trainer is watching him miss distance after distance and keeps saying things like “Great thats it,” and “awesome”. The man is scary bad and the horse is trying his best to get out of his way. As I circle to the fence I hear the trainer say to the groom, “Man he is going to die in there.” I mean really, why are you letting him go then? What an A**!!!
So this one is mostly a misinterpretation but funny nonetheless! And yes, it came from my mouth…
We were at a local show and I was showing in the 2’9" and 3ft Hunters. I was waiting for the last class of the 2’6" start before I started my warmup so I wanted to know how many people were in the class so, I said “how big is 2’6”?" I literally had a group of 8-10 people, turn around and stare at me like I was the dumbest person they had ever seen then they turned back around. So I said “Seriously guys how big is it?”. My coach turned around and said “Well Kate, what do you think? It’s 2’6”!" At this point I was confused out of my mind then realized how it came across so I started to laugh and said “I meant how many riders!”. Everyone got a good chuckle and I still haven’t lived it down…
I had just won a hunter u/s at a small schooling show. The 3rd place girl’s trainer says "Wait – this was hunter right? So it was judged on the horse? What happened?
So. Rude.
Me and two girls at my barn went to a fun h/j show with our event horses. One friend’s mare goes around in a hackamore. You can hear on the video from that day a group of girls discussing exactly “what that funny looking noseband could be” and both friends’ parents cracking up.
From a trainer: my horse has a big thyroid problem because he has a stallion-like crest that is entirely muscle, hello very fit TB, and he has expressive eyes. :no: I have no clue how expressive eyes relates to the thyroid.
From same trainer: “Once one is able to do hours of no stirrups at a time Intermediate and up xc fences will be nothing” Huh?!?! They are BIG. They are SOLID. One must be brain dead not to respect and have a bit of fear for those jumps.
I need to learn an automatic release because I will never get a good distance on cross country :no: and a crest release will not help me… 
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From back when I first started showing:
I had just won a flat class, and it was my first time ever winning a class. I was so excited. The woman who I rode with at the time comes up to me and says (I kid you not) “Wow, I’m surprised you did so well” I believe I was showing short stirrup at the time.
The next two are just funny from one of the SS kids who rides with my coach
We were sitting at a show eating and watching the hitching ring. A horse goes by that everyone has always raved about. My coach leans over to me and whispers “I never realized what a bad mover he is” Next thing you hear is the SS kid at the top of her lungs “WHO’S A BAD MOVER??”
Same kid again, is at a show and her pony is being an absolute cow. She’s already dumped the kid 2 or 3 times. They’re about to go in to do a flat, so my coach looks at her and says “Okay, if she isn’t good, we’re not feeding her tonight” (Pony is an absolute PIG, and coach was obviously joking). Kid sees her mom walking towards her and again “MOM IF (PONY) ISN’T GOOD, WERE NOT FEEDING HER TONIGHT.”
Lesson student at our barn gets a new pony, shows it once or twice locally. Someone finally looks at him more critically, sticks him, and oops! He’s 14.2 3/4. Next show, they enter him in the appropriate divisions.
Anyway, we’re standing near the ingate and student says to me, “Dobbin is so great. I can show him as a horse or a PONY!” Everyone turned and stared and I was wishing for a rock to hide under.
The funniest thing I ever witnessed at a horse show happened at a local schooling show. A trainer had sent her green pony to show for some mileage, and the kid riding the pony was a fairly accomplished ‘A’ show rider.
The pony was jumping around in good form, but was having lead change problems. At the end of the course the pony lands on the wrong lead, and the trainer the instructs the rider to ride the pony the pony into the arena fence to get the lead change. The pony continues to canter (on the wrong lead) and jumps out of the arena, clearing the flower bed on the other side in great form!
Eons ago, watching a hunter round being ridden by someone who is now an Olympic rider, the announcer says “And now we have, by request, Mr. X.” The lady behind me pipes up, “What’s so special about him that he’s riding by request. Who requested him?”
Lol. By Request was the name of the horse!
[QUOTE=Prime Time Rider;5974533]
The funniest thing I ever witnessed at a horse show happened at a local schooling show. A trainer had sent her green pony to show for some mileage, and the kid riding the pony was a fairly accomplished ‘A’ show rider.
The pony was jumping around in good form, but was having lead change problems. At the end of the course the pony lands on the wrong lead, and the trainer the instructs the rider to ride the pony the pony into the arena fence to get the lead change. The pony continues to canter (on the wrong lead) and jumps out of the arena, clearing the flower bed on the other side in great form![/QUOTE]
Where was this??? Sounds like that rider was me!! Was the pony a gray? Such a funny day!
Some funny things I’ve heard:
From a trainer at a winter circuit show. Her kid was going in the low ch/aa. “Ok, since this is your first time, remember the jumpers are just about running as fast as you can from jump to jump! And remember to PRAY you go clear.” And the trainer was dead. serious. :eek: it was a very scary round.
Ive heard lots of funny things… just cant seem to remember them right now…
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Not saying my old trainer was brain dead, but I was in a pleasure pony class, when the soon-to-be champion galloped as fast as an small pony could run , and proceeded to a lovely cro-hop thing. My pony was an angel! Ears up, he was moving out and look beautiful! After the class was pinned, my trainer said, (so I was told…) “I wasn’t aware that we had to practice the pleasurable hand gallop!”
here are the pinnings;)
galloping pony 1st
bucking wrong lead pony 2nd
me: nothing.
so, I haven’t ever liked pleasure very much! lol:cool:[/QUOTE]
We had something like that happen a few years back.3 ponies in a walk trot class. Our pony’s 1st time ever in the show ring, and it is an indoor. Kid in front of us decides to run-not lope, not canter, run. His hat comes off and bangs my dd’s pony in the face. Tass gives a little crow hop, then proceeds to drop his head back where it needs to be and jog on. When they reverse, the judge calls for a jog trot again. Both other ponies go into canter mode. Tass is jogging on a loose rein and behaving, and I am thinking he is taking 1st. Judge placed him 3rd. It is probably the only time in my life I have gotten hard down mad about a placing. To me it was a no brainer. I was told later it was because he crow hopped. Hello!!! The others ran in a walk trot class.
Riding at a backyard type barn: the trainer wouldn’t let us jump if we didn’t wrap all four legs for the lessons. I wrap like a normal person (from just below the knee to cup the fetlock) but the trainer comes up to me and tells me I wrapped it wrong. She proceeds to wrap from the middle of the knee all the way down to the hoof and says that’s the only way to prevent a bowed tendon.
My own fault: I had two hunter courses back to back so after the first one I just glanced at the 2nd course before going in the ring. I had a GORGEOUS round but as I leave they announce that I was off course. It turns out I actually need my glasses-when reading the course diagram I thought the jump labelled 5 was actually a 3 so I jumped 7 jumps backwards never noticing the direction of flowers, rolltops, and oxers.
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Reviving this because I just remembered an amazing one.
I saw a video posted by a friend of a friend on FB or YouTube or wherever. Dad was filming daughter in her jumper class and narrating video like a sportscaster. Every time horse would take off at a jump, Dad would go “BAM!!” “Perfect!” Next jump, another “BAM!!!” And Dad must have had another friend with him because he kept saying, “Did you see that? She is nailing this!” It was pretty cute & priceless.
Re judges, I once had a judge eliminate me from an eq over fences class because my horse was wearing eq boots. It was a small local show & I had taken my (OTTB) big jumper just to get him some arena and travel time. I was kinda bummed because it was actually a very nice round and he had kept it together over these little jumps that he usually freaks for. I asked judge afterward what happened & she said, “You’re horse was wearing boots.” I said, “He was wearing Eq boots in an Eq class?” Judge’s face turned red and I could tell she felt bad. She was a Western judge moonlighting as a H/J judge for the day I guess (Don’t know whose idea that was). We then did a Hunter o/f class (without boots) and won even tho horse did not hold himself together nearly as well. I think judge felt bad.
I decided those boots (which I had just gotten off ebay) were bad luck & I don’t think I’ve used them since.
Also, once heard some girls talking about how So And So couldn’t be that well off because she didn’t have a GPA helmet. How do you know what kind of helmet she has? “She doesn’t have the right kind of tan.” Yup.
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Re judges, I once had a judge eliminate me from an eq over fences class because my horse was wearing eq boots. It was a small local show & I had taken my (OTTB) big jumper just to get him some arena and travel time. I was kinda bummed because it was actually a very nice round and he had kept it together over these little jumps that he usually freaks for. I asked judge afterward what happened & she said, “You’re horse was wearing boots.” I said, “He was wearing Eq boots in an Eq class?” Judge’s face turned red and I could tell she felt bad. She was a Western judge moonlighting as a H/J judge for the day I guess (Don’t know whose idea that was). We then did a Hunter o/f class (without boots) and won even tho horse did not hold himself together nearly as well. I think judge felt bad.
I decided those boots (which I had just gotten off ebay) were bad luck & I don’t think I’ve used them since.[/QUOTE]
Not exactly brain dead but related to this, once my friend was showing a horse in the hunters, and this horse had had pin-firing on his leg. He was a dark horse so the marks were somewhat obvious, and the judge eliminated her because she thought he had boots on. Later we brought the horse up to her and showed her the marks but it was too late for that class.
Another time (actually the same rider) my friend was doing a handy hunter round and the judge thought she went off course but she hadn’t. When it was announced she happened to be by the judge so she went to talk to her and the judge ended up letting her finish, and she actually won the class! It wasn’t an A show though, just a local B circuit.
OK, I’ll play. Again.
Got a couple, one funny, one, not so much.
An older adult went in a big and competitive 2’6" Hunter class-at an A show- and laid down a really pretty trip. Didn’t miss a lick or a lead change, I should point out the first fence and following line were both at the far end of the arena. Trainer was dead silent when she came out as her non horsey SO cheered and clapped.
She comes out and says to trainer “Wow, that was great and you didn’t have to correct me at all. Why are all the flowers on the wrong side of the fences”:lol:? Nope, was not me. MY horse though-he’d do anything for you, including oxers and roll tops backwards.
The other one…I was asked to catch ride an ammy flat class for another rider in my barn whose kid got sick. They had not had ot that long and I had never been on it, didn’t know much about it but was around it enough to be comfortable it was decent and safe.
Before I mounted I asked new, young assistant trainer (who was kind of a snot anyway) “Should I wear spurs on this one in here?”. Reasonable question when getting on a strange horse IMO. She snaps back “I always wear spurs on any horse I ride”. Ooooookkkkay, good for you. Not what I asked, I asked about ME on THAT particular horse I had never ridden.
So I left my spurs on. I ride well enough, quiet lower leg, they are not big spurs, it was a flat class, but horsey was a little abrupt a time or two. Nothing tragic but enough to take him out of the ribbons. Turns out they had been avoiding spurs on that one due to recent (former) bad trainer misadventures…thanks a frackin lot. Head trainer was not pleased and had thought new assistant could handle a flat class. New assistant was new ex assistant shortly thereafter.
