I know this isn’t horse related but close. When I lived in New Mexico the game wardens caught a couple of out of state hunters with a white donkey in the back of their pickup truck. When they confronted them about shooting someone’s donkey the hunters got very upset-the idiots thought they had shot a rocky mountain sheep—and then they really got upset because hunting endangered species is a federal crime and they got arrested. And I’m not kidding this really happened.
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Not horse show related, but really cute/laughable:
Very astute six year old taking her first couple lessons on a stubborn/green pony:
BNT: Great job keeping him going through that turn! Your riding is really starting to improve!
SYO: Well it better if I’m going to Rolex!
Later at dinner the following week w/ another BNT:
Mom to SYO: Honey, are you ok? Why aren’t you eating?
SYO: well I’m nervous.
Mom: what are you nervous about?
SYO: Well My future
Mom: (a little incredulous) Your future?
SYO: Yeah - Going to Rolex - that’s scary!
BNT (who’s competed at Rolex): You bet honey!
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Haha, I remember another good one. Local schooling show, right after a “Scared me, no ribbon” ride in a 2’ class… riders parents heard telling others that their daughter did not place because the horse had his ears back.
Frankly, I would have had my ears back too, if I was getting buried at every jump and then yanked in the mouth. :no:
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Not at a horse show, but on the way… mid 90’s- Transmission goes on the truck on I-87 in NY. Parents are making calls, and I’m in the trailer refilling hay net and putting in water bucket, etc in a mall parking lot. Very nice family comes over, asks if they can say hello. I say sure. They look in and pet my bright chestnut OTTB, who was on the skinny/very fit side at the time. As they go to get back in their car, they thank me for letting them pet my cow.[/QUOTE]
That doesn’t surprise me at all. You wouldn’t believe how many people wander through our county fair looking at our lambs and think they’re goats. Our lambs are very clearly lambs. :lol:
And just this past weekend we ordered pizza up the road from a show and told them we were nearby at a horse show. When I went to pick it up, they asked me if I’d won my race! :lol: I said, no this was actually a horse SHOW, the other girl (blonde) said “Oh yeah, I think I’ve heard of those…but I’ve never actually seen one”. :lol: And this was a pizza place in a very rural small town…we’re not talking big city here!
Dang…my jumper did a 1 in the 2 this summer & I was completely horrified embarrassed. I never thought to consider it as “extra credit”. Hmm…:lol:
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And just this past weekend we ordered pizza up the road from a show and told them we were nearby at a horse show. When I went to pick it up, they asked me if I’d won my race! :lolQUOTE]
Same thing happened to me only a little different. It was the night before a horse show and my older sister’s friend ate dinner at our house. I mentioned to her that I had a show the next day. As she was leaving she said,“Good luck at your race tomorrow”:lol:
I’ve heard some others… just can’t think of them now.
IME this reaction is pretty standard surprisingly. I hear it all the time from colleagues when they inquire about my weekend plans… I’ve had to explain to several people about Hunter paces in depth. If I just say it’s a “xc ride with jumps” they say " oh it’s a race XC to see who can go fastest"? That’s when I say…no…that’s why it’s called a Hunter PACE not hunter RACE:D
When I mentioned I was going foxhunting several people thought I meant hunting fox on foot…rifle in hand…decked out in camo:winkgrin:
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Hah! I’ve got the best one… Professional riding my horse for the year end Green Hunter championship. Does her first round… beautiful. 2nd Round… goes off course (rides the 1st course again)… comes out of the gate and says “OK… lets I think we’ve got a little time before we go in for our 2nd round”. ARRRGGHHHHHH! Luckily, the next closest horse for the division had a bad day, so we won it anyway… but jeez… what was she on? He was the only horse she was riding that day, so can’t blame it on a hectic schedule.
Transmission blows on truck on RT 78 in NJ on our way home from HITS Saugerties. We have two trucks and two 6-horse trailers. Dad is driving one and mom has other. Truck starts to smoke and we see flames under the hood. No time (or room) to push truck away from trailer so we have no choice but to unload the 6 horses. Long story short, a car stops and out jump 2 kids to see the horses. Now, we are standing along rt. 78 and holding 6 imported wbs as tractor trailers fly by on the road. My point being that our main concentration was to load them back into trailer as soon as trailer got unhooked from truck and it would be safe. So of course, it never fails, a car pulls in behind us and out jump these two kids to “see the horses”. Here we are holding wbs who are leaping in the air and running around us b/c of the traffic on 78. And the best part was parents didn’t understand why their children couldn’t pet the horses. UMM, gee I don’t know…maybe because they are freaking out and your children are going to get run over if they come any closer. :no:
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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?? 
My intercollegiate team volunteered once at a BREED SHOW. It was local Paint show, and they had over fences classes.
It was HORRIFIC.
A quote I remember from the warm up ring came from a “trainer” whose student looked as if they’d never jumped before. They were getting left behind at EVERY fence…as if they weren’t even jumping.
The trainer yells “you need to jump up the neck more!!!”
hmm…really? I didn’t know that jumping ahead and laying on the horse’s neck were desirable traits. However, given the alternatives at this particular show, maybe it was.
Didn’t happen at a show but is show related - Overheard a woman asking a question of a differerent trainer about cantering in a hack class “What do you do if you aren’t in a corner and there are too many people to cut across and make a circle?”
I was confused.
This poor woman had been taught to only ask for the canter in a corner so she would get the correct lead. She didn’t know that you could ask for the canter on the straightaway. Seriously!
Explains why the other trainer was shouting “circle, circle” from the fence during the hack class at the last show this group attended.
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I know this is not me since I’m in NJ but one of the other trainers at my barn constantly yells “say ho” instead of “say whoa” and I always turn to her and say "hey, who are you calling a HO?
I also have a student who does that exact same thing with the leadchange and even if she hasn’t said those exact words yet, I know her well enough to know she’s thinking them in her head and in that exact sing-song voice too! LOL!
Having travelled a bit, I’ve come to notice that the riders and the horses are the same everywhere, they just have different names in different places!
Oh and a long time favorite of mine. This is at home, while showing a horse to customers.
In fairness the customer was an older “fancy” guy who “needed” a very expensive horse but he was only ever going to prance around at home and go on trails, which the mare we were showing him could safely do. My boss at the time was, if nothing else, a great salesman.
This horse was built slightly upside down, think teacup neck. She was trotting around the ring with this old fogey on her back with her head (I kid you not) completely straight up in the air! I bet the guy could see the markings on her forehead from where he was sitting! She was looking every part of the absolute POS she was.
My boss turns to the guys wife and says (somehow with a completely straight face) “And just look how high and pretty she carries her head! Isn’t she gorgeous?”
Me and the groom had to dart out of the indoor and have a laughing seizure about it!
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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:[/QUOTE]
OMG! I saw that happen at a show here too. Ha ha maybe we are from the same area. This one happened at a county 4-H show, said trainer is an “AQHA Guru”…
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None of this happen at a show. But it I find it rather funny, so I just had to post it here. Anyway, I was around my barn one day taking care of my horse when my friend had said her pony had diarrhea. They thought it was because some little girls had given her pony home-made horse treats. But some of us had said how our horses had gotten them… and they were fine. There was also another pony that got the treats and had diarrhea too. So one of the brain-dead girls says " Well horses and ponies have different digestive systems, so thats probably why only the ponies reacted to it." It was one of the funniest things ever! And this girl really thought she was right… it was sad
This isn’t exactly from a show…and the person isnt brain dead but…
I was watching the show jumping portion of the olympics with my mom, then after a horse finished a round on the bottom of the screen it said
such and such
Penalties:8
and my mom goes “Penalties 8? thats a really weird name for a horse isnt it? Its like they are setting him up for failure.”
I was like…umm no mom, the horse…got 8 penalties…
sooooooo funny.
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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!
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I rode at a barn where the favorite phrase was “tits to jesus” and one time a girl in a lesson i was watching who was middle eastern replied “what about allah, can I point mine to him instead.”
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A few weeks ago this was overheard being screamed across the lower arena from one show mom to her daughter’s trainer:
“The pony should be ready to go, we lunged her for half an hour and she’s had her shot of Dex!”[/QUOTE]
Hahaha
Hilarious.
