Maybe the martingale was a genuinely honest tack mix up of some sort, and when it was getting so much publicity here, it transitioned from the “keep an eye out for it” list to the “check every single piece of tack on the property until you find it” list.
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Except the martingale has a name tag thing on it. I keep being surprised at the lengths people will go to explain away bad behavior. People steal things all the time. Honest mistakes are made, too. Grabbing a martingale with someone else’s name/the horse’s name on it doesn’t fit the “honest mistake” scenario. When the evidence is right there Occam’s Razor usually points to the right answer.
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I suspect that’s it. BM likely caught wind of what happened on this thread and wisely decided that one step to resolving whatever is… ahem… going on at the barn was doing everything under the sun to return the OP’s stuff to her, regardless of how it went missing.
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And with any luck the solution will be permanent.
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It is not very helpful to say “update on page 10” when the thread only has 7 pages. It would be more useful to give the POST NUMBER of the update.
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I have 13 pages.
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Exactly. Everyone has a different number of pages. That is why the post number is more useful.
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I was not aware of that fluke in the boards so I appreciate you pointing that out
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This thread has been interesting. I run a barn with low human customer traffic, we mostly have sales and training horses and a few retirees. Teach lessons to people who come in and out but don’t have a horse here, but leave a lot of “stuff” here.
i generally know what stuff belongs to whom, but honestly- we have so much tack that I can’t even remember what is ours because one brush or bridle or martingale starts to look the same as every other at the end of the day, unless it’s labeled.
The pink vest is very glaring- a standout item and OP left in a hurry that day with injuries- not ok. A labeled martingale? Also not ok.
I have found that if you are running the barn and have accumulated a lot of tack, it’s somewhat all the same. And if someone came to me and said “hey that’s mine” I’d say “oh ok, here you go” - and apologize
two small stories, I had a client leave to move out of state. Several weeks later I came upon a very expensive and nice saddle pad of hers that she’d left. I texted her ONCE to try to return it, no response, and it’s now part of our “general “ collection.
i have an elderly lady who takes weekly lessons on one of my schoolies. She is normally very neat and meticulous with her stuff. She approached me one time about a (brand) saddle pad of hers that she’d misplaced. Unfortunately for her, we also have 5 or 6 of the same (brand) saddle pads that are pretty much identical and I had no idea which one was hers. We jointly looked through my inventory and she said hers wasn’t there, and I offered to give her one of mine- no sweat off my back. She understood but was upset about “her” saddle pad. I was respectful but privately I didn’t lose any sleep over it.
my Long and wandering point is; if you are a single horse owner and clearly know what is yours, then you are responsible for keeping track of it. If you have a lot of horses and tack to match, except for saddles and perhaps high-end show equipment, it all starts to look the same after awhile.
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Example of people leaving things out:
Me! Today!
I rode three this morning, one of which was my new 3 year old for her first ride outside. I lunged her for just a minute to see where her brain was, wrapped the lunge up and clipped it to the fence. She was great, so I decided to ride her around the property for a short while. She was great! I was so proud of her. I got off, turned her back out, and grabbed the third horse who I decided to ride inside. Put him back out when I was done. On Saturdays I ride before I muck so the horses get a really good cool down in their turnouts, so I proceeded to start mucking…
Guess where my lunge line is? Outside, clipped to the fence.
Guess where it will be when I go out tomorrow? Still clipped to the fence.
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It could also be a weak BO. Just because someone is a BO doesn’t mean they know how to handle conflict. So I would not assign worth to one over the other based on this.
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Not so much a fluke as a setting. You can change your number of posts per page somewhere in your personal settings.
I do agree, it was a nice reminder that we do not all see the forum the same.
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Me too, except I lunge first, then take the lunging cavesson, linge rein, side reins and lunge whip and put them outside the arena, near the mounting block to ride.
If hubby comes up he usually takes the lunging gear down when I dismount.
The day before he did come up and watch me ride. The next morning, guess where the lunging gear was. Yes still up outside the arena near the mounting block.
I just tacked him with saddle and bridle down here and finished tacking him up near the mounting block.
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I once left my lunge line and whip out by the lunge pen while I was riding another horse. This was at a public riding ring. I went back for it on my way back to the barn and it was gone. This was something I had done many many times. Lunge line was bright yellow and fairly distinctive. Everyone who regularly rode there knew it was mine. No one had it. I finally put up signs and it turns out that a neighborhood child and grandparent who didn’t ride had picked it up and stored it carefully in their garage. I had to go through a bit of a process to meet them and retrieve it and I’m pretty sure that they expected a reward. Which they did not get.
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Everyone leaves something out sometimes. Gloves, a stick. If it’s labelled, or if you know for sure whose it is, it should get put back on/in their trunk. If not, that’s why there’s a LOST AND FOUND. If somethings been in the lost and found for 2 months then go ahead and take it but clearly that was not the case.
Taking anything off someone’s trunk/rack is NEVER ok though I will admit to borrowing someone’s lunge whip in the indoor briefly. I do not know whose it was but it was left in there and mine was at my house- god knows what good it was doing there.
It is absolutely ridiculous that someone took the vest you were wearing before you had an accident. Again- the barn has a lost and found. It is not a finders keepers at all times situation. If you find something that isn’t yours- put it in the damn lost and found.
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So will SOMEBODY please give me the post number of this vaunted" UPDATE". I am (somewhat) interested in the update, but not enough to page through 200+ posts.
OP’s update is post #200
The boards have been WEIRD lately for me, have they been weird for anyone else? When I reply I get an error message like it didn’t work-- but then lo and behold my reply is there
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Thanks.
That was on page 5 for me.
I haven’t had too much problem with theft or borrowing and not returning other than the BO going into my locker and using my side reins and me finding them out in the arena or using my wool cooler then turning her horse out in it in the pouring rain and leaving it sopping in a corner of the barn. At Potomac Horse Center one of the staff loaned me a really nice set of brushes that were pretty unique and no one else had the same ones. One day the body brush came up missing and I found another girl using it and tried to say it was hers because she had scratched her name into the leather back. I just took it and kept them locked up. Minor stuff. Glad it worked out for OP finally. BTW, page 13.
Yes. There is a thread about it in the technical help section. It appears it is a problem with V-bulletin and Chrome.
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