Just for fun… I hear this term thrown around my barn and just curious what makes a person a DQ.
A tiara of course!
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Irritating other people. It’s an insult.
As opposed to being “a promising young trainer” or “an excellent amateur rider.” etc.
For fun…
The Dressage Queen needs at a minimum a very fancy horse (preferably several), and fancier clothes and custom tack. DQ’s horses get all the matchy gear and every supplement and treatment that comes down the pike and are in full training/full care. DQ’s may or may not know how to ride their horse(s).
DQ’s do not pick up their horse’s poop in the arena, or anywhere else for that matter. DQ’s will run you over in the arena rather than yield to ring etiquette standards. It isn’t clear if they are oblivious to the rules or just don’t care. Sometimes it is because they can’t steer their very fancy horse.
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Plus a fixed fake little smile, and eyes focused in the middle distance, while they run you over.
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And not to be confused with a Dairy Queen who loves soft serve ice cream mixed with various tasty treats.
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Nor with a Homecoming Queen, who rides onto the field in a classic Corvette convertible before the game, and pukes under the bleachers at half time.
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Or a Rodeo Queen who gets to bomb around the arena while a national anthem plays, until Borat spooks her horse.
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It’s typically used as a derogatory term, so I’d say it’s a dressage rider with all of the trappings - none of the skills.
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And maybe acrylic or gel nails.
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All hat and no cattle…
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Nor would a D.Q. approve of the QUEEN. (Her Majesty’s hacking turnout would be looked down upon by a DQ). https://www.townandcountrymag.com/so…ing-horses-90/
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We’ve got one at the barn where I board. Last year, she bought TWO (yes, two) pairs of the latest maroon colored DeNiro boots ($1200 each), and most of us are trying to recall the last time we actually saw her riding her horse . . . and yes, the horse is imported, black, and fancy. New blankets every year----because, you know—last year’s turnout blanket is SOOO last year! And fancy horse goes to Florida for the winter (doesn’t show—but gets ridden by the trainer, while the owner sits ringside (in the DeNiro boots). Has an enormous collection of high end tack cleaning products to clean the most recent purchase . . . the patent leather nosebanded bridle with sparkly browband. A new saddle every couple years because the last “completely adjustable” saddle made “Gesundheit” sore—and this WILL be the majikul saddle that will make fancy, imported horse move even more incredible.
There’s an impressive array of lunging equipment which does get used more often. The lunging is a way to show other boarders just HOW lovely your horse moves without actually having to ride said horse.
I think you get the picture.
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Most of us are DQ wannabes because we don’t have enough money to be real DQs.
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I’m totally a DQ wannabe!
These are funny. I like 'em. Keep 'em coming.
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Can’t really ride inside the indoor and won’t ride outside it because, ya know, her horse is afraid of the outdoors (but only when she’s riding him). And he’s at least 16 hands high, probably a WB, very likely imported (possibly because he didn’t meet the European breed standard). And even if his owner doesn’t wear a tiara, there’s enough bling on his bridle to make one.
That said, I think sometimes it’s a sour grapes kind of label. 
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Attitude makes a dressage queen. A bad one. 
Or the English expression similar to all hat no cattle, is fur coat no knickers!
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Makeup with a heavy emphasis on foundation, blush, lipstick, lip liner, lipgloss, mascara, eyeliner, eyeshadow, eyebrow pencil, bronzer…
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This is hysterical. But I’ve met some…the most recent one: Too much money and not enough common sense. Horses “in training” all the time, owner never rides them. Oh and BTW, horse is “lame”… so she goes and gets another one. And another saddle. And another trainer. And we still don’t see her riding…
The other DQ - Drama Queen…
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