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[CanteringCarrot]

Some e-gates are slow too. So it can back things up. My trainer has one, and it’s fine, because her place isn’t terribly busy to the point that the gate really hinders anyone.

I wouldn’t use e-gates to keep horses in as primary fencing. As secondary/perimeter fencing I’m more ok with it. For example, that gate only matters if a horse has gotten out of their stall/pasture/run whatever. I’d not let horses into direct contact with it. It wouldn’t be a pasture gate.

I have heard of damage being caused when people panic about the gates. Not at the facility I go to, but just through the grapevine. Most will stop when it hits something solid, as mentioned. You might end up with cosmetic damage (still sucks!) but not a wreck. Panic can be natural though.

Everything has faults. The other day the gate wouldn’t let me out of the properly for who knows what reasons. So asst trainer came and climbed over the fence to get to the keypad on the other side and it opened. This would be a huge hold up at a place like Windurra now that I’ve seen the visuals.

[Bearx2]

I live behind an e gate and it great when it works and it miserable when it doesn’t.

[Annie10]

@anonevent

I prefer to believe that elite athletes secretly have more hours in their week. Seems true for several trainers I know

They sure seem to bill for them, don’t they?

[Bearx2]

. Your response made me lol because we both know that not what anyone is saying.

[SlamDunk]

@mvp

I think it would be cheaper to put one cheater’s head on a stake on FB once.

And why should anyone need to police these people’s debt? It should not cost Martin money to keep others following the rules.

BTW, Cooper was banned for a mere 30 days. Y’all the punishment wasn’t that bad. I will bet any money she’s back with bells on (and Venmo at the ready) on October 1.

if he had simply posted a banned list I don’t think there would have been this kind of response. I didn’t see the post before it was taken down but telling people to call 911 if she was seen on the property was clearly going too far.

[FitzE]

Only tangentially related: is there not a thread for Fair Hill this weekend? Or am I just missing it somewhere?

[ghst13]

Despite the name, it’s just a regular horse trial. No FEI divisions and no Advanced division. There’s FEI divisions at the spring horse trial and of course at the fall 5*.

[FitzE]

Ah, okay. I thought it was early to be in August! The big one there is in October, is that right?

[ghst13]

Yes, the big 5* runs in October.

[quietann]

I don’t use the course at HGAA, obviously, but one of my barn-mates hacks over (1.5 miles) and meets her trainer twice a week. She always has a big smile when she returns.

I do donate every year because I use the Porta-potties. I theoretically have permission to use the bathroom in the BO’s house, but they got a not very nice dog, and I’m not a fan of dogs…

BTW I’m still walking Feronia over to HGAA occasionally.

For everyone else: this is a fun course and it’s nice to see people using it. It’s encircled by a Standardbred training track so you may have to deal with a horse pulling a sulky going around… Feronia was decidedly Not Amused the first time she saw one!

[Incantation]

@quietann

Feronia was decidedly Not Amused the first time she saw one!

OMG, we had our National Trails Day out of there once and poor Boomer was literally shaking watching the standardbreds exercise. I think he had nightmares for weeks.

[steelerino]

I haven’t read the entire thread but you can literally open you phone and pay somebody in seconds. Everybody has their phone in their hand all the time, especially if you are a professional. To me it’s disrespectful if somebody forgets their wallet at lunch so I pay for them and they can Zelle me. For some reason I have to wait several days for that Zelle while I’ve watched them take a hundred phone calls and surf the internet since. She should have paid when she pulled in or right before she left.

[quietann]

Feronia tends to go up. The first time she saw one, she definitely did!

More recently she popped her head up and pricked her ears, and then calmed down.

I never did the trail rides over there, but there was someone who would set up an obstacle course, and we did that a few times.

She didn’t like pool noodles touching her at all…

[Hidden_Oak]

To be fair, I think I have 1 electronic acct. I never use them, and no I not sure I would be comfortable using them on my phone. Yes, I am old. Yes, if I was schooling/using them regularly for any reason, I would get them up to date. Checks are way old school and subject to being NSF. In short, both parties wrong in the SM war IMHO.

[Harriet1]

@steelerino

I haven’t read the entire thread but you can literally open you phone and pay somebody in seconds. Everybody has their phone in their hand all the time, especially if you are a professional. To me it’s disrespectful if somebody forgets their wallet at lunch so I pay for them and they can Zelle me. For some reason I have to wait several days for that Zelle while I’ve watched them take a hundred phone calls and surf the internet since. She should have paid when she pulled in or right before she left

You must have missed the text exchange where she informed Boyd that Neal handles all the Venmo payments for her, and Neal had been busy on his own business calls that evening, and that’s why Boyd was left waiting.

But it still seems like a poor excuse. Plenty of people still use paper checks. Windurra has a box and accepts checks.

But whatever. Apparently Boyd’s impatience and Neal’s conflicting priorities that evening were the problem….

[PolestarFarm]

From the get-go, I am appreciate how Boyd feels. I have a XC schooling facility that most every trainer in the Pacific Northwest uses frequently, and I ABSOLUTELY abhor chasing down payment. I have to do it so frequently, its sad. So, maybe one productive thing that came out of this brouhahaha is that I made a FB post clarifying that I will no longer accept individual payments from a group schooling.
It is the trainer’s responsibility to make sure that everyone has paid, and the trainer can pay me one lump sum. They can chase down their own clients way easier than I can, and I appreciate those trainers who take the responsibility for their whole group. It truly is a joy-sucking job to search Venmo for Jane Smith-54 and try to determine if that is the right person for payment.
So for me: thanks Boyd!! for the permission to get tougher on those that use my facility.

[Harriet1]

Out of curiosity, would you say the late paying / non paying percentage of people coming to school at your facility is 10%? Or is it higher?

Do you recognize repeat offenders? Or is it more random?

[PolestarFarm]

I think most people have great intentions, and they just load the horse up and leave, and forget. I have heard that some people have bad reception at my farm, so they cant immediately send Venmo and think they will do it later. Definitely some repeat offenders and maybe 10% is a good number, but I havent spent the soul-sucking time to figure it out.
I try to be a ‘yes’ person because that generally makes me feel happier than the alternative. But hunting down people who owe me money… well, that could, in another universe, result in a spewing SM post. I get it.

[Harriet1]

Thanks for sharing your experience and insight. It’s informative.

[steelerino]

I missed all the Facebook stuff as I was airboating in the middle of nowhere with no service. The links in the first post don’t work for me