SnowPhony
Well-Known Member
Up until a month ago I was riding for 'friends'. I was working with their very green cob, who was also being ridden by a novice with very heavy hands. She was being ridden in a pelham which she certainly didn't need and I managed to get them to change it to a snaffle where I had more control and she was more responsive. Her jumping was coming along fantastically and they asked me to ride her at a local show.
The owners didn't realise they could have entered her in a smaller class, so put us in for on which was far too big for her, especially at her first ever show. She jumped the first and then point blank refused to do anything else. She was totally overwellemed by it. I initially blamed myself, but owners insisted it wasn't my fault, said I did the right thing by staying calm, and bringing her out to jump a smaller fence in the collecting ring. They admit they made a mistake entering her at such a height and said that next time we would go much smaller to build her confidence.
Well that was the last time I rode for them, as everytime I tried to arrange to go over they made excuses, or cancelled on days I was suppossed to go. I took the hint after 3 weeks of it and looked elsewhere.
Yesterday these people took some of there horses to a show and are all over facebook saying how they had done really well, placed in everything, and how it was an improvement on last time. One comment made between them is that the 'standard of rider improved dramatically'.
This has wound me right up because for a start they entered classes half the height of the ones they entered me in, on more experienced horses, one of which has BSJA winnings and they didn't even take the green mare!
I may be overreacting, and I feel I'm obviously well out of there, but is there really any need to be so spiteful and try and make me look so useless when they didn't even take the mare anyway!
Please feel free to tell me I'm being a drama queen, but I'm absoloutely furious right now!
The owners didn't realise they could have entered her in a smaller class, so put us in for on which was far too big for her, especially at her first ever show. She jumped the first and then point blank refused to do anything else. She was totally overwellemed by it. I initially blamed myself, but owners insisted it wasn't my fault, said I did the right thing by staying calm, and bringing her out to jump a smaller fence in the collecting ring. They admit they made a mistake entering her at such a height and said that next time we would go much smaller to build her confidence.
Well that was the last time I rode for them, as everytime I tried to arrange to go over they made excuses, or cancelled on days I was suppossed to go. I took the hint after 3 weeks of it and looked elsewhere.
Yesterday these people took some of there horses to a show and are all over facebook saying how they had done really well, placed in everything, and how it was an improvement on last time. One comment made between them is that the 'standard of rider improved dramatically'.
This has wound me right up because for a start they entered classes half the height of the ones they entered me in, on more experienced horses, one of which has BSJA winnings and they didn't even take the green mare!
I may be overreacting, and I feel I'm obviously well out of there, but is there really any need to be so spiteful and try and make me look so useless when they didn't even take the mare anyway!
Please feel free to tell me I'm being a drama queen, but I'm absoloutely furious right now!
