Are there any phrases in the horse world that really do your head in??

[Nailed]

Mine has got to be

'BAREFOOT TRIMMING'

does my nut, now don't get me wrong, if you want to have you horses feet pair without shoes then fair enough.. but its not really barefoot trimming is it? its just trimming.

Any terms which do your nuts?

Lou x

 

[AmyMay]

'It'.

As in, 'ride it', 'get it in'......

etc. etc.

 

[Acolyte]

'to die for' on adverts (not just for horses I know) - such as 'a canter to die for'

What a flipping stupid thing to say

 

[YorksG]

Machine, as in jumping machine, dressage machine etcetc, if you want a machine then GET A BIKE!

 

[Nailed]

All good ones!! I have to say.. 'IT' is a pet hate of mine too..

lou x

 

[Rachel_M]

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'to die for' on adverts (not just for horses I know) - such as 'a canter to die for'

What a flipping stupid thing to say

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You'll hate me then. I am just sat here eating a chocolate cake which I thought "was to die for"

 

[PeanutButterDragon]

Yes - I really hate the use of 'it' like some of the other posters. 'IT' is a leaving, breathing creature with a personality and a name. 'IT' may play up occasionally but it also puts up with you being late to feed or bring in now and again and your riding 'off days'.

 

[kanter]

"Off the floor paces."

Well you wouldn't get anywhere if they weren't....

 

[Forget_Me_Not]

100% or 110% - No horse is predictable, no horse is 100%.

 

[kanter]

Oh and also

"This horse could go all the way."

All the way where?

San Antonio?

Amarillo?

Banbury Cross?

Back to his stable?

 

[Rachel_M]

"Stunning"


This has to be the most commonly used word in adverts, rather repetitive and lacking any impact anymore and, having seen the horses that the advert is connected to, incorrectly used.

 

[Rachel_M]

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"Off the floor paces."

Well you wouldn't get anywhere if they weren't....

[/ QUOTE ]

LMAO, very true.

 

[Ezme]

As i highlighted in another thread. Tobanions, sabinos, gurrila dun, champagne palamino.... We're not american. Piebald, skewbald, tricoloured, Palamino/ cremilo... etc

 

[Ezme]

Oh and. "Cannot be ridden due to *insert conformationally related injury* would make fantastic broodmare" To borrow a phrase from FHOTD *HEAD EXPLODES*

 

[PeanutButterDragon]

Lol - yes that one really does amaze me

 

[niagaraduval]

ummm.. I don't like it when people put ''jumps anything'' in sale ads. Would it clear an 8ft wall? I doubt it.

 

[Sooty]

Lammi. It is laminitis! Hardly hard to say, is it? You don't say colli, or navi, so why Lammi? Grrr...

 

[Nosey]

'Manners to Burn' and a lot of the comments that JLC was saying in her Olympic dressage commentary - hardly likely to inspire converts to dressage or educate them as to what was going on!

 

[skewbaldpony]

'Mother's Dream' (Jude Law? Sean Connery? Depends on your mother, surely?)
'Potential' (aged 10 ....)
'Would Affiliate' (well affiliate then)
But my favourite today is the one to the right on this very page with 'phenominal' bloodlines.
If you can't spell it, choose another word!!!

 

[ajn1610]

'Potential'
My cob could potentially win the grand national...if no one else turned up and all the fences blew down.

 

[skewbaldpony]

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But my favourite today is the one to the right on this very page with 'phenominal' bloodlines.
If you can't spell it, choose another word!!!

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forgot to add:

Blooming nice horse, though

 

[Flibble]

'rare chance to buy'

'Would suit Mother Daughter share' - what the hell does that mean.

 

[TarrSteps]

"bombproof"

Really?

Is it stuffed?

 

[dieseldog]

Herd Bound - the horse naps, it is taking the mickey, it has you under the thumb - don't dress it up in horsie pyscho babble.

 

[skewbaldpony]

Actually, if you want me to really cut the cr*p -


'Natural Horsemanship'

As opposed to? What are the rest of us cyborgs or something?
I honestly, honestly dread to even consider what 'Unnatural Horsemanship' might mean.

 

[jesterfaerie]

Another vote for 'Has potential/scope to go far' far in comparison by whos standards?
Far to me could be jumping over a 2ft jump, to someone else a 4ft xc course!

 

[CracklinRosie]

"Buzzy" that's what bees do!!!!

 

[Rachel_M]

"Broken In"


I HATE when people say that. It sounds awful. I don't break a horse, I back and bit a horse.

 

[JM07]

"Potential".......................

 

[dressager]

"Throwing the toys out of the pram"

No no noooo!