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doesn't it make you angry when people say riding is easy 'you just get on the horse and steer it round' is one of the biggest understatements I've heard, but today when I was told by a not horsey friend 'dressage is easy, you just sit and the horse does it all.' I ignored the temptation to inform her that in fact Dressage is incredibly hard- I thing I going soft! :S
 
ZoeDBest said:
doesn't it make you angry when people say riding is easy 'you just get on the horse and steer it round' is one of the biggest understatements I've heard, but today when I was told by a not horsey friend 'dressage is easy, you just sit and the horse does it all.' I ignored the temptation to inform her that in fact Dressage is incredibly hard- I thing I going soft! :S
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Hehe I get this from the guys at work and 'you dont have to be fit to ride a horse' or 'what? Why are you having lessons, I thought you knew how to ride a horse?'
 
I totally understand you! People think that 'you just sit on a horse and it takes you round'. NO! They say that because when people are really good riders they can usually control the horse and make it look like a piece of cake. Also if you go riding for the very first time you usually have someone leading you around, and people say its easy because 'the leader is doing it all for you'. Wrong! If they don't even know how to ride they can't say it's easy. Plus the fact that all horses are different and usually you will get put on a very obedient easy going horse for your first ride.
What also annoys me is when people have one lesson and then think they know everything about horses. Like we had this young girl who had a lunge lesson and then started going into all the horses stalls which was dangerous because she stood right behind them. She is even went into Harvey's stall and he was eating, and Harvey is not the horse to get in between his dinner and him! Not being mean about her I know she's young but I just had to let some stuff out.
 
Ofcourse it is easy the best jockeys are those that sit on the grand stands, my OH always says and he is a retired jockey and currently work rides for a well known racehorse trainer, it is better to be an alive coward than a dead hero, when it comes to getting on some of the fresh 2 year olds, esp when they have been on box rest for 3 months and still being fed racehorse mix, lol
 
Bobbly said:
My husband has offered to back my youngster, she's just a horse, after all!!!
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Haha. This just made me laugh out loud!

I just tend to let them say whatever. Then let them see my rather horrific scar on my leg from years ago. It's 11 inches long and very jagged from lots of surgery on it. "Oh that? That's where I was just walking around on my horse and he threw me off and smashed my femur, patella and growth plate and then when he fell on me and bent the metal work"
 
It does not annoy me but it's very amusing .
My one time SIL was a very sporty German national level skier and could have skied seriously had she choosen although she had horsey people in her family she never rode .
She was tall blonde slim blue eyed could eat whatever she liked whereas I am more of the labrador in type.
One Christmas she announced that she would love to try riding so I got out the best horse for lunging and got her on board and gave her a brisk thirty minutes intensive training .
At the end she said in the most incredulous voice " it's really really hard I didnot expect that" it was so funny.
However she would have learned very quickly ..
 
Mu husband is not at all horsey, but I managed to coax him onto one of the ponies last summer. He announced it was easy and just like steering a car, simply because the pony was a saint and followed me around the school like an angel! Should have put him on one of the less obliging ponies!
 
I had people at work saying that kind of thing to me while the Olympics were on. Shut them up by offering them a lesson on Pie - they declined lol
 
these are great, I showed my mum some dressage to music on you tube and she asked 'so if the horse was eating in the field and you put the music on it would just start doing that stuff then?', I told her you have to tell the horse what to do by using your weight and body-that blew her brains she really could not get that at all cos she could not see how the rider was doing it.
 
twiggy2 said:
these are great, I showed my mum some dressage to music on you tube and she asked 'so if the horse was eating in the field and you put the music on it would just start doing that stuff then?', I told her you have to tell the horse what to do by using your weight and body-that blew her brains she really could not get that at all cos she could not see how the rider was doing it.
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Haha brilliant!
 
Mariposa said:
Mu husband is not at all horsey, but I managed to coax him onto one of the ponies last summer. He announced it was easy and just like steering a car, simply because the pony was a saint and followed me around the school like an angel! Should have put him on one of the less obliging ponies!
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My husband made almost the same comment to me while riding my mare 20 years ago just as two deer jumped out of the hedge... He soon found out it wasn't so easy!
 
One bloke did try to say recently that horse riding doesn't make you fit and isn't real exercise. I asked why he thought it was that beginners couldn't walk after a ride and he couldn't answer. He nodded when I said they were using muscles that weren't up to the job, just as I'd ache if I did the London to Brighton cycle ride. For good measure I let him have a squeeze of my derriére, after which he concluded that I had an ass like Kylie, but without the surgery. :D In his defence, his daughter is deputy head groom for a local large yard, but she's rather chubby and not at all fit - God knows what she does at work!
 
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