Asking a YO something....whats the best way?

[Kenzo]

Guys I need your help, I need some tips, on how to go about asking our YO something.

Do I creep and tell him he's the best livery yard owner in Yorkshire *coughs*, batter my eye lids a little, pout my lips and twirl my hair etc and do a Legally Blonde 'bend and snap' as accidently on purpose drop my whip on the ground and then ask him the question?

Or do I wait until the end of the month, when I need to pay him my livery money and drop the question in then as I pass him the envelope, as he tries to take it from my hand, I keep a firm grip of it while waiting for the reply that I want, I'll do the whole psycho hormonal horse women thing just to freak him out so he has to give in and agree?

....then I release the envelope from my hand.

Or I bribe him with more money?

Oh by the way, its to ask for him to let us build a XC course around the circumference of one of the fields..... which he's just taken hay from.

So ideas please

 

[BFG]

If he is lick most YO i would go with the money route, are you planning on building and paying for the jumps or are you expecting him to do it?

If you are going to build and pay for it then i would put it to him that it would be in his best interest to let you do it because it will increase the value of the property and make it easier to fill stables and he would have more facilities.

I wouldn’t go fir the whole hormonal horse women approach it tends to scare men to death.

 

[SDH]

Are you normally allowed to ride around the edge of this particular field?
If not, consider the fact that if XC course goes in, it may be a change of use and he may have to fill out his EU farming forms differently.
Bit vague I know - but i dont really know much about it

Maybe find out some more for him, so he has all the facts when you ask the question.....

 

[StaceyTanglewood]

and remember XC jumps that are fixed will need the dreaded PP !!!!

Thats planning permission so he may not be happy about it !!

 

[Bosworth]

I'm a YO and I just built portable jumps - pretty solid ones like chairs, corners, roll tops etc which I put on my tractor lift and remove. If he is a YO that rides - should be no problem and just suggest it outright - no grovelling, suggest you pay and it will be all the more easy, provide him with a load of pictures of portable jumps and easier still. Do be aware though that there is an insurance implication for him so it's not just a question of putting in a few jumps, they have to be assessed for H&S to ensure they are suitable. Best way is to buy them from a jump manufacturer then it absolves the YO of the insurance responsibilities around making them.

 

[Kenzo]

Oh gosh no not permenant ones, he's never allow that in my wildest dreams lol

, I mean some home made rustic jumps, you know ...tyres, gate, straw bales, brush fence etc

But no we have never been allowed to ride in the fields before

that was the only thing got him to build us a school.

Us girls would pull to gother and knock up a course one weekend, basically its just somewhere for us to have a more open space to canter round and give the horses an excuse to prat about etc plus it's a change from just using the school.