Breed/Type Owner Stereotypes (For Fun)

On the off chance of making everyone hate me :D I own a thoroughbred and a warmblood, and have had all sorts of breed in the past, but (hopefully!!) I don't fit the stereotype! :p

Thoroughbred owners - A bit mad, always have a manic glint in their eye.

Warmblood owners - Scared of their horse, despite being under constant supervision of the priciest international trainers, and under the impression that an equine can live happily in a 12' by 12' box all it's life.

Cob owners - Middle aged woman that has come to riding late in life, very nervous and their horse gets away with whatever it wants!

Showjumper - Vain and obsessive about putting as much tack and sheepskin as possible on their horse.

Irish Draught owner - Very loud and swears every time they open their mouth, loves drinking and singing hunting songs!

Western rider - Not much good at english riding, so giving western a shot.

Parelli owner - Someone who's scared of their horse.

Welsh Cob owner - See Thoroughbred owner.

Baroque breed owner (PRE of friesian) - More money than sense, bought a ready made horse that a monkey could ride and are now under the impression that they can do classical dressage.

Arab owner - Middle aged woman new to horses who wanted something flashier then a cob, ended up with a nutty arab that they can't ride.
 
Pony games rider - If you see one approaching, get out the way! For a child that is incredibly good at bending races, and a pony that never touches a pole, they always seem keen to plough down any standers by...

Pony club team rider - Always wears the biggest bit and spurs possible, and stuffs the (naturally lazy) pony full of oats so that his eyes bulge out and he jumps around on the spot.

Eventer - Fearless! But hates all breeds bar the Irish Sport Horse.

Dressage rider - Too posh to talk to anyone else up the yard, or so much as lift a finger when it comes to general horse care.
 
miniature horse owners
usually middle aged or older, they have been horse owners all their lives but now too old or due to illness too decrepid to ride anymore , they become totally obsessed with winning in the showring and spend a small fortune on importing "all the best bloodlines" in order to do so ,then get upset when the judge mistakes the american miniature for a shetland pony
shes very proud of her little man and leaps at every opportunity to show him off and she spends hours shopping for rugs , slinkys and show halters but spends little or nothing on herself and often looks like a trog (except for her show outfit of course!)
at shows you will often see said mini owner surrounded by children while owner gives lectures on the difference between a mini horse and a shetland pony
usually becomes an avid collector and owns more than one
 
Pony club mum - Her little darling is the most talented child in the country, she makes sure everyone knows this by repeating their achievements every few minutes - Quite a lot of achievements, as any competetive opposition to little darling is 'dealt with'. Knows nothing about horses but is only too happy to give her (loud) opinion, and to pass judgement on any beast that don't quite measure up to little darling's £15,000, professionally schooled pushbutton sporthorse ("what is THAT?"). Gets into a rage if anyone beats little darling at anything, calls it a fluke and refuses to talk to the winning child civilly as long as it lives.
 
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Ooh I'm enjoying this :D Sorry if they're mean, I don't mean it, honest! :p

Adults with ponies - Under the impression that their docile plod of a pony is a wild beast, and will get in a rage if you call their pony a pony, telling you at length that because of it's breeding (caspian, arab, fjord, icelandic, american miniture), it is in fact a HORSE.

Polo players - See horses as items - if they lame one, so what, they can buy another, if it's bad at the game, oh well, get rid of it. Only really involved in horses so as to meet rich young elegibles.

Falabella owners - Someone who thinks that chihuahuas are cute, and deformities attractive in an animal.

European pony owner - (Fjord, Haflinger) Usually suprisingly good at dressage, their pony does tricks too.

Chestnut mare owner - Who knows if the owner becomes like the horse, or the horse the owner... Anyway, both stubborn and highly strung, you don't want to get in an argument with one!

Endurance rider - Good sense of humour, but no taste in colour or fashion!
 
Charliepony said:
Ooh I'm enjoying this :D Sorry if they're mean, I don't mean it, honest! :p

Adults with ponies - Under the impression that their docile plod of a pony is a wild beast, and will get in a rage if you call their pony a pony, telling you at length that because of it's breeding (caspian, arab, fjord, icelandic, american miniture), it is in fact a HORSE.
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so true !!!!!lmao

Charliepony said:
Falabella owners[/B] - Someone who thinks that chihuahuas are cute, and deformities attractive in an animal.

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I own a pomeranian does that count lol
 
Charliepony - for the yard I was at, which had 50 horses on it so a pretty good spread of breeds, most of those are spot on!
 
firewell said:
Amaranta that is so true lol!!

Ok I will try a Tb one :)

The thoroughbred, spirited and bold is owned by a slip of a girl. This girl is so thin that with one gust of wind she is in danger of being blown away. She has to be thin however otherwise the legs of her twitchy beast would most likely break. In fact just in case this is so slip of a girl bandages her steeds legs up to the hilt in an attempt to keep them intact.
Slip of a girl is almost as jumpy as her horse, together they move through life jumping at every little thing and slip of a girl is constantly swearing under her breath at birds flying out of hedges and anything else that causes the pair of them to leap out their skin.
Thoroughbred is ridden in a racing snaffle as a testament to the old days and a jump saddle with several hundred layers of dead sheep to cushion those bony withers and stop their fur from being rubbed away.
Slip of a girl has balance akin to an Olympic gymnast on the high beam which is just as well because Thoroughbred can be 'sharp'. She has deceptively strong biceps however brought about by years of dragging TB's feedbucket over to his stable, she would put it in the wheelbarrow but it doesn't fit. The local feed store love her as she alone has kept them in profit over the recession.
Slip of a girl LOVES Throughbred mainly because he enables her to indulge in her greatest passion... Shopping! TB requires so many rugs that slip of a girl has been able to buy every type of rug on the Market in every colour! Thoroughbred wears them all at once and all you can see is his ears, one of the other liverys mistook Thoroughbred for 'fat cob' with all his rugs on!
Slip of a girl can't wait to take Thoroughbred eventing this season, they have practiced their flat out gallop and making the time won't be an issue. Dressage should be interesting and slip of a girl is getting increasingly frustrated that Throughbred insists on doing the centre line in canter half pass, as she tells others though it's just because he is SO 'talented' ;)
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awww TB girl is a lot like my daughter
 
Mucky Shavings said:
the tb owner

is compeltly nuts, spends forever on the phone to vet, farrier and back person, never has any money cos the big 16.2hh tb had ethier eaten it all or its paid the vet. the TB owner never rides due a problem with said tb.
The tb must have at least 100 rugs with 80 of those having newmarket stripes. The tb owner is as stressed as the tb as its been on box reat for 3weeks because it cut its leg the first time it went out after the persiuos box rest. the other liveries on the yard are at their wits end cos the tb is box walking, wind sucking, cribbing all at once. they then make the owner take it out for a walk, which ends in the tb being on its back legs the whole time before getting away and injuring itself again.
The tb owner is ethier one of 2 types
1) a young 18yr girl that learned to ride in a riding school and never sat on a real horse, but neddy was going for £300 at the sales and it was all that she could afford.
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Mind there are some shades of this too :D Very witty!
 
LOL! Good!! They're all loosely based on people I know, but it's funny how some breeds do seem to attract a certain type of people! Like Welsh Cobs, the owners are always fearless and a bit mental, I swear it! I have yet to meet one that's not!

And I think I love thoroughbreds so much because they're so needy, it's awful but I love wrapping them up in rugs, and using special soft grooming brushes because normal body brushes are too spiky for them, and only buying them fleece lined stuff, and pandering to their every oversensitive whim... Oh dear :p
 
dafthoss said:
The native pony owner constantly battling said ponys sense of humor and waistline and bl00dy determined for when said pony amuses it's self at random points
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Spot on but I would add also getting a great deal of pleasure and laughs from said pony :)
 
Charliepony said:
LOL! Good!! They're all loosely based on people I know, but it's funny how some breeds do seem to attract a certain type of people! Like Welsh Cobs, the owners are always fearless and a bit mental, I swear it! I have yet to meet one that's not!

And I think I love thoroughbreds so much because they're so needy, it's awful but I love wrapping them up in rugs, and using special soft grooming brushes because normal body brushes are too spiky for them, and only buying them fleece lined stuff, and pandering to their every oversensitive whim... Oh dear :p
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Haha I am a Welsh Cob owner who does Parelli - actually I am fearless when it comes to my own horse but terrified of getting on my friends horses in case I break anything, especially the dressage horse!
 
the tb owner

never has any money cos the big 16.2hh tb had ethier eaten it all or its paid the vet. the TB owner never rides due a problem with said tb.

Mostly true- except I don't ride much because he's so underweight :(

The tb must have at least 100 rugs with 80 of those having newmarket stripes.

Hmmm Blue has 2 rugs, one for outdoor and one for indoor. I'm not sure what newmarket stripes are :P

But thanks to the PP who said I'm a slip of a girl :D I'm actually 26yrs old (not 18) and 5'6' and weigh around 9.5-10stone.

This is me with MY tb (and by no means a stereotype of others with tbs!)

Steph got Blue on loan as an ex-racer because she was too much of a coward to go out and buy a tb in case it got sick/lame/died on its feet but wanted something at least 15hh which ruled out the entire pony/cob/arab community. Blue hacks out roughly once a week... to the end of the lane and back... because he's underweight in spite of being fed copious amounts of hard feed twice a day along with adlib haylage, being rugged and brought in at night and being wormed 6 times a day. Also, because Steph hasn't yet come to terms with his whithers sticking 24 inches above his actually back and she is quite sure, if he had normal whithers, he would probably be 13.2hh
Blue has a habit of kicking the stable wall, double barrels, if he's not fed before the others and, five seconds after being put out, stands in hock-deep mud at the gate nodding obsessively until someone brings him back in.
His tack doesn't match, though it is at least leather, Steph has spent scary amounts of money on riding gear which was immediately covered in mud, muck and haylage but hasn't yet been cleaned as she's only going to do it again tomorrow anyway.
 
Mucky Shavings said:
The welsh sec D owner

The welsh normal a black, bay or chestnut, never has a spec of dirt on it (that is untill its turned out). The owner has all old rugs from 20yrs ago all of which is covered in patches of different colours from it being ripped to sheds on a weekly basis. The owner is generally over 40 and has had horses all her life, she believes in just the good old basics, nuts and chaff only is fed, along with hay on the floor. The horse is very happy and although cheeky is well behaved. They mostly hack, but every once in a while they knock the socks off a best turned out class, a bit of dressage or sj.
The owner must wear cord jods, a wax jacket, have a years worth of muck under their nails and bedding in their hair. They also must have some sort of small dog around, a cuppa in one hand and a fag in the other.
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ha ha - how true.
have you been round to our stables:D?
 
Iberian Owner Wannabees!!!!!!1

Turns up at importers yard in £100,000 range rover. Dressed i violet jods with new boots and chaps and furry gillet to keep her mis 50's body warm. Has come to see the horse of her dreams that she never had due to breeding children but now aforementioned children have gone off travelling, now has time to indulge in her childhood dreams. Is only interested in the very dappley rocking horse model with very long mane that looks much prettier than any other horse at new found livery yard. Eventually climbs on very sharp fire breathing Andy only to say she hasnt ridden for 30 years. Walks round school once on Magnifico who is being forcebly restrained by the groom leading him and declares perfect, I'll have him. How much over the odds would you like me to pay for him. Importer rubbing hands to gether saying under his/her breath "here comes another mug" says double what Magnifico is actually worth! A week later Magnifico is collected from the importer in his new 250,000 quid lorry and taken to his new mud free livery yard with heated stables where he lives out the rest of his life in pure luxury never again to be ridden by his owner who occasionally pops up to groom his mane only. owner is now very happy as she has become a member of the very trendy horsey clique and gets to go in the hospitality tents at big events and guzzle champagne!

PS. Thats not me of course! Mine is a bay, lives at a competition livery yard, gets covered in mud, does lots of jumping x country fences and SJ and long hacks in bad weather and is generally a happy boy!
 
Apercrumbie said:
The tbxwelsh

The true fanatics. If anyone dares criticise her darling horse she will murder you with a single look. While her horse is leaping round and going sideways round the school she will laugh and growl simultaneously while her welshxtb does an even bigger leap and suddenly stops dead and refuses to move. Jumping proves to be far more interesting as the welshxtb out-stops even the smallest and quickest pony. The horse has already perfected running out on the take-stride and conveniently dumping his rider on the jump. He will then refuse to jump any jump for at least ten minutes while he throws a hissy fit. Miraculously his long-suffering rider stays on and somehow gets him over a tiny pole on the ground. On-lookers shake their heads and wonder why on earth she still has him but she will already be showering him in hugs and kisses and telling him what a gorgeous angel he is. :rolleyes:

(I own both of these btw so I am using myself and others that I have met as my basis)
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This and the later quote about the Chestnut Mare has made my day....I am going to print these off!!

I have a Chestnut Welsh X TB and this is her down to a tee! I would add that "although oozing with talent, it is very much WHEN and IF she decides to use it. If welsh X TB feels that they just simply don't want to perform they will use their huuuuggggeeee Welsh trot to simply ignore all aids and attempts of collection, until they deem it neccessary to listen again." But, of course...she will always be "my gorgeous angel" LOL!!!!:D
 
Charliepony said:
Chestnut mare owner - Who knows if the owner becomes like the horse, or the horse the owner... Anyway, both stubborn and highly strung, you don't want to get in an argument with one!
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^^ This is so true :L

Apercrumbie said:
The tbxwelsh
The true fanatics. If anyone dares criticise her darling horse she will murder you with a single look. While her horse is leaping round and going sideways round the school she will laugh and growl simultaneously while her welshxtb does an even bigger leap and suddenly stops dead and refuses to move. Jumping proves to be far more interesting as the welshxtb out-stops even the smallest and quickest pony. The horse has already perfected running out on the take-stride and conveniently dumping his rider on the jump. He will then refuse to jump any jump for at least ten minutes while he throws a hissy fit. Miraculously his long-suffering rider stays on and somehow gets him over a tiny pole on the ground. On-lookers shake their heads and wonder why on earth she still has him but she will already be showering him in hugs and kisses and telling him what a gorgeous angel he is.
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^^ This is so like my other pony! I dont know her breed, but loads of people think shes part welsh, but the description is so like us :L

And as for all the arab posts, I fit none of the things :P I dont even know what them Jinny books are? Then again I am 16?

I actually love this thread though btw :)
 
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Charliepony said:
And I think I love thoroughbreds so much because they're so needy, it's awful but I love wrapping them up in rugs, and using special soft grooming brushes because normal body brushes are too spiky for them, and only buying them fleece lined stuff, and pandering to their every oversensitive whim... Oh dear :p
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LOL!!!!! But unless they're wearing a 500gm turnout with a hood with an underug with a hood and lots of hay, they'll get cold, poor babies!!
 
Amaranta said:
Jean owns a Newfie that she bought straight off the forest. She is a tough, no nonsense type with a well developed sense of humour. She leans heavily on her sense of humour daily whilst retrieving Bumble from the field next door, into which he regularly jumps. Although she has a tough exterior, Jean is a softie at heart.

Jean loves showing but gets very angst ridden when up again the flashier D's and Connies and gets very sick of explaining to the judge that no, Bumble is not a bad example of a Section D but is in fact a New Forest.

At home Bumble lives out without a rug for fear of the dreaded laminitis and Jean is normally coated with varying amounts of mud/hay/bay hair but get them in the show ring and they scrub up fantastically.
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brilliant :D
 
I am nearly crying with laughter here at work LOL

*owner of 15.2 TB mare*



firewell said:
The thoroughbred, spirited and bold is owned by a slip of a girl. This girl is so thin that with one gust of wind she is in danger of being blown away. She has to be thin however otherwise the legs of her twitchy beast would most likely break. ;)
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5'3. Size 8. Check.

In fact just in case this is so slip of a girl bandages her steeds legs up to the hilt in an attempt to keep them intact.
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Knee boots for hacking - check. Dalmars for the odd XC we do check - never over 3ft. Trizone all round for SJ - check. Hock boots and chaps for introducing any new horses - check

Slip of a girl is almost as jumpy as her horse, together they move through life jumping at every little thing and slip of a girl is constantly swearing under her breath at birds flying out of hedges and anything else that causes the pair of them to leap out their skin.
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aww sadly this part isn't true - my TB is pretty lazy and bombproof when hacking. I am riddled with nerves at shows though if that counts

Thoroughbred is ridden in a racing snaffle as a testament to the old days and a jump saddle with several hundred layers of dead sheep to cushion those bony withers and stop their fur from being rubbed away
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nuumed girth sleeve and half pad fitted to custom made Ideal saddle - check. Wilkie snaffle though not racing one lol

Slip of a girl has balance akin to an Olympic gymnast on the high beam which is just as well because Thoroughbred can be 'sharp'. She has deceptively strong biceps however brought about by years of dragging TB's feedbucket over to his stable, she would put it in the wheelbarrow but it doesn't fit. The local feed store love her as she alone has kept them in profit over the recession.
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Actually the opposite, mine is a remarkably good do'er.

Slip of a girl LOVES Throughbred mainly because he enables her to indulge in her greatest passion... Shopping! TB requires so many rugs that slip of a girl has been able to buy every type of rug on the Market in every colour! Thoroughbred wears them all at once and all you can see is his ears, one of the other liverys mistook Thoroughbred for 'fat cob' with all his rugs on!
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*looks at her enourmous pile of rugs and slinks off* To be fair though shes always in the lightest I can get away with.


Slip of a girl can't wait to take Thoroughbred eventing this season, they have practiced their flat out gallop and making the time won't be an issue. Dressage should be interesting and slip of a girl is getting increasingly frustrated that Throughbred insists on doing the centre line in canter half pass, as she tells others though it's just because he is SO 'talented' ;)
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LMFAO - This bit is the most perfect. At our first ever XC comp I trotted a bit of the way and we still came 6th.
For a vivid description of our first ever 'team XC' see this post
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=8415685&highlight=team#post8415685

Dressage is best not talked about - show jumping is way forward :D
 
HashRouge said:
There are two kinds of Arab owners. ......The second kind is convinced that her horse is as indestructible as the hardiest native, and only puts a rug on him in gale-force winds and torrential rain. She takes him out for 10 hour hacks every weekend and they both arrive back at the yard looking as if they just went for a 10 minute toddle down the lane. The horse never ever wears a noseband and his owner usually rides in wellington boots. She's known locally as the dippy hippie :p
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This is me, absolutely, without a doubt! No question about it!
 
Humm we've got a woman on our yard who has a cob,fresian, WB and a ID x...doesn't ride any of them and spends all day cleaning stables and them while paying other people to ride them. Not quiet sure where she fits in these descriptions cos I can see a bit of her in all her choosen horses!!!

Me? I'm a very proud cob owner...not much of the stereotype I'm afraid..I'm hurlting towards 'middle age' but other than that me and him are pretty much nothing like described...well except he can bog off when he feels like it!!!;)
 
WB owner: convinced their horse is the next Olympic champion in waiting due to their breeding, but seem unaware of the fact that the 20 other WBs on the yard also have famous sires and dams and haven't made it beyond giant pet status. They will tell everyone they meet that their horse’s half-brother is an eventing champ. Everything matches: numnahs, bandages, rugs etc and also post photos on fb when a vet puts a nice coloured bandage on their legs, but complains when it doesn't compliment their wardrobe. They own lots of branded clothing, and never fail to turn up to even their own-yard, unaffiliated training shows in full whites. Tend to be smiley folk, but seem to live in constant fear of horse being hungry, cold or bored and have lots of stable toys. Constantly get accused of being over-horsed as the bigger, the better with WBs!

This is all in jest – we have loads of BWP owners on the yard, including all but one of the GP horses (who’s a SF). Most laugh at them being called dumb-bloods too! lol.
 
Oh my god i am the TB owner and for most part the ISH owner (bar the not letting them get dirty).
So your sterotypes are very true and fitting, oh eeck best go put on some weight and stop buying rugs and pretend to know noting about breeding.
Please dont do a coloured horse owner or i will have to completely re-invent myself.
 
Mucky Shavings said:
the tb owner

is compeltly nuts, spends forever on the phone to vet, farrier and back person, never has any money cos the big 16.2hh tb had ethier eaten it all or its paid the vet. the TB owner never rides due a problem with said tb.
The tb must have at least 100 rugs with 80 of those having newmarket stripes. The tb owner is as stressed as the tb as its been on box reat for 3weeks because it cut its leg the first time it went out after the persiuos box rest. the other liveries on the yard are at their wits end cos the tb is box walking, wind sucking, cribbing all at once. they then make the owner take it out for a walk, which ends in the tb being on its back legs the whole time before getting away and injuring itself again.
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Well this sums my last horse up perfectly but he was a warmblood. He is now no longer with us due to his many illnesses he sustained.

Now have a tb lol and she is the one of the calmest tb's i ever met. haha. She doesnt spook out hacking and takes no feeding to keep her sustained. She a good doer. lol.
 
JessandCharlie said:
The Friesian Owner:

Having gazed at pictures on google for the last 4 years at these magnificent black animals, gawping at their high stepping gait and muscular build, this horse owner has dreamt of owning a friesian. She may have had a Dales for many years; her own miniature Friesian. She may well be recently divorced, or had a large inheritance from a long lost and little known relative, who knows? But for some reason now she has embarked on the romantic adventure to finally have one of these beautiful animals all of her own. She has spent hours trawling the FPS, the FHAGBI, the FHANA and is fully clued up on inbreeding percentages, prolific sires, the breed's history and the whos who in Friesian breeding and finally embarked on her trip to Holland.

On returning with her steed, a 4 year old stallion, Herman, she is now knee deep in pig oil, sulphur, main and tail spray and fly sheets but unfortunately has a horse who has turned a funny brown colour in the sun, rubbed a chunk of main out and she can't bloody ride 'coz they just don't make saddles to fit the darn things over here!

Oh well, he looks nice in a white headcollar. And he is a lovely chap... maybe she will invest in a trap and teach him to drive.
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Brilliant LOL

Although I bought only 2 of mine and bred the rest myself, also haven't had saddle problems so far :)
 
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