Daftest things you have ever heard anyone say.

It's a sore point at the minute as I am very annoyed with person who said the following but a few weeks after showing a livery a hoof mark on my mare's turnout rug she had the cheek to say:
"I know my horse doesn't get into scraps with yours"
Oh yeah brainbox....has mine started doing yoga?!!
Apparently the rips in my rugs are a figment of my imagination too!
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By a small child so not so much daft as cute & funny:

When arriving at an over night show with my chestnut with star and blaze 17.2hh ID x TB and his chestnut with star and blaze 12.2 welsh section b traveling companion :-

"is that his son!"
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and the best one.......

One of my students first attempt at a trace clip. I came back to find she had removed all the hair from ABOVE the chalk lines that I had so carefully drawn.

When I recovered enough to ask her why she said that it was obvious really. Why would you leave the hair on the top of the horse that will be covered by a rug and remove all the bottom hair that isn't!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not a lot I could say to that.
 
Black horses cannot go out at night is one...

Another from a livery, Professor in something or other bought Codlivine supplement for her horse and asked why it smelt fishy.

Another livery, this one a nurse said she was stopping feeding her horse cod liver oil as he was a vegetarian and didnt want him eating fish, so giving him Omega 3 instead.....
 
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and the best one.......

One of my students first attempt at a trace clip. I came back to find she had removed all the hair from ABOVE the chalk lines that I had so carefully drawn.

When I recovered enough to ask her why she said that it was obvious really. Why would you leave the hair on the top of the horse that will be covered by a rug and remove all the bottom hair that isn't!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not a lot I could say to that.

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That is brilliant, pure unspoilt logic! (Although maybe concerning if she was wanting to persue a career with horses unless starting totally from scratch?)

I remember recently laughing aloud about something on here about someone's OH who had said "rearing must surely be the one when they make their REAR fly into the air"... reading it out to my father whilst gnetly cackling to myself to which he replied "well of course it is that, you must be mistaken if you think anything else"

The irony of this is my father has probably encountered the horses I ride 5 - 10 times, but is clearly an expert, whereas his horsey daughter that spends every waking hour she can down at the yard... is... well...imbecile?
 
I know someone who repeatedly refers to ''leg wielding''....also a few people who referred to ''canter canter''!!
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When i was about 12, hacking out on my admittedly quite woolly little grey shetland, an old lady asked me why I was riding a sheep!

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Thats ace!
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someone from work asked me the other day if 'mister' horses have to stand on two legs to pee, and do 'women' horses sit down?
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Got the 'baby horse' thing all the time with the 25yr old shetland!

Love the trace clip story
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I did something similar - drew my line then, without thinking, clipped ABOVE it.
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Only got a foot or so before realising but had to redesign the whole clip!

I've heard some WORRYING comments from people who should really know better:

From a woman who runs a riding school, upon being challenged about the weights some of the horses were being expected to carry:

"horses are designed to carry weight......"

And from some woman on another forum who kept her horse on it's own out of choice, not nessesity:

"I keep him on his own so he loves me more and I am his world..."
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A Grand Prix dressage rider when asked why she never turned her horses out:

'Because if they go in the field they'll forget everything I've taught them'

I kid you not.

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Lordy!
 
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And from some woman on another forum who kept her horse on it's own out of choice, not nessesity:

"I keep him on his own so he loves me more and I am his world..."
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I know someone who recently did this with a youngster, said youngster got very ill and the Vet TOLD the owner to GET IT SOME COMPANY!!!
 
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And from some woman on another forum who kept her horse on it's own out of choice, not nessesity:

"I keep him on his own so he loves me more and I am his world..."
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Oh, that is so sad
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poor, poor horse
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When my OH was Stud Groom at a large stud in Newmarket, middle of the foaling season and one of the office staff came out to see the latest new arrival, asked us, " Are they born with those on?" Meaning the foal slip the baby was wearing.
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Christ!! No wonder some of the grooms think I know F'all then!! I don't know as much as some of them, but I know a heck of a lot more than most of them! I should, as that is where I started, I just got sick of the mud!
 
Not so much a saying but a friend asked her OH to bring her horse (a 15.2 unrugged grey arab x warmblood x welsh) in one day as she was working late. You can imagine my confusion when I arrived at the yard to find my 16.2 grey fully rugged IDxcob in Silas's stable and poor Silas out in the field a good hour after he was used to coming in.
 
one very recently down beach, stopped by a couple who said how nice they looked with 2 colour coats like that (they are one colour, just clipped!) also explaining to my friend and her mum that the horse they thought was blind (hence mask) just had it on because ot the flies......... they were very pleased to be enlightened and happy for the horse
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A person who had a wonderful cob that kept tripping. "it's because his feathers are too heavy".

"Horses won't eat ragwort" was also heard by the farmer who owns the fields where I keep my horse.
 
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A Grand Prix dressage rider when asked why she never turned her horses out:

'Because if they go in the field they'll forget everything I've taught them'

I kid you not.

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No this is true, I am sure of it... !!!!!! (lol) some people. Really.
 
A classic from the very well meaning but bonkers livery at my old yard

Me: (very polite) did you know that your hanging cheek snaffle is in upside down? {reins were attached to the smaller link, cheek pieces to main mouthpiece}

Livery: yes, I turned it that way round because it gets my horse on the bridle.

Wrong on sooooo many levels LOL not least that lovely, laid back, cob had never been 'on the bridle' in his entire life
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When Frodo first started wearing his fly rug & mask here at home in Italy, my neighbour came to me and said 'That's enough, why do you keep torturing him like that?' -- he honestly believed he was blinded by the fly mask and that I had put it on him for my own fun, to make him gallop around unable to see where he was going
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Helloooo, again wrong on SO many levels -- what kind of person would I be if I did something like that to a living being??
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Then another time, an old lady was walking in front of the paddock with her grandchild. Child looks at Frodo (16hh Warmblood gelding) and Snoopy (mini shetland) and asks, is she the little one's mummy? And granny replies 'Of course she is, in a few years the little one will grow to be as big as she is'
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a classic from my very non horsey OH (city boy)....we'd not long been together and when I got back from the yard he asked me how the poorly fowl was doing
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(the fowl was born with a slight cleft palate and was doing fine)
 
I had a yearling colt gelded last Tuesday and as I was turning him back out into the field after the anaesthetic had worn off, the lady who owns the farm started chatting. I told her that he had just been gelded and she asked if I'd had my rising-3-year-old filly "done" too . . . . . spaying mares isn't commonplace that I'm aware of (although in some cases it's probably a good idea!)
 
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And from some woman on another forum who kept her horse on it's own out of choice, not nessesity:

"I keep him on his own so he loves me more and I am his world..."
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I know someone who recently did this with a youngster, said youngster got very ill and the Vet TOLD the owner to GET IT SOME COMPANY!!!

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Hmmm, I wonder who that was.....
 
From numerous horse riders at various winter shows/ fun rides etc, many riding natives, with regards to the full up 15.2hh Welsh D I ride:

"Is he an Exmoor?"

No! He just gets a rather mealy muzzle in winter!

I'm a pony squisher but not that much!
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Non-horsey, but my Mum in KFC...

'Can I have a cheeseburger please?'

She couldn't understand why myself and the girl serving both started laughing.
 
From a listed dressage judge having asked if my horse was a Gelderlander and being advised that no it is an Andalusian said

"Ahh I knew it was foreign"

Same judge asked me if same horse was a Haflinger about two months later!
 
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and have any of you noticed that wen u ask a non horsey person if they have ever ridden before they ALL..ALWAYS say 'ive ridden once but the horse ran of with me'!! lol

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not only did they run off with them but they jumped a 5 bar gate and everyone said how brilliant they were and what a natural!!

Then you offer them a go on your horse and they refuse saying they dont feel like it.....
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lol @ some of these

2 favourites of mine...

"He always wears his heavyweight in January" Yes, of course he does, because it makes perfect sense to rug according to the month and not the temperature
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I challenged this logic, and yes, she would rug up if it suddenly dropped to freezing in August ....I just don't understand this logic - it's currently 3-5 degrees here, 2 weeks ago it was -13. So it effectively feels as if it's gone from freezing to +20 in a couple of weeks. So poor horse is sweltering in the same rugs he was wearing a fortnight ago.

and...

"This horse will only work on the bit if you have 2 reins" I asked if she meant a double bridle. "No, just 2 reins on the snaffle".
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I decided not to pursue that conversation!
 
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