Do horsey people really come out with these things?

[Fools Motto]

Just got back from my shift at job2 - which isn't a horsey job. Today i have met all sorts of people, from the really up market types, to the down to earth sorts and everyone inbetween. Everyone has been polite and pleasant which makes the job more bearable!
Anyway, I was talking to my boss about how Newmarket was (which is my job1 and involves horses!) I was also serving a customer at the time. I'd age her early 20's. The conversation then went something like this;
Her '' Oh, horses! I love horses, I have 4 of my own ''
Me, '' That is very nice, lucky you ''
Her '' Yes, I have a thoroughbred, he used to be a race horse that raced, and I have a dartmoor pony that comes from Dartmoor, and a chestnut one that is orange in colour. ''
Me '' That is lovely''
Her '' yes, I am very lucky. I'm learning to ride the racehorse and learning to lead the pony''

I smiled and nodded politely and by then had another customer. She said goodbye and left.
It made me wander, is this a usual conversation you get when talking to someone horsey, and aside from the racehorse/TB bit, the orange in colour 'one', and learning to lead the pony?
Anyway, her age aside, she came across and nice, polite and dare I say 'sweet'.


Maybe she meant learning to ride the horse while leading the pony? Ohh, I think I totally didn't get 'it' at the time!

 

[TandD]

haha, some people are very funny!

1. - i guess not all racehorses race? some 'fall at the first hurdle'
2. - some dartmoor ponys arent bred in dartmoor? :/
3. - not all chestnuts are orange? some are liver coloured

what about the 4th???

 

[Elsiecat]

Hahaha

 

[giddyupalfie]

Sounds to me like someone was telling a little porky pie

 

[Fools Motto]

I guess time didn't allow for her to tell me about the 4th??

 

[Mad_Cow347]

Yea sounds like an odd thing for a horsey person to say to another horsey person. Might describe a chestnut as orange to someone who wouldn't know what chestnut meant but to someone who said they are horsey...
Or some people are just a bit special.
I'm also wondering what happened to the 4th horse?

 

[onlytheponely]

The 4th one's called Shergar

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

If I talk about chestnuts i call them ginger hehe.... wonder if people think I don't know what it is? She sounded sweet x

 

[katia]

Haha! I'm with Cloe!.. There's a girl in my daughters class at school who reckons she has no less than 20 horses on livery! When my daughter asked what breed she replied 'show ponies'! , they apparently eat seeds and are light brown and White in colour!!!
My naughty daughter finds it amusing to humour her and ask her random questions about them during reg'!! Lol

 

[Shantara]

I remember talking to my ex's friend, who said he used to ride and own horses. I asked him what he had and he said "Oh, one of those MASSIVE ones, with the hairy legs? Umm...Shetland? Yea, a Shetland" I let it carry on for a bit, while he spouted a load on nonsense about riding race horses on the gallops and other rubbish. I asked my ex later and he confirmed it was indeed a lie!

EDIT: Oh! And the time I was talking to a girl from an art website, she was clearly young and she told me she had an arab. I asked for a picture and she sent me this one...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3-BMhb5drRY/S97C2nt-BII/AAAAAAAAAJo/hKJegy2ZgQY/s1600/horses.jpg
It's one of the first pictures on google. I also let this carry on for a while and it got more and more rediculous haha!

 

[mynutmeg]

Sounds like a bit of fantasy

Yea sounds like an odd thing for a horsey person to say to another horsey person. Might describe a chestnut as orange to someone who wouldn't know what chestnut meant but to someone who said they are horsey...
Or some people are just a bit special.
I'm also wondering what happened to the 4th horse?

we describe my sister's chestnut as orange because, in the winter, he simply is orange! When we got him he didn't even have a name, he was just the 'orange colt' (the only tb on a friesian stud) but he was most definately orange, maybe a burnt rather than bright but defintely orange

 

[Crugeran Celt]

A friend of my mum's used to tell me, when I was a horse mad child with no hope of ever having my own, that her dad had bred and trained race horses. I took it all in and as I got older and bred my TB/Cob filly she asked me one day what breed she was and when I told her she asked "a Thoroughbred what". It turned out she thought a thoroughbred meant it was a purebred something as she didn't realise that a thoroughbred was a breed at all and her dad's only contact with horses was the fact that his father used to drive a horse and cart to deliver milk! She was a sweet lady so I just used to listen to her stories as I got older but never let on I knew she was making it all up.

 

[Hen]

Yea sounds like an odd thing for a horsey person to say to another horsey person. Might describe a chestnut as orange to someone who wouldn't know what chestnut meant but to someone who said they are horsey...
Or some people are just a bit special.
I'm also wondering what happened to the 4th horse?

ha ha! That made me smile. All my horses are 'orange'. Because where I refer to they are all sorrell but 'chestnut' people don't get it. Sorrell they are, but orange they remain

 

[weebarney]

I once got asked a couple of questions about my 2 thoroughbreds by a bloke with horses , him- is that horse having a baby? Me- no it's just fat, him- is that other horse the fat horses baby? , me - no he's 16.

 

[Emilieu]

When people, including horsey people, ask what colour Deano is I always say ginger

 

[FionaM12]

My OH and his sister, when they were children, knew someone with a pony. They weren't (and still aren't) horsey themselves.

His sister impressed her classmates by saying the pony was hers. She would show them it on the way home from school and they all believed her. She enjoyed the kudos her fantasy pony gave her.

All was well until her friends started putting pressure on her to let them come and ride her pony. She came up with excuses but knew the truth would come out.

So one day she told her Mum about it and said she couldn't go to school any more because they'd find out. Her Mum told her in no uncertain terms to get into school, admit she made it up and face the music.

She did, and you'd think it would have given her a harsh lesson about telling porkies.

It didn't work though, she's in her fifties and still a bit of a "romancer".

 

[nedzy]

I also referred to my chestnut mare as orange, as in all fairness, chest nuts that fall from trees, are not that colour, so avoids confusion for non-horsey folk!
My non horsey partner who helps me out occassionally was trying to impress the other day by telling everyone how after I finish riding he takes the numpty and girdle off the saddle! At least he tries!