Funny things people have said about you and your horse

[Fjord]

When I first got Bobbi, she was a bit of a porker. She lost a fair amount of weight and we went on our first pleasure ride. Small child on pony looked at us and said in a loud voice 'That horse is very round isn't it?' I'll admit, they weren't wrong...

I used to ride with my friend on her 16h ex-deventer (Bobbi is 13.3). A lady who's house we used to ride past once asked her 'Do you look after that little girl on Saturdays?' My friend was very confused and said 'What little girl?' 'The one you ride with.' said the lady. My friend was horrified, she's only 4 years older than me.

What funny/mortifying/downright weird things have people said about you and your horse?

 

[SEL]

When Ardennes were not a commonly seen breed I regularly had people ask me What IS it? when I was out walking M. To be fair a number of horses we met would snort and spook at the old boy too - he couldn't care less.

I got asked if the microcob was pregnant recently Diet has started.

 

[little_critter]

I was taking my pony out for an in hand walk and a walker commented “you’ll be carrying the pony next”
I think my pony would have liked that.

 

[dottylottie]

i’ve been told a few times recently “you’re supposed to be ON the horse!” whilst hand walking lily - i tell them id love to be, but i’ve paid an awful lot of money for this advice so i need to continue

 

[toppedoff]

not my horse but there was a shetland at the yard

lady - aww, look at the baby horse!

lady then asks me how old is it?

its 22.

a 22 year old?! is it dwarfism???

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

not my horse but there was a shetland at the yard

lady - aww, look at the baby horse!

lady then asks me how old is it?

its 22.

a 22 year old?! is it dwarfism???

Had plenty of that over the years after shows with Shetlands and public!

 

[BBP]

Someone told me that BBP would be a fascinating horse to dissect!

(To be fair they meant that a lot could be learned from him as he is hypermobile and has a muscle myopathy)

 

[toppedoff]

Had plenty of that over the years after shows with Shetlands and public!

i think my fav thing my sister has said to me regarding shetlands is that they are like clothes that shrunk in the washingmachine

 

[smolmaus]

"Is she a horse or a dog?"

I'm not allowed a dog because my partner and the cats would object so why can't she be a bit of both? Let me have my labrador pony.

 

[tda]

Is your horse expecting , yes she was a bit fat

 

[SDMabel]

'Look mummy a police horse !!!'

We were cladded out in our Polite Hi-viz exercise sheet ... amusing as said police horse was a 14hh hairy traditional cob bumbling along on a hack

 

[Hallo2012]

When I first got Bobbi, she was a bit of a porker. She lost a fair amount of weight and we went on our first pleasure ride. Small child on pony looked at us and said in a loud voice 'That horse is very round isn't it?' I'll admit, they weren't wrong...

I used to ride with my friend on her 16h ex-deventer (Bobbi is 13.3). A lady who's house we used to ride past once asked her 'Do you look after that little girl on Saturdays?' My friend was very confused and said 'What little girl?' 'The one you ride with.' said the lady. My friend was horrified, she's only 4 years older than me.

What funny/mortifying/downright weird things have people said about you and your horse?

my 2 x boys are both 13hh and my hacking friends horses are 15.2-16.2hh approx........i got called her daughter once so now i call her mum just to confuse people......"mum theres a car coming" etc

we are the same age! i dont think it was an appearance thing just the assumption that the person on the tin ponies HAD to be a kid!!!!!

 

[Boots*McGruber]

Almost all professionals who have been involved with my Welsh Cob (chiro, saddle fitters, vets, riders) have said, “he’s a character, isn’t he?”

 

[cauda equina]

When riding in a fly rug - 'Why's he got a skirt on?'

 

[cloverlea]

My cousin thought ponies grew up to be horses

 

[sassandbells]

“Why is it wearing a batman mask?” - out on a hack on a sunny day, my horse had a grey fly veil on! Happened about 10 years ago and still makes me chuckle, fly veils are now known in my family as Batman masks.

 

[cjwchez]

I was hacking out on my horse a few weeks ago, and passed a mother walking with her young daughter.

The young daughter (probably no older than 4) said "mummy, can we follow the donkey?"

I then spent the following 10 minutes talking to my horse, telling him not to be offended and convincing him that he does NOT look like a donkey.

 

[webble]

"Your horse runs like a chicken" it's a pretty accurate description when he is in full standie mode

When I had indie a traditional coloured cob a small child asked when he had slippers on (feathers)

 

[Fransurrey]

I rode Exmoors for 20 years. I could write a book on the funny/offensive things people say to horse people...

1) Is that a foal? Oh, when will he reach full height, then [He was 16 at the time]?.
2) Oh what a lovely donkey!
3) You should have rollerskates on!
4) Shouldn't you be carrying him?
5) Aw, what a lovely foal and dam (I had a 16.3 hh ID in the same field - ok, the height difference matched up, as did the colour, but both were geldings...).
6) Is that a shetland?
7) Love his jousting outfit [Exmoors can be very short coupled like mine, so the fly sheet hung very low and he DID look like he was wearing a dayglo jousting outfit, especially when I put two back to back in full on horsefly season!

When I last had my mare trotted up as part of an exam, the vet asked diplomatically, 'Does she always move like that?'. Said mare has always had hindgut issues which I think stem from a SI problem (she did always move like she'd pooped her pants). Nobody ever really took my theory seriously until then.

 

[SpeedyPony]

"When's it due?"- neither I nor the mare were particularly fat at the time!
I've also had multiple people ask why I've blindfolded my horse when he's wearing his fly mask- some of them curiously, some quite disapproving .

 

[saddlesore]

I’ve had several ‘is that a Clydesdale?’ On my 15hh traddy. I usually just say yes but he shrunk in the wash

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

My Arab's lived in tail bags when they did shows I was out hacking once and a family stopped to look at us admiring how beautiful he was and the woman said is that thing on his tail to catch the poo

 

[Annagain]

Many people have asked us if Archie and Monty were police horses in training as we hacked through the village. To be fair they were both big imposing 17hh boys, grey and decked out in hi-viz. We never got asked if we were police officers though - people just assumed we were exercising them for the police!

We also got asked a lot if they were brothers. They weren't biologically, just spiritually.

 

[onemoretime]

Way back in the 70's we sent a mare to stud. When I told the ladies I worked with one asked "Will she be shut in the stable for the night with the stallion"

 

[Alibear]

As I tend to hack without English riders. It's usually a comment along the lines of I'd like that one, the saddle looks comfy. To which I always reply it is

 

[dorsetladette]

Walking out my older cob GELDING and my welsh C (then) COLT a neighbour pointed us out to her grandchildren and said 'look at that horse and HER baby' I wouldn't have minded but B was 'very relaxed' at the time making it pretty obvious HE wasn't a HER!!

 

[Nasicus]

I’ve had several ‘is that a Clydesdale?’ On my 15hh traddy. I usually just say yes but he shrunk in the wash

Used to get that all the time on various 14hh hairy ponies throughout the years!

 

[Melody Grey]

I got told by a yard mate I looked ‘plenty big enough’ on a horse I tried and then bought (he’s 15hh, I’m 5ft6 and 55kg…go figure?!)

My son and I get a lot of “oh look there’s a mummy horse and it’s foal” as we hack out together (both geldings!!)

 

[Caol Ila]

The public say the darndest things.

"Is that one a baby?" Referring to Fin when my hacking company have been 15+hh horses.

"Are they related?" Referring to Fin and Hermosa.

"Are they donkeys?" Also referring to Fin and Hermosa.

"That one looks like Spirit [of the Cimarron]." Referring to Hermosa.

"Look, it's wearing little trainers." Referring to Renegade Vipers.

"Shouldn't you be riding it?" Heard this a lot when I was handwalking Hermosa.

"Can I drive it?" Some random guy on the road while I hacked Gypsum past him.

"Are you the polis?" We all had hi-viz on.

"Our horses will be scared by your horses. They've never seen ones that small!" The actual police. The Mounted Unit was in the park, involved in a murder-suicide investigation. I was on Fin and my hacking buddies that day were a couple hairy cobs and a Connemara.

 

[littleshetland]

Whilst hacking, we decided to stop at the pub. I had my big, very traditionally built Gelderlander. He had a massive head, stuck on top of a big giraffe type neck, typically flat quarters, a lot of bone and boxy upright feet and a big grass belly (he was fabulous and I did love him!)
A man approaches ....' I know quite a lot about horses, that ones a racehorse isn't he?'
Me..'He most certainly is...hes running at Kempton Park next week...' I really couldn't be arsed to engage with this man.
'Thought so' he said and strutted off looking all pleased with himself!