Gossip/rumors.

I had one a bit ago- some one asked me to break in their pony. I said it would cost X amount. Got a phone call later saying that someone else would break in a pony for £20 a week full livery etc, but would send it to me for £15 a week!! I asked who this person was, turned out to be my best friend and it was all bullshit!
More recently, and I shouldn't say this on here, but I made a few posts about buying a new horse etc. I was then asked at Hutton horse trials where my new horse was, which I had £20,000+ for apparently (intermediate eventer)! I hadn't even looked at any horses at that point. There is a person on here that reads my posts and then starts rumours about me, and they will probably read this too, its quite unsettling!!
 
Oh I have had a few and I have never set foot on a lvery yard lol!

The one that pissed me off the most was the mother of the girl that rode for me was telling all and sundry that she was buying my pony at the end of the show season. I heard this from 5 completely different sources and not one of them was her! Needless to say her kid doesn't ride for me anymore, my pony is staying exactly where he is and that is always where he would have been! She is a mardy madam that has been after him for years - would rather sell him to the knackerman than let her have him!

The other funny one was when I was loaning out my fell pony and every enquiry I had all asked if it was true that he had bolted and broken the collarbone of someone that went to try him. Yes - this is true to an extent. He did have someone fall off of him and break their collar bone - he was a freshly backed 4yo that had no balance cantering round corners and neither did the rider who simply plonked off and landed awkwardly. The rumour starter made him out to be highly dangerous and that's why I was getting rid of him. In the 9 years that I have had him he has only ever tanked with me once and that was out hunting :D I have never come off of him! I think the rumour was started because she wanted to buy him all those many years ago but I got there first :D
 
POLLDARK said:
Cause a stir, put a smallish cushion up your jumper when visiting the yard & see how long it takes for really juicy rumours to go around !:D
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Actually managed that one. Arrived at a show with my SLR camera (big lens) but it started to rain so I zipped it up under my jacket for safe keeping, giving me a little bump...how rumours flew!
 
POLLDARK said:
Cause a stir, put a smallish cushion up your jumper when visiting the yard & see how long it takes for really juicy rumours to go around !:D
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Tehe. I dye my hair all sorts of colours but once my friend dyed hers bright red and then fell pregnant so old YO said it was because of the red hair. When me and OH had been together a while I thought it would be funny to re-dye mine red. Yep, within days it was going around I must be pregnant! lol. stupid isnt it??
 
When I decided to leave my previous yard to go to 24/7 grazing for the benefit of my horse, the yard manager who I was very friendly with took it personally and didn't talk to me for a while and it was quite noticiable to other liveries.

Anyway a notice went up on the yard from her a few weeks later saying if people choose to slag off people on facebook then they should have the guts to do it face to face. (she wasn't on facebook) I spent days wondering along with other liveries who / what / where.

After a while my friend started talking to me again and I asked her what was behind the notice. She had been told by another livery that I had been slating her and the yard on facebook !! I was :eek: and even more so as wasn't even friends with other said livery on facebook !! plus if anyone knows me I would never ever do such a thing.. so asked livery why she would say that and she said ohh I thought you had a row as you were leaving so I asked why she would say about fb when we were not even friends, answer - ohh I assumed you would??!!

Unbelievable ...
 
making me laugh... rumour went round years ago that I had a son I didn't like to talk about and various people wondering about the circumstances as I was single.

That will teach me to talk about putting Spot to bed.. (horse in case you lot are wondering)..even funnier, I didn't twig for ages as others thought it was a sensitive topic!
 
When I was 20, someone rang my dad to congratulate him on my marriage to my 40 year old, (well know to be) gay trainer...

We were very close, we used to go to competitions together every weekend, but that was cause my horse was on working livery with him. People had stretched that into us being not only together, but married :confused:??
 
Not horsey, but when I got together with my OH I saw my ex a few weeks after. He awkwardly asked if 'the rumours' were true. When I asked what rumours, it turns out I was well into dogging!!!!!!

I didn't even know what dogging was and OH nearly fell through the floor laughing. Poor ex was proper embarrassed. I never did find out who started that one!

Only horsey rumour I know about was that I was a dealer, but that started on the internet by some petty b1ttch who got caught out. Had the odd bit of hurtful bull excrement spread and been stabbed in the back as a result, but I just cut ties with those people. They weren't worth it.

This kind of thread is what puts the fear of God into me about moving onto a yard. No wonder I was having nightmares and panic attacks when my landlady died!
 
Some interesting speculations went round when we (I, F and me) took on a pub last year - I and F (both male) were together, I was I's wife (he's 54, I'm 27), I was F's wife (he's 48) and that I was I's daughter! I still jokingly call I dad every now and again!
 
Ha ha some people are very silly! I had a friend and ex fellow livery say that she had made the decision to put her old boy to sleep. I told a so called 'friend' and next thing I knew she had received a text saying I'm so sorry about your loss from YO. The horse was still alive! I felt terrible as I had passed on the CORRECT info to the 'friend', which then got twisted.... Never again, I try to keep out of these things now!
 
Not yard gossip but I also managed to start off a pregnancy rumour by posting my boy's ultrasound scan (of his sdft) on facebook with no explanation. Came back to rather a lot of 'congratulations' type messages :eek: :eek: :D
 
Well, my favourite rumour about me was spread by a fellow livery when I was down south. I don't know how to put it without being shot down by the PC police but she wasn't the sharpest tool in the box, let's say.

Anyway, she put the word around that I must surely be a prostitute given my frequent weekend gentleman callers. What she omitted to take into account was that most of my friends are gay men who lived up north so always came for the weekend. And also accompanied me to the yard - dunno what sort of tricks she thought I was turning :rolleyes: Luckily this rumour reached me fast but has probably become urban legend by now. "Remember that prozzie we used to have here...."
 
I heard that I had broken my arm falling off of a friends horse last year - I had fallen off, but the only thing that got hurt were my jods which caught on my spur and split :o I tried to do clear round jumping on the horse 2 days later and was told that I couldn't because the yard insurance wouldn't cover me riding with a broken arm!!

I know I was supposed to be pregnant a while ago, but I can't remember the circumstances surrounding that!

I like dropping innocent comments when the yard gossips are around and seeing what rumours come back about me ;)
 
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