Has anyone ever made a rude comment about your horse?

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I recall when my mare was up for sale a very rude 19 year old (may I add orange as anything, plastered in make-up and a lovely pink tracksuit with brown yard boots..:rolleyes:) came to try her out. My mare had been out of regular work for a good few months (due to me suffering a slipped disk) and she was up for sale as a project/something to bring back into work.
As soon as this girl sat on her she booted her straight into canter and rallied her around the school. Then she had the cheek to comment "she's not very well schooled".
Well excuse me, it'd help if you actually walked and trotted her for more than 30 seconds. It would also help if you weren't riding like a sack of potatoes, my dear.

I wanted to drag her off my mare there and then.
To add my mare was extremely well schooled, she classes picking up the wrong canter lead a few times "not very well schooled".

So does anyone else have a story to tell?
 
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Yes.

I was told that chestnut mare was only fit for dogmeat by a lovely instructor (who I later found out, often made her clients cry).

Needless to say I never had a lesson with her again and my new instructor was much nicer.
 
I had my boy up for sale and i was told he was green by someone trying him. I told them what did they expect of a 4 year old!! They expected him to be fully schooled and going spot on :confused:. I do not rush babies.
 
Yes we have a 14.2 traditional
Cob made and have had her called a waste of time and a slug. The thing is with the right rider on her she moves like a dressage horse but safe enough to stick your gran on her ! I just laughed it off and told Tess to cover her ears ;)
 
Faracat said:
I was told that chestnut mare was only fit for dogmeat by a lovely instructor (who I later found out, often made her clients cry).

Needless to say I never had a lesson with her again and my new instructor was much nicer.
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I hope to dear god this woman isn't still instructing?!

micki said:
I had my boy up for sale and i was told he was green by someone trying him. I told them what did they expect of a 4 year old!! They expected him to be fully schooled and going spot on :confused:. I do not rush babies.
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The best comments always come from those trying out your horse :rolleyes:
Kudos for not rushing babies!
 
I moved to a lovely yard with my Hanoverian x. He was the spit of one of their flashy Dutch stallions and highly schooled in dressage, so nothing was said, he fit in well. Sadly, he was PTS a couple of months later after breaking a leg when he was kicked in the field. :(

I then got my current boy, a piebald traditional cob :eek: The day I bought him, another livery walked past and sneered, saying (insert bad word for gypsy, rhymes with likey) pony. I was devastated. I deliberately got something totally different from my warmblood and he's a handsome lad! I left soon after, the yard was lovely, but very BSJA, not my scene.
 
We have been told that the lami pony just looks like a dumb riding school horse and that my sister was silly to take him round RAF Halton as no way would he jump the plane let alone anything else........safe to say they were looking all sorts of stupid when we got back with pictures of them jumping the plane rather well and the flower jump at the end! :D
 
We get that cinnamon !!! Big stud yard down the road turn their nose up at our "common gypsy mule" was another comment haha!! I love cobs, they are so strong and powerful looking :-)
 
ive been told on a weekly basis to sell my 'bl**dy' mare and buy 'something older' i.e. dead on its feet that wont win anything and is an appsolute push button, as my horse 'isnt right for me and you wont do well'...no matter how much i say...'i dont want a push button, i want to learn - even if i fall off everyday, not sit and ponce around'.
i also had an instructor once say - with my first horse...'you will never ride properly, or get anywhere. you are a crap rider and always will be'
well next year my horse and i went to pony club national on an intermediate team and we came 8th in out arena of 25+.....im going to start competing against this person soon.....
i love to show people that they are wrong!!! :)
 
That's awful cinnamontoast and Tessybear!
I own a TB but I think cobs are brilliant, fluffy and safe as houses. I think it's unfair how much prejudice surrounds them.
 
Some of these are shocking, and horrible. I can't think of anyone saying anything about either of my ponies.
In fact, one instructor told me I had to buy my highland and he'd be delighted to have another 20 of her to teach.
Everyone who meets her, loves her.
 
I know florrie ! She is a smashing mare aswell never put a foot wrong ! If you love a horse it doesn't matter what they look like!:)
 
Not with my horses but having staffords means people often think they have a god given right to make really unpleasant comments. They never ever get away with it as are challenged, politely, in my best smart Surrey voice. It helps that I am better informed than they are as well and i have not had the worse of any ".conversation". Ingerestingly, this never EVER happens at any equine event. Instead we are a bit like royalty as end making a very slow progress as people always want to stroke them. However I completely fail to understand why someone thinks it is perfectly acceptable to be rude to a complete stranger when my dogs are behaving.
 
My friend sorted my pony for me one night and when I text to ask how he was she replied that my pony was evil. I was shocked and thought he'd hurt her, turns out he'd come to call in the dark, got to the gate and realised it wasnt me and wandered back up the steep hill! She had to follow him all the way back up the hill where he then buggered off! ha ha xx
 
Dear me FfionWinnie! Blind as well as bad mannered: what a spectacular horse - just lovely!

A very posh YO watched my fabulous Crabbet Arabian strutting his dramatic stuff in the field. She said "he's got quite nice paces - pity he's not a real horse, like mine". Her horses were vastly expensive chestnut Hanoverians on which she practised for but rarely went to, dressage competitions. Given that she was as equally scared of her own anger and fear as she was of that of the horses, the fact that however much money she threw at being "The Best Winner" she failed to make a mark on any level of competion. And - she was training weekly with Carl Hester! Well, I always rode out on the best horse in the yard . . .!
 
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SpottyFalula said:
My friend sorted my pony for me one night and when I text to ask how he was she replied that my pony was evil. I was shocked and thought he'd hurt her, turns out he'd come to call in the dark, got to the gate and realised it wasnt me and wandered back up the steep hill! She had to follow him all the way back up the hill where he then buggered off! ha ha xx
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This made me chuckle! That's brilliant.

tessybear said:
I know florrie ! She is a smashing mare aswell never put a foot wrong ! If you love a horse it doesn't matter what they look like!:)
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Just to add, cobs are ace because unlike TB's they're not mardy and don't turn lame after banging their hoof on a stone :D
 
i've been told..

"My pony is better than yours" - Meaning schooling, jump, looks etc.

Sarcastic comments about my pony's jumping.

And harsh comments on how my pony looks.

I want to snap back but have to hold myself back!
 
I hate dog based stereotypes o used to work for an animal charity and I would show them this smashing Staffi girl who was like a teddy and got back
" oh god no that will attack me" idiots -.-

Spotty that made me laugh pony has prioities ;) haha!
 
Riding out one evening last summer on my stunning, beautiful and perfect weight for his breed, well behaved highland, a very posh gentleman on a very large black horse stopped for a chat, eyes pony up and down and said "ugh, why is he so fat". Mmmm, cause he ate all the god dam pies rich boy!
 
Just to add, cobs are ace because unlike TB's they're not mardy and don't turn lame after banging their hoof on a stone :D[/QUOTE]

Not always! Sharpest horse I ever knew a spectacular working show cob. It was a bit hit and miss when she first started being hacked as to whether she would come back WITH her rider! In fact, thinking about it, known quite a few show cobs....and only one ( traditional) behaved how we all think a cob should do.
 
This is according to my EX farrier the ugliest horse in the world...and no he wasnt joking and said it in front of my 2 kids who were really upset...
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He also regularly told me my TB was way to good for me and that I would ruin him because I was a typical 'lets rescue a ex racer' clueless woman :confused:
He really was a charmer ;)
 
I thought they had........

I was riding my previous horse - a grey up the woods and a man came towards me walking his dog. I came back down to walk and as I approached him he said 'eyore' :eek: I though you cheeky git but maybe misheard him, then he said it again 'eyore'

I was a bit miffed by this point and was practically level with him, I was just perfecting my :mad: glare when he said it yet again :eek:

Then I realised he was saying 'heel' to his dog :o:D What a knob (me)
 
Got told my appy was ugly! I get they aren't to everyone's tastes but don't say it to my face, I mean come on!!
Also that Leo was fat. Erm yeah I know I had only just bought him and he'd been out of work for 7 months!!!
 
Yes, but tbh, the kind of people who if asked about Milton would say 'I'd never buy a grey, no matter how well it jumped'. Two exceptions though.
There's a small annual very low level fun show near us. Very much aimed at kids & very novice adults. And being small, its only entered in the spirit it was intended. (put it this way, most parents there with their kids only do cr, fancy dress, or hc). One woman on our yard asked if I was entering any classes, I said no. At which point she started on about there being no shame in not having a good enough horse to show, not to worry I can still love her even if she isn't that nice looking, nobody expects me to be up to much with a 14.2, etc etc. Was quite put out when I told her that having done affiliated comps it was the opposite, I didn't want to pot hunt. And then watched her face drop more at the show, when random novice teen did very well with her.
Other woman insulted my daughters pony. Mainly because she spends a fortune on everything but decent instruction for her kid. And I spend little, but daughter always placed above hers. Woman & I don't get on. She once called daughters pony 'only good for meat, evil little ****, I wouldn't want my child to have such a nasty cheap bad tempered pony' & other stuff along those lines. Did it within my daughters hearing. I nearly flattened her.
 
tessybear said:
We get that cinnamon !!! Big stud yard down the road turn their nose up at our "common gypsy mule" was another comment haha!! I love cobs, they are so strong and powerful looking :-)
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He was a bit dodgy looking when I got him, covered in bot fly eggs, a tick, fluffy, messy.

My farrier told me today he looks a bit 'roughed off'. He's off work, just going out and coming in again, has had his shoes off, isn't clipped cos not working, what does he expect?!
 
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