Has anyone ever made a rude comment about your horse?

The link here is we all love our horses so who cares what people say about them ! If they were perfect it would be Boring ;) I love my chunky little moo cow !
 
Luci07 said:
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
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Luci07 said:
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.
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I mean as in injury wise. I think I may of phased that wrong.
My mother has a 14.1 Traditional Gypsy Cob that's hard as nails. It lives out 24/7 and its currently in a L/W rug and isn't fussed (is quite fluffy just to add!) It's had lots of knocks and bumps as has only been lame once in her 4 year time with us. Whereas my TB just deteoriates to a bag of bones if he lives out..he hates being in the field for more than 6 hours. He also got lame from clipping his hoof on a plastic jump pole..
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A yard I was a livery at who dealt in show jumpers said they weren't going to sell them anymore and were only going to sell run of the mill horses like mine from now on.

My new horse, someone said hmmm he's quite stocky isn't he, will he be ok to hunt. He's Connemara we think x tb and at just over 15hh has evented to novice, so I think he'll be ok!

My dogs get it all the time. Doberman and the staffie :( people cross the road to avoid us! Pick up their dogs etc. In reality the one they should be watching is the feisty little jack russell sneaking up behind them! The other 2 pose no threat!
 
I did have one woman who sarkily answered me ( ref my much loved staffies) that beauty was in the eye of the beholder.

So I asked her if that was what her husband said to her...she went red and stormed off..
 
Also had the dog meat comment.

My horses go like s__t because I ruin them all (nice, 'subtle' dig at both horses and I!)

Stupid creature with nothing between the ears (untrue, although true of the person who said it)


Aren't people lovely? :)
 
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Vet told us that our horses had medical issues (ie were once lame due to a physical injury!) therefore weren't worth dog meat, nor was he prepared to drive out to ours to vet as he would only fail him as he couldn't be bothered to 'vet a nag'.

Another woman told me about my main horse (6 years ago) that my horse scared me and I would be better off with this 18hh Cleveland bay who she knew. Funnily enough, I'm still with said mare now and she's the best thing that's ever happened to me, unfortunately for her, her CB gelding has caused more problems than its worth!

I've been looked down upon as my mare is 15hh, not some monster WB (she's tb x conny so not exactly badly bred!).

Now, my mare has a 'history' which I'm not going to divulge on here, but she's been transformed since I've owned her, it's only since we've started competing (and winning!) that people have stopped telling me that we're not compatible and I should buy a 'ploddy cob'.

Also been told that 'its a shame she's ended up with you, she could've been a better competition horse, so wasted' ... Stuff you if you think that, no one else can get her to jump, nor is she as relaxed with anyone else. She's my horse and yes I'll admit that at times I'm not the best person to give her the confidence she needs, but if I try get someone else more confident to jump her the opposite happens and she turns into a devil!
 
I hope to dear god this woman isn't still instructing?!
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I'm sure she is still teaching. For some strange reason, the lady who told me that the instructor often made her clients cry, still had lessons with her, even though she was often upset at the end of each lesson. In this case the instructor was constantly digging at the lady's weight (she was slightly overweight, but not by much and her horse carried her easily anyway). I didn't understand it.
 
Oh god yeah lol!!

Folk seem to like your horses untile they dont like you then they are horrid and there's everything wrong with them :rolleyes:

When watching showing classes etc everyone makes comments that can be perceived as rude but when folk make conformational comments about my horse that I know are true then I just shrug :)

Beauty is subjective IMO :D
 
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I was told that the only good thing for my Section A was a bullet.

The same person also told me to sell the pony to a welsh hill farmer to round his sheep up on :rolleyes: She's only 12hh!
 
one time made me chuckle - walked up the road to get some hay and heard another customer comment to her friend "god did you see that hippo of a horse over the road" obviously meant Em as shes the chunkiest ned down that road "whats the point of buying a horse that cant go any faster than a walk?!" cue her and her friend sniggering

just ignored them, got my hay and headed back to the yard, Em on seeing the wheelbarrow full of hay went mental cantering round the field bucking and farting, just as the snooty cow drove passed, her car actually came to a stop as her and her friend sat and gawped at Em doing rather more than a walk!

gave them a wave as i walked passed and they sped off lol

never judge a book by its cover :)
 
Wow some shocking comments! What is all this rubbish about 'proper' horses, do these people hear themselves?! And there seem to be a lot of instructors who should get the sack too!

My haffy is the most perfect golden pony in the world and I don't really care if people think she isn't as good as a warmblood or a TB, they are completely different, plus they'd be wrong :-)
 
I'd just like to add another sly dig that was mentioned to me by a girl on my yard a few weeks ago.

My horse Tag is an ex-racehorse. Did no form of schooling before I bought him, He's been out of racing for around a year and a half and did nothing but hack for that time.
As a result of this he go around the school with his head in the clouds and has no idea of how to bend and is as stiff as a board.

Girl made a sly dig at me when she seen me riding him and said "Ex-racehorses don't have a future." Bear in mind she has a £10'000 show pony that Daddy forked out his cheque book for.

4 weeks later after working in side-reins he's learnt to work long a low and he's stopped tensing and started loosening his strides much more. Turns out this lad has elastic, floaty paces when he relaxes and the look on the girls face when she seen him going down the school in an extended trot and working in an outline. By the look on her face I think my lad has a future career in Dressage ;)
 
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I had one called a murderer once because he stamped on a Jack Russels head and killed it. No-one asked why the Jack Russel was off lead in his field (field and dog belonged to the same person) and snapping at his heels.

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I have been told on several occasions by the same person/couple of people that my mare should come with a health warning due to her unique high pitched neigh/whinny!
Yes it is different & very high pitched but I have been through thick & thin with this horse & I am proud of her & her neigh! Every horse has its quirks it just mine like to share hers!
 
just to make you smile...Gratuitous photo of ugly devil dogs..

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Many times! My mare didn't get many but then she has always been a little charmer...my Friesian on the other hand...they are not to everyones taste.....

My own mum asked me why I'd bought a Carthorse! A friend has said many times that Friesians looks like 3 horses put together!

Cannot please everyone! xx
 
They are lovely Luci! I have had a few comments made about my Rottie, but he is an absolute softie.

Ex-liveries have made too many rude comments about my 13.3 to list, though think they are being funny. One included an imaginary advert they saw, with a pony that looked just like mine, but we had of course fabricated every word, took 7 years off her age and were buting her up to sell her now she is older and lightly arthritic :mad:

Before that last gem his wife was offered a ride on my Nesta. She rode her for 30 seconds, proceeded to moan loudly about how slow and boring she was and she couldn't bear to ride her. She thrust the reins back at me and swanned off back to the yard loudly badmouthing her then laughed, turned back to me and said when she was an OAP she'd come back to ride her. My mum was on the yard and very cooly said to her 'she is great actually, if you know where the buttons are.' Livery was silenced ;)
Ooo gets my back up just typing about it...
 
The rudest comments about the comedy cob come from me and fellow liveries, I'm afraid :o. But it's all true; she IS simple, she DOES do weird things, she DOES like to chew stones, and she's never going to win, um anything, except perhaps a comedy cob competition at a local dog show. But that's how we like her :)

Strangers, on the other hand, love her and stop me to ask if she's a Shire and to tell me what lovely furry feet she has :)

Luci07, those little bundles look like they need a good old squishing to me :)
 
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