Has anyone ever made a rude comment about your horse?

Haha! I own a 12hh welshie who I dont ride, was free to a good home or was going to be PTS as she is unrideable and slightly mad at times. Looks like a goat in winter, has a very high pitched whinney so yeah I've heard it all! :rolleyes:
Opinions usually change when they realise she's great to handle on the ground 95% of the time, lunges off voice commands and she looks absolutely stunning in the summer :)
She's a quirky one, will never be ridden or a "useful" horse and is usually a bit of a brat when other people handle her. But she's fine for me and a few other people that regularly handle her and that's all that matters to me :) so the comments usually just bounce off!
 
That's upsetting Fiona ! What an honest boy ! It's a times like that you wouldn't mind them throwing in an unexpected buck to show how "lazy" they are. Always seems to be teenage girls who daddy buys everything who treat their horse like a machine !
 
hula said:
Queenbee - what a beaut!
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thank you... although not sure which one you are referring to... the skewbald is my baby boy... now 3 1/2 and the grey (who is actually piebald underneath, was sold some years ago to another forum member... she was really my mums but it turned out mums back was so damaged she couldn't tolerate riding:( she has a lovely home where she does everything she was born to do with an owner who adores her. :D
 
tessybear said:
That's upsetting Fiona ! What an honest boy ! It's a times like that you wouldn't mind them throwing in an unexpected buck to show how "lazy" they are. Always seems to be teenage girls who daddy buys everything who treat their horse like a machine !
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They all had very highly schooled, top drawer horses and could see no value in a horse like Bamber.

Bamber had what was then called "broken wind", looking back I think it may have been COPD. He'd had a hard life but was the kindest, most trustworthy horse ever.

Here we both are in 1974 in one of the sadly few photos I have of him.

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He is a lovely looking lad Fiona ! Oh really ? Bless can honestly say your first post made me angry I hate people like that ! Especially because he was such a sweety for them
 
Classic one made to me by a " non horsey" friend when she saw pics of my coloured ish " did you get her from the gyp*** as all there the only people who have coloured horses" !!!!!!! Wtf!
 
tessybear said:
He is a lovely looking lad Fiona ! Oh really ? Bless can honestly say your first post made me angry I hate people like that ! Especially because he was such a sweety for them
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Thanks. I thought him the most beautiful thing ever and I still miss him, over 30 years later. :o
 
Instructor when asked whether she had any experience of helping pacers learn to trot -

"He's the ugliest, most unsound pony I've ever seen, and I wouldn't waste a second of my time on him".

Charming. He certainly has better manners and communication skills than she does!!!
 
FionaM12 said:
In about 1974 I lent my beloved Bamber to a girl who'd paid for a place at a week's course with some visiting famous person (name long since forgotten) as her own horse had gone lame. Bamber was an aged somewhat stiff ex-riding school 14.2, but nothing else was available.

I went along and watched some of the classes. Bamber clearly found it very hard work and much of it was beyond his ability, but he did his best and tried his heart out. Unfortunately I was there at the last class when they all rode each others' horses then shared their opinions.

Apparently Bamber was useless, all sorts of other negatives and above all lazy. :( I looked at my poor old gentle, generous boy hanging his head with tiredness and it took all my willpower not to walk in there, push the rider off, give the over-privileged cows on their expensive mounts a mouthful and march off.
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Oh bless...that has actually made me feel really sad...I honestly dont think I could have taken that, spoilt little s****, sounds like the type of pony any child would have loved.
 
redriverrock said:
Oh bless...that has actually made me feel really sad...I honestly dont think I could have taken that, spoilt little s****, sounds like the type of pony any child would have loved.
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It made me feel quite sad/angry too! Bamber sounds wonderful.


Nothing too bad about my mare - an instructor once said 'she's almost a horse' - she's 15.2 full TB!

People have also asked if she is connemara which made me wrinkle my nose a tiny bit (nothing against connemaras, I had a wonderful 13.2 one!), that could be because she is grey and extremely sensible though... possibly!
 
I have had various comments over the years :o

Mostly with the big cob (awesome horse, all fur and feather :) ) Guy stopped his car and said "where's your cart?" :eek: The man had no front teeth, I could see why :rolleyes:

Arab lover on first seeing mighty cob "Christ, what's that?" :eek

From another rider out on the common "dear God"

Whilst showing my friend how well he was doing (never do this btw :D) asked him to walk on :eek: He unexpectedly caprioled :o and I ended up sitting behind the saddle :cool: Best part was seeing my friend run away :D
 
Ii have friends who are identical twins - I've know them since they were kids and now as adults they are my best friends.

One refers to my Clydesdale as her baby as she took me to see her when she was six months old, she loves her as much as I do.

However the other twin is the total opposite. Her first words when Serenity arrived - don't put that Clydesdale in the road paddock I don't want people to think we breed horses like THAT!

9 years on and Serenity is again grazing at the twins farm and she's in the road paddock but one twin will not change her mind about Clydesdales.

My girl is lovely, won heaps in Clydesdale classes including a 3rd at the Horse of the Year.

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I had a good one some years back. Was on group lesson with my barely 16h sj horse, built a bit like a kangaroo - giant bum and short front legs. Very snotty woman with "Miss E Venter" daughter on leggy tb said oh so condescendingly "he's a bonny little thing, are you hoping to affiliate soon?" in the hearing of instructor (who I've known for years). He continued with lesson, grids and some single fences up to about 1m. Then winked at me and said very pointedly "do you want to jump something bigger if you've got a show soon?" - put oxer up 10cm, then 10 cm more, repeating until 1.40 which we popped a few times. Then he turned to woman and said "it's amazing the different shapes and sizes these Grade A's come in - not bad for a bonny little thing is he?!"
 
Foxtrotx I have the same with my mare. A show judge asked me how long she'd been out of racing and I had to explain she'd never raced what with not being a tb. I think they just see a skinny brown horse and think ex-racer!

I don't take it as an insult though.
 
I had a list 1a judge come to give me a lesson (it was a present from my friend) so not really my choice, so I rode my WB as best as I could for at least 10 mins, to which she asked if she could sit on him to see what the problem is?

After 35 mins of walk where she was clearly terrified of him, she hit him with the schooling whip over a 100 times in that time, I asked her to get off, she told me he was ignorant and arrogant and that he needed a lot of work, I told her it wouldn't be with her that would be helping me with that. Stupid woman!

In six months we came down the centre line in a novice aff test to score a 70+ test, she was judging I think she had forgotten what we look like! he was not any of those things, he wanted to do the job, he just needed time to register it all, he was a baby! Never would I entertain her again, she was petrified of him, and he never put a foot wrong, she just wound him up like he's never been wound up before!
 
My previous horse has a comment on one of his dressage sheets ...... 'this horse is unhinged'.
Sadly, I thought he was actually quite well behaved that day :o.

Must say, I did get a little choked when I read it. So unnecessary and absolutely not a helpful comment in any way, shape or form :(
 
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