Horse and Hound Columnist

[ihatework]

The older I get, the more anti-hunt I become. And it’s generally down to the people rather than the act of hunting. A real shame, because a core of these types completely compound the hunting stereotype.

Yes, this lady (in the loosest sense of the word) very much sounds an unfit manner. Let’s hope the nanny has some maternal instincts 😉

 

[Ambers Echo]

but asking your kid 'more than once' if he was sure he wanted to go home after falling off, chipping his tooth and crying his eyes out, just because you want to continue having fun......not good.

...After just abandoning him in the first place and letting him sort himself out after falling at speed at a solid jump.

 

[UptodateK]

...After just abandoning him in the first place and letting him sort himself out after falling at speed at a solid jump.

exactly! unbelievable!

 

[Sleighfarer]

I'm glad it's not just me who dislikes this column. I think it is meant to be self-deprecating and amusing but she's not a clever enough writer to pull it off. It's astonishing that she's been given such a prime spot.

 

[scruffyponies]

I thought I was bad. I'm all for encouraging independence, but if you don't stop, who's going to bully them into remounting!

 

[Tiddlypom]

Let’s hope the nanny has some maternal instincts 😉

IME, the kids are dragged up by the nanny, the au pair and boarding school. Then, if they survive into adulthood, they then repeat the same old cycle with their own offspring, as they don't know any differently .

(I have nothing against boarding school, I boarded, but you could easily spot those kids who were sent there as their parents cba with them)

 

[Ceifer]

Could anyone point me at a link please.

The article was edited and re-released online to remove any reference to the groom leaving.

 

[DD]

someone start a petition to get rid of this column.

 

[stormox]

I have just read that column - (first time) - is it not a fictional pisss take? I cant believe its true....

 

[JFTDWS]

I'm glad it's not just me who dislikes this column. I think it is meant to be self-deprecating and amusing but she's not a clever enough writer to pull it off. It's astonishing that she's been given such a prime spot.

It's appallingly written, but that's standard for H&H these days...

 

[Goldenstar]

I thought I was the only one who hates that column . I never read it now .
I glad I have company ,like the equally hideous showing blog I fear H and H is a bit out of touch .

 

[Rosiejazzandpia]

What a rubbish column. I'd be happy to see the diary of a homemade livery yard take its place, far funnier and realistic

 

[MotherOfChickens]

The article was edited and re-released online to remove any reference to the groom leaving.

ha! I just found the edited version, reads very differently from the first one!

 

[Fiona]

It doesn't annoy me to the same extent as you guys, but I must admit I'm surprised it's still going... I guessed at the start it would be a short term hunting season only type thing. When I remember back to Sam Watson and his brilliantly funny column in eventing mag, I think a weekly page in H&H could be used better to be honest...

I'd like Diary of a home made livery yard too, or a famous rider blog.

The showing one I quite enjoy though, in a 'how the other half live' type way... They take the P out of each other lots which is funny, and lots of people (even on here) have grooms so I don't get how it's such a crime...

I wonder will the H&H team read this tomorrow?

Fiona

 

[MotherOfChickens]

It doesn't annoy me to the same extent as you guys, but I must admit I'm surprised it's still going... I guessed at the start it would be a short term hunting season only type thing. When I remember back to Sam Watson and his brilliantly funny column in eventing mag, I think a weekly page in H&H could be used better to be honest...

I'd like Diary of a home made livery yard too, or a famous rider blog.

The showing one I quite enjoy though, in a 'how the other half live' type way... They take the P out of each other lots which is funny, and lots of people (even on here) have grooms so I don't get how it's such a crime...

I wonder will the H&H team read this tomorrow?

Fiona

having a groom isn't a crime, talking about an ex member of staff that way is unprofessional and she sounded like an utterly spoiled brat complaining about having to do all of two horses over Christmas. Public sympathy was not with her but with her ex-groom, as was mine! It now reads how much she enjoyed doing her own horses

 

[Silver Clouds]

If you remove the horse/hunting element what she did looks awful- i.e. a mother sees her child fall off a climbing frame at a playground and just walks way without checking on the child. I am all for not 'babying' children, and for allowing them the chance to take part in more dangerous sports (whilst teaching them how to do so as safely as possible), but I don't understand why you wouldn't stop to help someone who may be injured- be it your child, another person's child or an adult stranger.

 

[Nasicus]

Wow, what an absolutely selfish wench. "Oh teehee, my son came off his pony at speed and broke his tooth and I ignored him , ain't I the worst? *chortle*"

 

[Lexi_]

I'd like Diary of a home made livery yard too, or a famous rider blog.

I would agree with you but the Lottie Fry one was dreadful too, so I don’t feel hopeful!

Not that it’s quite the same thing but if anyone is on Instagram, may I recommend Kizzyandettiesponies ? Highly adorable and the mum seems to have a great attitude to life.

 

[Fiona]

I would agree with you but the Lottie Fry one was dreadful too, so I don’t feel hopeful!

Not that it’s quite the same thing but if anyone is on Instagram, may I recommend Kizzyandettiesponies ? Highly adorable and the mum seems to have a great attitude to life.

Yes I've recently found this and love it...

Fiona

 

[Fiona]

having a groom isn't a crime, talking about an ex member of staff that way is unprofessional and she sounded like an utterly spoiled brat complaining about having to do all of two horses over Christmas. Public sympathy was not with her but with her ex-groom, as was mine! It now reads how much she enjoyed doing her own horses

There were no names mentioned, and from memory all she said was that groom had done a runner and left her room/flat in a mess.....

I reckon if it hadn't been in the title/H&H link, hardly anyone who wasn't interested in showing would have read it... Unfortunately it went ever so slightly viral 😣😣

At least she writes humorously though, unlike the original subject of this post 🤣

For a famous rider blog, I'd love Andrew Nicholson or for a showjumper maybe Holly Smith or Harriet Nuttall...

Fiona

 

[ester]

I would agree with you but the Lottie Fry one was dreadful too, so I don’t feel hopeful!

Not that it’s quite the same thing but if anyone is on Instagram, may I recommend Kizzyandettiesponies ? Highly adorable and the mum seems to have a great attitude to life.

On Facebook too for those of us who haven’t made it to instagram

 

[Lexi_]

Oh I didn’t realise! I’m about the only person I know who’s never had a FB account though...

 

[Fiona]

Sorry it's their fb page I follow, never got round to Instagram 🤣

Fiona

 

[tankgirl1]

OMG! I don't buy or read the mag but just read the pic someone posted, and that is awful! Err yeah, SS probably should be called if you think it's all tally ho, what a lark, my son fell off and I galloped off and left him. WTF is wrong with people?

 

[BOWS28]

Another vote for Katy - 'Home made livery yard' i love her blogs!!

 

[Merrymoles]

Do you mean bad PR for equestrianism as a whole or hunting as a sub-set of that?

I am shocked as my whole equestrian life I have been taught that you help people in a pickle.

Hunters please, we live in a media-age, you are alienating horsey people that were 'neutral' about your sport with stuff like this and the actions of some during the flu outbreak, let alone other people who don't step into the horse community.

I think it's bad PR for equestrianism as a whole - I don't believe the general public differentiates between the sub-sets and this reinforces the "snobby, uncaring" stereotype.

 

[Ceifer]

ha! I just found the edited version, reads very differently from the first one!

Doesn’t it just!
I did giggle.

Also if anybody want to read about a brilliant hunting family - Kizzy and Etties pony adventures is brilliant.
Every horsey child’s dream. They’re on Facebook

 

[Quigleyandme]

Seriously gastly woman. I stopped reading her column before I stopped reading H&H all together. She sneers at all sorts of people like walkers in the most objectionable way and is a terrible and totally untypical ambassador for the hunting fraternity.

 

[Lois Lame]

someone start a petition to get rid of this column.

It almost looks like your horse is announcing that, Downton.
: )

 

[Quadro]

She is the after dinner speaker at our hunt dinner, so I hope to get a better flavour of her then.
As an aside, an older lady fell out hunting on Sat, I stayed with her and gave her my horse, and I took hers. About 10 people stayed back to help, so not all like that