if someone is rude about your horse....?

my poor irish draft was laughed at years ago and called a cart horse !!now were bsja and winning everytime i see those people who are now singing his praises and saying i always knew he was good ?!?! i simply say yeah not bad for the horse you called a cart horse always shuts them up !!
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i got told down my old yard my horsecouldn't jump, the funnoest bit was he is an ex hurdler. i was livid at the time and if i hadn't of walked away i would have gone mad at her. i'm used to people critising my horses i just ignore them now and occasionally come back with a sarrcy reply like "its a good thing i didn't buy the horse for you then"
 
I would be both devastated and furious if anybody called my Genie ugly or insulted her in any way. I can call her whatever I want, that's my perogative as she's mine and I pay to keep her! Woe betide anybody who insults my horses! Fortunately the closest I've come is a judge saying that she's 'not the best example of a Welsh Cob', but that 'she's a lovely girl', so she redeemed herself!
 
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I was told by a working hunter judge that my big ugly Irish horse was the most unsuitable worker he had ever seen. We went a d jumped the only clear so he had to place us first - sucker!

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Brilliant!
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Nope but a girl had said how she thought her horse was better than mine....very pathetic and schoolground childishness, but when she asked me to do a chase me charlie competition, me and bogpony went in and wooped her. And oh yes was I gloating inside.
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I took my old pony to seniors BSJA and once had a comment from a teenager that she couldn't believe that anyone would take a mule showjumping...
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I won the class and beat her into 2nd by 5 seconds
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people tend to say horrible things about my horses to my kids and never to me, can't think why...
we were at a bsja show at towerlands once and some random person told me off for calling Otto a carthorse!
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When my mare died & I started looking for a new horse every man & his dog had an opinion about what I should buy. None of these 'helpful' people thought a skinny, leggy, ex-racer was that horse so when I turned up on the yard & announced that my new horse had just passed the vetting & showed them the pictures from when I went to try him I got a fair few rude comments. At the time I was quite gutted 'cos I was still v.upset about losing my mare but excited about getting my new boy.
Most of those people still aren't that keen on him but now I don't care. I love him & he's the best buy ever in my opinion! There is one livery who is rarely at the yard but comments on my horses weight every time she is there. It annoys me. I know he's never gonna be fat but he's not wasteing away & he's happy. The worse thing is her horse is seriously underworked & overweight. Some people are so busy calling other peoples horses that they can't see the faults in their own, even when they have genuine problems that need addressing.
I know my horse isn't everybodies cup of tea but I love him & I don't make rude comments about anyone elses so I don't expect it in return.
 
I had a lovely Shire mare...all 18.2 hands of her. I had a few people make snarky comments about riding a work horse. I fox hunted her when it was cold enough...really really cold. She could bail over coops with the best of them.

I had a man grab her feathers one day and yank her foot up. He was on the floor the next second with me yelling at him....nobody hurts my horses.

A friend's father was unloading her new Dutch warmblood from the trailer, and this horrid old woman at the barn, who didn't even know them, quipped, "He sure has an ugly head". Everyone just stood there gobsmacked...amazing.
 
Last year I showed Nelly in-hand and every time I walked past a certain little girl and her mother the little girl would insult Nelly very loudly. She kept telling her mother that Nelly was fat, round, ugly and should be called "Sprout". I had the last laugh when we were placed second. I did briefly wonder whether I should go and stick the rosette in the little girl's mouth though
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I'm from a big livery yard and it can get very bitchy - the various comments I have been told (or heard that someone has said) about are horse are he is ugly, short legged, not build to be a dressage horse, can't jump and has no personality (thankfully not all at the same time!
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Jealously is a sad thing
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Lots of people are rude about my horse, for eg an x rider who was never out of the top 3 whilst competing last year (on my horse) wanted to buy my pretty "average allrounder, with poor confirmation!!" As her justbacked 5yr old was a superstar, needless to say i didnt sell him to her! Loads of people call him fat or looks like a highland i put it down to jealousy - fortunately for me my boy does absolutely nothing wrong and is above average at all disciplines! He is the safe solid horse people on here often look for. What do i do about it, i keep him, keep competing him and keep winning!
 
I was told by a RS client (pickle is on working livery) that pickle has no natural talent jumping. That he moves over fences with absulutely no style. Well look at pictures in my siggy and decide that for yourself!

If you don't ride him, he will take you over the fences (he never stops) but he isn't going to put all his effort into it if someone is being a passenger!
 
"Jealously is a sad thing "

to tell the truth i think this has a lot to do with how people interact with other peoples horses and what they say to their face. we have a uniqe individual who has worked her way around the yard insulting (not in a joke way) every bodies horse. at the moment she is against one person in particular and has been for over a year

sl*gs people of if they get someone to ride their horse (completly forgets she has paid someone for the last 2 years to ride hers) points out how wonderful kept her horse is compared to others (forgets that she has a part time job and we don't have time to strap for 1hr)

have known therwell types to look at which have floored the opposition when competing (personally i think it is more fun to win on one of these than win on a "posh" horse)
 
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Cheers for that - I have a young Highland pony...he is absolutely stunning.....how do you know that was an insult to your pony and not a compliment?
 
If someone made rude comments about my horse I would think it was very bad manners.
However, at the end of the day I keep my horse for me, not for them. I enjoy riding him and can do everything I want to do with him so I really don't care what anyone else thinks.
I do think they should have the manners not to say anything though.
 
Lmao...well, I have a shetland, a coloured hairy cob and an inside out TB x. People haven't been rude to my face as such but I'm sure they often think it.
So what...each to their own
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although there is no excuse for rudeness IMO.
 
When I first got my tb I was pretty much a child and it was my first horse. I was over the moon, but when the pony club DC saw her the only comment was 'so you like a challenge then'. when a young girl has just got a horse you don't just insult it! I had recieved a lot of stick from members of that club but when it's the DC it's something else. I quit the pony club that very day and have sworn that if I have kids they won't go to a club where they allow people to be so rude and spiteful.

I've also had recently a lot of people admitting they insulted the tb behind my back when I first got her. Even the YO encouraged my parents to try and get me to sell her. I've never risen to this though; the horse she's become now speaks for me.

We have a little fell who we showjump. We took her to a local show 2 months after getting her when she'd been jumping well at home. It was the pony's first show in over a year and it turned out to be much busier than we expected. She jumped okish in the warmup but in the ring seemed to get stage fright and just downed tools and wouldn't jump. The woman standing beside me then turned to me and said 'you'd be better selling it and getting her a pony that can jump'. I was so shocked that someone would be so blatently rude all I could stammer was 'The pony can jump' to which she replied 'no it cannot, it's not even the right type' and walked away. I was astounded. My only wish was that I could remember her face clearly (I have a bad memory for faces) so that next time I see her I could drag her to the ring and make her watch as this 'not right type' pony now consistently jumps double clears.
 
Yep but I'm used to it, mainly because he deserves it when he's being a gumpy g*t
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so I dont take it to heart, what did annoy me was recently I heard that he was for actually for sale and that I was even willing to give him away...was news to me, I had someone offering to buy him off me seen as I didnt want him anymore
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Nothing stranger than folk...specially horsey folk
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At a Sunshine Tour weekend the BF of an adversary of mine said that Emily was a man's horse, but that his GF would be able to ride her well...I got placed on all 3 days and he had to eat his words
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A lot of Spanish riders used to laugh at her, until they saw her jump...she was half shire and towered above all the other horses at over 18hh, and had feathers LOL!

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Anyone can say anything they like about my horses, I don't care, they are MY horses not theirs. I have a mare that I quite frequently liken to a Hereford cow because she IS ginger with a white face and blue eyes, and DOES look like said cow!
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The one time I got seriously offended was when someone said "A friend told me she thinks your horse is thin" (for friend, read herself but too cowardly to say it to my face)

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THIN? He was hunting fit, not in flabby show condition like her arabs, just as he was when I bought him from her! I was so furious that her silly comment quite ruined a good days hunting.
 
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