If someone rode your horse without....

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Id move. Taking your tack home shouldnt be necessary and as someone who's horse was COMPETED in a different set of tack while I was on holiday when he was meant to be having a well deserved break; i can assure you if they are that determined, take doesnt matter

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Blimey! How did THAT happen?????
 
Yep - I'd be going mad, but would keep my cool as having a nice yard is important!!
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i'd go crackers. i won't let anyone ride my horses unless i am there watching.

fwiw, i reckon this happens more than you'd think. i used to be a livery at a yard years ago and the YO would sometimes say to one of the grooms that 'such and such horse looks bored out in the field, go and stick some tack on it and we'll see what it can do..." these were d.i.y. livery horses. very very naughty.
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I'd be furious, UNLESS it was under the full control and supervision of my YO, who has permission to ride her. Even then, I'd want to know why someone else was. On a lighter note, I did once have the same comment - 'I rode your horse, she's lovely' - from someone at the yard (call her S) when I was pretty sure she hadn't. Asked YO who confirmed that S had never been near my horse. As mine is pretty distinctive, we assumed S was a bit gaga! (She left soon after).
 
Hmmm, Im very territorial where Cass is concerned - I wont even have anyone else near her stable
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They have to ask permission to look in her direction or there is trouble. Im not mad really, only on Sundays and Tuesdays
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if any1 rode buster without my permission i would first punch them square in the face then give them a very abousive lecture about how rong they were to do it ...

of corse i would then appoloiges for punching them but warn them that if they ever did it again i would not hesitate to hit them again!
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simple!
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I would go absolutely mental if someone rode Tarquin without my permission but then they'd probably be in hospital by that stage, and as for Murphy I would be even angrier as he's such a good boy he'd probably let them do it. I always asked people if I could borrow their horses, say if a friend had come to visit and we both wanted to ride out as a treat.
Anyone wanting a dark bay 15.2 gelding as a doppleganger for their horse to stop others riding it then pm me!
 
Sounds like there might have been a misunderstanding, as you've said. You're going the right way about it at the moment until you find out the full story.

HOWEVER, if anyone ever rode my horse without my say so, I would be absolutely hopping mad and would make this clear in no uncertain terms to whoever had taken it upon themselves to ride them!!
 
No doubt about it. I would be PISSED! How dare they?! What goes through someone's mind to even contemplate that that is ok?? I'd probably give her a mouthful and punch her in the face. (I'm nice though really!!)
 
Im sorry but that is totally out of order unless your horse was on working livery or some sort of arrangement had been put into place.
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At the end of the day your horse is your property and no one elses.
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Maybe you should go and ride their horse and see how they like it!!!

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I'd be amazed....as even ex Badminton riders refuse to get on my old mare....and my other two aren't broken yet.
I'd probably call an ambulance for them....or attend the inquest....don't think they'd do it twice somehow.
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It wasnt current horsey. I was at a livery yard in my early to mid teens (full livery). I had a darling little spotty horse - was only a baby. Id just started some unaffiliated jumping with him.

Went away on holiday with the VERY strict rules that all the horses were to go out all day (as usual) and come in at night and have the two weeks off. No one there ever rode my horses - ever.

Anyway, came back to be told the head girl had taken him showjumping to "prove he could do it", as apparently id been taking things too slowly with him
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He was only 4 and i was absolutly mortified. They'd used someone else's tack because id taken my home to give it a good clean just before i went away :*(

It was the same yard that didnt lock my mares door properly one evening at feed time. She kicked out (as she always did when eating). They'd put the kick bolt on but not the top bolt and her leg went through the gap and got stuck. She pulled back and completly degloved her hind leg.... Consequently was retired at 8 years old
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SAME yard, SAME head girl told me it was my fault my mare got colic and was ultimately PTS (i was only 13 btw). She'd been left in the field all day, flat out and clearly unwell. Someone called my mid afternoon to tell me she'd been like that about 4 hours. I went straight down.. horse still in the field. Brought her in... vet came 3 times before deciding to refer and the YO refused to take her to horspital because it was late. I got a fellow livery to drive over and take her but it was too late to operate and she was PTS. Head girl blamed me and it completly destroyed me and i spent the following god knows how many years believing id killed my horse.

And before anyone says i should have moved. I wasnt very old, parents paid for the horses and it was the only full livery yard for miles.. they wouldnt let me do DIY as i was at school. It's still going too! Im really picky over where i livery now :*(
 
That's totally outragious! Who is this person, they shouldn't be allowed to run a yard! I feel so sorry for you having her PTS when she may have been saved.................how sad!

And no-one should be able to help themselves to a horse....goodness I hope you are not still there............
 
Some of these stories are awful, the cheek of some people!
I would also be fuming and would probably fly off the handle, although I agree with those who said that probably isn't the best way! Actually if anyone even SAT on my horse (stood still) at the moment I would TOTALLY flip as she's on rest from her injury and I am having to forcibly restrain myself to stop me sitting on her!
I work at a full livery yard and even there we have to pretty much earn our right to exercise some of the liveries (those who are paying to be exercised). I started off at the bottom of the pile with my boss's ponies, worked my way up and am now allowed to ride some fantastic horses. Most of the owners know who I am and know that I am a fairly competent rider and have regular lessons with my boss, and so they can rely on the fact that my boss won't allow me on a horse that isn't suitable. One livery offered me their horse to sit on the other week and I refused as, much as I like the horse and would love a sit, I've not yet been "cleared" to ride him.
I just can't understand how some people think they have a right to ride any horse, when other people have principles like we do at the yard where I work! I do hope it was just a misunderstanding, but even so I would still be pretty mad if a friend let their friend ride my horse without my permission!
 
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Firstly, well done on how you handled this, I can see few people would remain so calm. Someone rode our horse while he was on livery and lamed him in two legs!!! We don't actually know which livery did it, we were just told 'a girl'.
Anyhow, we soon took our horse back home.
 
Not sure if that was aimed at me or not but...

No im not still there. I went DIY as soon as i was old enough to do so and have since emigrated with my one boy.

The person in question still runs a yard... she still has the same head girl (incidently, the head girl was up on GBH charges a few years back after ATTACKING a livery on the yard). They still offer full livery, schooling livery and all that jazz in the Yorkshire area. Wouldnt dare mention the name mind.
 
They'd have to catch mine first
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I would do what you have, had a word with person find out the circumstances and then mke sure NO-ONE was in doubt of how displeased I was and how I would react if same thing happened again!!!
 
By Full Livery, do you mean real Full Livery? As in your horse is exercised for you as part of the service?
 
My mum has a few randoms who ride Badger, and it does us both a favour and helps keeps Badger fit so I can't say I'm too bothered.

I'm a bit funny about people jumping/schooling him though, my mate once jumped him over some fairly decent XC fences and I wasn't impressed. I didn't sat anything though.
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I have to say, I'm the same BB. There are a few people who board their horses here and they sometimes take out some of my horses if they want to ride together with other members of their family. They know which ones they are allowed to ride and they wouldn't ever take any of my personal horses, however I am the yard owner here so wouldn't expect them to.

The reason I ask if her horse is on proper Full Livery is that if I had a horse on full livery then of course I would be used to other people riding it without my express consent as the riding would be part of the service.
 
My horse (3yo Arab stally) is on full livery - with exercise/schooling included, although he is actually not yet backed (just starting this week).

But I totally trust the YO/stud manager to allow only the best and most highly qualified of her staff to ride my boy.

Having said that, the only people who are clamouring to ride him are experienced professionals - most ordinary riders take one look at him hooning around at 100mph, leaping and bucking, and say "rather you than me, mate"!!!

If anyone were ever foolhardy enough to 'borrow' him without my permission, I would be very angry indeed - and I admire the OP for keeping a cool head. But this simply wouldn't happen at the yard where he lives - no-one would ever dream of riding a horse without the YO's permission, and she is even more over-protective of Tobago than I am!
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permission, what would you do?

Am absolutely spitting - someone thought they could just do that, then waltz up to me a week later and say, ''your horse was lovely when I rode her last week."

bloody hell, flipping full livery
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She's got her own horse anyways!!!!!!!

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I am surprised you kept your cool with her!!Lights knocked out spring to mind(after finding out who said she could obviously
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,still good wallop anyway,lol),seriously i would have HIT the wall HUGE time!!!!
 
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