Know it alls - we all know one

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Well, actually we probably know several. Now is it just 'horsey' people or is it people in general? There is a particular woman locally who is a real pain in the a***. If you say the sky is bue she will say "actually it's azure", you know the type. Today she passed by and asked how Fly was. Now Fly has been on restricted exercise due to a tendon sheath inflamation which is actually a form or bursitis. This woman instantly looked at him and said, "thats a windgall". No, I replied it isn't OH GOD, WHY WHY WHY do I have to endure it! She then proceeded to tell me that it was nothing to worry about and that the vets had obviously got it wrong. I tend to steer clear of such types and do not comment but boy was I tempted tonight. How do you handle them?
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Blimey, she sounds a bit extreme for a know-it-all. My resident know-it-all (KIA) feeds her fat cobs (and the one she looks after) sugar beet because they are "thin". She insists that because she has the low-sugar variety, it won't affect them apart from keeping the condition on... she won't accept that one of the cobs goes loopy on beet and is much easier to ride without being fed it. She also won't accept that Rugby pelhams should not be used with roundings and without an extra sliphead - her poor pony doesn't need a pelham anyway but I refuse to ride it because whenever you pull on the reins it whacks him in the gob with the curb. She also won't accept that the pony she looks after does not like the Cambridge mouth kimblewick she chose for it (I ride it in a Myler short shank with two reins when I can nick a second pair, which she LOVES and owner is happy to let me do this, but KIA hates it...)
Oh, she also will not refrain from feeding her horses cabbages, despite me pointing out their toxicity (if I EVER catch her feeding my horse cabbage I will LYNCH her
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Everything I say is wrong, despite the fact that I have twice the number of years of experience she does and an equine degree to boot - because I am half her age. FFS some horsey people just will not listen!!
I reckon it's probably in their nature, it's the natural horseyness that brings it out in them (because we all know us horsey types are a bit opinionated and odd at times!
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Haha; to me it's not so much that but people that think they would be doing a far better job of riding your horse that you are, people that walk past the school for instance, when i've just got on, and say, he needs to be rounder. I'm like, i've been on the poor little man 10 secs, he is fine as he is thank you! And people that are misguided but you can't put them right ebcause then you are considered to be a bitch, like someone who told me that my old horse hated competing, and I was like, he clearly doesn't, he's a competition horse! They were like, why don't you try gymkhana, I was like, it's a 15.2hh tbx, and i'll die! I think it's because, like children in a way, horses are an extension of ourselves and so people take criticism very personally, and yet are often ready to offer someone else "help" on the basis that what they are doing with their horse must be right and, therefore, everyone else must be rong, forgetting that horses are individuals.
 
Its always the ones that know the least that think they know the most.
I reckon that the more you learn the more you realise you don't know.
 
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Its always the ones that know the least that think they know the most.
I reckon that the more you learn the more you realise you don't know.

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couldn't of put it better myself! x
 
My local horsey know it all beats all of these. A very poor rider , no equine qualifications and little knowledge, but she claim to be training horses for the olympics!
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i can ignore the KIA's but its the 'all the gear no idea' lot that really drive me mad, wearing a joules top and hunters to the yard does not make you a rider !!

you get it in the dog world as well, and the showing scene there is even worse than in horses,
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i've been on the poor little man 10 secs, he is fine as he is thank you!

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Just say what you think, go on try it, it's very liberating!

I had this on a previous yard where the one livery was very chummy with the YO but really knew very little. Followed me all over the yard one night putting their twopenoth in over how to get condition on my 'senior' horse when I said I was going back to a well known brand of feed.

Then came the final question....

"Why don't you just feed him oil?" (as if i haven't tried it in the 20 or so years I've had a horse) my reply......

"Cos I don't bloody well want to, that's why!"

Nuff said, didn't bother me again!
 
If they can afford all the posh gear then they probably don't have any horses of their own. Horses are like your kids, they keep you poor and you go without for them to have.
 
Theres one at my yard and she's one of the reasons I'm handing my notice in! She's got the most gorgeous horse with loads of potential that she doesn't do anything with because she's apparantly lost her confidence, her idea of bonding with a horse is to bribe it to behave by feeding loads of treats and then hitting it when it does the slightest thing wrong. She's lazy and ignorant - and naturally always tells me what to do with my horse!
 
I have to disagree with you - these aren't 'knoiw it alls' - they are just rude.
I've walked past endless riders in endless schools, and would never dream of commenting on the rider, soundness or anything else...unless I'm specifically asked.
I don't see it as my business, nor do I want to get involved. If horses are your living, you don't normally want to do anything out of hours for free except with your own.
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Nor would I expect people to comment on me or mine, unless I invite comment.
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I knew one who advertised herself as taking horses to back and school despite not being able to get on her own horse without at least three helpers to lead it/hold her on as it was "pretty wild and challenging ride" her words, in reality it was a fat lazy cob whos most impressive maneuver was to grind to halt and doze in the middle of her "schooling session".
 
My friends OH was one of those, needless to say shes not a friend anymore, its sad we had been mates for years, but i couldnt stand him!! At the time we had two horses a 14hh cob mare and a 5yr old Appy x. She being an experienced rider was alowed to ride both horses, her OH being a complete and utter novice, as in never ridden was only allowed to ride my steady but wilfull cob. My hubby gave him lessons and soon they were hacking out and having fun. Then after a few weeks this bloke started wanting to ride something with more go, our other horse! We said no but went to the yard one day to find they had taken out both horses so we went off to find them. We found them, he was on our young horse leaning back and pulling on the reins for all he was worth and saying how bad mannered the horse was! if he had given the proper aids Jimmy would have stopped!! He though because the horse was ridden in a hackamore it diddnt matter how much he pulled on the riens as he wasnt pulling the moth!! Needless to say they didnt get to ride either horse again unless we were there.
 
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There's a guy at our yard that's just like that, and the thing is he knows nothing, but still insists on going round giving people advice!

[/ QUOTE ] we've got one at our yard the same and they have no horse sense at all.
 
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