Supertrooper
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Does anyone know what's happened, it says on her twitter site that she's had to give up her share of him?
On Laura's Facebook page it says this: "When are riders going to realise its not ok to ask someone else's owners to buy them horses..... Go and find your own owners and stop trying to steal other peoples!"
On Laura's Facebook page it says this: "When are riders going to realise its not ok to ask someone else's owners to buy them horses..... Go and find your own owners and stop trying to steal other peoples!"
On Laura's Facebook page it says this: "When are riders going to realise its not ok to ask someone else's owners to buy them horses..... Go and find your own owners and stop trying to steal other peoples!"
What a strange thing to say. Owners don't 'belong' to riders - if anything, it's the other way round. He who pays the piper calls the tune!
I think the words kettle and black spring to mind!!!On Laura's Facebook page it says this: "When are riders going to realise its not ok to ask someone else's owners to buy them horses..... Go and find your own owners and stop trying to steal other peoples!"
I think the words kettle and black spring to mind!!!
When are riders going to stop treating owners like mushrooms!!! (if you need an explanation PM )
Quite. A very unprofessional thing to be doing LC
I think the words kettle and black spring to mind!!!
When are riders going to stop treating owners like mushrooms!!! (if you need an explanation PM )
I'd never really followed Laura until she took on Kauto, but since then I've followed her career quite closely and was horrified by her accident. I have to say however she does need now to grow up, stop constantly putting up tweets about wine, hang-overs and some questionable photographs and start behaving like a professional rider running a business. She has hardly mentioned Kauto recently (although I know ATR has produced a lovely film about him) and she needs to remember that taking him on rocketed her profile. The sudden move from Membury was odd, and she needs to pull herself together for the future. This year has been absolutely horrid for her, and she's lucky to be alive (which may account for some of the wilder things she appears to get up to). I'm very sorry she's lost the ride on NB but with the move from Membury it was probably inevitable.
Sorry but many many of the comments about drink and hangovers were made while AT events!Woah! Stop tweeting about wine & hangovers?.....the girl is a young event rider not a bloody nun!! She is having a bit of fun. It doesnt seem to have effected her results this year.
Whilst I don't agree with the FB comments & a couple of comments made grumbling about the NHS after her accident (grrrrrr), on the whole I think her Twitter feed is interesting & she comes across as a hardworking rider!
It may have also escaped your attention but it is out of season & in the run up to Christmas.....eventers are allowed down time too! [sheeeeeeeeesh]
Woah! Stop tweeting about wine & hangovers?.....the girl is a young event rider not a bloody nun!! She is having a bit of fun. It doesnt seem to have effected her results this year.
Whilst I don't agree with the FB comments & a couple of comments made grumbling about the NHS after her accident (grrrrrr), on the whole I think her Twitter feed is interesting & she comes across as a hardworking rider!
It may have also escaped your attention but it is out of season & in the run up to Christmas.....eventers are allowed down time too! [sheeeeeeeeesh]
I don't think the poster said she shouldn't have a good time, more questioned the professionalism of discussing it publicly in a business where, effectively, the readers are paying the bills. Social media for people with a public profile is all about image control and we have to assume, in this day and age, that people know what they're putting out there.
Knowing someone is 'fun' might not bother you as an owner willing to donate 5 figures to the cause, it might even attract you. But it will put other people - some of them the professional sorts that have extra money for event horses - off. Fair enough. But being a professional is not just about riding horses.
Speaking as a small scale "owner" - TS as always you speak a lot of sense. I have observed and experienced wildly differing standards of so -called professionalism and, FWIW, I am not sure youth is a defining driver - in my (limited) experience the youngest rider was also the most professional!
Unless I'm going blind, there are no comments on Laura's facebook page at all about owners and riders. The last post on that page by the page owner (Laura Collett Eventing) was this "Having had my worst year I'm chuffed to be 39th in the British Eventing Rider rankings... Fingers crossed 2014 will be more successful!" made on the 1 November, and the one before that was made 29 October simply about Noble Bestman having his cast off and stitches out.
LC has a page of her own as well. All she really needs to do is change her privacy settings and/or not discuss business on it.
I really don't think owners care what people do in their spare time, any more than any other employer/business partner. But they ARE employers/partners and so public, uncomplimentary comments are going to raise eyebrows.