Oh god no: Katie Price show will showcase her "incredible horsemanship" - kill me now

Ooops - The delights of automatically spelling correcrting software, although perhaps Horse wee'd is a more accurate description then horsewear

"Her horseweed range is by and large trashy...all bling and bugger all use, aimed at the pre teenage female market that regard horses as an animated my little pony, to have glitter paint applied to their hooves etc. Only innate good manners would prevent me openly laughing at a rider wearing those fetching gold C3P0 boots"
 
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Yes riding like a lemon on designer horses makes you an amazing horsewoman.

Ha shes a joke, but she is doing some good i guess getting the sport recognised.

Even if she probably has no idea hpw to muck out or tack up and would probably struggle to put a headcollar on.
 
PapaFrita said:
You know Spiral, I was saying "Surely no-..." and then I realised that she's probably right. Not that KP is great, but.. well.. you know... :p
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Baaaad PF
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Actually I think she is a capable novice, but the day I believe she is an 'incredible' horsewoman is the day I hang up my dressage boots
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I know people say she is doing good for the sport because she brings more people's attention to it but personally I think she's doing bad for the sport.

She's basically gone out and said you don't need years training to get to HOYs just a load of cash! I just don't think its right.

This may just be me but for her daughters first pony why did she buy her a 27k show pony? Whats wrong with a hairy little pony?
 
I'm not a huge KP fan but she has had horses since she was a child and had horses before she became famous. Because of her fame and subsequent fortune this has enabled her to buy expensive horses and expensive tutors. I'm sure if money was no object to you, you would also by a well bred, experienced horses and have the best facilities money could buy.

As for the vile clothing and horse products she has brought out...well no i wouldn't buy it but there are plenty of kids and i was one of them (at one time) that loved pink and glitter and would have loved a pink saddle cloth with sparkles. Just because i (when i was a kid) and kids like pink doesn't mean they treat their ponies/horses as toys.
They buy these things because they are popular and marketed towards them. Try to think back to when you were a kid and the "must have" items. I remember when the crops that had hand shapes on the end came out and everyone at my yard had one...We don't all go around looking like we've stepped out of a Joules catalogue.

There are many sports that see an up take in participation when celebrities are on TV...Tennis clubs when Wimbledon is on, Ballroom dancing when Strictly come Dancing is on and I'm sure there will be an extra few riding lessons booked (by girls wearing bright pink jods!!) for a few weeks but i don't see how that is going to be damaging to the industry. It doesn't mean that all these girls are going to get ponies for Christmas!!!

KP is a good rider whether that is due to the horses or trainers or the years she's been riding. I don't think shes incredible or fantastic but they aren't going to call a TV program "some rubbish, orange, messed up, page 3 girl on a wonky donkey" are they.

There is always an off switch on your TV...vote with your remotes!!!
 
Just cos she can ride a horse doesn't mean she has any talent for it!! Look at her singing 'career' !!!!!!! That woman is an absolute disgrace and a despicable role model for our children. What kind of message is she sending to girls?

Having a 'live and let live' attitude towards her is just encouraging apathy. The idea of her being a role model needs to be challenged, because she is doing a great deal of harm to young women!!!
 
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I doubt she has "incredible horsemanship" I'm sure she loves horses, but she hasnt started from the bottom and worked her way up like most of us. We dont ride for a couple of years and then ride at HOYS in a dressage performance, she certinatly didn't do all that in two years because of her Incredible horsemanship!!
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Sorry, but that just makes you sound incredibly jealous fact is she must be a good rider otherwise she wouldn't have been able to ride at HOYS.
 
Brontie said:
Sorry, but that just makes you sound incredibly jealous fact is she must be a good rider otherwise she wouldn't have been able to ride at HOYS.
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Eh, no you don't need to be jealous to think her riding at HOYS was wrong. There are plenty of professional riders or up and coming riders who take their sport seriously that could have done with that kind of experience. I am sick of folk like KP getting special privileges. If she had committed herself 100% to the sport, had given up all her gadding about, and publicity stunts, then I might think otherwise. She seems to think she can throw her money around on expensive horses and trainers, but that does NOT make her a good horsewoman. Is she bringing on and producing horses herself? NO! She gets them pre-trained and has a professional to maintain that training. As shown in one of her programmes, all she does is show-up, horse is already tacked and warmed-up, and off she goes. Then the horse is cooled-off, and untacked by somebody else. Is that setting a good example?

Once again, Living has hit gutter level broadcasting. I will NOT be watching!
 
Charliesmith said:
Yes riding like a lemon on designer horses makes you an amazing horsewoman.

Ha shes a joke, but she is doing some good i guess getting the sport recognised.

Even if she probably has no idea hpw to muck out or tack up and would probably struggle to put a headcollar on.
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I believe she is up there with the rest of us 'all day everyday' horse owners in the mucking-out and tacking-up department. Lack of in-depth and 'no holds barred' reporting on her riding gives us little to base our judgement on the horsemanship. From the snapshots and brief footage it appears she is average. No more, no less. Incredible? Nah, sorry.
 
noblesteed said:
Having a 'live and let live' attitude towards her is just encouraging apathy. The idea of her being a role model needs to be challenged, because she is doing a great deal of harm to young women!!!
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Oh please...an orange bint that has a pink range of clothing isn't going to corrupt all those innocent, pony loving, sweet girls that only think about fluffy bunnies and lollipops!!!

I'm surprised your not running around with your hands in the air screaming "somebody think of the children"!!! :rolleyes:

I'd be more worried about the magazines they read...i picked my friends daughters mag the other day and it was full of skinny (you could see bones!!) models and the best position to satisfy your man in bed. The problem pages were full of "how do i give a good BJ" "Have i got a STD" and "I think I'm pregnant"...I was quite taken back. The songs they listen to are full of swear words and have the videos that go with these songs are full of half naked women draping themselves over a rapper!! These of course aren't the ones that promote being an EMO!!!! KP and her twisted life are the least of parents worries.

There are plenty of horsey role models out there, many of them with clothing ranges you can chose from for both you and your horse. You can be matching in many Mark Todd outfits!!!

I agree it would be nice to see more of them on the TV but there are horsey channels on SKY you can watch and many horse events on normal TV.

As i said earlier, I'm no KP fan and i don't care for her or her lifestyle so I'm not going to watch the program...The TV companies will soon stop making programs with her in if she has a TV show with no ratings. The best thing you can do is not watch...the more fuss and publicity she gets the more you will see of her.
 
I do remember the episode of her programme when she was buyng tack for her sons pony and answered the wonderful question about what size saddle she needed by saying "its only for a little pony so does it matter"

Then there was the all time classic of walking into the area where her stallion was being gelded wearing Flip Flops.

So in all honestly I think we can safely say she does not have great horsemanship skills however Living TV are correct if the show was fronted by Lucinda Green or Pippa Funnel it would in all proability not get as many viewers as KP fronting it.

No doubt if Cheryl Cole rode KP would not get a look in!

They joys of celebrity TV.
 
katelarge said:
Tinkerbee - go back and read what I said - I DON'T WATCH THOSE SHOWS! Can you get your head around that? And all I did was put a post on here. As a professional media journalist, I have access to media news, which I put on here. I also touch type exceptionally quickly, so a "long post" actually takes me no time. Stop making me out to be a hysteric - I'm not. I'm making my opinion heard, and if you don't agree with it, don't take that a license to argue that I (a) have no life and (b) am being hysterical. You know nothing about me. Keep this on-topic please.
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So whats your problem then? :confused: Surely as a professional you would understand that trash sells to the masses?

Maybe you're sane, but there are sooo many anti KP posts on here, with v little basis in the real world...so yours was just the one to push me over the edge. ;)
 
Heehee - if, as Sedgemoor Chaos suggested, they called it "Some rubbish, orange, messed-up, page 3 girl on a wonky donkey", I might just watch it, as at least that would be more honest!! As it is, I shall do what others have suggested, and not watch it!
 
I watched one of her programmes when she went on a buying trip & was in hysterics as as she wanted a black one. Love her or hate her she is very entertaining. Perhaps her new show with liviing isnt meant to be educational?
 
After seeing her ride her horses, she doesn't really RIDE them. all she's doing is what i believe is called 'sitting pretty' on a horse on which somebody else does all the schooling and proper daily care.

plus, there's no way you can tell me she mucks out or rides without gloves with those nails- mine just have to LOOK at a horses withers or a pitchfork to start trying to break!!
 
No she doesnt muck out or lift a finger to do her horses... She has her sons horse and 2 of hers round the corner from me on a purely full livery yard which she frequents rarely.


But anyway
 
KelleWDHC said:
No she doesnt muck out or lift a finger to do her horses... She has her sons horse and 2 of hers round the corner from me on a purely full livery yard which she frequents rarely.
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I'm not surprised in the slightest. I'm sorry, but sitting on a horse, or even riding it, does not a horseman/ woman make. Never mind an 'incredible' one!
 
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No me neither tbh she is a royal pain in the bum round here... have been accosted by paps a few times asking about her whilst im out riding..

Drives me insane all i want is to enjoy riding my horse in peace
 
Good god, she'll do anything to make money, i am not totaly against KP, she has ridden for years so she must be a desent rider. However, i don't think she's got the understanding, or expeirence of horses to do her own horsemanship. And i don't find it fair that she got to HOYS without having to work her way up like everyone else, why must everyone else go round the country, chasing qualifyers and she just flashes cash and she's there. Some of you may say i am jelous, but i can assure you i am not, sure i would love to compete there, but i would like to do so knowing i have erned my place though my determination and hard work, of which KP has non.

What i also don't get, she bought or was going to buy a event horse, but she said she is scared of jumping, so why bother??
 
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Brontie said:
Sorry, but that just makes you sound incredibly jealous fact is she must be a good rider otherwise she wouldn't have been able to ride at HOYS.
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Sorry let me take issue with that...you make it sound as if she qualified for HOYS.

She was invited there as a celebrity for the publicity that it would generate for HOYS, frankly she could have been pulled around the arena on a toy horse with wheels on it!

She did her dressage display....interesting!

I do seem to remember that since then she variously announced that she would be running dressage "Masterclasses" and wanted a spot in team GB for the Olympics...I'm sure that the current team GB have lost sleep at night over that
 
I think she's an incredible horsewoman, I mean, its incredible that her horses put up with her gob, incredible that she can lift a saddle onto a horse with those boobs, incredible that she is not on high pains killers after sitting trot, incredible that she found a tailcoat that fits? but mostly its incredible that any of us care!
 
I'm just sad that "a celebrity equestrian" today = someone who became a celeb as a glamour model, not a rider. A couple of decades ago, the mainstream papers would have loved a story like Steph Croxford and Mr President, loved it. And yet I hadn't heard of her at all until I dropped back into the horse world in the last couple of years.
The only mainstream equine celebs outside of racing are (a) royal or (b) actors and models and TV presenters. Imagine if the only famous footballers were Cheryl Cole and Claudia Winkleman? Arse backwards, all of it...
 
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tinkandlily said:
i am not totaly against KP, she has ridden for years so she must be a desent rider.
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By that logic I should be ready to be signed up for a premier league team on the basis that I kicked a football around the sports hall once a week for ten years!

There is a vast difference between having someone else prepare the horse, bring it on, train it, school it, exercise it, warm it up and just being a passenger on what is in essence a schoolmaster for the benefit of the cameras.

So to me she will always be a mediocre rider at best
 
montyforever said:
Why does everyone feel the need to moan about her? :confused:

Shes just like any other rider on here, just very well off and in the spotlight!
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Exactly^^^^

And why the angry smilie!OP If KP makes you feel angry then you need to think that through. She is just a person who models and makes an bit of a tit of herself. So what. It's not personal to you and many other celebs in the spotlight do the same.
Don't watch it and stop talking about her and i'm sure all will be ok :D
 
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