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Sambo

Sambo

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So yesterday, I brought my pony in from the field - he was having a lesson with his instructor, and I was running late - so I quickly brushed him in tack areas and tacked up. Naughty, I know - but I didn't check his feet...

He did his lesson, he went really well - when I had un-tacked, put on sweat rug - I checked his feet only to find he'll lost a shoe! So I wasn't sure if he'd lost in the field and it had been sucked off by the mud, or if he'd lost it in the school. So I turned back on the floodlights and went in and walked the school to check it - I found no shoe - so I assumed he had lost it in the field or in the mud on the way to the field.

Then tonight I get to the yard to find a livery shouting at me because she found it in the school and I am very irresponsible for not telling everyone he'd lost a shoe so they could keep their eyes out for it!

(Not sure how I missed it, but either I missed it, or the dogs found it and dropped it in there....)

I have never done this, nor has anyone ever told me their horse has lost a shoe! If you find them you just pick them up!!!

But she said that she was livid and I should have left a note to say he has lost it.

Obviously if I'd have seen it I would have picked it up - if nothing else then so the farrier doesnt need to use a new shoe!

Am I in the wrong here?
 
no not at all. i never know i someone loses a shoe, if they find it they can just stick it on the fence or something, no harm done.
 
Honestly... yeh you were in the wrong.. if a show gets lost in a school and hasnt been foudn then it would only be fair for that horses owner/rider to leave a little note saying you beleive the horse has lost a shoe in the school and can everyone keep an eye out..

Loosing one in the field is diffrent, in a school it is a place were hard fast work takes place and the damage would be alot worse.

Lou x
 
how dramatic! no its not your fault, tell her to get a grip. christ, if i had to tell my yard owner when my tb had lost a shoe (when he was shod) she would be fed up of me! i would me a millionaire if i was given a pound for everytime he had lost a shoe!
 
I can see why the owner was angry as her horse could have stood on it in the school and ended up with a nail in its frog! I would be pretty angry too tbh. It isn't your fault for not realising it was in the school, but you should have really picked his feet out before he was ridden anyway tbh, the you would have realised he had lost it when being ridden.

God I think I might be turning into a moaning old woman at the grand old age of 20! :eek: :rolleyes:
 
I agree with Nailed. I suppose you've got a slight excuse that you hadn't realised it was lost in the school, but to be honest I'd be ashamed to admit that.
 
It was unlucky, but yes you were in the wrong.

Imagine if your horse had trodden on a nail in the school because someone had lost a shoe in there and left it...

I can't believe that you or your instructor didn't notice. Highly unlikey that the dogs carried it to the school.

That said, I'd have just said, not ranted at you!
 
No you are not in the wrong at all. its the same everywhere, find a shoe put it in fence simple, the fact she found it means she saw so wouldn't ride over it! she needs to get a grip!!
 
Ummmm wow, did she have a bad day? Well I see what she means but I don't think you're in the wrong at all. We all know how impossible it is to find shoes that have been lost and leaving a note would be a bit odd....

I don't know, it sounds like she had a really rough day to me or is she normally this unreasonable?
 
I completely understand i should have checked his feet before I went in there - I am in the wrong there, and have learnt my lesson!

But neither me or my instructor realised - my instructor rides him in the lesson, not me - and he carried on as normal, didn't even notice - and I didn't notice while watching either...

I completely understand how she would have felt if it had of peirced her ponies hoof/frog - but at the end of the day it wasn't done intentionally - so to leave a snotty note and have a go i don't think wasn't necessary.. it could well have been me or my pony who next stood on it too!!!!

As he is not bothered by the loss of his shoe he will be trialing barefoot - so at least we'll not have this problem anymore!!!!!!!!

I just can't believe some people... have they really nothing better to moan at?

Today I wanted to tell her how irresponsible she was for leaving dog poo in the school and for not picking up her whip off the school floor..

Good news though, I am moving in 3 weeks!!
 
i suppose it probably would have been a good idea to leave a note but not reason for someone to get angry about! i guess if a horse had've gotten hurt them i can see why they would angry..
 
I don't think you were in the wrong.

If you couldn't see it when you went to look for it....then you must have missed it! And you didn't do it on purpose!! xoxo
 
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