Show Mums, Out-of-Order Yard Owners and Bratty Kids...

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Hey, so im relating to the issue of Horse Magazine in the article about the worst you have come across in the horse world?

Another point-less post but have you come across any of the above if so tell me?!

Bratty Kids- Often the case up at the yard, we came across one on a hack, she was on lead and as we came into the forest she said to one of my fellow yardies, "Im a good rider I know how to control my horse!" and demanded they she was let of lead. My friend replied, "I thought I was a good rider until I came cantering through this forest on lee and he ONLY just stopped at the gate!" She soon shut up(!)
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Show Mums- The type of woman you at Pony Club Events, and when their daughter comes back with a 3rd Place Rosette, she says those savoury words, "Get in that bloody car, what was the point of coming all this way when you just bloody well made your horse run out of the bloody fence, get of that mule now!" And a few other choice swearwords!!!

Yard Owners- The type of woman who over charges you for the first few months then realises your in it for the long haul and gives up trying to make you move, because your horse isnt the best in the show ring!!!

Please make me laugh with your past expiriences?
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bratty kids - we run adopt a pony days for the kiddies during the holidays and we at the end of the day we have a small gymkana thing. we had one girl on the team i was in charge of (they were using a pony called muffin) she owns a lead rein pony who just trots very fast and cant do anything else. she then proceeds to say that muffin is useless and cant do anything and that she is really slow etc etc. i started to get very irritated and told her se was wrong. after the kiddies had finished they persuaded all of us to race lol and surprise surprise me and muffin won so...... yeah my story lol
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LOL I think people will of heard that many that their just trying to remember the best ones!

As my dad always says.....''Nothing stranger than horse folk''!
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Show Mums: At the RC area SJ, I was in the junior team with my fairly young horse and this mother was INTEROGATING me about whether I would jump clear. She had me give my horses' entire jump history and what she was like over each individual fence. I felt a bit guilty having one down!

Yard Owners : All horses need to be brought in by 7. No 4pm. No 7pm. I'm sorry your horse wasn't in by 3 so I brought it in for you. Heres the bill
 
The yard i was on before i came up to uni was full of bratty kids and their mums. IT did my head in but the livery was of a good standard and quite cheap so couldnt really complain.

There was this one mum who thought her kid was the best rider ever and could do no wrong. The kid was not really that great but had a nice little push button show pony to pootle about and win rosettes on. At shows the mum would often shout at the child for not getting places high enough or if the pony kocked a fence down or refused a fence.
A new livery came onto the yard one week a kid with a VERY fiesty Welsh C. The first kid and this one soon became friends and so did the mums, the welsh c was playing up one day when i riding, so the pushy mum got her kid to get up on it (the pony was rearing and bucking like bad i would have hard pushed to stay on) and the kid rode round ok for while in walk then asked for the next gear and the pony exploded chucking the kid off. Mum comes in not worried about the kid but shouting and swearing that shouldnt have come off and if she didnt get back on she would sell her pony. Kid didnt get back on and so the mum marched her off. Next thing i know viewings are happening and the pony is sold couldnt believe my eyes! The kid didnt get back on because she had fractured her arm! and her mum didnt even seem to care, just cared that she had been shown up!
 
show mums: we used 2 have 1 at our yard that you could of heard 3 counties away!! she used 2 stand at the edge of the school SCREAMING orders at her kids!! + always expected nothing less than 1st place when they went 2 shows!! really awful woman!!

+ as 4 brats!! dont get me started our yard is full of them at the mo! 1 of them insists on jumping her pony everytime she sets foot in the school but then apparently poor little princess isnt strong enough 2 put the jumps away after herself!! i wonder how they get there in the 1st place?! do jump fairies put them there?
 
YO: my current YO is by far the worst, but I can't list every reason. The latest is thus: farrier due to come next week, changes his mind and called YO (as he does several horses at same time) last week to inform her. She did not inform us, and got to farrier day and we didn't know so didn't go over in the morning like we would for the farrier if we did know (they don't need to be stood with as our farrier does them by himself most of the time anyway), so she then charges us £5 per horse for doing what? Supposedly standing for the farrier! She never actual stands for the farrier for any horse, and I have watched her! My farrier gets them out, does their feet and puts them away... She purposely did not tell us. She has done similar with rugs, bringing in/out of her own accord, without anything put on rota by us. She then charges US! She does it on weeks where she's got a particularly low extras bill for us for one reason or another!
 
brat child- every show I go to people say what a fantastic rider I am, but cant manage to groom or tack up own pony.
shouts to mother-get me hat, whip,drink, sandwich,NOW! mother like lamb to slaughter does as told.
 
Mum and child at same show - child is careering around the SJing, booting pony with spurs and hitting it with whip, misses show jump, nearly breaks pony's jaw pulling it round to try and again- pony (who looks quite sweet) turns, child boots it again but completely misses jump again. At this point, he takes his whip to it (he was about 7) and starts thrashing it. As steward goes over to speak to him, pony has had enough and bucks, child goes flying. Child then stands up, throws his whip at the pony and screams at the top of his voice "you bloody f***ing little horse". Mum, who was standing next to us then calls out "Don't cry darling, we'll buy you a new one." Words completely failed me.
 
I always remember being at Lincoln County Show a few years ago (about 4) and I was getting one of our scurry pairs ready. I popped round to the back of the lorry and could hear a mum talking to her daughter - who was about 5. They had just come back out the ring and had a second place rosette. Ponio (beautiful little grey welshy) was stood untied next to the child with its head down and an expression of, "here we go again." The dialogue went like this:

M: It's alright darling, you did well.

C: No I didn't, I wanted to win. (Turns to pony) I hate my f*****g pony, I want you to sell it, I hate it, I f*****g hate it.

M: We'll go home and I'm sure you'll feel differently tomorrow.

C: No I won't, I want you to sell it, I f*****g hate it.

I don't think I have ever been quite so taken aback before in my life!!
 
Yep, seen and heard plenty of examples. One of the best "mothers" was in the collecting ring at a local riding club show. The large pony was rearing vertical, and I mean vertical, and the poor kid of about 8 on top was screaming in fright. The collecting ring was very busy and it was pure luck that the pony didn't come down on top of someone else. The mother was berating the poor child for "being silly" so I went over and told her that she was an accident waiting to happen and if she was so brave, she should get on the damn thing. It turned out the pony had only just been broken a couple of weeks before. I've also seen plenty of little darlings whipping and spurring hell out of their ponies, simple temper tantrums. I know we all lose it occasionally, but we generally feel bad afterwards whereas these brats don't - they just demand another pony. Contrast this too the hairy and decidedly ugly pony I saw at another club show - it started raining and the two young girls with it took their own coats off and covered their pony up. That pony meant the world to them.
 
We used to have a kid in lessons years ago who's mother always sould shout instructions at her - over the instructor! Until one day the instructor invited her into the ring, then walked off telling her if she was so good she could bloody teach the lesson
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That shut her up. BUt she was told to keep quiet or her child would be removed from lessons. Next thing we know, no more kid or pushy mother. T Hey went and bought her a pony! Not just any pony, but one that was a lot more capable than the poor girl, and the mother then preceded to push her into all sorts of events.
 
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