Similar to below; whats the worst thing someone has said about your horse?

bronchobarb2 said:
Many years ago one of the girls I satbles with brought her partner up. She was explaining to him whos horses were whos. She got to mine and said that black and white one over there belongs to me (had to keep it simple). He responded by saying 'what the one that looks like a cow?' I know it was because of the obvious colour association, but couldn't help being secretly outraged!!
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This has been said about my coloured boy in my pic. We were hacking back home and past the chap who keeps his horse over the road from us, we got chatting and he said 'see your riding the cow today' i nearly got off and smacked him in the mouth!!
I was so mad how dare anybody call my boy a cow! I was going to mention that i was offered £15k for him just a few days before but i just walked on smiling. Jealousy is a terrible thing......
 
I was on a yard full of warmbloods and kept my box after my Hanoverian X was PTS. I then bought my cob and another livery went past and said 'Chav pony'. I'd bought him that day so wasn't thrilled at that.

The vet came to do his jabs soon after I got him and said 'Oh yes, ***** pony'. I was appalled (should that be 'uphauled'?!). He's since come warmed to him and gives him cuddles every time he sees him.
 
Well a so called friend said to me,I would only give you £450.00 for your coloured,(I was fuming),shed asked how much I payed for him,unbroken 3 year old. Then she was yapping on how they went to england to buy the section D and that her own horse was this and that.She doesnt believe me that coloured are expensive.She said she can get one doing everything for 2500.I told her I will never sell him anyway.Where does she get off saying that about my gypsy cob.The cheeky mare.She said she wouldnt pay more than £50.00 for a registered section A.Neither would be for sale EVER.She couldnt accept why I keep the little one as a pet and dont ride my big one much.Hey its a free country and what I do is upto me.
I have NOT spoken too her since.Hmmmmm wonder how she would feel if I said her
horses were UGLY (got the roman head along with other things).lol Im tamping still and dont want to be friends with her.
My horse is now 8 and been proffessionally broken in last year..According to her,because my horse doesnt like traffic,hes not broken in lol lol U ever heard such rubbish.
Shes a cheeky mare and I am done being her friend,she thinks shes right.
 
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my nan calls my youngster a circus horse just cos he's spotty.. grrr he's my dressage horse! and whenever i tell people i am going to do dressage with him they laugh and say he'll never be good at it. hmph im gonna prove them all wrong!!
Here a pic does he look like hes rubbish at dressage/ circus horse?
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people used to always say horrible comments about my tb :(
 
My very first dressage test, the judge wrote that neither horse nor rider should ever attempt dressage again! She gave me 38%. I was very upset but carried on with dressage, scoring generally in the 60% mark. A few years later I had the same judge, who put some nasty comment about us again and gave me 42%. On the same day in a different class we were marked much higher and was given some really good contructive critisism. I did complain to the show organiser who was very angry at the comments this judge had made to me, and never used her again for his shows. I also complained to the British Dressage.
She obviously didnt like my horse/me, and I will never forget her comments.
 
A 'friend' of mine tells me she thinks my horse is rude. Her own kicks the door constantly, bites, kicks and trampled her the other day, yet mine is the rude one with no respect for other peoples space?
 
Years ago when I was on a livery yard, the yard 'expert' told me not to breed from my mare as she 'was just not good enough'.

Luckily I ignored her and bred a national champion - which I was very pleased to rub in her knowitall face four years later - ohhhhhh it felt soooo good to do that :D
 
He will be very strong to stop
He will just be alright for hacking
You are not a good match,it will never work
Hes not worth bothering with...........
 
I was already having a bad day and then the farrier turned round and said, 'fair play, you don't half have your work cut out'. Almost cried!

And from the rest of the livery ladies;
'I'd never have a horse that I couldn't catch' ..blah blah..

We're showing them now anyway as he's alot more settled and almost runs to me now when in the field..I do usually have a bucket with me mind!
 
Just remembered another! A vet from another practice came out to vet a friends horse, mine was in (very hot day in mid summer) and popped his head over the door, vet asked about him and as soon as we mentioned he was a crossbreed he said he didnt like crossbreed ponies and he would happily put him down for us... needless to say we didnt take him up on the offer!! And we have heard from many people that he is a rather trigger happy vet :S
 
God Swift he'd hate my two then!

I bought my ****** cob from a dealer, he looked very hairy and scrawny:
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because the dealer was 20 minute walk from my yard at the time I walked him home, almost immediately another livery turned round and said "what is that?!

now he looks like this:
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Apart from that the only names they get called are by me!
 
Nothing specific but had someone basically regularly slag off one of my horses that could be a bit err, temperamental - though was also extremely talented and capable, and I coped fine. Questions were always phrased nicely but at the slightest incling of horse so much as twitched for some reason, this woman felt the need to go on about how I ought to just get rid... :/ Then again, same woman also slapped Dan when I first had him, given that he was only 4 and just coming out of his shell, getting to be quite friendly. He came to the gate to say hi while my mum was talking to her, and she slapped him! Apparently he was 'going to bite her' errr.... my mother begs to differ, and she was stood facing the pair of them.
Needless to say, she doesn't come near my horses now!

My mum did used to regularly comment though that Dan looked drunk... :p
 
Sorcerers Apprentice said:
im feeling bad i was miffed about someone saying my horse had big ears now...i thought she was rude but there are some shocking rude people out there!
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Big ears are wonderful. They always make the horse look really kind and genuine. My new one has lovely big ears with pretty little tufts (incidentally I was told that the tufts would have to be clipped out and that her tail needed at least a foot off. I have no intention of showing her.....tried to explain to the person that actually a long tail looks wonderful in the dressage arena, but as she's part of the "head tied in and not moving forward brigade" it fell on deaf ears)
 
1 ex called him "monkey man" and hated him. Charlie also hated her. 1 of them had to go. She did!

After that, I now have him vet all trainee girlfriends as I realise that he has better taste in women than I do...
 
After my horse died that she was just a typical stupid mare and that its was bound to happen soon as she had an accident in her stable before christmas and it wasnt like she was going to make it for much longer anyway :mad:
 
vicky86 said:
when i first got zak I was told he looked like a wild cow, horrible small nasty eyes that look like they were watching you where ever you went. He also got called a mannerless thug, an elephant and talentless and that I should definately sell him as he would always be too much horse for me and wouldnt be worth the effort. Tbf when I look back I can see why people said it (definately not the best looking horse) we did eventually make them eat there words though :-)

Wild cow Zak
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Zak now
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Wow! You can be very proud!
 
i got told to shoot my horse as it reared on me after being on box rest for 6 months.

i expected much worse. and tbh i would have loved to shoot the woman who said it.
 
Nothing quite as bad as everyone else, but someone i know always refers to one of mine as, "that cob of yours" he is NOT a cob ffs, he is a 17.2 shire. See sig below.
FWIW, she knows he's a shire, i think she just likes to winde me up.
 
enfys said:
People can be so rude, wonder how they would react if you dared to denigrate their precious little nags though.:rolleyes:

I suppose the 'looks like a cow' description for a coloured is fair really, I had a black and white pony that used to escape all the time into a field full of steers, took ages to spot him in with the herd. I often describe my Paint as looking like a Hereford cow with her big white face and blue eyes.:) The worst anyone can do then is agree with me:D
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My coloured cob does actually look like a cow at times.

Have to say though your Paint is a real beauty! :)
 
A livery called one of mine Pedigree Chum all the time, in fact never even referred to him by his name. To me he is stunning (black beauty including star) although he is pigeon toed and has a huge splint. (If he didnt he would have been well out of my price range).

Very very well bred, with big powerful elevated paces. He is the sweetest horse you would ever want to meet I did find it rude and upsetting.
 
Thank you roo2012 and kirstyl he is my superstar :-) I have just thought of another comment not about my horse but a friends appaloosa who was marked quite unusally (white with sort of dun coloured spots on him). Anyway a lady who was new to the yard and didnt know who owned what horse saw him started laughing and said well that horse looks like he has been following the muck trailer for a couple of miles, it just so happened it was the owner who she was insulting him too - it didnt go down well and there was much grovelling and apologising.
 
My ex and his mates called my last chap a walking glue pot. The boyfriend made me pick between him and my horse in the end - told him I would stick to my glue pot thanks very much!!
 
A friend and I bought an ex-racer to retrain, we were told by the resident 'yard expert' that said horse would never be anything 'decent' because of the way she was put together (she actually has quite nice conformation) and temperament (she was a 4 yr old fresh off the track)

Long story short she has competed Foxhunter and Medium level dressage and has the sweetest temperament you could wish for, she is now teaching her new owner who bought her as a 1st horse, all the tricks of the trade :)
 
When i got my cob ( didnt look much of a cob admittedly and was a skinny hairy thing) but i and one or two other people on the yard could see through that and that she could be nice. Most people said well shes really pretty but she not the show cob you wanted, just a plod along hacker (at this point they had never seen her out of the stable so how on earth should they know if shes a plod lmao!) after 8 months of schooling nearly every day and a lot of lessons and a good clipper session, she is most definitely a show cob. :)

about my other horse (my 1st pony whos now retired) there was a 12 year old with a pony that wasnt exactly well looked after as she didnt know anything about horses nor did her family and her mum (a non horsey person with more money than sence) told me that my horse was a 'bit ribby' and i need to feed him more and i shouldnt hack him out every day as it is winter and its too cold. first of all hes a haflinger and it would take a hell of a lot of underfeeding to get one of those a bit ribby and i was outraged at the time as he was in lovely condition on alfa a and pasture mix and as much hay as he wanted. also he didnt go well with winter and even though he went in the field was always a bit crazy to ride ad to keep him safe and reasonably sensible he needed riding often.
 
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