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

I feel a bit bad now, I've thought and often said alot of the things on this thread to people, mainly cos it was true. Piebalds sometimes do look like cows, some horses are underweight, I have told someone they should put their horse with lami down, some horses have big ears. Each time it has been based on fact, very few people have perfect horses my own included in that.

I've been told so many nasty things about my horses but it's really water off a ducks back, who cares what most people think. Surely it's only your trainer/people you respect opinions that count?

I was told my Highland pony would never show, ofcourse he wouldn't show, he was a stunted little 13.1 pony with no forelock and a long back. What did that matter, he was a first pony and the most fun a child could ever want.

I was told my WB was too talented and too big for me on a regular basis. Well yes that's true on both counts but most people's WB are far too talented for them, I didn't see him breaking his heart that he wasn't doing grade A, he was a lazy git and quite happy with her underachieveing mother. As for being too big, at 17.3hh he was too big for most people :)

I haven't received too many nasty comments about the current horse other than the odd 'Is there something wrong with her?' 'No.' 'Then why is she so thin' which was a fair point as she looked rather undercondition standing next to the show pony with cellulite. Oh and I've been told she's dangerous and shouldn't be ridden :) it's probably true but I don't value my life too highly and she is rather fun with her maddness.
 
I was told by a total stranger that my boy still had a lot of weight to lose, because he's got an apple bum. I just sat there open mouthed like a bl**dy fish, instead of giving a reply.
 
When i went to look at my piebald cob and i said i wanted him my mum said "WHAT YOU WANT THAT?" my mum wanted me to have a fine pretty show pony type and i got a HW piebald gypsy cob lol
 
your horse looks like its been on fire - by my very own father!
the fact of the matter was, my cob had a pink nose and pink eyes!
 
wow i must be really uncaring owner

i regular insult my own horses and have pet names for other peoples, as in the cow pony how is now working at elementary, my cube of a cob who use to jump 3.6 xc and if the legs had been longer would have got placed (still call him an over grown shetland)

the friends horse who i call baggage or tart features (which is true. i have never known a slapper like her)

but if you know me then you would realise that i insult the ones i like and the ones i don't i use their proper name:)
 
It wasnt my horse but a friends childs pony when it did the trot up after an endurance ride. This was a fab pony hunted every week and endurance rides etc although it was a bit of an ugly duckling. During the trot up the vet said what an awful and odd looking pony it was and how did it manage to get round the ride.

I was so annoyed I put the vet straight as if the child had heard she would have been very upset. Unnecessay in my view, keep comments like that to yourself.
 
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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I've always been told that big ears on a horse is a sign of an intelligent horse. My baby has huge ears and I'd be delighted for anyone to confirm it too!!
So next time someone says it to you, take it as a compliment..
 
Another friesian owner posted up on another forum that my mare was a poor example of the breed (HAHA!! She is really not!!!) and that I must be jealous of her "better quality" ( :eek: ) friesian!

Hmmm....!!

Thats about the nastiest i've got for her, she is a beautiful little horse though :)

When i was competing my little 14.2 connie pony at Senior BSJA we used to get REALLY looked down upon by the other competitors on their horses. I was about 17 at the time, so not a child, but still the comments I got were very hurtful from adults!! I remember once when I was in the warm up getting ready for the Foxhunter class on my little pony and a couple of grown women kept saying that "proper" SJ isnt the place for little ponies and that there was a kids unaffiliated show down the road, did we take the wrong turn etc etc etc. Really nasty and sarcastic you know? Then when I went into the ring they all stood and watched, clearly expecting a disaster and one of them said that the "little pony" will never get over the first fence. Very hurtful and unnerving! BUT, we had the last laugh. The "little pony" ran rings around their big horses, jumped a double clear and won the class with his twisty-turny jump off skills! Oh, and he also won the Derby at the end of the day, beating these people yet again!! :D

The comments werent directly nasty about my horse i suppose, but at the time i remember thinking that they were being horrible about him and getting really upset and angry about it.
 
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My horse was a right knobber at an xc clinic and the instructor told me to sell him, he was a vile foreign horse and she doesn’t know why I ever bought him. Instead of encouraging me she made it a whole lot worse by slating him.
Satisfaction was gained 6 weeks later at Munsted where she happened to be teaching a young rider. We wizzed past, schooling over the pre-novice track. She complimented us when she got back to the lorry and I told her she told me to sell him! She couldn’t have been more apologetic if she tried!!
 
An old man promptly told me I shouldn't be walking Phil on the road, I should be riding him. We have no saddle, he is spooky and our road is currently a construction site so quite dangerous! He then commented to his friend "Look, off to the glue factory" :mad: :rolleyes:
 
"Is that an overgrown exmoor?"

Um, all full up beefcake 15.2hh of him?? At what point does overgrowing the breed specification get ridiculous?!
 
My YO is totally unimpressed with all of mine - Highland = 'opinionated and stubborn', Arab x Highland =' opinionated, stubborn and nuts, it'll kill you' , WB = ' too big, too strong, that's a strong man's horse, it'll probably kill you too'

So far I have survived with the wild bunch, the YO has learned to keep her opinions to herself. She has decades of experience and I do respect that, I just suspect that she has substantially underestimated me and is too used to riding school ponies to like those with a bit of spark.:rolleyes:
 
When i took missy to her first show, she was a big gangly 17' baby of 4, so was expecting some critism about her falling over her legs or something but no, a friend of a friend came over and said "OMG how to you find a bridle big enough for her head" now she was stabled in a block with a load of tb's and ponies so being a typical ISH yes she looked big.
BUt i was polite back and stated facts that as my mare was only just fitting a full size bridle and i understood her mare was on the last holes of an x-full bridle maybe she should go to spec savers before she open her mouth again.
she stood mouth agape for a few mins then stomped off
 
Not a comment from a person..but..comically insulting all the same!

Picture the scene...we're all out on a lovely summer hack, me on Kelly (14.2hh bay mare), my friend on Pebbles (16.2hh chestnut mare) and my Mum on Sam (15.2hh traditional piebald cob).
We're out hacking around our usual track about 40 minutes long - 20 minutes into it, we come across a field of young Friesian cows...they all lift their heads up and our horses are bein a bit 'looky' but nothing bad.
Next thing...all these cows, like all 40 of them come charging over to the fence and are running alongside us - Pebbles heads off, Kelly charges out in front and leaves Sam plodding along behind - the cows didn't follow us but stayed alongside Sam..!!
Just wondering if they thought he was one of them, me and my friend hacked out alone later on in the week...they didn't bat an eyelid at us! :p Needless to say from then on, Sam was known as the cowhorse! :)
 
'Excuse me! How old is your donkey?'

About my first pony, a dun section A ( well bred, registered etc!)

though having seen another thread on here, I guess I was lucky it wasn't a showing judge saying it!
 
a neigbour told me that my gelding looked like he was in foal!!
for horsecrazy 25... an evil judgeat a show said her plaits were un even...th hair at the bottom of the mane was shorter thatthe stuff at the top durrr!!and they looked perfect espcailly as the girl who came 3rd had plaits falling out then he said to her that her slim perfect weight TB had fat pockets all over him were he clearly didnt and 2nd and 3rd were obese!!
 
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After winning a showjumping comp on my pony which looked like an overgrown shetland the very snobby person who cam in second cried to her mother that she came second this is the convo:
Snob: "I came second, can you believe I'm way better then everyone here"
Mother: "What who beat you?"
The snob pointed at my pony and goes "That!"
I was literally rolling on the floor laughing it was brilliant! :)
 
jrp204 said:
My daughter took her 4yr old hunting which he found quite exciting, she was told 'he would only ever be good for dog meat!' She was 14 and managed him extremely well, this is the same horse who now at just turned 6 came 8th in his first BE90 on sunday.
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I've also had the 'dog meat' comment (from an instructor, I didn't have another lesson with them but I still have the horse 4 years later!) but mainly people get stuck on the chestnut mare thing. It really winds me up as I've even had strangers stop their car and wind their window down to slag her off for her colour and gender when she's being perfectly behaved!
 
some one came to see my cob and said his rump was to fat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was a case of kettle calling tea pot as she was rather large in that area. A funny one was friends little boy wanted to stroke the cow and cried when we told him it was a pony..did forgive him as he was cute.
 
Someone on the yard (mostly BSJA WBs) walked past on the day I bought him and said 'Oh, chav pony' then the vet came up to do jabs and said 'Oh, yes, ***** pony'. I really hate that term and just because he's an Irish cob does not make him anything other than MINE. I don't care if he's whatever, he's mine and I adore him. I gave that yard maybe 6 weeks before I moved back to my shambles of a current yard, which I also love.
 
That horse will always be too spooky for anything - completed our first county show yesterday with added spitfire flyover :) :)

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oh dear that looks like it should be on its way to pedigree chum

poor little baby tb :(
 
The worst thing I soppose, was when someone I respected said my wonderful mare was dangerous and unpredictable and that one day, she would kill someone. Hum, and did'nt she get that very, very wrong or what!?

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Don't look to scarey now eh??
 
My YO told me yesterday that my yearling welsh section D was horrible and ugly!
I really dont give a flying ***** what he thinks, she's gorgeous in my eyes.

Also thought hmm, pot kettle black, rich coming from him haha x
 
flamehead said:
Linked to the showing post! Whats the worst comment someone has made about your horse?

Mine is a man who called her flat backed and said she wouldnt make anything special...to my yearling! Someone on here trying to cheer me up told me someone told them their horse looks like a duck!!!!

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The first show i ever took my E to, a woman shouted across the lorry park if I had brought my Sheep!!!! :eek: I nearly died. All these people stopped, and everywhere just went quiet. I made out i could'nt hear her. (oh and this was my local riding club)
 
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