Snobbery within the horse world

[Kenzo]

This vile disease is still about.

However you have to admit when you hear these comments, they don't half make you chuckle sometimes.

I heard this one yesterday

''those that turn up hunting with their cheep combination saddles'' then continued to slate them because they can't afford expensive tack.

Then proceeded to say his wife's saddle cost £2,500 BUT (and it was a huge but) should of been four thousand pounds...bla bla




Feel free to chip in with any one liners you have heard lately

 

[picolenicole]

Best on is.... "XC it's a dangerous sport, you know" in answer "Yes if your rubish enough to fall off!"

Love it, I think if you don't laugh we would all give in.

 

[Sunny08]

When I was in pony club I was on the show jumping team ans was told 'It is highly unothodox for a pony that was brought for under £5000 to be on the team, and I couldn't even trace his breeding!'

 

[MontyandZoom]

There used to be a girl at my place who referred to Zoom as 'that one-eyed thing'

I love it that she now sees pics of my 'one-eyed thing' popping over the plane at RAF Halton or keeping up with the big boys out hunting!

 

[floradora09]

We didnt have any transport so borrowed a friends ancient box. it was a renault master home converted jobbie, peeling green paint and over 20 years old haha! everyone at shows used to come up to us and say 'did you do that your self?' 'how sweet!' 'i hope it's got a proper floor in it...'

and then i went away from a ODE with a first- ha! xx

 

[Minxie]

I think one of the sadest was a few weeks ago my 13 year old god daughter being reduced to tears by parents b****hing about her in ear shot each time she went by because she's just wiped the floor with their precious darlings in only her second ever pony club dressage comp.

The kids were over the moon cause its the first time the team had won a dressage comp but parents were seriously fecked off.

I love her mums attitude though when she text to say she found it hilarious they felt the need to b**ch about a young girl on her second outing riding the mare which cost me just £40.



But it does make you wonder ...

 

[stencilface]

I used to tell people at PC in a snooty voice when asked my horses breeding (something I cannot see the obsession with if your horse is a gelding!) an Irish TB bought from a dealer he was 'Out of Ireland by Boat' you could almost hear the cogs going in their heads working that one out

I love snobbery, it keeps me going.

I love it when a swanky wagon turns up at a show and a herd of scruffy gymkhana ponies comes out - just tickles me, I don't know why

 

[BobbyMondeo]

I just find it so funny when your at a show or a BSJA and you see people bitching about how the rider is riding or you see a cobby-type in SJ class and people are like " that 'thing' will never get round" and it ends up getting places above all the "posh" horses. I love seeing peoples faces when that happens hehe

I often hack to SJ comps and we get lots of looks because we arrive really muddy and things but we end up doing well and better than most with the posh ponies and boxes

 

[BBH]

Yes I agree that there should be snobbery in the horseworld. I recently gave a very smart horse away to a bunch of chavs and what did they do to thank me,



stole the bl@@dy saddle.

Vive la snobs

 

[AmyMay]

I just find it so funny when your at a show or a BSJA and you see people bitching about how the rider is riding or you see a cobby-type in SJ class and people are like " that 'thing' will never get round" and it ends up getting places above all the "posh" horses. I love seeing peoples faces when that happens hehe

I've been guilty of that.

A few years ago I was with a friend watching her horse go round a ODE - and there was a very nondescript looking horse, of indescrimate looking breeding, and generally lacking in the quality you see eventing (usually).

Wow, what a fantastic horse. She wiped the floor with the professionals in her class.

I saw her a few times that year and followed her with interest.

It taught me a very valuable lesson!

 

[R2R]

One of my liveries told me she "didnt do DIY" and "I know your liveries think I am above them...well its becasue I am"

I suggested she went to find a yard which was more suited to her social high taste! I would rather have 10 of my liveries for one of her!

 

[BBH]

I've been guilty of that.

A few years ago I was with a friend watching her horse go round a ODE - and there was a very nondescript looking horse, of indescrimate looking breeding, and generally lacking in the quality you see eventing (usually).

Wow, what a fantastic horse. She wiped the floor with the professionals in her class.

I saw her a few times that year and followed her with interest.

It taught me a very valuable lesson!

I'm sure Mr President would have had some dressage bods turning their nose up aswell.

 

[Cavblacks]

i used to tell people at pc in a snooty voice when asked my horses breeding (something i cannot see the obsession with if your horse is a gelding!) an irish tb bought from a dealer he was 'out of ireland by boat' you could almost hear the cogs going in their heads working that one out :d

i love snobbery, it keeps me going. :d

i love it when a swanky wagon turns up at a show and a herd of scruffy gymkhana ponies comes out - just tickles me, i don't know why :d

psml!!!!!!

 

[PaddyMonty]

Does anyone else find it amusing the amount of inverse snobbery in this thread such as 'beating all the posh horses'?
Snobbery, both upright and inverted is what helps make the horse worl and its characters so colourful.

 

[MontyandZoom]

We didnt have any transport so borrowed a friends ancient box. it was a renault master home converted jobbie, peeling green paint and over 20 years old haha! everyone at shows used to come up to us and say 'did you do that your self?' 'how sweet!' 'i hope it's got a proper floor in it...'

and then i went away from a ODE with a first- ha! xx

I had a crappy old box on loan for a while. It was common for people to actually point and laugh when we arrived at sponsored rides and competitions

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

agree with juno...snobbery in form or another is within all of us!!!

i kind of like promoting reverse snobbery and telling people how my saddle cost more than my horse! (was even better with my prev mare,when i could say she cost less than her bridle!!!)

 

[michellev123]

I used to tell people at PC in a snooty voice when asked my horses breeding (something I cannot see the obsession with if your horse is a gelding!) an Irish TB bought from a dealer he was 'Out of Ireland by Boat' you could almost hear the cogs going in their heads working that one out

OMG!!!! I cant stop laughing!!!!!!

 

[Mithras]

Despite having been in love with horses since early childhood and hence in the horseworld for many years, I have to agree with this thread. Its a bit of a cliche but I think its a cliche because its true. I do another sport to quite a serious level too (I also do BSJA) and I have far more long term, good friends in it than in the horsy world. Horsy people either seem to be interested in boasting about themselves or in trying to get something for nothing. And being from a sort of semi-posh background myself, I can see right through the snobs who just don't quite cut it. My particular hate is one of our local hunts, which is full of untitled pseudo aristocrats who live in cheap houses without land and go home after the first hour. After I had my letter about hunting in Ireland published in H&H, I was suddenly invited to lots of their "dos". I went to their hunt ball, full of people who don't even own a horse, never mind hunt, was bored to death and haven't been back. Ghastly people. Generally I don't find BSJA quite so snobby, which is good because an awful lot of the people in it do have an awful lot of money. And I don't have a problem with genuinely aristocratic people - its the ones who think horses can give them that leg up on the social ladder they are otherwise unable to achieve.

 

[The_snoopster]

Of course there is snobbery in the horse world take for instance my old coloured cob mare would hang her head in shame if I tied her up next to a "blood" horse she thinks she is much better than them.

 

[Rowreach]

Juno, my thoughts exactly

 

[Kenzo]

I'Out of Ireland by Boat'

lol love it!

 

[MontyandZoom]

Does anyone else find it amusing the amount of inverse snobbery in this thread such as 'beating all the posh horses'?
Snobbery, both upright and inverted is what helps make the horse worl and its characters so colourful.

I agree!! People love a bit of inverse snobbery! I suppose with Zoom it is more disability discrimination than snobbery

 

[stencilface]

Some of the PC mums who I meet through my mum being the PC SJ team manager crack me up. Esp the ones who buy fancy hot-headed ponies for their kids, who can't ride them. Why not buy a decent pony - regardless of looks (doesn't have to be spugly! ) - that can do the job with the jockey?!

I am very nondescript when I go to BSJA - grey horse, grey jacket - don't stand out other than when my horse neighs..... And I used to think he was big (ish) but at 16.1 he looks like a midget compared to all the 'big boys' there. Came second in a Disco on Friday - the guy who came first had lots of fancy (pointless?!) kit on his horse took his hat off for the rosettes - where did he think he was - HOYS?!

 

[Kenzo]

Does anyone else find it amusing the amount of inverse snobbery in this thread such as 'beating all the posh horses'?
Snobbery, both upright and inverted is what helps make the horse worl and its characters so colourful.

Good point

So everyone, what is a posh horse exactly?

 

[Shysmum]

My gypsy vanner ? Manners to burn, kindness, and amazing looks too.

 

[PaddyMonty]

It must be said though that the horse world is very money orientated.
For instance when I went to try my new boy we took the owners Merc CLK320. I drove as owner has smashed up arm atm. I happened to be wearing a pair of jod boots which retail at £165 which i use as muck about yard boots. I then change in to my £400 long boots to ride. Perception = I have money to spend on horses.
Now I wonder if we would have had the same reception had we gone with original plan of driving down in my old L reg rover and had they known those expensive pairs of boots cost me £10 and £45 respectively at a closing down sale along with my schumy jods for £15, my show jacket down from £310 to £40.
Would have been fun to find out. Owner still had same buying power but would we have been treated the same?

 

[FanyDuChamp]

I was very pleased when I finally found an almost bombproof hack for my daughter, after she had a horrendous accident trying out a horse for someone she become a very nervous hacker. Fany (the horse we bought) is an Ardennes (Trait Ardennais) Elizabeth was so gutted and I was furious when, over the moon with her new horse we went to the RC and someone said "shouldn't it be pulling logs?" What a way to pee on someone's parade!

I have also had it on here in the breeding section, Fany has the most fantastic nature, good conformation and is a very well bred Ardennes. However I was told, in the thread and by PM that she was not fit to be bred from!

It is also strange how people suddenly want to talk to us when Elizabeth rides/shows our KWPN Gelderlander gelding. What is the difference? They are both horses, both good for what they were purchased for.

Snobbery is a pernicious and spiteful way for some people to make others feel inferior and themselves superior.

 

[PaddyMonty]

Snobbery is a pernicious and spiteful way for some people to make others feel inferior and themselves superior.

but only if the person on the receiving end allows them to.

 

[MontyandZoom]

Good point

So everyone, what is a posh horse exactly?

Posh horses are always REALLY big and shiny! They are usually bright bay or chestnut and have veins that stick out. They also tend to have tan coloured bridles, usually with a mexican grakle. That's my definition

 

[wench]

I think its funny when at shows, all the snobs on their expensive horses. Henry was a cheaop old nag, but he looks as expensive of any of them, and its always good to see the expensive ones playing up, but henry behaving. Just a shame he never wins anything!