Some people! Slight RANT!

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

There is a livery at our yard who has a really sweet pony who jumps really well but is a complete unstoppable force. The girl who rides it can't stop it and has no control but her parents insist on making her jump pretty big courses.
She took it to a summer league jumping comp on friday and on sat morning was taking it out again to another comp. I noticed it looked lame as did our instructor who mentioned it to the girl. To which the reply was "oh yeah he's lost a shoe". In the field on friday daytime!! So she jumped it on friday and was jumping it again on sat knowing it wasn't sound.
Apparently the girl is leading a jumping league so she couldn't miss sat or she'd slip down the listings. WTF?!!
Seriously how I kept my rag i have no idea. Is it me or do some people not deserve horses?

 

[xnaughtybutnicex]

IMHO it comes under animal cruelty, knowing the horse was in pain, not doing anything to help it and jumping it 2 days in a row with a shoe missing.

 

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

Oh but it wasn't in pain it was the stones on the drive making it limp..........?!!!

 

[lilym]

FFS someone should make her jump over fences with a sore foot, what a bitch.

 

[MooMoo]

Wow - i would have thought the competition officials would notice and not allow her to ride. Pushy parents....eurgh.

 

[oofadoofa]

Oooooh it makes me mad! Trouble is, those sort of people usually get away with it too don't they, and the likes of you and I wouldn't dream of competing a horse with 3 shoes, end up with the injuries!

 

[Spyda]

Surprised they couldn't get an emergency farrier's visit fitted in before the pony needed to compete again. Plus, many of the events I used to jump at used to have a farrier on call, just incase a competitor threw a shoe.

Darned sure the pony's foot could have been reshod before it became foot sore, if the parents had been motivated enough. Apart from being down right thoughtless and cruel to the animal, surely the kid and parents can see that laming the horse and jumping it when it is sore will hinder its future performance (since that's what is seemingly motivating them). Very short sighted indeed.

 

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

I won't ride my horse without putting lidnocane in his mouth because of a sore tooth. I wouldn't dream of jumping him with a missing shoe. I have a mangled finger, she has remained at the top of her league. Sometime I wonder.......

 

[xnaughtybutnicex]

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Oh but it wasn't in pain it was the stones on the drive making it limp..........?!!!

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If thats the case then it would still be in pain from them walking it over the stones.. still their fault.

 

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

Yeah but then you just get another pony. There's another girl around our way jumps BSJA, again on a lovely pony thats only 6. She's jumping the legs off it sometimes 4 -5 times a week on ground like concrete. I'd be surprised if it makes 10 years old without going permantley lame. But by then she'll want something bigger so it won't matter will it

 

[Spyda]

Well, if they're rich enough to consider their ponies to be 'disposable' that's horrific IMO.

Good jumping ponies that a child bonds with well enough to do really well with, are not that easy to come by. More fool them for being so short sighted.

Surprised that if the pony was so sore on its unshod foot, no one picked it up at the event when it was warming up or as it entered the ring to jump. Even more surprised if it jumped well..... Poor thing

 

[xnaughtybutnicex]

Kids want to jump all the time, especially teenagers but it is the parents responsibility to make sure they arent doing this & wasting the money they spend on the horse but some are soo pushy and end up buying things that either get jumped or thrashed around because they are too well behaved to stop or ponies that are too much for the rider that take them for a ride whether they want to or not. Parents fault the child is 2nd to blame.

 

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

This child is about 16!

 

[xnaughtybutnicex]

lol well i did know better by then but some just want to compete and compete whether the horse is lame or not. I think they are called spoilt, selfish little brats!!

 

[MooMoo]

I agree. Question to the original post... are the girl's parents "horsey"?

 

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

Well if one considers recent parrelli converts who have bought a horse for a few hundred pounds, not seen it be ridden and now spend time waving a carrot stick at it hoping for it to stop being lame, horsey then yes!

 

[xnaughtybutnicex]

You think thats bad well i think my story is worse you might not even want to read it. Well, know it all father grew up in ireland on a farm(not with horses) and had to be told to even feed the horse, said it didnt need any feed but the horse was understandably skinny, then the horse gets bastard strangles dad telling the kids to ride it anyway, 'it's fine' then they are warned by the yard that they are not to ride it so they start coming down later at night to ride it instead(they still havent called a vet out for the strangles at this point BTW) so they get warned.. do not ride the horse or you will have to get off the yard. So they stop riding it but still didnt call the vet and by this point the horse is really quite poorly and wont eat what they eventually started trying to feed it. So YO calls the vet as she just cant see the horse suffer like this any more and gets the horse antibiotics.... the horse died a few days later and YO def. more upset than the owners. Children werent that old and it was their 1st horse so are not to blame.

Fortunately they are taking much better care of the one they have now.

 

[MooMoo]

That's a no then?

 

[niagaraduval]

Well i have ridden my horse when he's lost a shoe, cantered too.
I have all my vaccinations up do date, wormers up to date, I'm up at 6:am feeding and mucking my horse out, He's exercised, groomed and I have a schedule for my farrier. I care for my horse in the best possible way I can. I suppose I must be a very bad owner. Who doesn't deserve a horse either, eh?

 

[welshstar]

^ we have done the same as this before (i.e riding the horsey with a missing back shoe when we can't get the farrier outside of out booked times) however i think there is a slight difference between hacking out on forgiving land than jumping decent sized tracks probably not on a surface

 

[stencilface]

Have to say, I have jumped a 1.05m open on my horsey when he was missing a front shoe, but it was on an indoor surface, and he was totally sound (in fact, didn't give a monkeys) I was placed too

(should have come higher up, but silly me got over excited and pushed too much for the last

)

Some horses are affected by losing a shoe, some are not. I would not dream of taking one of the others anywhere without a shoe. And mine only lost his that morning, so no time for a farrier, otherwise I would have had one put on.