The things non-horsey people say

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My bf said to me today "so i noticed when you were riding that sometimes you lift yoiur ass out of the saddle, why is that"


:D

I have to admit, i did giggle for a while about this.

Has anyone non-horsey or otherwise said anything that tickled you?
 
I'm sure my bf does it on purpose to annoy me.

He text me excitedly once to tell me he'd seen a brown horse with black trimmings trotting down the road.

Oh and there was the time he thoughtfully recorded some dressage "cos the horse was doing the special trottyness you like."

When questioned he proceeded to do his best attempt at a flying change in the living room.
Bless him :)
 
I got told that I was cruel by my mother for considering putting a mask over my old Section A's head. It's comparable to blindfolding, why would you do it to such a sweet little pony?!

It was a full face fly mask.....:rolleyes: :D Thankfully I didn't buy one in the end as he had an incredibly tiny head and I couldn't be arsed faffing around with returns etc if it didn't fit. Funnily, a fly fringe was acceptable by my mother.
 
I've just started unaffiliated eventing and had some photos on facebook. An old work friend asked when I was next on at the races as she wanted to come and dress up...
 
My mum was collecting me from the yard when my car was in the garage one time and she stopped half way down the hill to the yard in her car - I wondered what she was doing as I could see her - next thing my mobile phone rings and she goes "theres a dead horse in this field you have to come up here" - I had to gently advise her that horses do sleep lying down and this particular horse was always sleeping. Bless her :D
 
My mother once asked if I'd ridden a particular horse yet - at this point the horse in question was 9 months old :confused: Worryingly, my grandfather was a mounted policeman and my mother grew up with ponies and had a horse when we were children :rolleyes:
 
Hevs said:
My mum was collecting me from the yard when my car was in the garage one time and she stopped half way down the hill to the yard in her car - I wondered what she was doing as I could see her - next thing my mobile phone rings and she goes "theres a dead horse in this field you have to come up here" - I had to gently advise her that horses do sleep lying down and this particular horse was always sleeping. Bless her :D
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Don't my sister made me drive 10 miles to meet her at a field because there were two dead horses in it, they were quite happily snoozing :rolleyes: she didn't realise horses lay down to sleep.

My boyfriend comes out with all sorts lol, when I first got Buddy he compared him to a caravan as ''he's longer than the other ones'' he's been caravan ever since lol.
 
Not a none horsey person, but a small child. One of the horses has his 'thing' out and the child piped up and said "What's that plastic thing on your horse?!"

Someone at work (after learning I'd fallen off Ned) said "How on earth can you fall off a horse?!" ummm, pretty easily!
 
not so much a say as a do........ walk up to a horse and pat it on its face saying "oh look he likes it"!!!! no....no he doesnt :/ hahahahah
oh and my dad always feels the need to point to the really big cross country jumps and say oh you could do that one....if only it was that easy :D
 
I like to call non-horsey folk 'muggles'. Lol

For example, my muggle boyfriend asked me which "juppers" (he meant jodhpurs, bless him) I'd like for my birthday. I'm blaming the mispronunciation on his cockney accent!
And he calls my mares martingale a "nightingale".
And when I was grinning after bumping into Ollie Townend at Belton last year, he said "what, the one who designs juppers?". Yes, sweetums, the one who designs "juppers", cos that's all he does. *rolls eyes*
 
I told someone at work last week I was going to badminton.
She said 'oh are you riding yours there' ( yeah I'm gona take my 2yr old to badders) lmao!
 
The most obvious one hasn't been said :p

Or maybe its just that I get asked it too much..

for example, there is a 12hh pony at the fields and as it is a public footpath through the fields, i often talk to the walkers when I See them

walker : so is he a horse or a pony?
me: He's a pony because hes smaller than a horse
walker: awwww, bless him- how old is he then?
me: 24 i think,
walker: what on earth? Then how can he be a PONY?! surely he is a horse at 24?!?!
me: *mental facepalm* No no, a foal is a baby horse or pony- a pony is a smaller horse, it is based on height
walker: Oh.. i wondered why he hadn't grown up.

I dont know why but i seem to find this far too often.. :S
 
Charleysummer I have had this with my 11.2h 24 year old pony too lol!
My non-horsey friend was round once and was flicking through H&H looking at the classified ads. She was very confused at some of the description and ads and was laughing her head off. They are actually quite funny and bizarre if you read them as a non horsey person!
 
Friends brother came up the yard yesterday to go for a run with her and on arrival saw some of the horses not wanting to be caught. Snowy is the most extravagant as far as displays in the field go and he asked his sister why, "the white horse is running around like that when the others just jog away".... :rolleyes: he was bonking, leaping, spinning and generally enjoying himself bless, he thinks he's 3 still. We get many a novice on our yard coming up with owners who ask allsorts of questions
 
best ever was when my brother has a vegan anti pet keeping girl friend it was shall I say a difficult weekend .
She did not approve of our food
She did not approve of our pictures( hunting prints horses jumping etc)
She did not approve of our shoes ( leather)
It was a stressful weekend for her even the labradors looked at her with a sort of bemused confusion as they lolled on the sofa her opening gambit on coming in the house was to say she did not approve of dogs being kept in houses it wS unnatural for them.
But the best ever moment was when by brother brought her across to the stables I was doing the yard in the evening chatting to the horses fussing them she looked at me with amazement and said " they really like you" errr yes.
 
My dad helps me out with my horses and he comes out with some corkers sometimes.

he calls flying changes skipping, rugs are jumpers, hooves are toenails, forelock is a fringe etc!
 
I was at the yard the other day and this little girl asked if my horse was a stallion...I answered, 'well he used to be til a few years ago'....she replied. 'how can he not be a stallion anymore? ......needless to say I just smiled, was not quite sure how to word that one!!!!!
 
The one that bothers me the most is 'why are you having lessons? I thought you could already ride.'

And a close second would be 'my wife's sister's daughter's friend went on a horse once, I told her you had a horse and she wondered if she could come up and ride it.'

Erm yes, yes of course she can. Tell her to bring her friends with her - they can all ride her. EVERYONE CAN RIDE MY HORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!


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While watching some racehorses in the parade ring on TV the other day my non-horsey husband told me his 'secret' way to telling which horse was going to win the race. Apparently if you watch them all walking round some of them overlap the footprint they made with their front hoof, with the back hoof. Not all horses can do this apparently, but the ones that can are more likely to win the race!!

Bless.
 
When my sister was little her elderly 1st pony sadly developed cushings, back in those days there wasn't really much treatment and aside from the poodle like coat and lots of weeing the pony was actualy otherwise fine and went on for years. The times we got stopped out on rides because people wanted to know if he was a special breed as they'd never seen a curly pony before. My sister, then about 5 or 6 and not really fully understanding it used to bluntly reply that 'no, he has a brain tumour actually'. Cringe! Poor people used to be horrified! The curly pony happily lived to be 31. :D
 
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