stangs
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I wouldn’t. I appreciate the sentiment, but it also drags you into it all should the post goes viral.I'd be calling her out on her social media for it personally.
I wouldn’t. I appreciate the sentiment, but it also drags you into it all should the post goes viral.I'd be calling her out on her social media for it personally.
I wouldn’t. I appreciate the sentiment, but it also drags you into it all should the post goes viral.
And that's why these kind of people/attitudes still exist, they are never called out or asked to take responsibility for what they say.
As I said if it was me and I was 100% sure that's what was said its how I'd deal with it and if it went viral it wouldn't bother me
It can also land you in court if you have no actual proof (witnesses, captured on video). Libel laws do include social media these days.
I'm so sorry to read this, and I agree that the OP should write to the organiser, because behaviour and language like that is absolutely appalling.
In the interest of balance I have been on two clinics with LG, admittedly a number of years ago, and she was excellent both times, positive, encouraging, brilliant and certainly not offensive, which makes it even sadder for me, that she is so different in the OP's experience. I also teach a few eventers who have had impromptu help from LG at a couple of events and found her to be great, I really thought she was one of the good guys.
But this sums it up to me. A professional was very friendly to you because you had a top level horse there for him to assess. He saw a potential business opportunity. The proof of how nice and helpful these people are, is when they go out of their way to help the people who don’t offer them anything in return.Tim Stockdale was absolutely lovely and gave me an hour of his time and a complete tour of his yard for free when I took a horse to him to assess for top level competition. Geoff Billington was really funny and fun and useful to train with, but he was also the one who was rude about one of the riders that I mentioned above. The worst lessons I ever had from a top rider were with xxxxxx edited as I see he is still teaching - an old time Olympic rider who I had really respected.
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But this sums it up to me. A professional was very friendly to you because you had a top level horse there for him to assess. He saw a potential business opportunity. The proof of how nice and helpful these people are, is when they go out of their way to help the people who don’t offer them anything in return.
And the really bright ones will try to be nice to everyone, including the poor horses, as you never know when that ordinary person might win the lottery and buy you and Olympic prospect to ride! ??
But this sums it up to me. A professional was very friendly to you because you had a top level horse there for him to assess. He saw a potential business opportunity. The proof of how nice and helpful these people are, is when they go out of their way to help the people who don’t offer them anything in return.
I drove to a local event yard some time ago now, very popular with a fantastic XC course that included a few advanced jumps. As I drove along past the XC course `i noticed someone riding over the huge jumps, making it look so easy.....it was Mary King. She was so lovely, chatting to me and my daughter about her horse, and let us make a fuss of hers (wish I could remember which horse she had with her - it was one of her advanced ones!). Lovely lady, so friendly...and a fantastic rider.
just checked with daughter...we think it was Imperial cavalier.
I was with him over an hour, Tim Stockdale was a genuinely nice man and his surviving identical twin Ivan seems the same in more than just his appearance.
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We have had similar experience with Mary King, we met her at Bicton and she was amused that my step daughter was examaning horse poo and asked if she was going to be a vet (which she was/is). Still have the schedule with her autograph on. When step daughter rode our pony at Bicton I remember her saying " I am going to ride on the same ground as Mary King" when we went through the gates!
We have had similar experience with Mary King, we met her at Bicton and she was amused that my step daughter was examaning horse poo and asked if she was going to be a vet (which she was/is). Still have the schedule with her autograph on. When step daughter rode our pony at Bicton I remember her saying " I am going to ride on the same ground as Mary King" when we went through the gates!
And that's why these kind of people/attitudes still exist, they are never called out or asked to take responsibility for what they say.
As I said if it was me and I was 100% sure that's what was said its how I'd deal with it and if it went viral it wouldn't bother me