Things in the horsey world that could be misinterpreted...

when i was helping at a riding school, one of the kids asked 'why does he have rocks on his legs?' they meant his chestnuts!

oh, and i'm sure 'green' could cause problems xD and when my sister was little she thought dressage was the same as dressing, as in wound dressing
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I once finished a lesson with a nice middle aged lady, called her into the middle of the arena and told her to pat her horse and 'flick herself off'. It wasn't until I saw her face that I realised she may have misinterpreted me.
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my horse is called Andy and last year I went out with a guy called Andy for a few months.. this was a source of much amusement to his mates.. 'are you going to ride Andy today.?!' 'is Andy a good boy when you ride him.?!' e.t.c.. you get the picture.!
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Calling a horse coloured

My neice asked me a while back if Bodey (my sis coloured) was the son of Rubin and Gem (Rubin being dark bay, Gem being grey and Bodey being a mixture of the two colurs!)
 
A friend and I were a store waiting in the checkout to pay. We had just come from the yard and she was wearing winter riding gloves (the kind with the pinky finger separated from the other three fingers, for holding the reins). A little girl infront of us says to her mother, "look at that girls gloves with the funny fingers!" the mother looks all shocked and hushes the daughter and whishpers saying "don't talk about things like that, she must have some sort of deformity" My friend and I almost died laughing.
 
There was a bunch of chavs whilst i ws out hacking-they started yeling at me that they were going to report me to the rsca that i was carring a whip-never even used it!!
 
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There was a bunch of chavs whilst i ws out hacking-they started yeling at me that they were going to report me to the rsca that i was carring a whip-never even used it!!

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i've had that!!!
 
I often get asked by work people ' do you have to see the horses everyday??' and just beacuse of jods and whips why do people think you're a dominatrix?????????
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When I was a child I once grabbed my horse's feed and said 'I'll give him his oats' to which the lady with me cracked up. Not sure I got it at the time!

Other things;

Rearing - What on Earth does that mean to the non-horsey person?

Throat lash -------??

New Zealand rug - What, it comes all the way from NZ???

All the dressage terms really confuse non-horsey peeps;

Soft hands?

More engagement from behind ???

Collect him......(where from)?

Tracking up (where's the running track?)

Throughness (what!?)

etc etc

Set fair (beds)

Skip out

Tying up

Seedy Toe

Pidgeon Toed

Cow hocked

Roach backed

Ewe necked

Over at the knee

Behind the vertical

Croup high.

Dishing

The list goes on and on and on. I could be here all day!!!!
 
Ground tying
Carrot stick
I'm going to break my horse soon - why do you want to break your horse??
 
My brother in law came up my yard one day with my OH he was shocked to see that I had clipped my horse, asking me how come I didnt do it in the summer when its warmer!!!
Also he wouldnt go near her as he said she was massive..... she is only 15hh!! Also asked where I got her 'coats' from lol.
 
'He broke her in'

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Sorry, not really funny but explaining that to some non-horsey uni friends after a few too many vodka's was very interesting ...
 
I was on the train being one of the annoying people talking to my friend on the phone saying how I will be off work tomorrow as I have the clinic and how I was excited about it. The looks I got ahhh so then shouted jumping like a mad lady but I don't think that helped matters!
 
Mounting block. I was talking to my friend about how I couldn't get Boo to stand by it and I got a few sniggers from the boys.
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Also, when the Cheltenham Gold Cup came round, all my acct managers thought that as I had a horse I was an expert in racing... I told them Kauto Star was quite good (thought he was pretty!) and he only bloody won!!! (and no - I didn't put a bet on
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yeh.. breaking a horse in gets a few funny comments from friends. this is slightly unrelated but here was the funniest conversation me and my friend had a while back when we were cleaning bridles.... could be highly missinterpretated.

me; I need a cloth
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her: What do you think M&G are doing.. KISSING!
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her: ohhh sounds like they have found the bits!

lol had to include that little story.
 
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