To cheer us up - some of the nice things said about our horses

Mystis a marmite horse, you either love her my little pony looks and highly strung (aka crazy pony!) temprement or you hate it!
Have had a couple of comments about how pretty she is, people asking to pat her etc always cheers me up and I'm sure she understands! She starts arching the neck and prancing if someone says how pretty she is :p

Even when she was in a full winter coat dripping in sweat with blood all down her neck in the vets treatment room one of the vet nurses said how pretty she was .. :eek: she's one you either love or hate I think!
 
Is it a compliment when the dentist repeatedly comments 'she is very strong' every time she lifts her very sedated head off of the stand he uses despite myself and the vet trying to keep her head resting on it?
 
CharlesMax said:
Reading some of these stories makes me think the male admirers of your horses may be admiring the riders too! : )
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Ha ha!! - who cares! - a nice word or two can make someone's whole day.

Actually I can walk through the village almost 'incognito' without an animal attached - seems to be the horse (or dog) that people recognise - they are all rather good-looking animals though.
 
As my horse is in a sweet itch rug during the summer, at the old stables I was on, everyone used to compliment my friends horse but never mine (in terms of looks).

One day I was just starting out on a hack on my Clydesdale x (rugless) when a girl stopped her car, wound her window down and said how gorgeous my horse was...it really made my day :)

I remember it to this day and it must have been at least 4 years ago
 
when i got my ex-racehorse i had a lot of snide comments one of which was "at least you can sell him to the meat man for more than you bought him":mad: i was livid when i heard that, now 1 year down the line the same lady asked if i would sell him to her for her daughter as a first horse, clearly she forgot her own comment and how much it hurt, but it did mean a lot that her view of him had changed and that she appreciated all the work gone in, it did make me feel great saying that this horse isn't going anywhere and she agreed she wouldn't let him go if she had him too.
 
My favourite ones are about how happy my horse always looks.

Had a lady wind down her window and say "Just have to tell you that your horse has the most gorgeous face and he always looks so happy to be out."

Chap we often see walking his dogs when we hack - "I love seeing you coming down the road, you and your horse always look like you are having a wonderful ride and are so happy."

Friend who met us when we were going to meet up for a ride, as Izzy got off the lorry. "I love watching Izzy come off the lorry. He stands at the top of the ramp, ears pricked, and looks around as if to say 'What are we doing today then?'"
 
hnmisty said:
"What a magnificent beast" (about my 14 hh pony).

Sadly, he was p*ssed as a newt at the time and promptly tripped over on his dog lead :D
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I am frequently asked to leave Cobby behind when we move yards, he always seems to be a favourite as he has no vices whatsoever! Have had a couple of people become 'cob converts' after meeting him and despite having not been to one of our RC events for a while he is well remembered. Love my dude!!
 
This is a lovely thread.

I'm lucky enough to always get really nice comments about my mare :D Everyone thinks she's marvellous - of course I'm the only one who really knows her :rolleyes:

One vet said 'Oooooh I love these smart little mares - she's gorgeous' and my lovely YO (who owns her 'brother-by-another-mother') is always raving on about what a fabulous/pretty/well behaved/nice mover she is. (She's yet to see her have a tantrum lol). I cannot take any credit for how beautiful she is, because I did not give birth to her ;), but I will accept a little credit for making sure she's well-mannered - most of the time lol.

One that touched me most though was from daughter's non-horse F-I-L who is terminally ill and was being shown some photo's of daughter riding said mare on an ipad in hospital.
He looked intently at the photos, sighed and said 'Florence is magnificent...'

Aw.......
 
I have had a dressage sheet back once before saying "A really lovely partnership". I nearly cried reading it because its not something that is often recognised. Whenever we have a bad day, or things aren't going particularly well, I always stop, give K a pat and remember that we do have a good partnership, we just have to work out what team we're on and start again.
 
Just remembered one, out hacking once, a man drove past slowly with the window down and said to a friend and I, "nice legs ladies!!", not sure if he meant ours or the horses!!
 
When I trotted my horse up for her vetting, the vet (who I knew quite well already) said, nice mover, lovely legs and grinned cheerfully at me. When she had to go to Leahurst I was greeted by Derek Knottenbelt who said "oh isn't she a lovely sort" and when I collected her a few days later the on-call vet told me the students had all been practicing listening to her heart and lungs etc as she was the nicest-natured horse they had in that week. One time I was out hacking and she was doing her usual jogging, leaping in the air and throwing mouth froth all over me when a family driving past stopped and asked if she was a racehorse - in her dreams - she was a Welsh D X although she could have (and did) give any TB a good run for its money. A new livery told me she was the kindest horse they had ever met when two minutes after she put her horse in the field, my mare came up to greet it then stayed to graze with it for the rest of the day so that no-one would bully him. This was completely normal behaviour for her. She hated trouble and fighting and was always protective of the young, old and small even if they were new to her.
 
I've been asked whether my mare had a brain transplant by her previous owner :o
I also let my YO (who knew her before when she was 'evil') have a ride on her and I don't think she could believe how easy she is. Trouble is, you start getting the "aren't you lucky to have such a well behaved horse" comments.

Who knows, maybe she did have a brain transplant that I didn't know about.......or maybe I worked very, very hard with her........;)
 
FoxTrotx said:
Trouble is, you start getting the "aren't you lucky to have such a well behaved horse" comments
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He he, my mare has had the comment "Oh but she's so established" which did grate on me at first as she's so not an easy ride but then I think well maybe all the hard work has paid off and I actually make it look easy! ;) :D
 
My very unhorsey OH never really comments much on our ponies but the other day he gave away how much he watches them when he said

'the most lovely thing about Milo is that Milo thinks that Milo is the best pony on the planet'

Not a compliment as such but I was floored by even a glimmer of recognition for the ponies lol
 
had a nice one today a fellow HHOer just described my horse as 'a beauty' :D made my day after a very very pants week.
 
Spud is soooo pretty and he knows it, and getting him through the village at home can be a bit of an epic adventure as he flutters his eyelashes at all his adoring public and they all come out to admire him. The kiddies come and run along side him (because he's worth it) and he will preen and flounce and lap it all up. The most memorable comment I've had is from the dad of one little girl who said that his daughter always comes running to see him and that he is her favourite horse ever and that she keeps refering to him as her 'unicorn horse' and goes on and on about him at home.
 
My two live on a farm with a bridle path running through the middle, people often stop and have a chat about the horses. One weekend a mother and her two children walked through and asked if they could feed carrots to my big boy. I brought him over to the fence with the two children got very excited, and fed him the carrots they had washed and peeled!! Bless! Full of compliments on how lovely he was, The mother then asked for a photo so one of the little boys could do his show and tell at school about my horse! Such a small thing but I loved showing him off and seeing the children so excited to spend time with him.

Another about my mare, while at a dressage show. I was in the arena doing my test with my OH videoing it. I got home and played it back and could hear some ladies chatting in the background, "Ohhh well that's your winner there look, what a beautiful horse, just my sort" I didn't win ;) but those comments really made my week!
 
When I first got my boy, the vet and saddler both commented on how he was such a great big horse, vet even said wow when i took the rug off :o said he really liked him :D

The saddler loved him, said he was a real stamp of a horse and that " they" will really like you, think she meant judges. She also said he was a lovely person :o first time I had heard that lol.

Those comments really stuck with me as I had just got him, and they were from professionals who i guess see lots of horses everyday :o
 
The bloke who owns the smallholding where i keep my horse said my horse isn t a ****** the other day.
Amazing.
 
What TarrSteps on here said about my boy on my thread about him last week:

TarrSteps said:
I think this horse is very special and it's lovely that he's a real 'family' horse you both clearly love. How great for him to have the best of both worlds, knowledgeable production and loving owners. You should be very proud! :)

:D :D :D
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People are always saying my horse is beautiful and that she has a lovely mane, she is a bit of a Barbie horse but I always love hearing it :-) proud of my golden beauty! Kids always want to pat her first which is quite funny as although she tolerates it she is the most impatient!
 
I've had a few lovely comments recently about both mine and my share horse.

My instructor, who's taught both me and share horse's owner for 20+ years since we were kids in pony club, has always nagged us for not doing enough with M but the other day he said he really believes he could have gone at least Intermediate and probably Advanced in the right hands and that he wished he'd got his hands on him when he (instructor) was younger and braver (this is someone who completed Burghley) as he was the nicest horse he'd seen since his top eventer. We always knew he thought he had the right blend of talent and honesty to do well, but not THAT well:eek: And there's us just doing a bit of riding club with him :rolleyes:

Another instructor I had a recent camp in Stockland Lovell also told me he had the most elegant trot she'd ever seen and she could watch him all day:D This was a few weeks after we'd been given 48% for what I (and people watching) thought was a lovely dressage test (just a riding club prelim test) and had sworn off dressage for good, so it was a very welcome boost.

I've just advertised for a sharer for my boy and had someone contact me, saying a mutual friend had recommended him to her as 100% reliable and genuine and fun. We'd been away on a riding club weekend together and he was the only horse in a group of 6 not to have a fit at some paragliders landing 20 yards in front of us, a herd of pigs and wild mountain ponies chasing us (he wanted to stop and say hello:rolleyes:). I know how great his is to hack but it's lovely when others notice it too, especially as his feet mean that we can't do much else. She's coming to see him tomorrow so fingers crossed he behaves!

The other nice thing we've had recently was when M's owner and I were hacking through the village. An old man stopped us and asked us if they were police horses as they looked so well behaved and imposing. I suppose two 16.2+ well built greys with riders kitted out in hi-viz might look like police horses but I was still quite pleased that they could look clean enough to be mistaken for them if nothing else!
 
It is quite funny when people say how lucky you are to have such a lovely horse in terms of his behaviour, fitness, schooling etc rather than being handsome/pretty (obviously an accident of genes and fate).

Sometimes I do feel like saying "Actually, a few years ago he was absolute b*gger. He didn't suddenly become great to ride, I actually put a lot of work in to make him what he is."
 
"You can see that she loves you by the way she looks at you" ... the ultimate compliment and everything I've ever wanted to hear :o:D
 
I have a 28 year old TB mare, who we've had on loan from World Horse Welfare for 9 years. They come out every 6 months to check on her; usually we only know they've been by the business card left in the gate.
After the recent visit, about 3 weeks ago, I idly said to my husband " I wonder if they ever have to call people and tell them they aren't happy with the horse?"

The following day I had a call from the visits officer, but thankfully not because they were unhappy. She had been inputting her visits onto the computer and had noticed how old my mare actually is. She then rang me to say that she was really pleased with how well the mare was looking, especially given her age, and that we were doing a fantastic job. It really made my day and put a big grin on my face.
 
The vet once came to our yard with some students. He told them that our sec C (Rags) had 'as good a back end as ever you will see on a pony'.
 
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