I just want to say good for you. I identify with having no seat. Having been a hunter jumper, and then working at a Saddleseat barn, and then going to Endurance, I have no seat either, lol.
But this is basically what it boils down to. You have a horse, you take good care of her. You don't have to be 'serious' about showing. You don't have to ride for hours every single day. You don't have to have the worlds most perfect seat, you don't have to take lesson every day, and you most definitely do NOT have to put up with her crap. You can be as "serious" or as "unserious" about showing as you want. You can go out there and show in hot pink leggings with lime green ribbons in your horses mane, if you want to. I wouldn't suggest it, but you absolutely could, and it wouldn't hurt anything (other than some delicate sensibilities, haha).
I hate when people lose sight of what it's really all about. The saddlebred barn I was at was like that. The daughter of the BO and Trainer was the number one junior rider for JrASHAG, and she rode at least an hour five times a week of all ring riding. She had NEVER ridden a horse just for the sheer joy of - gasp - riding a horse. She'd never hacked bareback, never goofed off and just enjoyed horsemanship. Eventually, not only did she get so burned out on horses that she quit, the BO and Trainer herself got burned out, and they sold the place, boarded the horses with friends, and never rode again. They are totally out of horses all together now. And it's kind of sad to me.
But this is basically what it boils down to. You have a horse, you take good care of her. You don't have to be 'serious' about showing. You don't have to ride for hours every single day. You don't have to have the worlds most perfect seat, you don't have to take lesson every day, and you most definitely do NOT have to put up with her crap. You can be as "serious" or as "unserious" about showing as you want. You can go out there and show in hot pink leggings with lime green ribbons in your horses mane, if you want to. I wouldn't suggest it, but you absolutely could, and it wouldn't hurt anything (other than some delicate sensibilities, haha).
I hate when people lose sight of what it's really all about. The saddlebred barn I was at was like that. The daughter of the BO and Trainer was the number one junior rider for JrASHAG, and she rode at least an hour five times a week of all ring riding. She had NEVER ridden a horse just for the sheer joy of - gasp - riding a horse. She'd never hacked bareback, never goofed off and just enjoyed horsemanship. Eventually, not only did she get so burned out on horses that she quit, the BO and Trainer herself got burned out, and they sold the place, boarded the horses with friends, and never rode again. They are totally out of horses all together now. And it's kind of sad to me.
/rant.
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