What is WITH people, anyway?!?!?

[maggies_lens]

Sorry guys, I need a rant. This has been eating at me all evening. Friend of mine from work introduced me to his friend thinking we'd get along as she is a horse person too. Well, yeah, normally that would be enough to keep me going for a bit, but this chick.... gods!!! She has a TB, does dressage. Ok, I'm not a TB person as such, and I'm more a

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[maggies_lens]

I know, crazy litle princess girl, she'd have a pink fit and break a frickin' nail is she had to ride outside an arena I think. No meaning to be rude or derogatory to show riders at all either with that, I have huge respect for the discipline it takes to do true dressage, but geez...
Oooooooo, i like the sound of that trail you described... that would be amazing! Rockies are on my Dream Riding Locations list, qute near the top actually. Have to do it on a pinto or a Rocky Mountain Pony. No real reason, just gotta ;-)

[maggies_lens]

*drools and moves Rocky Mountains up several spots on the list*

[blitzen_]

*hugs* mate. that sucks ass

[blitzen_]

oh, and good on ya for telling her where to go... awesome!

[maggies_lens]

LOL! Your first line made me laugh out loud and scare the call taker on shift with me :-) I know horse people can hold very strong opinions, but yeah I just thought that was very, very rude. Hey on side note, what is an asp? Not 100% sure I know that one, I have an idea but yeah.... Pffft, I'd give my sedan away if I could have a ute, those things rock on!

[blitzen_]

australian stud book pony.

actually, i just googled that and that's a registry for many pony breeds...

i'm thinking she may have been a cross with an ASSP (aussie stud saddle pony).. at any rate, it had lots of words with Aussie at the start, haha.

http://assps.homestead.com/index.html

she WASN't x'd with australian riding pony tho: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Pony

hrm, interesting, all the variations. bloody nice ponies, nonetheless.

[maggies_lens]

ZOMG! I am moving to your barn; arabs and pintos, two of my most favourite things in the whole wide world. Next you'll be telling me you have a couple of heavy drafts hidden around the cnr there ;-)
See that's what I think too. I'm paying off a mortgage on my own, plus paying off my car and trying to live a decent life style( healthy food, taking care of myself); I don't have the cash to show, nor do I have the desire. Why that would make me or any other backyard horse owner any less of a rider as long as they try to do their best by their horse is beyond me.

[maggies_lens]

I think most pintos are bred along QH lines yeah? I've always liked the paints crossed with Arabs and TB's, the finer build with wild color is certainly eye catching (as long as it's a sound horse anyway! I'm not colour-blinded.. much).

[rckmeamadeus]

I had experiences like that at my first barn. It was a HUUUGE H/J barn and the main trainers all had their favorite students and treated them like princesses and of course, these were the ones who showed alll the time. I was at the barn every day working hard and bumming around on my leased horse for fun and they all just sneered and laughed at me because I wasn't a skinny little show princess.

I have since switched over to dressage (riding at the barn of a grand prix rider which you'd assume would be loaded with the types) and luckily, have yet to meet the snotty bitchy "dressage queen" you had the displeasure of talking to.

"real riding" is what you make of it. Everyone has their own cup of tea and if she can't accept that, it's her problem and it will come back to bite her in the ass eventually.

[maggies_lens]

Oh man, that would be amazing to have a rider of that level to help you learn! So jealous. :-) I don't think this chick will ever learn; she rides very well and has won enough ribbons to make any one happy, so she's getting positive reinforcement. I hope the thing that bites her on the ass is her narky little TB ;-)

[rckmeamadeus]

haha yeah, that would be amazing...I'm training w/ her assistant lol. She's $145 for 45 mins - no way I could afford that.

Hehe, that would be possible. I have an OTTB and he's never had his ass properly kicked until now and can be a bit nippy, especially when you pick out his feet. But she probably has some minions to do that for her.

[maggies_lens]

*giggle*

[pointeshoe_elf]

When I got my National Show Horse, he wasn't started to ride at 4. My girlfriend who does lessons, hunter/jumper that sort of thing offered to help me start him, but was really skeptical to how he would since he was half Arab. He was one of the easiest horses she had ever started. She figured he was just going to be a crazy Arab type horse, and be difficult since he wasn't a QH. *shrug*

And I show my little NSH in dressage, and I some times get the cold shoulder from DQ's, because I don't own a $40,000 WB. At the end of the day all that really matters it that you are doing what you like to do with your horse. And I don't think anyone can judge whether you are enjoying trail riding more then showing or whether or not that makes more of a "real rider" or not.

[maggies_lens]

Isn't it great when people discover what Arab's are really like for the first time? My trainer who helped me back Desi in (Desi's the mad Arab) was stunned. He'd been expecting bucking, rearing, panic, all he got was a humped back for a few strides and one playful half rear. ;-)