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Mar 10 09 12:01 PM
AppyButt wrote: analise83 wrote: What Foxhunter said. Exactly. To add to that, something kinda similar happened to me when I was younger. At age 12, I acquired my first horse (and only horse, I still have her). Unbeknown to me, she was a barely green-broke bag of bitchiness that had been ridden extensively on trails for most of her life. Concepts like "give to the bit" and "stop when I ask you to" and "bend and flex" were foreign to her. But I was young and as long as she didn't buck me off I was good to go. So I take lessons, lots of lessons, to help me train her. After I'd owned her for a few years, I start taking dressage lessons from a trainer I'll call P. For awhile, all was great. P taught me some excellent things and my mare was going really well (I thought). Then, P tells me that to really move up in dressage, I need to sell my "spotted thing and buy a real horse". Um, when did I tell you I wanted to do that? I just want a broke, obedient horse. So I laugh it off. Awhile later my horse breaks a splint bone (don't ask) and is laid up for several months. Again, she tells me and I quote, "get rid of that thing and buy a real horse". I tell her no, I like my horse. Then, in front of all the kids in summer camp, she tells me that I should sell my horse and buy her horse which is now for sale. I ask why. She gets PISSED. She starts ranting and raving that my mare is too small for me, she'll be lame forever, I'll never be able to show dressage with her and on and on. I told her I'd think about it b/c I was too scared to say no at the time. Well, I've had my mare for over 10 years, she's perfectly sound, can carry me just fine even if she's a little on the small side and I'm a little on the big side, and I still don't care that we never got to show dressage. Here's the mare I'm glad I kept. She's the best horse in the whole world to me.
analise83 wrote: What Foxhunter said.
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