Something like what happened to AppyButt happened to me too, only it wasn't a trainer but the BO.
I boarded my Gypsy gelding at her barn, a dressage/jumping barn (I have always boarded him at dressage barns, and never had a problem with stuck up people except at that barn). From day one she was telling me that she only liked 'real' sport horses and that I should sell him and buy one too, and as we boarded there longer the comments got worse. Telling me that it didn't look good when people came to her barn and there was a Gypsy in the pasture, and asked me if I could come to the barn if people came to visit and put him in the stables (she couldn't catch him herself). No fucking way. I just laughed at that time. One time I asked her if she knew any good training shows, she said she knew a few, but I shouldn't go there because there were 'real' sports people at those shows and showing up with a Gypsy cob I would only make myself look like an idiot. I told her to get that stick out of her ass and give me the addresses. I shouldn't have done that, not for myself but for my horse because she started to take it out on him.
She started hitting him without reason and didn't feed him properly, and unfortunately it takes a while before you notice that someone does that while you're not there. Off course we got the hell out of there when I did find out.
All the time we boarded there she was trying to sell me one of her 'fabulous' young sport horses (which weren't really that special). After I left she started telling everyone that I had an agreement with her to buy one of her horses, but bailed because I couldn't afford her horses and couldn't get mine sold. Bitch.

I did compete that good for nothing Gypsy cob in dressage anyway, and we now do 3rd level and have never once scored under 60% and always placed.


HUP HOLLAND HUP