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It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
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analise83 wrote: What Foxhunter said.
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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.
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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.
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Dutchy wrote: 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.
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