Because life with horses is never orderly.
It would seem many of you are currently experiencing this joy. Meanwhile, over here in Florida, I have sort of forgotten it’s wintermageddon. 🤔😅
It is in your honor then, that I present you with this week’s comic featuring Snow–destroyer of endless summer dreams.
You’re welcome.
Because this is STILL True….
Because sometimes it’s *you* who needs to do 40 laps before gracing the warmup ring. Being a consummate weenie myself, I can attest to this happening. I am fairly sure that more often than not the lunging I did with Wilson had much more to do with me than him. Ah well. Take no chances, right? 😉
…the newest fad in colon cleansing?
If you haven’t been both parties in this situation, you’ve not been showing long enough. 😉
More like time for shenanigans with others who are equally insane.
Horse Shows, despite their title as such, don’t actually involve a great deal of ‘showing.’ At least not when compared to the amount of time spent doing everything else necessary to show at all. 😀
You poor soul.
This is especially true if you have an early morning ride. And as an added bonus, those pee stains aren’t going to wash out without a full on, purple soap kinda scrubbing. Then you also get the joy of riding and showing a shivering, damp, sullen horse. 😉
Sure to be total shenanigans.
If you survive it, you’re clearly more hardcore than I. 😉 I have the distinct belief that if show fees were refundable we’d likely never see this sort of nonsense (ok, or at least that’s what I’d like to hope). 😀
You might as well take a trip to visit Hades…
July showing is not for the weak, nevertheless, I firmly believe that you don’t get to complain about everything because then you’re just being a jerk. That being said, given my hatred for winter and all things cold, you will never hear me whine and mince about over the heat. I will, however, concede that it has been a bit ‘warm’ lately. 😉
It’s like the honeymoon suite for horses.
I don’t know what majikal properties the trailer has that can join two horses at the hip, but it’s an actual phenomenon. And god help you if one of the horses in the trailer is a mare in heat. You might as well just forget about ever separating those two again. 😉
…dealing with the issues of Jerkwad Present Me since forever.
So I think most of us who have ever trained a horse can agree that there are times when it just isn’t pretty; an awkward moment, an overly exuberant youngster, essentially crap happens. But if those awkward, ugly moments are making up the majority of your ride then I think you need to do a little honest self-reflection. And if you’re consciously using said moments you’re probably just an asshole (even if you are a ‘good’ rider). While I’m not a grand prix rider (yet!), and I acknowledge that I’m not an expert on training horses to that level, it seems to me that this sort of riding is just unnecessary bullshit. Getting a horse lower and deeper to show him how to lift his back is one thing, making him play a sadistic form of equine Twister is something else entirely. The fact that it continues to be rewarded in the international arena is a real shame.
