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  • #61
    Originally posted by Eventer13 View Post
    Then those that are easily impressionable believe that all us riders are mean people who hate our horses. Just look at some of the comments below it.
    Like the one who said that her daughter had a good relationship with her horse but she hadn't tried going bitless yet, and maybe after watching that video she could give the bitless thing a try.

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    • #62
      Originally posted by archieflies View Post
      Just use fishing line to tie your boot to the stirrup leather. That way when the horse goz fast you will be secure and keep your stirrups and you wont have to be skeered of falling off. I don't know if gags are allowed in WP. I'd go with a o-ring snaffle, but add some barbed wire to the mouthpiece so the judge won't see. Maybe your horse is upset because you do not have enough silver on your saddle???? Try speaking to him in Spanish, it works for the grooms.
      OHH, GOOD IDEA ARCHYFLYS. I HAV SUM BARBED WIRE FENSE I KIN YOUSE, I KEP ALL MY HORSES IN BARBED WIRE CUZ THEN THEY DONT GET OUT IN THE RODE THEY JUST CUT THEMSELFS AND LERN TO STAY AWAY FROM THE RODE.

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      • #63
        Originally posted by Eventer13 View Post
        OHH, GOOD IDEA ARCHYFLYS. I HAV SUM BARBED WIRE FENSE I KIN YOUSE, I KEP ALL MY HORSES IN BARBED WIRE CUZ THEN THEY DONT GET OUT IN THE RODE THEY JUST CUT THEMSELFS AND LERN TO STAY AWAY FROM THE RODE.
        Or they become super duper jumpers & that means you can sell 1 for the GP's. But then you need to pay me 18% commission for just giving you that idea. If you want me to make some calls to actual potential buyers I would need 22%.
        "I'm not crazy...my mother had me tested"

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        • #64
          Thomas H. Key-rist! Has anyone used spell checker? Do you people know anything about the English language and correct grammar?

          I suggest you all go back to Catholic grade school. After three months of intensive spelling lessons and diagramming sentences, you might be worthy of licking my grammar boots!

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          • #65
            well, I am thincing of sellin my 18hand Hannoverrien Dumb Blood. Can Anyone tell me what it is be worth? I am new to breeding and this mare will have good phillys and colts. He left hind is turned in a bit but if I find a good stallion with alot of substance and great legs and lots of chrome I am sure that it will correct this mares flaw.

            ha
            Draumr Hesta Farm
            "Wenn Du denkst es geht nicht mehr, kommt von irgendwo ein kleines Licht daher"
            Member of the COTH Ignorant Disrepectful F-bombs!*- 2Dogs Farm

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            • #66
              Advertising! Advertising! Nootka is shunnned!

              While you're at it tho, do you know of any good Welch ponies I can buy??

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              • #67
                Originally posted by theoldgreymare View Post
                archieflies forogot to mention that hunters must also have a really slow canter and almost fall on their faces upon landing. Also, their riders (especially pros) have to have a roached back duck over each and every fence to show off the horses jumping effectively.
                Please please be sure you practice and use a CREST release as it loooks much better while you are ducking on your hunter than that old fashioned, unnatural old ladies (mans) "auto release".

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                • #68
                  from now on plase wear:

                  Prada, Gucci, Dolce & Gobanna, along with your Louis Vuitton purses for barn work

                  for shows please jump your horse over 300 schooling fences

                  AND ALWAYS RIDE WITH YOUR IPOD IN YOUR EARS!!!!
                  www.justworldinternational.org

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                  • #69
                    Also, it is ok to Text Message your boy friends while you canter and do a few of the 300 warm up jumps.

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Propped Up View Post
                      Please please be sure you practice and use a CREST release as it loooks much better while you are ducking on your hunter than that old fashioned, unnatural old ladies (mans) "auto release".
                      OMG how can you suggest such a thing!?! Everybody knows that it isn't riding unless you use an automatic release! Why, not only is a crest release so hidious as to be blinding if viewed by the naked eye, but it makes your horse jump HORRIBLY. Why, in my day, everybody older than 5 jumped 6' and used an auto release even while jumping hurdles on foot!
                      "Are you yawning? You don't ride well enough to yawn. I can yawn, because I ride better than you. Meredith Michael Beerbaum can yawn. But you? Not so much..."
                      -George Morris

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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by SaturdayNightLive View Post
                        OMG how can you suggest such a thing!?! Everybody knows that it isn't riding unless you use an automatic release! Why, not only is a crest release so hidious as to be blinding if viewed by the naked eye, but it makes your horse jump HORRIBLY. Why, in my day, everybody older than 5 jumped 6' and used an auto release even while jumping hurdles on foot!
                        You are not old enough to remember that. You are still wet behind the ears.

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by Propped Up View Post
                          You are not old enough to remember that. You are still wet behind the ears.
                          Okay, you got me, I saw it in a movie.
                          "Are you yawning? You don't ride well enough to yawn. I can yawn, because I ride better than you. Meredith Michael Beerbaum can yawn. But you? Not so much..."
                          -George Morris

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                          • #73
                            please smoke very close to hay, shavings, people, dogs, and horses

                            they like nicotine too you know!
                            www.justworldinternational.org

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                            • #74
                              And while you are smoken, you can hang out at the in gate with your all your friends and their baby strollers.

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                              • #75
                                Originally posted by jeano View Post
                                ...karat shtick...


                                Hi. I'm 17, and I'm going to be a professional horsewoman. I have been offered a full-ride scholarship to an Ivy League school with an equestrian program, but I want to quit high school NOW and become a working student. There is a BNT near here who would take me. I won't get paid, and I have to pay $1500 a month to pasture board my horse there, but that's great, because the BNT says I will get a lesson on my horse every day, just after I feed, water, muck stalls, lunge, and turn out/turn his 100-horse barn.

                                He is also providing a place for me to live (it's a converted garden shed, SO cute), but I will have to use the porta-potty and take my showers in the horses' wash stall. I won't get a salary, in fact, I have to pay HIM, but that's okay, because he is SUCH a BNT. I have to be careful NOT to get hurt, because, of course, there is no medical coverage. I will have to get another job so I can buy food, but it's worth it.

                                After I've worked for the BNT for five years, I will go "pro." I KNOW everyone will want to hire me to ride and train their horses after they know I've worked for the BNT. I will be totally successful, and I will NEVER burn out nor ever have to work in a boring, ho-hum job. I will be able to buy any horse and turn it into a winning hunter/jumper/dressage horse that everyone will pay me big bucks to buy.
                                Last edited by RHdobes563; Apr. 10, 2007, 06:58 PM.
                                "Oh, sure, you may be able to take down one smurf, but mark my words: You bonk one smurf, you better be ready for a blue wave."---Bucky Katt

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                                • #76
                                  I am looking at a horse to buy that is just perfect for me except he limps. He is a little more then I wanted to pay.

                                  Do you think the owners will take payments?
                                  When opportunity knocks it's wearing overalls and looks like work.

                                  The horse world. Two people. Three opinions.

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                                  • #77
                                    Originally posted by Propped Up View Post
                                    Also, it is ok to Text Message your boy friends while you canter and do a few of the 300 warm up jumps.
                                    No bt it iz ok 2 txt jdgs @ eq fnls.
                                    Ridge Farm Inc.-full care retirement
                                    http://www.horseretirementfarm.com

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                                    • #78
                                      Originally posted by jeano View Post
                                      help. I am having trouble getting my pony (LOL, that's her name) to except the bridal. and her main wont lei strait. I have whacked her with my karat shtick until my arms are soar. Please help me, I love her to much to sell her for slaughter as my trainer advises.
                                      Well then, why don't you breed her? I know someone down the street with a 4 y.o. stud that has been retired to the breeding shed because he is too lame to ride. But he is a pinto!

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                                      • #79
                                        I saw my name was invoked early on here, and hesitate to reply, if I just mention my 78 Matador with rusted out exhaust, your thread will be shut down and I will get another vacation. Save your energy ladies, and vote for Sanjaya.
                                        POYBGP, member in good standing.

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                                        • #80
                                          Originally posted by harryjohnson Aefvue Senior Gardens View Post
                                          Save your energy ladies, and vote for Sanjaya.
                                          That reminds me...that Mohawk he sported the other week...what do you think would be the best way to thin it and shorten it? Pull it by hand or use a clipper blade? One of the other girls in the barn just uses scissors.

                                          How can I get it to lay flat?

                                          Would turning him out in a Neck Jammie help?

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