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  • #141
    "If you ________(chip in, stop, have a rail) don't bother coming out of the ring."

    Always made for quite a delimma.

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    • #142
      Your horse jumps by braille

      Do you need oxygen?

      Act kind of psychotic.

      If you don't use that whip on him, I'll use it on you.

      There's another grey hair.

      The witchy witch witch of south central NC.
      The witchy witch witch of south central NC.

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      • #143
        My trainer farvorite saying that all of her students laugh about it gooooooooooooood girl. I also like the Why are you doing _____??? I say I don't know. and she say hell yes you do, stop!
        And the list continues:
        Your reins are not pullies!
        Your waterskiing!
        Ride Now!
        Did I say to do that? No!
        Your other right!

        I love to say:
        Geometry counts!
        The arena is 20m not 15m!
        Rounder!
        That is not enough!
        Shut up and Ride!
        It is not time for a break! Keep going your almost there!

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        • #144
          In regards to my OTT TB greenie lapsing into one of his bucking, squealing fits...
          "Sunny's having a moment..."

          Erin and Instant Karma
          "Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
          You're a butterfly
          And butterflies are free to fly
          Fly away, high away, bye bye..."
          ~EJ
          http://hometown.aol.com/ws6transamgirl/index.html
          Erin and
          Instant Karma "Sunny", ShineDown "Liam"

          "You can't control the wind, but you can adjust the sails."

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          • #145
            My comment is always: "Yeah, we like to jump by braille" my horse refuses to pick up his darn feet.

            My trainer at home follows the GM idea of "over, under or through it" so when I chucked my pump across the ring and he bucked and dragged me to the next fence basically sideways, I kept going. I figured, "hey, I have a stride and a half to sort it out" well my show trainer afterwards said "uh... about there, I'd have just circled, you've already got a disobedience, you may as well not die..."

            Also followed by: "Yeah, and how about you don't lose your lifeline again?"

            1-800

            "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats."

            "Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, mercy I asked and mercy I found."
            \"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.\"

            \"Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, mercy I asked and mercy I found.\"

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            • #146
              My English trainer talks about "racking up a cricket score."

              Example, this exchange when she called me from the show last weekend:

              Her: "We got second in the Level 6."
              Me: "Great! So you went clear?"
              Her: "No, we had a rail."
              Me: "Then how did you get second?"
              Her: "Because everyone else either couldn't get around at all or they racked up a cricket score."
              "I don't want to sound like a broken record here, but why is it that a woman will forgive homicidal behavior in a horse, yet be highly critical of a man for leaving the toilet seat up?" Dave Barry

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              • #147
                <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by *matts916*:
                after a really bad trip my trainer said "you rode that like helen keller!!"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
                OMG LOL

                -I don't know, don't really care... Let there be songs to fill the air- Grateful Dead

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                • #148
                  The mane is your friend

                  "Everyone has special circumstances. Trot on....."
                  http://patchworkfarmga.com

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                  • #149
                    I have lots that I love!

                    After a bad round: "You can ride better than that so lets not discuss it"~~&gt; only at home though

                    "I could tell you were nervous"

                    "Act like your on drugs and do everything slowly, so you don't get him thinking to fast" or something like that!! It was about a pyhsco horse that I owned!! It worked great too! The person that said this to me actually posts on here!! hehe!! I don't remember if she remembers saying it though!

                    Oh one that I heard in the warm uo ring went something like "Forget the Drama and just ride"

                    Oh and another, "STop riding like SOSO, you are Jenna Mollman not SOSO."

                    ~Jenna & Beethoven~
                    Proud Member of the Thoroughbred Clique & the Children's Jumpers Clique & the GA Clique & TS Clique "To ride or not to ride? What a stupid question!"
                    I love cats, I love every single cat....
                    So anyway I am a cat lover                     And I love to run.

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                    • #150
                      "Ok, now that you've both had a good look at the fence, try jumping it." As the green pony and I gradually slowed to a stop before the fence. Hey, it was a new jump for both of us!

                      "Wake him up before you go go" It was a popular song back in my intercollegiate days and strongly recommend when riding some school horses.

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                      • #151
                        When we were kids, my sister, a non-rider at the time, used to say "I don't know what's so hard about riding -- the horse does all the work!"

                        I had to laugh when I watched her get a lesson on her green three-year-old this week; she was breathless from using her legs so much. The trainer looked at her and said, "I don't know why you're so tired; you're the one sittin' down!"
                        Kendra -- Runningwater Warmbloods
                        Home of EM Raleska (Rascalino/ Warkant) and Donatella M (Furstenball/ Jazz Time)
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                        • #152
                          From a trainer many, many years ago:

                          Breathe!

                          Tits up.

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                          • #153
                            "Show off your boobs girl."

                            "Forward, Forward, FORWARD"

                            "A circle honey not an oval"

                            "Kick Kick"

                            "Go Girls"

                            "Good Girls"

                            and my favorites:

                            "What the hell are you doing"

                            "What the hell was that"

                            "What the heck did you do that"

                            DL
                            Oshi- Half Lipizzan/Half Arab mare; Pluto Gloria ll-l /Mi Kabuki/Kisan Fatah

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                              #154
                              omg dressagelover your trainer sounds like mine

                              *Tiffany*

                              *livejournal*



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                              • #155
                                My first lesson with my new coach, I was on a schoolie with an incredibly hard mouth, and I couldn't get him to halt from the trot.
                                She kept saying "HO ho ho ho ho..." and then after three laps around the arena, "I sound like some sort of psychotic Santa Claus!"

                                I finally stopped because I almost collapsed from laughing so hard...

                                "la mer"
                                nothing can stop me now.

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                                • #156
                                  "Ride up! Be famous!"
                                  to which my brain usually responds: "wait for the conservative one, be unknown but alive!"

                                  1-800

                                  "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats."

                                  "Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, mercy I asked and mercy I found."
                                  \"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.\"

                                  \"Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, mercy I asked and mercy I found.\"

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                                  • #157
                                    "Awww, he can do whatever he wants because I say so." (One of my trainer's favorite jumpers as he goes leaping and bucking across the arena with me)

                                    "You do the impossible stuff great...it's the straight lines you can't handle." (My trainer after I miss a straight 5-stride three times in a row and then go and jump the "impossibly" angled fence)

                                    (When I kept breaking from canter to trot on my tank Hanoverian on small circle) "Ok, so you pressed the 'Whoa G'Dammit' button when you wanted the 'Whoa' button....Don't press the 'Whoa G'dammit!!

                                    (When my chicken horse started galloping courses for once instead of stopping) "His name's Dragoon, isn't it?? Then DRAG-ON, Baby!! ."

                                    (after a particularly difficult jumping lesson)
                                    Gretchen: Where's your crop?
                                    Me: In the barn...
                                    Gretchen: Well that's a helpful place for it. Is it keeping the cross ties from misbehaving?

                                    When I innocently ask for a break on anything, she innocently replies: "Why, you're not dead yet."

                                    "Ok, let's try that again and jump the jump this time..."

                                    "Try that again......Try that again....Try that again.....OK, enough trying, DO that again."

                                    "Ok, so what did we learn from this pleasant experience??"

                                    (after chipping a fence) "How'd those flowers taste?"

                                    (Me doing my hour lesson without stirrups) "Keep going, you're doing great. I'll let you know if you're dying."

                                    Other Trainer Quotes:

                                    (to a group of beginner riders) "Your two point is just like peeing in the woods...unless your a guy, then it's totally different."

                                    "They say there's a place where dreams have all gone,
                                    They never said where, but I think I know.
                                    It's miles through the night, just over the dawn,
                                    On the road that will take me home."
                                    ("Going Home" from Gods and Generals)

                                    \"Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self esteem, they provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls, they give us hope.\"
                                    - T. Robinson

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                                    • #158
                                      Ok today we were getting ready for our horse show tomorrow and this is what i got

                                      "Shana(shana being me)how is rock picking doing?"
                                      (me) "Great . . ".as i clean my stall that was suppsoe to be done an hour ago. Or got: i'll be back im going to get some jumps dont stop until i get back as we all drop to the ground. or why are you guys doing that i asked to do that go come on lets get a move on (it couldnt be that her trainers barn is coming tomorrow. and her sisters trainer is the judge but we love her for if it werent for her i wouldnt be riding at this level.

                                      *A horse can never have too many polos*

                                      *A girl can never have too many shoes*

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                                      • #159
                                        Or when I jumped 3'3" on my 13.2 hand pony i run up to the houde to tell her and she says thats goiod and in our next lesson she says dont complain when we jump 3' and i tell her i got over 3'3" w/out her and shes says wel . . .

                                        *A horse can never have too many polos*

                                        *A girl can never have too many shoes*

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                                        • #160
                                          "I spent a fortune on a huge ring and all you do is ride circles around me!! Ride up to the corners!!"
                                          "What on earth did this horse do to you for you to ride him like that!?!"
                                          "Don't try to find the distance, the distance will find you (when you're pulling to find the spot)."
                                          "You're supposed to enjoy your riding, but you won't enjoy it as long as you keep that up!"
                                          "You charged it as it were a 6ft wall and it's just a crossrail!"
                                          "I'm the horse's shrink, not yours" (that's when someone tries to overanalize something)
                                          Over what hill? Where? When? I don\'t remember any hill....

                                          www.freewebs.com/caballerizadelviso

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