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  • #41
    Originally posted by ben4me View Post
    I left my trainer/barn manager when he bred my aged mare without my permission.
    WHAT? ARGHHHH
    www.headsupspecialriders.com

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    • #42
      Trainer #1) We were with for 5 years. Left when I realized she was padding my vet and farrier bills to pay her own. I'm sure if the board wasn't being paid to the BO directly she would have padded that bill too. A couple months after we moved from trainer #1 to trainer #2, trainer #1 stood at the rail during a show with the of the mom's from her barn, and said it would be funny if my 12 year old daughter fell off her horse.

      Trainer #2)We were with for 2 years. We left when trainer #1 moved in. #2 leases the whole property and the decision was up to her, barn was full already. She then tried to keep it a secret from me because she was worried I would tell everyone else about #1.

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      • #43
        We are a bunch of middle aged, amateur riders who schedule lessons together back to back. We have to do this because where we live is remote enough that we don't have a lot of choices and most instructors won't travel to us unless there are at least four of us. Another rider decided he quite liked this instructor we were getting and arranged lessons for himself. No problem you'd think. But this guy is a wanna be semi-professional rider with delusions of grandeur and an arrogant attitude to match. So the instructor would go to him first for his ONE booked lesson and then rider would need help with other horses...he had a string of eight and was a very pushy guy so the instructor had difficulty moving on to her other clients. So she would blow us off. We could be waiting at the arena for hours. I think the record was five just waiting for our instructor to show up, no message nothing. So, as
        you do, we talked to her about this problem and she tried to rectify it. Next lesson the pushy guy trucks his horses into our arena and crashes all our lessons. My daughter was sent to trot in circles for twenty minutes, while the instructor helped pushy guy jumping...with her back to my daughter. So we are all very unhappy and let her go. But then so did pushy guy! He decided he was too good for her now lol. Despite her best and many efforts to reinstate her program none of us have chosen to train with her again.
        Current trainer has been told quite bluntly that if she lets pushy guy take over then we will no longer require her services and so far she has chosen to schedule us first and pushy guy at the end of the day
        * jfyi pushy guy is well known for being an ass and is very domineering and very very arrogant. He has fallen out with many instructors, friends, clubs etc. this was why we initially cut her some slack...we know the guy well, we know how hard it can be to deal with him and we accept that his $$ spent on many horses will go a
        lot further than our $ spent on our one horse. We know that she was not the only one to fall into this trap, we have waited for the dentist, the saddle fitter, the chiro etc

        But still...waiting for 5 hours ffs!

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        • #44
          1) When she repeatedly used a whip on my lesson horse's hocks to try to get him "under himself."

          2) When she told me my horse was not responding correctly because he was a bully. After man-handling him, the next day he cowered in the corner of his stall, shaking, when we approached. Bully my a$$.

          BTW these were two different "trainers".

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          • #45
            I started my dressage journey on a horse I purchased from H/J trainer who was dabbling in dressage. She did an OK job teaching us at first, but the more knowledgable I became the less confident I became in her abilities. There was no plan, no consistency - whatever struck her fancy was what we worked on in any given lesson. It was very frustrating!

            I am now working with a trainer that I adore - we have a plan and work consistently on getting things right before moving on/adding new work. She's tough, but fair and we are progressing nicely.
            http://fromdressagehorsetocowpony.blogspot.com/

            "I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse." -- John Galsworthy

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