Comments on: Rider Insider: Stuff Non-Equestrians Say

By: elmothehorse

elmothehorse — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:19:42 +0000

I’ve heard of people thinking that that bell boots are toilet plungers.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 07 May 2015 20:14:52 +0000

Last night I was reading one of those blogs that is very much like this one and people were talking about how hard riding is since we work with 1200 lb animals, and someone who doesn’t know horses said, “You keep talking about how much the horse weighs, like you have to lift it or something. You don’t.”
I’ve been riding for eight years and took a lot of offense to some of the other things she posted about how easy riding is, are WE the ones Doing the jumps, etc, so when I went into school, I was just randomly thinking that NOBODY’D better criticize riding.
Somebody did. In all of my eight years of riding, this was the most offensive thing that’s ever happened to me in my horse career.
In my school, you spend an hour and a half with your homeroom every morning and forty-five minutes with them at the end of the day, and our teacher is cool and let us use our vocabulary words in a rap and present it for a grade. I promise I’m going somewhere with this. She put us all in groups of four; I was with a jock, a cheerleader, and my friend who rides dressage (I ride jumper). So my one friend and I and the cheerleader were all trying to come up with a rap that we could all relate to. When we finally accepted that that was impossible, we agreed to write a rap about horseback riding. We worked on it for two whole days, then the jock, who was originally gonna do the rapping, tells us at the last second that he doesn’t wanna rap about horseback riding because it “isn’t a sport.” And so my friend and I launched into a rant about how riding IS hard and how it IS a sport, and he just keeps on saying that it isn’t. After a few minutes of this, the teacher, who isn’t a horse person, says that it is in fact a sport because it’s in the Olympics, but that my friend and I were making way too big a deal out of it because apparently it isn’t an insult to us personally (just to our hearts and souls) and that he’s entitled to an opinion. It’s NOT an OPINION! It’s FACT! Either something is a sport or it isn’t, there’s no in between, and horseback riding is DEFINITELY a sport. My friend and I tried to explain to her that it’s not just a hobby which is being criticized, it’s a lifestyle, but as soon as I said that, she said, as if she has a clue, “No. It’s not.” What she doesn’t understand is that when we ride we develop this unexplainable connection and relationship with the horse that you just don’t understand until you develop it with a horse.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Thu, 07 May 2015 17:03:25 +0000

My friends asked me what I wanted for Christmas and i said a horse they said something else so I said a pony and they said that is the same thing!!!!!!

By: Jade

Jade — Fri, 01 May 2015 19:25:27 +0000

My cousin from Alabama came up on vacation and we had her riding double on our senior gelding, she was on the phone with her boyfriend, the horse took two steps forward and she grabs the girl in front of her and yells to her boyfriend, “They’ve got me on a horse and it’s running!!” we wee laughing so hard!

By: Rheanna

Rheanna — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 03:15:05 +0000

I was talking about showjumping to one of my friend’s dads a year or two ago, and the moment I brought up wanting to do showjumping he replied “You’d have to get a pretty tall horse, those horses are all taller than 20 hands!”
Please do not speak to me about horses again.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:04:48 +0000

After I had finished teaching a group of children one day I asked one of my helpers if she was going to be a riding instructor when she left school .Her reply : ” oh no I’m not allowed ” .why’s that ? I asked her . ” Daddy said I’ve got a brain so I must use it ” she said !!!

By: Brianna

Brianna — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:27:07 +0000

I work at a trail barn in the summers and my favourite thing ever that one of the customers said was “how do these horses get their exercise?” right after I answered questions about how long the trail was (roughly 4 miles) and how many times a day they walked the trail (4-8). I think walking 16-32 miles a day, up and down hills constitutes as exercise…

By: Sunni

Sunni — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 06:51:53 +0000

One day when I was ridding a friend said to me: ” Your not any work are you? I mean your horse does all the work right?” I just sighed for a response.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:01:14 +0000

When I was talking about my Appendix and how he was not behaving and my non-horsey friend said “I thought you already got that removed???”

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:01:35 +0000

One time I was grooming my lesson horse and getting ready for my lesson. I man had just brought his daughter in for her first riding lesson. They stopped to watch me and the dad asked what kind of horse is that. I said it was an Arabian gelding. He asked what a gelding was. Without thinking, I said a castrated male horse. His response was, AHHHHH!