Things I wish I could tell non horse people......

Also!

34. Getting kicked IS worse than being tackled.
35. Not all the cute ones are sweet.
36. The barn is my perfume, and sweat is my hairspray. But id rather have that than whatever is "in style".
37. Just because im going fast DOES NOT mean im out of control.
38. Just because that girl wins does not mean she rides correctly, her parents have this thing called "money".
39. My horse is my baby, do not mock him or you're mocking my child.
40. Horses are more caring than people, and more forgiving.
41. YES, my horse is freaking out in the pasture, NO, he's not western!
42. My saddle has no "holding part" because im NOT WESTERN! ENGLISH!
43. Horses can't speak, but they can cuss pretty dang loud.

This one is very true! When my friends ask me how I can have such "strong arms" without going to the gym, I usually just mumble something about the 650 bales of hay I've been moving around...

Riding is a sport.
Just because I have a horse, that does not mean I live on a farm.

I do. Why is that considered an insult? I'd rather live out among the cattle and crops than be stuck in some cookie cutter suburban neighborhood.

It use to bother me a lot before because people were so quick to judge I guess you could say. I technically do live on a farm now.
I agree totally with you about the suburban neighborhood matter.

Oh and one more.
Just because I own a horse does NOT mean I am rich. Though I wish that was the one thing that was true.

Jealous much, dear?

Unless the parents are paying off the judges, I doubt she's winning because of 'money'.

Even if the girl has a high dollar, push-button schoolmaster, she still needs to know how to ride well enough to ask the horse to do the correct maneuvers at the right time.

Have you ever tried to ride an upper level horse of any discipline without being able to ride that discipline correctly? Yeah, it doesn't go over so well.

I remember the first time I rode an FEI level dressage horse. I figure out how to get him to walk! Took me a couple of tries to get the canter button just right - ended up finding a few other buttons in the process, LOL. The first time I got him to piaffe and passage I didn't know what he was doing! He was fun until they decided a bit was mean and that he needed to trail ride. An 18 year old horse that was exclusively ridden in an arena. He was awful, lost all his confidence and became a chore to ride.
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No, not jealous. And my parents are wealthy, however, I do not own "top of the line" horses. There is one farm imparticular who has a rider in my grade who can't ride crap and her parents went to Austria and bought her a $800,000 Grand Prix horse just so she can get around the 1.15m. So why don't you skuddle along before getting into an argument about me and my riding, and her and her parents money making her able to ride. And btw, I have ridden upper level horses, Grand Prix horses, because people trust my riding. It went fabulous and I was being paid to ride the horse and jump her till they moved to Georgia. Don't believe me? I have pictures. And no, she has only enough mental capacity to know the courses, I asked her once if she did any leg work to get him bending, and she asked me what leg work was. Yeah, lets think about arguing with someone who MAY accept your high-brow and narcissistic ideals to get your point across. What a negative way to go about my statement. Congrats on being the first person to tick me off on here. *clap* you are surely a champion rider, look how you handed it to me. Please, try and have at least half heart when you look at other peoples posts. TB-Out

Love it!!!

All my friends laugh at me when I get excited about horses because I'm still just as excited at 22 as I was when I saw a horse for the first time