This women has no horse sense!

bet she thinks she does though. if you don't really know what you are doing - with horses or indeed anything - then the sensible thing is to ask someone with experience. are these people really arrogant or just dense? it isn't fair on the horses apart from anything else...

that is SO true its like the English think that you have to put a small child on a pony - well, said pony may not be a good choice because what the child learning to ride needs is a nice, docile, well trained animal of whatever size The first horse I ever rode was almost 30 yrs old and for the first year the youngest horse I rode was 25. They were all old and "bullet proof" to beginning riders. When I became a more novice rider I moved on to younger horses. I won't say I ever became an expert rider, but that's more because I have poor conformation and timing, I personally wouldn't ever care to ride a young, green horse. I did it a few times and regretted it every time.

yikes, what a turn off horses for the hubby. who in their right mind would do that to someone. sorry not a big fan of standardbreds, and it takes a lot of work to educate a s.b. for normal riding. sounds as bad as my bros g.f. she was a bit pig headed about getting a horse, and decided she wanted on from the sales basically. he had been great up till start of sep i think, then he dumped her not sure why exactly. but he's been diffcult since then to do things with. catching him for one thing, then you can't get on him. she wanted to send him away for work but mum said no not when i can do it, all it takes is a bit of asking. i'm thinking he was doped and it's worn off and we've got a problem with it, now and got to go back to square one.

Every barn/stable has one or two people like the lady at your barn, THE KNOW IT ALL who knows NOTHING in reality. The last one over at my brother's barn was a guy I named the Video Cowboy, every time he watched RFD for more than an hour, we all knew it because he couldn't wait to instruct every last one of us as to what was the best way to do ________(insert any horse related task). VC got ran over by a car on his bicycle a while back, sold his horse, he no longer knows anything about horses.