Ok, sorry to say this but in almost every barn their is one girl who is filthy rich and has over two horses. She brags about him to everyone she sees and she thinks she is the best there is. In the barn i go to, there are more than one of these kinds of people, and their younger than me. I am just happy owning one horse, but this 13-year old has seven...SEVEN. I hope she gives them all treatment. Don't get me wrong her horses are beautiful but does she have to brag. I love ozzie but i don't go braggin'.
Also there is this really young girl who makes the working students tack up and untack her pony, snob, yes.
Another younger girl is getting a new horse and she barely knows how to jump a pony. She brags already and she hasn't even gotten it yet.
If you know any ppl like this please share your stories
I can somewhat relate to this. One of my really good friends is VERY well off.
2 cars, a fully loaded new mustang convertible, and a SUV. A brand new 4,000 square foot home, a shopping budget that is out of this world, more designer shoes, handbags, clothing then you can imagine... I could go on and on.
We are close, but the economic gap is a hinder to our relationship. She always wants to do stuff, and when I say do stuff, I'm talking about vacations, balls, sporting events, going to clubs VIP etc.
She's very generous with her money, but it's hard to keep up with. People that have a lot of money lead a different lifestyle as well as a different mentality then people who live more modestly.
It's just hard lifestyle to relate to, and it makes it even harder when it's flaunted in your face everyday.
I'll admit, I am jealous of them, but I treat them nice anyway, though on the inside I fling a whole variety of words at them. I try to avoid them as much as possible when I am riding but when the snob called my ozzie a b*stard, oh man the words were flyin' out of my mouth. She went crying to my instructor, oops. he gave me a warning and he also told the girl to stay out of my way from now on because he wasn't going to protect her anymore, yes!
I had a close friends for years and we took riding lessons together growing up. Once we got older she married into a rich family and same story: gets everything for free vacations, expensive pets, entire house, etc. and an expensive horse that she bragged about for years, but she only visited her horse she bragged about so much maybe once a month. Now 5 years later he's in training at an expensive stable but she only rides him once a week even though she doesn't have to work. I'd be there every day if I had that much time! Anyways we're not much of friends anymore, I couldn't afford keeping up with her constant 'going outs' and the one time she visited my apartment she asked 'if it was safe?!' before she came in...
I know what you mean! I hate it when people walk into the barn and say "Ew!" at some manure. My petpeeve is when they just have someone tack u p the horse and take care of it. It's their horse! They're so ungrateful sometimes. I've ridden for about five years now, and after my horse Starbaby broke her leg and I spent two years rehabilitating her I wanted to scream at those sorts of people. They had many many happy, healthy beautiful horses that they took completely for granted. I had no h orse to ride at that time. You'll be happy to know that Star has now recovered -though she has a limp- and we found out she loves swimming!
ozzie4ever; think of it this way, there goes her social life! if she has seven horses then shes probably there every single day after school until dinner or whatever, and always there on the weekends...with no time for boys or friends out of the barn
with the girl with seven horses, she doesn't ride all of them herself, selfish little brat, but makes others exercise them for her. If i had all those horses i would exercise them all myself to get the enjoyment out of it, however, i wouldn't get seven horses in the first place since that is way too many for a 13-year old. I am just glad that I have 1 beautiful, huge, bay boy.
Well, I'm putting this here because she is kind of a "horse snob", but not completely. What I mean is that she says stuff that a snob might say, but she's not doing it in an effort to be mean, rude, etc. Like one day we were riding and talking while we were warming up, and talking about horses habits. I mentioned one that a lesson horse had, and asked her if she had noticed any about the lesson horses (since they're the ones I have the most contact with). She said, not even thinking about it, "oh, I've never ridden a lesson horse before." I knew she wasn't trying to be mean (she's not like that), but it still kind of hurt since I want a horse so bad, and I'm not allowed one .
I know how you all feel. Every year for summer i go to a horse camp not far from where i live. Every year a girl goes there with me ( srongly dislike her) she takes two of her horses (her family owns like 11) but anyway, her brother also goes there, he rides the camp's horses with me. the girl, we will call her kerry, always makes her brother take care of her horses. To make it worse she wasn't paying attention one day as we were jumping in the pasture and pushed her horse too hard. he went down, broke both forelegs and she broke a wrist. The horse had to be put down and her exact words were "Daddy go buy me a new horse.Besides that one couldn't jump to save it's life" I did the unspeakable. I broke her nose, jaw and arm in three places.
me and my friend went to horse camp a year ago and we didnt no alot about horses but we new enough so the horses would trust us. well we were in 8th grade and we were both 14 and this 7 year old grl was walking around acting like she new everything . the instructor asked her to show us around and she was mean and bossy and we went to the tack room and she said not to touch anything so we dont get it dirty and she is the little grl that owns 2 horses and won tons of jumping ribbons. she didnt have the4 looks but she had the snobbiness
I know this post is old but I have to write about this girl. At a barn I use to work at with my sister, there was a girl who drove up in a brand new pickup. She jumped out and looked at us. We were grooming some horses. She comes right up to us and says, "Hey, Worker Girls. Where is the English barn?" And that is what she called us for two years. And in that time she got five more horses. even though she already had three. I hate barn snobs. She neever even took care of them. Even though nobady at our barn had to. She brought her own 'staff'. Ah she drove everybody crazy!
I keep my horses at a private farm, so I don't have that kind of problem. The best thing to do is just ignore those kind of kids. They'll find that being a snob makes more enemies than it does friends, and those friends will come in handy if the enemies come after you. If they talk to you like that, sometimes you just have to say "Grow up"
You could teach your horse to like sneeze on them.JK. Ive known a girl like that. It ended up that now shes my best friend. But before that it was like war.
She would try to name more breeds than me. Say she can jump while she is still walking and trotting in her lessons and brag how her daddy bought her her horse for like 50thousand dollars. shes not rich and her aunt owns a really nice tack shop so thats how she dresses expensivly. Just think of it this way, those snobby girls will grow up and have no life and will still live with thier parents because thier snobbyness will lead to them having no friends and then they will come crying back to the girl who only had one horse.
I can't name too many breeds. A grade horse is just as good as any.
We did have some nice horses at the farm, though.
For those of you who know about Western...
We had a filly out of Hollywood Dun It (sp?) that we bough for under $2000, because she was a brown. (Lady was mad that the little thing came out brown instead of buckskin or pal.)
ya thats a major factor at my stable.im not to heavy im just puddgy just because of that the rich girls with the worm bloods,thoroughbreds and fancey horses take every chance they can get to laugh at me.But when they go away for vaccation or things like that im always the one to feed groom and work there horses.All the while im takeing care of my apendix quarter horse star.Then when sunday shows up they look at me like i dont deserve to load my horse in the trailors and go compete.When i beet there skinny little snoty,rich selves at every show they go cry to their mommys and their mommys go cry at the coach.(by the way i dont have a mom to follow me around at shows and help me)and coach says im sorry while your child was at the mall grace was training and doing all the things that your child should have been doing.But of course that only shuts the little girls up for a couple of days.but yeahh that one of my barn snot stories
Poco Bueno, The Ole Man (sp?), Hollywood Dun It, Peppy San Badger (I think that's the name), Doc O Lena (again with the name) and more. It's been a while since I've done the horse thing.
I really liked that Hollywood filly, though. She was a natural reiner.
My all time favorite was a quarter gelding that had palomino papers. It wasn't until he was older that he got a red stripe down his back and the "zebra" striping on his legs... also in red. He ended up being a diluted dun. A red dun, but light as a palomino. Beautiful beast, he was.
My thoroughbred, Ozzie, has some relation to famous racehorses and her dam, Ms. Blue Shoes, was in the Kentucky Derby in 1970. Ozzie was born at the Jockey Club Stables in Lexington. Big Brown's sire grew up there too. At the stables I ride at there is another horse that was born at the Jockey Club named Fame.
