8 issues horsey {couples} argue about, from dressage navigation to cleansing sheaths

A horsey different half is many riders’ dream — somebody to share the payments, in addition to your hopes, desires and disappointments. No extra arguments since you spend an excessive amount of time on the yard, as a result of she or he is there too!

However it’s not at all times bliss and pink roses within the tack room. Listed below are eight issues horsey {couples} might discover themselves arguing about…

1. Who ought to dismount to open that basically stiff gate out hacking. Sure, the opposite horse is taller to get again on, however mine is far much less prone to stand nonetheless…

2. Whose fault it’s when somebody goes the flawed approach in a dressage check. Was the caller so distracted by watching how good/dangerous the medium trot is (and so they truly know what they’re in search of), that they forgot to provide an instruction? Or was the rider merely not concentrating and the caller gave path in completely good time?

3. Who ought to pay for lorry repairs if it’s been reversed into one thing — the motive force or the individual doing the guiding? Typically there’s one thing to be stated for resorting to the joint checking account, even when it’s meant to be strictly payments and mortgage solely…

4. Whose fault it’s that you simply arrived on the present actually late — the one who didn’t set the alarm clock correctly or the one who insisted on a breakfast cease at McDonald’s? Domestics in McDonald’s are by no means elegant…

5. How the Olympic qualification course of works. You each know you would clear up this by simply wanting on the FEI web site, however an excellent debate is way more enjoyable… (or is that simply us?!)

6. How British Dressage’s bronze, silver and gold system works. As above, however totally different web site.

7. Whose flip it’s to scrub the 27-year-old retired pony’s sheath. Or clear beneath the rubber mats. Or do another actually unpopular job…

8. Why somebody had the final fence down/a silly cease throughout nation/their horse cantered on the flawed leg for the decide. In any case, the spectator can at all times inform, proper?

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