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Good for you for explaining. Remember the saying? "There's something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." The ones that are uneducated about horses and spout off, stay uneducated and should stay away from horses.

You two are doing a certain amount of ignorant spouting off yourself. Becky rides, has more hours in the saddle every week than many people I know. Doesn't mean she can't express her own thoughts and fears about people who, in her view, take risks she wouldn't take.

Ease up.

Hey thanks:)

I thought the post was pretty funny.

I came in after saddling my horse for some lunch and just checked in and saw that gem:)

Becky

I got my first horse in 1941.

I have at times had as many as 18 and as few as two.

I still ride and jump fences.

I have had as my friends some of the very top names in the horse business and known many many others.

I am not spouting.

As an example, George Morris, the most successful trainer of jump riders in the US (who I never met but only know by reputation) is reputed to have once made his students drink from their horse's water bucket. He is reputed to have told them that if it was not clean enough for them, it was not clean enough for their horse.

Although he is known for being hard nosed with his students, his attitude toward his horses is typical of those you see riding in the A rated shows.

Becky does not know what she is talking about.

Owning and riding a horse does not make one a horseman.