Seventeen Ways to Infuriate a Horseperson
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Does somebody in your life really, truly love horses? Here are a handful of suggestions for comments to avoid to remain on a horse person's good side. Or, if you like to push people's buttons, some ideas to get under their skin. Enjoy!
1) Call a horse an “it.”
2) Refer to all foals as colts.
3) Post a picture of someone riding without a helmet.
4) When someone posts a foal photo on social media, reply, “Meh, I don’t get all of the fuss about foals.”
5) State a preference for one aftercare organization over another.
6) Make an intentional mistake when identifying a horse’s color.
7) Say that you think Secretariat was overrated.
8) Attend a 3-day event and casually say to the people around you, “Pfffft, anybody could do that.”
9) Start a debate about who was better between Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta.
10) Shrug and say, “Michael Matz, what'd he ever accomplish?”
11) When identifying a sire, say that the horse is “out of” the sire instead of “by” the sire.
12) Ask, “Why is the rider tired, the horse does all of the work?”
13) Refer to a horse as “bomb proof.”
14) When a star is supposed to be an accomplished equestrian but clearly knows nothing about actual horsemanship.
15) Say, “You know what would be cool? A match race!”
16) Call retired racehorses “crazy” – usually, they’re pretty used to hearing and seeing a lot more than other horses due to their time at busy racetracks.
17) Say, “Why are you making such a big deal about it … it’s just a horse!”