Loathe that woman. She has zero love for her horses beyond what they can do for her.
She made a huge deal about the neck strap being on, and I thought well Meg if you had a neck strap and tightened it appropriately and slipped a few fingers through it you wouldn't be able to yank the face off your horses. If a neckie is good enough for Will FP it's good enough for us mere mortals.
Where did she say this? Can’t see it on Facebook or insta - was it a story or has it been removed ?
it was on her stories - she said she was in a bad mood as he trotted across the field and was looking really unsound again
Ahhh the good old days. I remember doing it at pony club, I used to be able to jump a decent height with no reins or stirrups. Well it was probably only 80cm but at the time it felt huge
Wilma, Jam, Winnie, Bear and maybe the odd one or two from Bryni before she's sold?
God if I had all of that for free I’d be rolling in it and be able to buy myself a big lorry and/or another horse!! I’m sure she gets feed etc for free via sponsorship and rugs etc too so all her costs are do seem to be farrier, vaccs and worming!
Or worse hammered in the school daily with little turnout and hacking.
Exactly this. It's understandable but it's gone on way too long now and she's been aware of the issues for ages and isn't making any progress changing (whether she's trying or not)
Her latest vlog with the backing up before she got on. What was that. That’s not correct ground work for a start and she was trying to prove what? That she has come on here and read that the mare is lacking basic ground manners and just manners full stop. The whole session she still hammered Addie. I get Emily is extremely lucky but she seems to be getting on a lot of nerves, including suzi with how suzie has been in the last few vlogs. Cantering off when Emily knows she isn’t confident I had to turn off. Basic courtesy out the window.
I watched that a couple of days ago, the vlog with Suzie and I felt that was a really stupid thing to do, cantering off when Suzie was one handed and not ready. She’s a novice rider and Emily ought to have more sense than that. I’ve seen a side to Emily in recent vlogs that I’m not sure I like and it’s really disappointing because I always thought she was one of the better vloggers.
I really liked it! I thought it was the best Em has ridden Addie in a long while. Takes some guts to put the bad stuff out there with the good, but I thought she worked through her exercises much better. Not an easy mare and having no arena at home (or at a yard if you are on one) isn't easy either when you need to school your horse. She has certainly been in for some negativity lately, but of all of them, I think she is the best rider and juggling all this with a full time job as well, it's actually nice to see someone who regularly vlogs, but isn't doing it for a living.
She’s had heaps of training, coaching and clinics to last someone a lifetime. She hires an arena quite often but chooses to jump the mare there most times. I think Addie has got worse over the last year with Emily, purely through being rushed. I think the regular vlogs may be sponsored??
Funnily enough we ended up watching some of last year’s SUKO as our house has been hit by the Christmas flu. My non-horsey other half (but he knows enough as he is very supportive and comes to lots of lessons and competitions with me) said that Addie looked so much better last year than she does now. His observations were that Addie wasn’t tail swishing or head tossing like she does now. Every time I watch an Emily vlog, he asks why she hasn’t sold her yet.
nkShe is the absolute definition of a clueless amateur who has bought herself a young horse and is so far out of her depth
