Meanwhile, the horse s ankles are sprouting golf balls. You could move to Antarctica, though it s bound to have a negative influence on your financial portfolio. My favorite defense is the deflection. All the good horses wear pads. No, he s not off, your girth is too tight.
Trainers hate that, but they also hate mouthy horseshoers.
Either way, the trainer makes a rare trip to the shoeing shed to pull your lungs out through your nose. They absolutely, positively do not like anything that makes their judgment suspect. And of course, clients are more than willing to jump into the middle. Over the years, I ve had a number of customers who completely reveled in this sort of intellectual sword play. The off part was they really didn t want the truth because, well, the truth was that their horse was like a 747 with three engines on fire over the North Atlantic.