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In reply to the discussion: Professor: ‘Follow your dreams’ is cruel advice [View all]riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Sounds like that mare may be it...
As for your Arab mare... yeah. I don't know where you are located so no references here. We're in No IL. The only Arab cross dressage mare we have in the barn right now put up a shitfit when asked to stand quietly at the mounting block. 2 hours later my husband finally got her to stand. Quietly. To be mounted. She promptly reared up and fell over backwards on him as soon as he got in the saddle, cracking 2 ribs.
Needless to say, he wasn't amused.
As far as Kathy Connelly goes, well, now you know as I'm sure you know intimately. Most ALL top trainers have patrons unless they are individually wealthy. Robert Dover etc are heavily subsidized by patrons (most of them lovers).
Did you hear about Bill Gates' daughter in FL this past winter? He leased 5 Grand Prix horses for her to compete AND rented an estate in Wellington for more than a million bucks for the 5 months season. She's 15 yrs old.
You can't compete with that.
Alas.