"If you feel like a pretzel, you're doing it right." - My dressage trainer while I was working on half pass

"If you feel like a pretzel, you're doing it right." - My dressage trainer while I was working on half pass

"If you feel like a pretzel, you're doing it right." - My dressage trainer while I was working on half pass

"If you feel like a pretzel, you're doing it right." - My dressage trainer while I was working on half pass

My Trainer: You get five tries, if you fail them all then you can hop off, untack your horse and come in and watch, okay?

For context; the show we were competing at has classes based on height, so there's a small horse class which is for horses of around 15.2hh. My trainer, who was also the course builder and designer for this show and I was on her course building team. (Now, in the UK, people use all kinds of methods to get their horses legally measured at 15.2hh for these classes) and it particularly annoys my trainer when she sees a horse competing in the 15.2 class which very clearly is way too big to be 15.2hh.

My jump trainer, a funny Irishman, has a naturally skinny greyhound called Twig lol. He also has a three legged cat called Tripod.

"that looks terrible, try it again"

“Its not Thanksgiving, and you are not a turkey!!!”

"put your hands down, it looks like you are trying to hold up your boobs!!!"