Flossy is well known to many on the British Dressage Forum as a teller of interesting stories and perhaps the odd joke or two. We have selected a few tales for your pleasure.

Make yp your mind

Junior Trainer  was by the working in arena watching the other competitors  warming up   for the “BD  walk halt test” (restricted section  rising  permitted) , he was watching  in particularly  lady suckly  on one of her  £500k  specially    designed dressage   horses , a beautiful black Hanoverian stallion.  It was at moments like this that Junior Trainer had small pangs of jealousy   on the unfairness of life  as much as he loved Bluey  the cob  and appreciated  his excellent attributes   for the  “BD  walk halt test “ it would be nice  once in a while   to entre a competition  with out   spectators  assuming that he was the half time entertainment  number.
It was clear for every one around  the arena  that lady Suckly’s    warming up was not going according to plan, well not according to her plan   and   horses  don't really plan , after every failed attempt to execute a movement  lady Suckly  could be heard  muttering  from one end of the arena  to the other   “you  USELESS  ungrateful donkey   I am going to   GIVE YOU AWAY to the first person  that will TAKE YOU  ” .How ever from time to time  a movement would be categorised as less failed then the previous one  and an enthusiastic voice would be heard  “GOOD BOY”,  but for the next one  it would be again  “you  USELESS  ungrateful donkey   I am going to   GIVE YOU AWAY to the first person  that will TAKE YOU “.
This  verbal  interchanges went on  for  a long duration of the working in   until Junior Trainer  suddenly jumped into the middle of the arena shouted towards  lady  Suckly    “for gods sake  WOMAN make up your mind  I  should have got on my horse  half an hour ago”