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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.
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Wining style
The debate on BD forum on the merit of, official Qualifications highlighted many interesting views as regard to training and learning styles ,modern training techniques , the importance of the connection between coach and student and their adjustability and flexibility in meeting student’s learning needs .
I feel that this is an opportunity to point out that the relationship between the number one dressage rider in the world and her coach only happened due to the persistence of one mother that did not take a NO for an answer , worn the trainer down until he agreed to take her daughter on a trial period.
On the first day of this trial period the said mother delivered the young girl to the yard and before she departed on her way back home GAVE the trainer a sheet of paper and said “ I have put down few pointers what YOU NEED to teach her “ she got into the car and as in an afterthought shouted at the trainer “AND SHE LIKES TWO SUGAR AND LITTLE MILK in her tea”.
The trainer shrugged his shoulders raised his eyebrows crumpled the sheet of paper into his coat pocket and mumbled to the people around him “MOTHERS!!”.
Some days later while searching in his pocket for a lump of sugar (for his horse) he found the crumpled paper which he forgot all about . Out of curiosity he fished it out of his pocket un crumpled it and then at the bottom, of the wet soggy un crumpled A4 sheet of paper, in very small neat hand writing were two little words “TO WIN”
And the rest is as we say is HISTORY
I feel that this is an opportunity to point out that the relationship between the number one dressage rider in the world and her coach only happened due to the persistence of one mother that did not take a NO for an answer , worn the trainer down until he agreed to take her daughter on a trial period.
On the first day of this trial period the said mother delivered the young girl to the yard and before she departed on her way back home GAVE the trainer a sheet of paper and said “ I have put down few pointers what YOU NEED to teach her “ she got into the car and as in an afterthought shouted at the trainer “AND SHE LIKES TWO SUGAR AND LITTLE MILK in her tea”.
The trainer shrugged his shoulders raised his eyebrows crumpled the sheet of paper into his coat pocket and mumbled to the people around him “MOTHERS!!”.
Some days later while searching in his pocket for a lump of sugar (for his horse) he found the crumpled paper which he forgot all about . Out of curiosity he fished it out of his pocket un crumpled it and then at the bottom, of the wet soggy un crumpled A4 sheet of paper, in very small neat hand writing were two little words “TO WIN”
And the rest is as we say is HISTORY
