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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The Queen
The Queen
After many years of being a Junior Trainer ,junior Trainer was given the opportunity he deserved ,he was selected to be one of the speakers at an important European dressage convention .
True, he was only the supporting act to the main speaker Senior Trainer, but still it was an important mile stone in his career , his role was to warm up the participants prior to Senior Trainer ‘s actual lesson, in front of a full hall he would put the candidates through the warming up and loosening program to insure that Senior Trainer will be able to perform his usual magic with his pupils.
Although most of the riders taking part in this convention were already established experienced competitors with a proven track record, they all co operated with this unusual format and assisted Junior Trainer by playing the game.
Every thing went according to plan until entered the hall an expensive looking Diva mounted on even more expensive looking horse with the commentator announcing that the next rider is Princess Gertrude von Bilderberg.
Un phased or intimidated from this high profile individual Junior Trainer did what Senior Trainer would have done , he got stuck in delivering a top of the range warming up lesson. Unfortunately somewhere along the line there was a breakdown of communication and most of Junior Trainer’s instructions were ignored or modified by Princess Gertrude von Bilderberg.
Junior would tell her to ride simple line down the centre, she would execute an extended trot on the diagonal , her interpretation of gentle low out line was in Puffing and Passaging , and no horse deserved a break with out first performing 50 one time changes .
Eventually Junior Trainer had no option and he called Princess Gertrude von Bilderberg in and asked in his most authoritatively tone of voice “IS ANY THING WRONG WITH MY ENGLISH ? AM I SO CONFUSING ? I ask you to walk, you canter, circle you go large ,is it me or is it you , what's the problem”
Princess Gertrude von Bilderberg looked down from the height of her horse and in her best royal accent replied “ You are Junior Trainer I am Princess Gertrude von Bilderberg and in any case I dont do any thing that MEN tells me what to do “
Junior paused for the briefest of moments and then, in his most natural tone of voice , said “ DARLINGGGgg I don't know if you noticed I out rank you , I am a QUEEN !!!! , so lets warm up AS I SAY ”
After many years of being a Junior Trainer ,junior Trainer was given the opportunity he deserved ,he was selected to be one of the speakers at an important European dressage convention .
True, he was only the supporting act to the main speaker Senior Trainer, but still it was an important mile stone in his career , his role was to warm up the participants prior to Senior Trainer ‘s actual lesson, in front of a full hall he would put the candidates through the warming up and loosening program to insure that Senior Trainer will be able to perform his usual magic with his pupils.
Although most of the riders taking part in this convention were already established experienced competitors with a proven track record, they all co operated with this unusual format and assisted Junior Trainer by playing the game.
Every thing went according to plan until entered the hall an expensive looking Diva mounted on even more expensive looking horse with the commentator announcing that the next rider is Princess Gertrude von Bilderberg.
Un phased or intimidated from this high profile individual Junior Trainer did what Senior Trainer would have done , he got stuck in delivering a top of the range warming up lesson. Unfortunately somewhere along the line there was a breakdown of communication and most of Junior Trainer’s instructions were ignored or modified by Princess Gertrude von Bilderberg.
Junior would tell her to ride simple line down the centre, she would execute an extended trot on the diagonal , her interpretation of gentle low out line was in Puffing and Passaging , and no horse deserved a break with out first performing 50 one time changes .
Eventually Junior Trainer had no option and he called Princess Gertrude von Bilderberg in and asked in his most authoritatively tone of voice “IS ANY THING WRONG WITH MY ENGLISH ? AM I SO CONFUSING ? I ask you to walk, you canter, circle you go large ,is it me or is it you , what's the problem”
Princess Gertrude von Bilderberg looked down from the height of her horse and in her best royal accent replied “ You are Junior Trainer I am Princess Gertrude von Bilderberg and in any case I dont do any thing that MEN tells me what to do “
Junior paused for the briefest of moments and then, in his most natural tone of voice , said “ DARLINGGGgg I don't know if you noticed I out rank you , I am a QUEEN !!!! , so lets warm up AS I SAY ”