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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Judges and friends
A New Comer was watching the dressage competition in the Hartlebury premier league show.
He was trying to make heads or tails from the activity in the sand pit down in front of him , he was at total confusion, all this turning left, turning right , back and fore, start stop, stop start , the horses they must have been as dizzy as he was .
The guy next to him noticed the look of bewilderment on his face and turned to him and said “Come join me and my friends over there I am a top “Federation Riders International” judge , my friends are also new comers to the sport so while I am explaining to them you can listen and learn”.
Half way through the class the New Comer felt he gained sufficient knowledge of the massage thing , the fog have lifted from the arena and every thing was as clear as day light , he knew a half pass from leg yield, he could appreciate the quality of the piaffe and identify if were displayed any of the scale of training.
He bid the FRI judge and his friends good by and wondered off to the other side of the arena and joined another group of spectators . As it often happens in the dressage world a light conversation about a test and the scoring, turned into heated argument, was the judge judging WHAT he saw or WHO he saw or HOW he saw it , did the combination deserved a 80% or was it a miss use of the coefficient . The New Comer with his newly acquired knowledge STATED HIS OPINION loud and clear and when challenged by the others as to his limited knowledge of the sport , he replied that this was the opinion of the guy sitting over there with his FRIENDS “ HE IS AN EXPERT , HE IS A TOP FRI JUDGE”.
He was ridiculed by the others, thinking that guy over there, sitting with the other people is “A TOP FRI JUDGE he must have been pulling your leg”, they all said “ no way he is an FRI judge”.
“YES HE IS he told me so himself “ was the reply.
“Don't be so naive “ the others insisted “ he was pulling you leg, An FRI judge !!!!! is most un likely to have FRIENDS”
may be one FRIEND but only at the end of the Competition”