People who own a horse and enjoy riding can never seem to stop talking about their biggest passion, which are horses and everything about them. On the contrary, non-horse people lack the right information about horses in general and often seem to say things that annoy horse people. We have made a list with the most typical sayings that non-horse say without realizing they can offend horse people.
‘’Horse riding isn’t a real sport” – Horse riding is actually a real sport who is even played at the Olympics. This sport is very competitive and has various ways to be played: individually or in teams.
”You must be really rich if you have a horse” – The perception that having a horse makes you automatically rich is out of date. On the contrary, most people who have a horse are possibly poor because they spend all their time and money by taking care of their horses.
”The horse does all the work’’ – As well trained as a horse can be it takes a lot of hard work and dedication on a daily bases by horse owners. So this saying is completely incorrect.
”Just have a day off from the horses” – Non-horse people just don’t get it. Equestrianism is a lifestyle, not a simple hobby that you can just give up after feeling bored. Equestrians are 365 days occupated with their horses and don’t ever think about having a day off. Maybe they could, but they are very passionate about their horses and a day off is not on their calendar.
