Per requests in The Virtual Horse Show group, here is the public version of your horse show mom. Y’all come get your tacos by the trailer while they’re hot.
Posted by Scott Cooper on Monday, April 6, 2020
Forget the saintly schoolmasters packing their nervous pilots around the Junior Beginner Novice division. Forget the hard-working and unsung volunteers who toil from sun-up to sun-down and beyond to ensure we all have an event to score a 50 at. Forget the coffee van man, who serves up his elixir of life and keeps us all human even before we’ve got the plaiting bands out.
The real star of the horse show circuit? It’s horse show mums, of course, and all the different levels of delightfully insane they bring to the party. No matter your discipline or the country in which you’re based, they’re all made of the same basic ingredients: an iPhone glued to their palm, a pocket full of loose bills, a head collar and kit bag slung over a shoulder, and a booming tenor that can cross several fields without the help of a tannoy system. They’re vaguely frightening and formidable, but we’ve got to hold our hands up to them — they’re always there ensuring the cogs are a-turning. I just wish the ones over here in the UK came equipped with Tex-Mex.
