The New Journey..........What Is This?

Part One

The worst part of that experience at the Region 5 Championships was it reinforced those messages that I was alone and no one really liked me. All those times of BG planting seeds were taking their toll. Even though he wasn't living up to his end of our bargain, I still had this strong feeling I needed them.

Not long after that championship show I found out that BG had pretty much abandoned his online journal, instead he had begun on FB and he had been secretive about it in regards to me. Imagine my surprise to find that among the very first of his FB friends were YW, HM and PF. With over 400 members in just my club in this region let alone the twelve other clubs, I found myself wondering if it just wasn't a little bit odd that BG had added the handful of people who had issues with me.

Along with this, what I considered to be, odd behavior, BG suddenly found it no longer important to return my phone calls, my text messages or emails. The place of prominence I'd had in being "the" important client was all but gone. Mostly I only contacted BG about work and doubling checking his schedule so claiming to not get a phone call or message was just one more reason not to work. I also knew BG was lying to me on a regular basis. I wasn't sure what to do about any of this.

It was somewhere around this time I finally got the opportunity to see BG ride Reflection. When I did, I knew immediately what the problem was. As I watched BG riding the horse down the rail, Reflection was tossing his head from side to side.

For those who aren't familiar with this behavior, it is typical of some stallions. Reflection throws his head to either side as an expression of how cool he is. It's a trait that the great Khemosabi was know for. It's a clear message that the stallion is in charge.

Letting it happen with the horse under saddle pretty much guaranteed the horse would be naughty. It's like a blanket permission to do whatever he feels like regardless of what he's asked. It was no wonder Reflection was being naughty. He thought he could do pretty much as he pleased.

I immediately told BG to correct the horse. Then I began explaining why it was important to do so. There was no way Reflection was going to settle down and listen to a rider as long as he was allowed to continued that behavior. If BG wanted to continue working Reflection that would have to stop and stop now.

Those other horses BG had begun in training were actually beginning to look more trained than my horses. These horses had only been with BG a few weeks where mine had been started almost a year before.

The only reason I got to see where these horses were in their training was because the owner set up an appointment to see them ridden. The only time she could come was when I was supposed to be there. BG couldn't get me out of the barn fast enough to have me be gone when she arrived and he probably knew lying to me about why he wanted me gone wouldn't get me out of there anyway so he told me she was coming. Once I knew she had that appointment, I stayed to see just how trained these horses were.

I had heard from BG how great the first horse was doing. How he'd fixed this horse in record time that another local trainer hadn't been able to fix in over a year and a half. The woman was so happy she'd given him a horse to get started under saddle. BG just couldn't resist spreading the word on anything that made him look good and even if he wasn't still trying to reel me in, he was still out there selling himself to anyone who would listen and that included me.

While this woman was at the barn it was clear that SHE was now the important client. BG was fawning all over her. To be honest I'd never seen him do this much *ss kissing with an owner before, not even me, but then this woman has money, lots of it.

In addition to having these two horses in training with BG, the woman also had a bunch of tack she was wanting to sell. She was no longer planning on showing horses so was liquidating all her show gear and some working tack too. She was hoping BG could help her with that.

In her show tack collection the woman had a couple of pairs of silver weighted reins. I was wanting to have a pair of weighted reins but really couldn't afford them. Since the woman's asking price was something I could handle, I asked BG if he would get those reins for me to see and try with Legs.

BG promised me that he would call the woman and that I would be the first one to get to look at any of her stuff. He also promised me that particularly those reins were mine if I wanted them. Instead when the reins arrived WF decided she wanted them and bought them right out from under my nose even though BG had promised them to me.

I confronted both BG and WF about this situation and all I got was a shoulder shrug. For the first time I was beginning to see their word really wasn't worth much and I began to question other things too.

The interesting thing was, when it was all said and done WF offered to loan me those reins for nationals. When I tried them on my horse they were just too heavy. Had she given me the opportunity to try them in the first place as BG promised, there would have been no hard feelings. WF would have been free to buy them herself and I wouldn't have cared at all. Instead it is just another one of those things that showed me BG and WF's word didn't mean a thing.

One day I was riding one of my horses in the ring and I think BG was waiting for this client to arrive. Whatever he was supposed to be doing for me was getting cancelled yet again and I was pretty pissed. I'd made some kind of request of him and I was being ignored even though he was supposed to be working my horses at the time. I found myself muttering a snide remark about not being as important as this other client under my breath.

Unfortunately the comment wasn't under my breath enough. BG heard it and went off on me. He snarled at me, "What's that?" and I'd repeated a tamer version of what I'd said explaining my frustration. BG's response was to tell me to "Get the F*CK OUT OF MY BARN!" To which I'd replied "FINE, I'll take MY horse and go!":

BG's response was instantaneous. "YOU JUST DO THAT! AND I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT!"

To be continued....................

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