If you chose mostly Bs: If you can swing this without ending up in receivership, divorce court or the orthopedic ward of the hospital, go for it. Cancel the country club, give up the yearly cruise, pay your health insurance and go get as nice a horse as you can manage.
If you chose mostly Cs: Maybe you should get off the fence! Are you sure you're not a closet A? Or maybe you REALLY want to be a D or E? Tell the truth now!
Mostly Ds and Es: Welcome to our world!
Dr. Chris Uhlinger is a veterinarian who has been in equine practice a little too long. She has given up trying to ride above First Level and is now in training to be a professional curmudgeon and crazy old lady. She is a lobbyist on behalf of banning braids on horses, white breeches on riders older than 10 and the sit trot for anyone born west of the Rhine. She is not going to tell you where she lives, because then you will figure out how to reach her, call her up and tell her some long, long, long story about your horse's real or imagined hind end lameness and how it got better after you started feeding certified organic lark poop.
Diana Rickets also worked on this piece. She declined to send in a bio out of shyness and thus left herself at my mercy. Diana is locally famous for her ability to be happy and pleasant at a dressage show before the Pinot Noir has been uncorked. She is a talented rider notable for her desire to provide "enrichment opportunities" for her lovely big horse, Gotham. These have included dressage shows, de-spooking clinics, Parelli-up-through-the-levels, endurance rides and survivor-style trail rides led by a crazy old lady veterinarian.
