'My kids want to ride your horses': Entitled dad wanders next door and demands a cowgirl let his 5 and 7-year-old daughters ride her ex-racehorse, when the horse owner refuses, dad throws a fit

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Oct 12, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

Racehorses are rippin' fast. For those of you who have never seen a horse run at full torque (I'd wager, most of y'all), you really don't realize the power and the speed of a racehorse until they go galloping by you at Mach force, knocking the hat off your head and sand blasting your ankles with remnant track dirt. Although they look similar to the sweet little ponies down by the summer carnivals, racehorses are a totally different beast… Literally. 

A city-slicking dad didn't know the difference, of course, and when he made his way around his new neighborhood with his daughters, they were captivated by their neighbor's horses. However, this cowgirl was an equestrian and helped rehabilitate ex-racehorses and dressage horses who were no longer in service. Aware that these aren't the most kid-friendly animals on the farm, she always padlocked the gate, and it's a good thing, because this entitled dad seemed to stop at nothing to get his daughters to ride the back of the neighbor's "horsey."

When she adamantly refused to put their lives in danger, somehow that made her the bad guy? I guess, not everyone has the good horse sense to know better…

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  • I rented a small block of land just outside town to keep my horses on it. Horses weren't uncommon in the area but also there were a lot of residential areas around so sometimes
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  • I would turn up to my pasture and people would be there with their children petting the horses over the fence. Didn't bother me as both of my horses were pretty nice and polite to pet.
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  • One day I was out there just doing chores; weeding, cleaning, fixing fences etc, normal horse stuff. I had my headphones in and I'm working away when I hear
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  • shouting. I look over to the gate by the road and I see a man and two young girls there (7-5ish?) beaconing me over. I walk over, assuming they want to pat and maybe feed a carrot to the horses.
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  • I say hello and the first thing he said was "my kids want to ride your horses." Not even a "CAN my kids ride you horses" nope. WANT.
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  • For reference, my horses were an ex racehorse who was still learning where the off button was, and a very large, very strong dressage horse who was highly
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  • trained and also very highly strung. So safe to say, even if I wanted to let the kids ride, these horses were not child safe.
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  • I explain this to him, plus that I didn't have any of my riding gear with me as I hadn't planned on riding that day.
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  • The dad just rolled his eyes and goes "it's not that hard, just put them on the horse and lead them around" before trying to open the gate to let his daughters in.
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  • Lucky for me I always kept the gate padlocked as it led to a busy road and I didn't want the horses getting out. I again explained that they couldn't ride my horses and
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  • he was better off looking up a riding school or a trail riding place if they wanted to ride. At this point he realised I wasn't budging, plus my
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  • horses had walked off to the other side of the field behind a tree line so were out of sight. So he turned back to towards the car while loudly saying "come
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  • on girls, this mean lady doesn't think you deserve to ride the horses" which caused them to start crying as he loaded them up into the car before flipping me off and taking off down the road.
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  • lazyesq⚫ Some people have no clue how dangerous horses can be, especially if you don't know what you're doing. (Exponentially so, for kids.) Father isn't entitled, he's a friggin idiot!
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  • Sure_Scratch_8... . Those kids will understand the meaning of the word no. The dad isaj.
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  • Individual_Meta.... NTA and even if they were child safe he is not entitled to let his kids ride them. What an ah_le,.
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  • Known Require... . The title alone is me off. "My horses don't want your kids riding them"
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