1.You pull a €15,000 horse with a €6,000 horsebox and a €2,000 car.

2.You find yourself analysing leg and foot conformation on your friends, and thinking how corrective shoeing could improve their way of going.

3.Your horse seems the right choice when you need to talk to someone.

4.You spend more time preparing nutritious meals for your horse than you do for yourself.

5.Your horses mane and tail gets better care than yours-and it shows

6.You get to a point where fly’s are part of your ora

7.Books and films are ruined for you if the horsemanship references are incorrect.

8.You shout at your boyfriend and the horses name pops out.

9.You have worming, lessons and farrier schedules in your head but frequently miss your own appointments.

10.Someone says does anyone have a screwdriver and you hand them a hoof pick.

11.You pull change from your pocket and shavings and hay falls out.

12.The floor plan of the house you want to live in when your older accommodates a horse lifestyle.

13.Your non-horsey friend gives you a funny look after glancing in to the back seat of your car, and you realise she’s notices your spurs and whip.

14.You are totally discussed by human hair in the sink or bath, but don’t mind horsehair on your clothes, all over your car, or in your food.

15.Every time you drive past a road construction, you think what nice fillers the barricades would make.

16.You consider a pristine golf course a waste of good grazing land.

17.Your friends no longer ask you to come out on weekends because they know you’ll say “I cant, I have a show”

18.Your boyfriend/galfriend complaines that you spend more time with the horse than you do with him/her, you answer " and your point is?"

19.The back of your car is one big tack box

20.Your horse gets new shoes more often than you.