Horse trainer at the center of Teddi Mellencamp affair joked he had a 'similar personality' to her horse, Toad

The equine trainer astatine the halfway of erstwhile Real Housewives of Beverly Hills prima Teddi Mellencamp's matter erstwhile joked that helium had a 'similar personality' to her horse, Toad, who helium worked with for implicit a year.

On Wednesday, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Mellencamp was having a months-long matter with her German-born equine trainer Simon Schröeder, which was the catalyst behind her divorce from her hubby of 13-years, Edwin Arroyave.

Making matters worse, the brace were said to beryllium unneurotic successful Florida portion Schröeder's large woman Karli Postel was giving commencement to their 2nd kid successful California. 

But astir a twelvemonth ago, it seems similar things were going good betwixt the 3 of them, arsenic Schröeder and Postel, who run Schroeder Sporthorses successful Moorpark, California, were grooming Mellencamp's horse, Toad.

In an extended interrogation published by The Chronicle of The Horse in February 2024, the hubby and woman duo gushed astir however overmuch they loved to enactment with Mellencamp and the horse, a 'once-nervous 10-year-old Westphalian (Cornet Obolensky—Laila, Lordanos).'

The trainers worked unneurotic with Mellencamp to get the equine acceptable for competitions and calm his nerves. 

'You know, [Arroyave] was ace excited astir him, but determination were immoderate bumps successful the road, and she needed immoderate help,' Postel told the outlet astatine the time.

'She’s connected mostly with Archie Cox, and I worked with Archie for galore years,' she continued.

'She went astir the equine amusement trying to fig retired who mightiness beryllium the strongest rider to assistance her successful the situation, and beauteous overmuch everyone pointed to Simon.'

At 1 constituent successful the article, Schröeder adjacent joked that helium has a 'similar property to Toad,' whose sanction is abbreviated for 'Totally.' 

His woman adjacent explained that helium was capable to bid the carnal truthful good due to the fact that helium was 'in sync' with what the equine was thinking. 

'Everyone is simply a small spot frightened erstwhile I travel into the ringing with him astatine home, due to the fact that I fto him run, and I fto him buck,' Schröeder said.

'Our specialty is that erstwhile I’m home, I marque a cavaletti with a small h2o nether it. He likes to spell implicit it, and we play astir with it. I got his spot backmost with that game. He believes successful what we bash together.'

Eventually, each of their grooming paid off, arsenic the Two T's In a Pod podcast big won archetypal spot successful the USHJA International Hunter Derby during Desert Circuit 2 (California). 

'Teddi was unsocial successful a batch of ways, due to the fact that she saw the imaginable successful this horse, and she saw each the beauteous pieces,' Postel told the outlet.

'A batch of radical astir apt would person fixed up successful the process of trying to enactment it each together, due to the fact that it hasn’t needfully been the astir straightforward process,' Postel explained astir Mellencamp. 

'But she stayed the course. On bully days and atrocious days, she’s recovered bully things to accidental astir the equine and reasons to support going. So I deliberation successful that way, she’s a peculiar amateur, successful that she doesn’t springiness up.'

However, astatine immoderate point, it looks similar things each started to spell south, arsenic a root told DailyMail.com this week that Postel learned of the matter portion she was giving commencement to her 2nd child.

'Karli thought it was suspicious that her hubby was successful Florida erstwhile she was giving birth,' the root told DailyMail.com.

'When Simon returned, Karli recovered substance messages connected Simon’s telephone that exposed the affair. She confronted Simon and Teddi astir it and they confessed. Teddi promised it would not hap again.'

'Karli didn't archer Edwin erstwhile she recovered out. She was consenting to springiness Simon different accidental and stayed with him. But past month, Karli recovered impervious that the matter was ongoing and that it had go "emotional."

'Simon had a past of cheating and Karli was bushed of being connected to him. Edwin lone learned of the matter precocious past period erstwhile Karli told him.'

The root claims that Teddi decided to record for divorcement erstwhile she got caught successful the affair.

'She filed for divorcement from Edwin truthful that helium did not person the accidental to record and get her for adultery. It has been alleged that the matrimony ended due to the fact that Edwin cheated connected Teddi, but it is really the different mode around.'

Mellencamp and longtime hubby Arroyave are now feuding implicit spousal support amid their contentious divorcement battle.

On Friday, Arroyave, 47, filed his effect to Mellencamp's divorcement petition and is reportedly pushing backmost connected her custody and spousal enactment requests.

Mellencamp had requested superior custody of their 3 children — Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 4 — with 'reasonable and predominant visitation' for Arroyave successful her divorcement filing, which she filed past week and announced a time aboriginal connected November 2.

According to ineligible documents, Arroyave is contesting and asking for associated carnal and ineligible custody of their insignificant children.