A very nice hack - big grin

[Snowflake]

I have only hacked out a handful of times with Bounty (I had her in March) as my nerves were so shot to pieces that I was only able to face riding in the school.

However, recently I have been dragged out by one or two women on the yard and have quite enjoyed our hacks but always in walk. Bounty is brilliant on the roads and whereas I found her rather spooky when I first had her, now she never spooks at anything. She really is a poppet who never puts a foot wrong but I am still nervous of hacking out even so!

On Saturday I had arranged to go for a "plod around the block" with one of the girls and then we were subsequently joined by another lady. After the plod around lovely leafy lanes instead of heading back for home they decided they wanted to go around the fields. Now I have a pathological fear of hacking around fields (the fear of bolting etc) so I thought Eeek! Not wanting to appear a complete ninny I trailed along behind. Then worse, after a bit they suggested "a nice trot". Well I had to go for it didn't I! Guess what, Bounty was perfect, she stayed behind, not racing or anything. One of the women later cantered off for a bit of a hooley, but B didn't bat an eyelid. Myself and my remaining companion walked back over the huge fields, a lot of it steeply downhill. Her horse a fizzy TB was very much on his toes, snorting and prancing but Bounty tripped along completely unconcerned.

I am feeling very pleased with myself that I have gone some way in overcoming my absurd fear of riding over fields.

I am beginning to trust this little horse of mine, she is a very kind and gently little mare.

Snowflake

[Wobblydeb]

Well done you!!! :D She sounds so well behaved, bless her.

It's amazing what you can do when your boundaries are ever so slightly stretched, isn't it? ;)

[Alex]

Yay! Sounds like so much fun! :) Well done!

[jinglejoys]

Well done Snowflake! Now I have the opposite problem to you,I have no worries hacking in a field because if there is a bolting problem there is no way to go except round and round untill the novelty wears off (And then you make them go round again several times until the game really gets boring)

[coverblown]

yesss well done.. to quote a cliche things can only get better

[cazrider]

Well done Snowflake! It does get easier doesn't it. Bounty sounds a darling!:)

I'm a bit with jinglejoys, no problems in the field now, not so keen on the road though!:(

[Drummers mum]

Well done Snowflake. I hade exactly the same problem myself not long ago but now I like to hooly with the rest of them (sometimes; Drummer has to be in a very calm and non spooky though mood! lol!).

I find I like to canter up narrow paths where if he spooks he cant go sideways or in the centre of big fields where hopefully there is nothing to spook at, lol!:D

Whenever you go out for a hack now keep that big grin inside you and it will help any nerves! Have Fun!:D

[carrimclaren]

Originally posted by Drummers mum
I find I like to canter up narrow paths where if he spooks he cant go sideways or in the centre of big fields where hopefully there is nothing to spook at, lol!:D


I thought it was just me that thought like that :o I felt a right berk trying to explain that to one of my hacking partners one day as she just couldn't grasp it. Wide open fields make me very very twitchy :)


Well done snowflake !!! Glad you enjoyed yourself and your horse sounds like a little star :) Better behaved than my fool was on saturday. She's usually so idle that we went out with 6 horses i didn't worry at the start even when we were tearing up the hill and across a field. Several bad tempered/over excited bucking fits later and a loss of brakes i was feeling in need a of very large vodka :D Although i should have been terrorised i was feeling quite proud in a way as it just shows that she can wake up and act like a proper horse sometimes :p