Stencilbum
25th Dec 2006, 10:27 PM
I got to share this as it doesn't happen very often (to me anyway :o )
I went hacking on Ebony and Jessie with my daughter Alex yesterday. We trailered the horses to a village where we have regularly hacked from and set out on a bridle path along our normal route. I've not been there for about 4 months, and the horses were really fizzy after being kept in and Ebony can play a bit of a game on a hack. I rode Jessie and even though only a tiddler, is sooo strong :eek: , let her go in front and she will continually try and pick up her pace, put her behind and she starts dancing around and running into the back of Ebony :rolleyes: - use a short rein and she dances around pulling against it, drop you rein and she is drawing level with Ebony (not good as they wil start to race)
Anyway, we got to a gateway on the bridleway and saw a new sign saying 'caution, gallops' :cool: , we went to the house of the yard and I asked the owner if we could use it who said go ahead :D
It was a brand new track on a long slope with rubber crumb and sand surface which was excellent and must have been about 4 furlongs from bottom to top (1/2 mile ish), we rode up it side by side for a little while till it straghtened out at which point they both took off like rockets :eek:
We came back down and as Alex had her phone with her decided to get a couple of clips.
This has got to be one of the few pics of me on horseback as I'm always behind the lens, the only downside was that Alex was filming and hanging onto Ebony at the time who decided to dance around at the moment we went past and Jessie took an age to slow down after I put the brakes on as she just wanted to go flat out
Ash and Jessie (http://www.clipshack.com/Clip.aspx?key=02ED4AA818B488F2) - Jessie is a Fell x Welsh
Alex & Ebony (http://www.clipshack.com/Clip.aspx?key=4E8712A65106C6E7) is a TB
I went hacking on Ebony and Jessie with my daughter Alex yesterday. We trailered the horses to a village where we have regularly hacked from and set out on a bridle path along our normal route. I've not been there for about 4 months, and the horses were really fizzy after being kept in and Ebony can play a bit of a game on a hack. I rode Jessie and even though only a tiddler, is sooo strong :eek: , let her go in front and she will continually try and pick up her pace, put her behind and she starts dancing around and running into the back of Ebony :rolleyes: - use a short rein and she dances around pulling against it, drop you rein and she is drawing level with Ebony (not good as they wil start to race)
Anyway, we got to a gateway on the bridleway and saw a new sign saying 'caution, gallops' :cool: , we went to the house of the yard and I asked the owner if we could use it who said go ahead :D
It was a brand new track on a long slope with rubber crumb and sand surface which was excellent and must have been about 4 furlongs from bottom to top (1/2 mile ish), we rode up it side by side for a little while till it straghtened out at which point they both took off like rockets :eek:
We came back down and as Alex had her phone with her decided to get a couple of clips.
This has got to be one of the few pics of me on horseback as I'm always behind the lens, the only downside was that Alex was filming and hanging onto Ebony at the time who decided to dance around at the moment we went past and Jessie took an age to slow down after I put the brakes on as she just wanted to go flat out
Ash and Jessie (http://www.clipshack.com/Clip.aspx?key=02ED4AA818B488F2) - Jessie is a Fell x Welsh
Alex & Ebony (http://www.clipshack.com/Clip.aspx?key=4E8712A65106C6E7) is a TB