On Wednesday, my pony was too wet to ride so I decided to take her for a little walk in hand. We have a short stretch of 'main' road to walk along then I turn off down a very quiet lane...this is a small village so not a lot of cars on main road.
As I left the yard on the main road, I could see a large group of runners meeting up at the pub, which is just passed the lane I turn down, so no problem, I thought.
But just as I got to the top of the lane the first of the runners walk towards me and said " we're going that way" so I turned round to face them, meaning to let them get ahead of me and follow them
Well the first few people walked passed me, no problem, but once passed, they started running. The others also started running so that all of a sudden there were 20/30 people all in hi- viz running towards us.
Star was terrified and tried to get a away from them, unfortunately the only escape route was where I was standing, so she jumped left and knocked me over. I fell and was then trapped under her legs.
Luckily for me, she did her very best not to stand on me but I am left with an enormous bruise on my right arm....mid lower arm to mid upper arm and one on the back of my calf from knee almost to ankle. It would have been so much worse had she been shod.
All runners asked if I was ok, but only one apologised for what had happened. George from the pub came I've r to check we were both ok.
We did carry on with the walk, but cut it shot. Star settled down almost immediately once the runners had gone. I just hope they learn from this and never again run on masse towards a horse!
As I left the yard on the main road, I could see a large group of runners meeting up at the pub, which is just passed the lane I turn down, so no problem, I thought.
But just as I got to the top of the lane the first of the runners walk towards me and said " we're going that way" so I turned round to face them, meaning to let them get ahead of me and follow them
Well the first few people walked passed me, no problem, but once passed, they started running. The others also started running so that all of a sudden there were 20/30 people all in hi- viz running towards us.
Star was terrified and tried to get a away from them, unfortunately the only escape route was where I was standing, so she jumped left and knocked me over. I fell and was then trapped under her legs.
Luckily for me, she did her very best not to stand on me but I am left with an enormous bruise on my right arm....mid lower arm to mid upper arm and one on the back of my calf from knee almost to ankle. It would have been so much worse had she been shod.
All runners asked if I was ok, but only one apologised for what had happened. George from the pub came I've r to check we were both ok.
We did carry on with the walk, but cut it shot. Star settled down almost immediately once the runners had gone. I just hope they learn from this and never again run on masse towards a horse!