2022 Hacking and Riding

Lol he has his moments.
Sometimes that halo just falls off.

He doesn't yank me off my feet.

Lol hes probably saying.

I was lounging in the sun MOM.

I was very pleased with how well he goes behind me ..I .mostly pass the rope behind me.

He could stop behind me.... but my expectation is that he continues around behind me.

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His signal to halt is that I bend over like I'm bowing..
But LOL I have totally screwed that up on occasion.... bending down because I dropped the flag or something.
He Immediately comes to a halt.

Yes I am very lucky..
 
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A hacking weekend for me. Don't tell Harvey but I am only going to be working 3 days a week from July so I will have an extra riding day!
Friday was a short hack with S our groom while she exercised a livery's horse.
On Saturday I hacked a bit further on my own - slightly interesting as Harvey decided that all wheelie bins contained dragons (and there were a lot!)

On Sunday I boxed over to ride with S. I had found a route on the internet so we had a bit on an adventure for 2 hours exploring a ride neither of us had done before.

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Ok - here is a sobering one. You can see S and I have moved over to let 2 other horses past. Less than an hour later one of the ladies was on the way to hospital in an ambulance - her horse slipped over and landed on her. She has a broken leg :(

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Hacking

17 miles
4.5 hours

Totals

Schooling
6 hours 5

Hacking
114.5 miles
33 hours
 
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GaryB said:
A hacking weekend for me. Don't tell Harvey but I am only going to be working 3 days a week from July so I will have an extra riding day!
Friday was a short hack with S our groom while she exercised a livery's horse.
On Saturday I hacked a bit further on my own - slightly interesting as Harvey decided that all wheelie bins contained dragons (and there were a lot!)

On Sunday I boxed over to ride with S. I had found a route on the internet so we had a bit on an adventure for 2 hours exploring a ride neither of us had done before.

i-5kfCKKP-X2.jpg


Ok - here is a sobering one. You can see S and and have moved over to let 2 other horses past. Less than an hour later one of the ladies was on the way to hospital in an ambulance - her horse slipped over and landed on her. She has a broken leg :(

i-FxHtwXP-XL.jpg


Hacking

17 miles
4.5 hours

Totals

Schooling
6 hours 5

Hacking
114.5 miles
33 hours
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How super having an extra riding day! Lovely pics. But yes, that is sobering about the lady with the broken leg. Accidents happen and all that I suppose. :(
 
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I am not happy about accidents but having recovered from my own fall, and gone through my post accident routine of groundwork, and then riding in the school, the YM kindly took me out yesterday. Following her means less work for me as my mare trots after her, but the YM is young, slim and fit and does the circuit in record time, so this old lady got back home very tired.

I do look worried but had a good ride and a great long canter just to prove I still could.
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For some reason I thought your mare was grey. Or is this a different one?
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This is different. You are right about the grey. But I have now been riding for 22 years and thus on my third long term horse.
The love of my life was the mare I call Maisie, an oversize and substandard RS Connie I rode for 10 years but always escorted.
I then rode my RIs retired IS lesson horse whom I call my old share. I rode her alone. None of the staff would ride her as she had a habit of spinning, dumping her rider and making for home. I think she simply didnt like yard staff and she liked me. I shared her for 2 or 3 years. She died aged 24.
And I am now sharing Ella, at a different yard where clients can hack on their own and in a perfect location. It is a pity I fell off her, but she was very scared and I fell off Maisie countless times.
It would be my dream to ride another Connie like Maisie but our yard have stopped doing livery and I am told that they and local RSs now need big horses to cater for riders who are heavier than me.
 
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Ella has something in common with Maisie. She fits me. Her saddle which is cheap, plastic and peeling, on its last legs, fits me. Riding a horse is like wearing a pair of boots or shoes. If you physically fit the horse and are comfortable astride her, you and the horse are easy and communication between you is good, through your seat as well as hands. And you then build up a mutual understanding. If I take up the rein and draw in a breath, she trots.

I wish I looked more like you Gary. But I always look an untidy wreck on a horse (off the horse too). My old RS tried to tidy me up as I spoiled their image.
 
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Another lovely morning, but quite a heavy frost. Hogan was really irritating - slow, tripping, gazing into space - drove me nuts. Nevertheless, we had some nice trots, but the walking! Oh my Lord, it was painful - it doesn't help that he is totally dead to the leg - possibly a result of his RS era. Never mind, onward and upward - and it was a glorious morning!Screenshot_20220324-202648_Gallery.jpgScreenshot_20220324-202725_Gallery.jpg
 
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Huggy said:
Another lovely morning, but quite a heavy frost. Hogan was really irritating - slow, tripping, gazing into space - drove me nuts. Nevertheless, we had some nice trots, but the walking! Oh my Lord, it was painful - it doesn't help that he is totally dead to the leg - possibly a result of his RS era. Never mind, onward and upward - and it was a glorious morning!View attachment 111007View attachment 111008
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Glad it was a lovely morning. Hogan is going through a chilled era.....lol
 
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Sid was also slow, very slow this morning. In his defence he was sound asleep when I got to the field, early because he gets so hot, and he trotted and catered nicely when I asked so I just didn't bother to get after him to walk faster.

He was very brave and walked past some awful fly-tipped bits of car with only 2 long stares and no backward steps. Good boy, lots of praise. And was quite imperturbable and intrepid when I asked him to step over some fallen electrical cable (yes, high tension cable that serves a house, I imagine it is switched off right now) and push his way through and step over the huge fallen pine tree which brought the cable down (yes, the storms were several weeks ago and the house the cable serves, a lone house, still has no mains power. SE Electricity brought them a generator which I imagine is cold comfort!).

Up on to the heath then, and a lovely lovely morning
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Because Sid was being so brave I thought we would take a walk past the enormous new log piles. You can just see them in the distance. They are vast, 15 or 20m long and at least 4m high. He was very brave and good.
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Then we dawdled home. He is fast asleep again in the field now. Who'd be a horse!
 
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Robin certainly wasn't slow today. He was in his "im a free spirit, you can't hold me in" mood. We did 6 miles in 1hr 20. He had a meltdown at a bumble bee and a butterfly but marched past and between the 2 tractors and fertiliser sacks. Very enjoyable but a few less spooks would have been ideal 😆.
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