Hi everyone
As a few of you will know I have been riding for about 5 years and have had my ups and downs (sic) mainly concerned with jumping.
But Sunday was just the end! I ride at a school- no horse of my own- (sob!) twice weekly and am probably one of their longest and most regular clients. My daughter rides there too and she hires their horses to do xc at the yard in summer.
Hey stuff all the background, lets get to it. On Sunday I was thrown off practising a dressage test in the indoor arena and broke my back...
Everybody there says that B just took off when someone (very familiar) came into the viewing area and startled him. I had been cantering a circle (following another horse), had noticed B was a bit frisky (had been warmed up and on the bit just a few minutes prior tho') and I was trying to calm him, when oops, speed up, buck, (I can sit to this, hang on...) then head down and off I go upwwards over the front end, crash onto my back. Ambulance etc, get to hosp find out it is broken (stable fracture thank god).
Now I am discharged from hospital and creeping around really slowly and painfully in a back brace and can't ride for 6 months.
RS owner phoned hubby to find out what happened and said "thanks for telling me". Never asked about my welfare, not once.
What I want to know is what others think I should do now. This is how I feel:
I really want to go back to riding.
I can't go anywhere else. Daughter really needs to go to this RS cos nowhere else around will hire horse for her to compete.
I feel really let down by the RS. It is certainly not just their attitude to my welfare, but the fact that this horse has been really spooky recently (he did something stupid earlier in the lesson which I sat to) and I think he was trouble.
I really resent the huge backward step I will need to take, my riding career has been about going backwards I think.... and that I will have to pay for the privilege of getting back to the standard I have been at...
Oh god sorry if this sounds too too self pitying.... any advice?
Anne
As a few of you will know I have been riding for about 5 years and have had my ups and downs (sic) mainly concerned with jumping.
But Sunday was just the end! I ride at a school- no horse of my own- (sob!) twice weekly and am probably one of their longest and most regular clients. My daughter rides there too and she hires their horses to do xc at the yard in summer.
Hey stuff all the background, lets get to it. On Sunday I was thrown off practising a dressage test in the indoor arena and broke my back...
Everybody there says that B just took off when someone (very familiar) came into the viewing area and startled him. I had been cantering a circle (following another horse), had noticed B was a bit frisky (had been warmed up and on the bit just a few minutes prior tho') and I was trying to calm him, when oops, speed up, buck, (I can sit to this, hang on...) then head down and off I go upwwards over the front end, crash onto my back. Ambulance etc, get to hosp find out it is broken (stable fracture thank god).
Now I am discharged from hospital and creeping around really slowly and painfully in a back brace and can't ride for 6 months.
RS owner phoned hubby to find out what happened and said "thanks for telling me". Never asked about my welfare, not once.
What I want to know is what others think I should do now. This is how I feel:
I really want to go back to riding.
I can't go anywhere else. Daughter really needs to go to this RS cos nowhere else around will hire horse for her to compete.
I feel really let down by the RS. It is certainly not just their attitude to my welfare, but the fact that this horse has been really spooky recently (he did something stupid earlier in the lesson which I sat to) and I think he was trouble.
I really resent the huge backward step I will need to take, my riding career has been about going backwards I think.... and that I will have to pay for the privilege of getting back to the standard I have been at...
Oh god sorry if this sounds too too self pitying.... any advice?
Anne