Are you a horsey snob?

Can't quote as on phone but Yorksg I think I may be your long-lost sister separated at birth and was just about to suggest we got together with copperpot
 
Maybe we should all go on a mounted pub crawl :)

Pub in our village will bring jaeger bombs out on trays if we stop in car park mid hack :) Land lord took a picture for local paper.
 
Yes but think of all the accidents we'd cause riding around one- handed...
I did once spill lager down my horses neck galloping across a field with a can in one hand and a fag in the other but it was a long time ago...
 
Our riding club would not exist without pub rides :eek: The first one I went on was a friends daughters 18th birthday ride, oh and it was fancy dress, St. Trinians theme. Imagine the scene a dozen drunken women on an assortment of random horses, some smoking. The birthday girl did have a bit of difficulty getting back on at the last stop, her 17hh ID was very patient as the girl climbed up her leg, as the girl had fallen over at the first attempt :D However, all horses and riders were courteous to traffic, rode within the rules of the road. The ages of the riders ranged between the birthday girls younger sister and her grandmother, the older riders ensured that the whole ride kept to their normal high standards of behaviour:)
 
Don't worry Moleskinsmum lager makes their coats nice and shiny!

YorksG that sounds like my kinda hack!

I don't think I have ever done a days hunting sober. Luckily I have a very understanding horse who knows his job better than I ever would and probably prefers it when I am not trying to control him :)
 
sazzle44 said:
My latest grumble is people who plait their horse's mane but leave the tail loose and unpulled. I know it's the fashion at the moment but it looks a bit pants personally.
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LOL. Yes, it probably does look a little pants (to you) . . . but when you've got a relatively green horse who gets ridiculously excited when you get to a venue and fidgets so much that you can't plait its tail, then I'm afraid what you get is a plaited mane and a loose tail. ;).

We're working on it . . . he's getting better at being calm once off the box . . . but until he will stand like a rock at the venue, we'll be looking pants :D.

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DragonSlayer said:
All my ridden horses wear 'horsey furniture' (love that phrase) ear bonnets are there for a purpose, not decoration. I live in a forested area, we have deer fly. Now deer flies are evil little baskets that have teeth and they damn well HURT I have found that the horses are 100% happier when their ears are not being reduced to bloody stubs. I, on the other hand, wish I could wear ear bonnets, because the little ******s attach themselves to me instead :(

Anything else, each to their own, I don't care really as long as it isn't detrimental to the horse, but as far as I am concerned less is more.

With children and their ponies, unless they are in the hunting field, at Pony Club or shows, then anything goes, if they want pink everything then great, if it gets bums in saddles then that is just fine by me. :D

There are a few things that irritate me/seem unnecessary/make me laugh but I am not going to list them in this thread.;)
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Regarding ear bonnets, my horses are alot happier in these when the flies are out, stops the head shaking and if I go riding in the woods anywhere, I actually have a mozzie net I bought online somewhere that fits over my hat and ties loosely around me neck, it's bliss, I can tell you, and I don't care WHAT I look like! :D[/QUOTE]

Pictures please :D.

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I had a pony that loved cigarettes. At shows he would inch toward anyone smoking, lean into the smoke, inhale deeply and hold on to it. I was always worried about testing positive...

Bill Hicks, is, was, very good on smoking. :D:D:D
Anyway, there seems to be so much hysteria about being able to do normal stuff while mounted! Don't horses get taught all these normal daily things as part of their education anymore?
 
Copperpot said:
Ancient Hacker - let's do it! We will hack to the pub smoking, leave our horses in the pub garden whilst we get drunk and hack home again :) all whilst be socially responsible of course ;)
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It's a done deal, Copperpot... but be warned, I might be a bit odd about the snowdrifts. I've never ridden in snow, we only get it sparsely in the mountains here in SA. But I believe additional hipflasks and some socially irresponsible-type tobacco may conquer my fear ;)
 
ozpoz said:
I had a pony that loved cigarettes. At shows he would inch toward anyone smoking, lean into the smoke, inhale deeply and hold on to it. I was always worried about testing positive...

Bill Hicks, is, was, very good on smoking. :D:D:D
Anyway, there seems to be so much hysteria about being able to do normal stuff while mounted! Don't horses get taught all these normal daily things as part of their education anymore?
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Its all relative I suppose... if you're smoker then that should be considered normal but if you're not then I'm not about to take it up so my horse can be accustomed to smokers...

I fart in the saddle. He's used to that. That's normal.
 
Ha @ TH! I remember the first time I ever farted in the saddle (iam an infrequent farter but a frequent burper) - my mare shot forwards on the road! :)
 
Billie1007 said:
Ha @ TH! I remember the first time I ever farted in the saddle (iam an infrequent farter but a frequent burper) - my mare shot forwards on the road! :)
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OK, this made me snort wine out of my nose (stings something chronic) . . . very, very funny (once I had stopped choking).

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Gosh, I'd be scared to ride anywhere near people earlier on this thread, for fear of causing offence.

My horses / ponies are usually muddy (even for lessons) & their tack is generally mismatched. My daughters frequently ride in trackies & don't wear back protectors except for XC. My 10yo's hairy NF always wears a bling browband (which daughter had coveted for some time before she inherited it) including to pony club. Her big sister SJ cuts her horses mane, rarely ties her hair back unless she is competing & has a penchant for lurid coloured / flowery polo wraps.

I used to have a photo of my old trainer from 20 years ago, riding his high school horse in piaffe. He was wearing jeans, DM boots & a sleeveless tee-shirt (no hat), with the reins & his cigarette in one hand and a can of carlberg special in the other.
 
lme said:
Gosh, I'd be scared to ride anywhere near people earlier on this thread, for fear of causing offence.

My horses / ponies are usually muddy (even for lessons) & their tack is generally mismatched. My daughters frequently ride in trackies & don't wear back protectors except for XC. My 10yo's hairy NF always wears a bling browband (which daughter had coveted for some time before she inherited it) including to pony club. Her big sister SJ cuts her horses mane, rarely ties her hair back unless she is competing & has a penchant for lurid coloured / flowery polo wraps.

I used to have a photo of my old trainer from 20 years ago, riding his high school horse in piaffe. He was wearing jeans, DM boots & a sleeveless tee-shirt (no hat), with the reins & his cigarette in one hand and a can of carlberg special in the other.
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20 years ago I would have been madly in love with your trainer I am sure :)
 
I too know several well repected trainers who smoke, I watched an LG xc clinic a few years ago and there was hardly a minuet when she didn't have a fag on the go!

I actually smoke more when I'm with the horses, partly 'cause I don't smoke in the house (I have children). OH always moans that smokers and horses go together.
 
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Don't smoke and never had but feel like taking it up now !

Only Pub I ride past is rubbish although my brother was in there once and came out with a pint to say hello so I necked it down . In my defence it was a hot day ;)

There's a rumour that Copperpot was barred for being to common :D

20 years ago when I work for a Hunting 'lady' and used to hunt 2 or 3 times a week and out all day, I would be merry as hell everytime. She would always stop off at the pub at the top of the road as well - there was room for the lorry in car park ;) I wasn't driving the lorry btw, she paid 'a man' to do that.....
 
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