Are you a horsey snob?

Copperpot said:
Tank girl of course you can :)

Carefreegirl - yuck!! My 40% proof jumping juice is still in there. Was being used tomorrow but hunter trial cancelled.
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Ooh I like the sound of that.:D I'm determined to do our local hunter trial this year and have been debating which sedative to use on myself. Brandy is the current favourite.
 
Copperpot said:
Tank girl of course you can :)

Carefreegirl - yuck!! My 40% proof jumping juice is still in there. Was being used tomorrow but hunter trial cancelled.
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Brilliant, love it - Hip flask at a HT. Were you going with the same person as before :D

Elderflower wine (40% proof) took the lining off the inside of the other hipflask :)
 
No this time I was going it alone :) And on my own horse :)

It's neat liquorice flavoured vodka from Finland Regandal, guaranteed to make you think you can jump anything!
 
lme said:
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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Phwoar. There's something about that description... mmmmm :D
 
My 1 Pint wine glass *hic*

Sorry if picture is huge / small but can't suss out the new photobucket :D

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I call it my Time management glass - I don't have to waste time by having to keep getting up to refill it !

Don't forget Copperpot you've got to save some of that Hipflask for me :)
 
Moomin1 said:
I'm sorry, but it's not in anyway about who is capable of 'controlling' their horse by rein or otherwise. It's about being responsible on the roads for the sake of other road users. Your responsibility is to ensure you are keeping as much control of your horse as you are able to. Lighting up a fag and letting go of the reins whilst you shelter the light with your jacket is hardly that, when your horse (given that they are not robots of course) suddenly out of the blue freaks and you have no reins to deal with it effectively.
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I actually dont light up on the road, i may be smoking while riding on the lane, BUT i will have lit the fag before...OK?
 
Copperpot said:
No this time I was going it alone :) And on my own horse :)

It's neat liquorice flavoured vodka from Finland Regandal, guaranteed to make you think you can jump anything!
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Just what I need. That and 20 JPS and I'm good to go. Cheered me up no end, think I'll have a "small" vodka to celebrate.:D
 
CFG - I have 3 bottles of it :) there is plenty to go round !

Co codamol make me fall asleep! If I ever did a dressage test I think I would pop a couple of my Dad's beta blockers followed by a vodka chaser!
 
freckles22uk said:
Just a question to the smokers.... what do you do with the ciggie when you have finished it?.. how do you put it out, and/or do you just drop it on the floor?... I can understand there would be no fire risk if the grounds wet, there would be no way could you drop a still alight nubb over here in Spain, as it would be a huge fire risk..
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As i said a few pages :eek: back, i put the fag out on my boot and pop it in my pocket! :)
 
Copperpot said:
CFG - I have 3 bottles of it :) there is plenty to go round !

Co codamol make me fall asleep! If I ever did a dressage test I think I would pop a couple of my Dad's beta blockers followed by a vodka chaser!
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If you ever do a Dressage test I'll be your caller :D

Re comments to other posters about not holding the reins being dangerous - my previous and current horse both come down the paces out hacking by me dropping my reins. I can go from canter to walk without a single pull, towards or away from home. Nothing clever, just good manners and a bit of common sense ;)
 
I have never been on a pub ride :-( sad isn't it! Must schedule one this summer, in fact I don't think I have ever been even slightly tipsy on board a horse, can't decide if it'd be a great idea or a terrible one for my worries about hacking alone!
 
I often hack home with feet out of stirrups and reins dropped on neck...not on roads though.
I would worry if someone felt out of control or in danger of falling off if they werent hilding reins in both hands.
Maybe handlebars would be a better option...... ;)
 
Parachute said:
People hacking out with one hand on the rains and one hand holding a mobile phone and texting. :mad:
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I was riding up and down the byway with phone in one hand and reins in the other, earlier in the week. I actually had a GPS tracker on I was using to count strides / 100m to work out how far we travel for bearings-based orienteering in TREC :D
 
1stclassalan said:
Oh no it's not! (think panto style not overly ranting!). Production of tobacco relies on giant companies enslaving the end users in drug addiction and advertising it as desirable behavior.

In reduces the area of good agricultural land that could be used from growing food - often in countries with famine problems. !
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Well i am thinking of growing my own sooooo :p

Actually i really am!
 
horserider said:
This is sounding like a party, I'm coming too.

If we're too chavvy I could raise the tone and bring some Sobraine Cocktail and Black Russians.
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Me as well!! I should have my clay pipe by then! :cool:

No one will see us in the fug of smoke...better wear extra hi-viz ...pink i think!!
 
What a brilliant thread, creased up laughing for most of it!

Must say, i wouldn't be seen DEAD in a skull cap without a cover so when i see kids in riding schools or out hacking on lead rein with no hat cover my heart really goes out to them - they're so going to resent that when they're older, lol.

Honestly dont see the point in brushing every bit of mud off before riding: i have a grey with black legs from the knee down. Brushed him off on tuesday for a quiet hack over the back fields and through the woods and he came back black from the belly down! And we only walked with the odd few seconds of excitable jogging.

I have an aversion to the "dont rug your shetland, it's built to stand the cold" clan either. Grr!! My shetland smells worse than my running shoes when its mikd and she sweats like a pig/itches enough she got a 5 bar gate off its hinges in october. Therefore just like last yr she had a full clip legs and face left on and a light/med rug. When its wet and cold she shivers, therefore she has a heavy rhino wug on. My ponies dont suffer unnecessarily, therefore mind your own beeswax or at least consider the reason before arm flailing and telling me i'm irresponsible!

Oh, and "barefoot". Wtf?? You mean unshod, right? Most irritating of all i've caught myself saying "barefoot" recently and it proper makes my teeth itch, i don't even know why!
 
kellybee said:
I have an aversion to the "dont rug your shetland, it's built to stand the cold" clan either. Grr!! My shetland smells worse than my running shoes when its mikd and she sweats like a pig/itches enough she got a 5 bar gate off its hinges in october. Therefore just like last yr she had a full clip legs and face left on and a light/med rug. When its wet and cold she shivers, therefore she has a heavy rhino wug on. My ponies dont suffer unnecessarily, therefore mind your own beeswax or at least consider the reason before arm flailing and telling me i'm irresponsible!
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It was me that mentioned this and I clearly stated 'unclipped natives' as well as youngsters and foals. I can't understand the obsession with rugs - even the bred-for-racing-born-in-January TB foals don't wear turnout rugs round here, why does the no papers native two year old for sale up the road come with two turnout rugs??
 
marmalade76 said:
It was me that mentioned this and I clearly stated 'unclipped natives' as well as youngsters and foals. I can't understand the obsession with rugs - even the bred-for-racing-born-in-January TB foals don't wear turnout rugs round here, why does the no papers native two year old for sale up the road come with two turnout rugs??
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Lol, wow you probably dont need to be so defensive. Nobody on the forum has ever commented on the rugging of my pony to my knowledge. I was actually referring to new teen girl and her mother on the old livery yard that ranted, arm flailing and raised voices without ever questioning WHY my pony was rugged. They didn't even realise I'd clipped her - because it was -12 out she had a full neck rug on. If memory serves I have never passed comment on an unclipped native here because frankly I agree that it's usually unnecessary.

As for why, I already said... She suffers terribly when it's mild so clipping is the most comfortable option for my pony. Yes, they're designed to withstand the harshest of scottish winters. They are not built for sweaty mild ones.
 
The don't rug thing annoys me. Nothing is made to stand the weather we have at the minute. A rug won't do it any harm this time if year. Bloody cows are shivering! Martingales on ponies who don't need them , I think ponies/ horses look bare without them! Barefoot/ shoeless is ok if u do no road work , ride on sand or in a field that's not hard but still think that horses that are being rode should wear shoes as I've still to see a horse going better without shoes than with shoes. Horses bodies aren't made to work on the ground we have made ..... Drop nose bands.... Ugh so ugly ! I'm sorry but god they are hideous. ! Makes any pretty horse look like a mule lol . Please don't hate me lol
 
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