asotonished at the amount of people unhappy with horses at hyde park!

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ive just read a post about hyde park and riding there. i was shocked at the number of people complaining the horses were too 'ploddy' or 'shabby'!! have they not forgotten that they will be hacking in london and if they expect to be on something that is a bit more flighty and jumpy must have a bloody death wish!!

i have hacked there and i can assure you, to get on to hyde park, you need to go on the roads. i can also assure you that around the park, there are people on roller baldes and skate boards and people wont move for you. let alone the amount of traffic and noise from the roads.

i think those horses put up with alot and are a credit!! i would pay alot of money for a safe horse like they have. let alone with them having to put up with sometimes complete novices pulling on their mouths and giving them an unconfortable ride.

what do you think?
 
Agree. I havent been but can imagine what it must be like, having driven round there enough times.

Not sure what people are expecting from riding school horses ... they are being ridden by a variety of riders, so they do have to cater to all needs. And no, they wont be as supple and forward as a privately owned horse, but most riding school horses aren't!

As to cost - try keeping a horse in London and you will realise how relatively cheap it is!
 
QR: I'd love to ride around Hyde Park one day, don't care if it were on a donkey either!
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I heard that if you go on a hack with Hyde Park stables, that they put you on a lead rein regardless of your skill?
Is this true?
 
yes they do. however they do take it off once they actually get on to the park if your obviously ok. its just on the road because you cant really have a horse galloping around
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but i would recomend it. it was fantastic!!
 
i took the twins i nannied for a ride around hyde park and they didnt put a lead rein on, but the horse the girl taking us was riding, had a bit of a tantrum on the bayswater road!! so i had to get both the twins into the park and off the damn road pretty quick (they were 6 years old), so i totally get why they have started doing that!!
i used to ride from there every so often, not so bad - it used to be run by some Major something or other, back in the days i was around - the horses just know their job, you cant blame them for that
 
Have plan, if anyone wants a less ploddy horse to take round Hyde Park - borrow mine - he could do with being acclimatising to roller blades, buggies etc as not too many around here, and if I can be of help making someones day more exciting then ..... happy to oblige!!

Sure there are some other HHO who would also be happy to send their horses for a little bit of desensitizing by these brave souls.
 
Right - 1st things 1st - I personally wouldnt pay to learn to ride there, maybe its different for me as I dont really remember learning to ride - it just happened at an early age such as walking and talking as horses have always been a part of my family.

Im only too well aware of how fast and scary park lane is - and the top end - where one of the riding school arenas is - I ride past it most mornings!!! They do NEED to be plods to survive there christ knows my horse would go nuts in town. the cav blacks are bad enough sometimes - and their ment to be bomb proofed... - speaking from one who has been carted up Rotten Row towards Kensington Gore at rush hour ...
 
I don't ride in Hyde Park but run with a running club every week. The other week, every horse - calvary/ riding school/ police were playing up to the point my non-horsey running mates were a tad concerned. Spring grass I suspect.

Personally some of the riding school neds look as though they are very nice neds - other's look like plods. Same as any other riding school I've been to (and ridden at quite a few in my time)

Train-robber - is it true civies can ride the calvary horses - one instructor told me it was possible but then got told it wasn't. Would be very interested if so.
 
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Train-robber - is it true civies can ride the calvary horses - one instructor told me it was possible but then got told it wasn't. Would be very interested if so.

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My mum once had a lesson on a cavalry horse so very true, not sure how the process works though, my dad was in the army at the time so suspect it was a personal favour.
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I remember having riding lessons at one of the schools there when I was very little - it all seemed very boring, got towed along on a lead rein and not actually taught anything at all. Hope it has changed since then!
 
i do find it odd that people say that RS horses are 'TOO' ploddy. i really don't know what people expect- as has been said they'd be complaining if they were like sh!t off a shovel, nappy, strong etc etc!!!
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I used to hack my horse to Hyde Park regularly and I can assure you that you need a very special horse to deal with the conditions in Central London. Not only must it be completely Bomb Proof and Spook Proof but it also needs to be able to stand in que at red traffic lights, be comfortable to be ridden in crowd conditions (down Oxford Street and Regent Street etc and remain calm in all situations.

I also borrowed a horse from the Ross Nye stables at the North of Hyde Park having never ridden it before and hacked it out during the week and it was absolutely perfectly behaved going out by itself.

You most certainly would not want to ride a nervous horse in those conditions as it would be a danger to itself and everyone else.
 
I hacked out round Hyde Park with a group (was let off lead rein as soon as off the main road) and I had a super whizzy little coloured cob (but who was very fussy in his mouth). We had great fun! I was able to ride back to the stables unattended. I don't think it was Ross Nye - think it was the other one (though don't quote me).

It was fun to do, but I wouldn't pay to do it again. Would rather be hacking round rolling fields and woods than round there getting stared at by tourists!

A friend of mine rides the cavalry horses regularly - she goes down before work to hack out (around 6.30am I think) - learnt from scratch to rid on them a few years ago and has lessons. But you have to dress smart - hacking jacket, tie, long boots etc every time.
 
Yup it is smart kit
wowe betide anyone whos boots arent spotless - I rode out this morning - knackered and smell faintly of horse which I dont mind!!
Sure the colleages do though! x
 
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