luckilotti
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luckilotti and Vrin- about that kid dying.... I'm not really sure how this is relevant to this thread, she was with her friend and at the end of the day we entrust our lives to our horses anyway. Yes it is extremely sad what happened, but it could happen to anyone, in the school, out hacking, just on the yard.
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Its very relevant IMO, yes you can be very mature at 12 (i thought i was) but in an emergency situation, you cant cope at the age. The girl who died was with her friend yes, but her friend was younger andidnt know her friend had come off until the girls horse bolted past her!
Say 2 children are out hacking, one falls off, friend trys to move them to say get them off the road, injury is made a lot worse by being moved. Or if they had a phone and called for help, would they know excatly where they were to get help? All the time whilst trying to sort the horses out??? I've had 3 friends be involved in riding accidents on the roads whereby their horses have been killed, if they were younger, its very possible that they would have been killed also as children dont have the same experience. When hacking out, you can be in the middle of no-where so it IS different than being on a yard and having an accident in a paddock, yes, i've known a lady die from riding in a paddock - but that is a different situation.
I guess you just have to judged based on the rider, company, location, horse, weather, traffic etc etc. IMO - minimise risk where possible!
luckilotti and Vrin- about that kid dying.... I'm not really sure how this is relevant to this thread, she was with her friend and at the end of the day we entrust our lives to our horses anyway. Yes it is extremely sad what happened, but it could happen to anyone, in the school, out hacking, just on the yard.
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Its very relevant IMO, yes you can be very mature at 12 (i thought i was) but in an emergency situation, you cant cope at the age. The girl who died was with her friend yes, but her friend was younger andidnt know her friend had come off until the girls horse bolted past her!
Say 2 children are out hacking, one falls off, friend trys to move them to say get them off the road, injury is made a lot worse by being moved. Or if they had a phone and called for help, would they know excatly where they were to get help? All the time whilst trying to sort the horses out??? I've had 3 friends be involved in riding accidents on the roads whereby their horses have been killed, if they were younger, its very possible that they would have been killed also as children dont have the same experience. When hacking out, you can be in the middle of no-where so it IS different than being on a yard and having an accident in a paddock, yes, i've known a lady die from riding in a paddock - but that is a different situation.
I guess you just have to judged based on the rider, company, location, horse, weather, traffic etc etc. IMO - minimise risk where possible!