Hoof_Prints
Well-Known Member
Hope you all had a great Christmas!
I was lucky enough to get a helmetcam from my parents for Christmas, and it was put to good use the following day at the Atherstone boxing day meet ! I wanted to plait in the morning so set my alarm for 5am, I couldn't sleep so woke up at 3:30 instead got to the yard for 5:30 in the pitch black. My horses live out and the fields are far back from the stables so it was a long cold trek at that time! fortunately they all came galloping down so didn't have to walk far, but it was a bit unnerving to have a few horses galloping at you in the dark !
Got to the meet in plenty of time all nice and spotlessly clean, I was riding my superstar 15.2hh Finn He hunted last season but I've been hunting my youngster this season so it was his first time out, but I know he's very well behaved and of course he was perfect. I was riding with my sister on the buckskin pony, just have to give her a mention as she has been through a lot, had a pacemaker put in at age 13, has severe ulcerative colitis and now has an ileostomy bag and weak bones. She also has a few other problems but she is doesn't let it hold her back, and jumped in at the deep end with her first attempt at hedge hopping and I couldn't be more proud of her! On top of all this, her pony is very strong and a devil for refusing and it takes a skilled rider to hunt her.
Ok on to the photos..
Standing in the square
Helmet cam videos! Watch in HD or else it looks a bit rubbish
In the square and trotting through
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204836737133879&set=vb.1102423533&type=2&theater
Out jumping rails and hedge hopping !
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204837030501213&set=vb.1102423533&type=2&theater
Amazing day
I was lucky enough to get a helmetcam from my parents for Christmas, and it was put to good use the following day at the Atherstone boxing day meet ! I wanted to plait in the morning so set my alarm for 5am, I couldn't sleep so woke up at 3:30 instead got to the yard for 5:30 in the pitch black. My horses live out and the fields are far back from the stables so it was a long cold trek at that time! fortunately they all came galloping down so didn't have to walk far, but it was a bit unnerving to have a few horses galloping at you in the dark !
Got to the meet in plenty of time all nice and spotlessly clean, I was riding my superstar 15.2hh Finn He hunted last season but I've been hunting my youngster this season so it was his first time out, but I know he's very well behaved and of course he was perfect. I was riding with my sister on the buckskin pony, just have to give her a mention as she has been through a lot, had a pacemaker put in at age 13, has severe ulcerative colitis and now has an ileostomy bag and weak bones. She also has a few other problems but she is doesn't let it hold her back, and jumped in at the deep end with her first attempt at hedge hopping and I couldn't be more proud of her! On top of all this, her pony is very strong and a devil for refusing and it takes a skilled rider to hunt her.
Ok on to the photos..
Standing in the square
Helmet cam videos! Watch in HD or else it looks a bit rubbish
In the square and trotting through
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204836737133879&set=vb.1102423533&type=2&theater
Out jumping rails and hedge hopping !
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204837030501213&set=vb.1102423533&type=2&theater
Amazing day
luckily nobody or their horse was hurt! He is my superstar, love him to bits ! My little grey Owen had gone to live in Gloucestershire now, I did buy him with the intention to sell him on, (i'm crap at the selling on bit though, far too attached!) But the family he went to was so perfect I couldn't have given him a better home myself. Ronan is doing fab 
(from ireland! passported right before he came over and birthday scribbled over 
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