CLAIRE WEAR YOUR HAT!

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As you may know I nag her to wear her hat but she is not always a good girl at listening to Mum. Tomorrow she has to submit her monthly diary to look4horses as part of her training bursary and needs to send a couple of photos. She has asked her friend to take some as they would like some relaxed ones ,[not at shows]. I told her I have some lovely ones but she is not wearing a hat and will she please wear a hat tomorrow. She relied' Could they not put a hat on the photo like the chin strap one of Carl's in the riding club magazine' I was not amused .
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Would Claire listen to another Mum? One that used to work on a neuro Intensive Care Unit? Please Claire wear your hat!!!!

Ok I admit many moons ago when I was a teenager I used to sneekily not wear mine, (only cos my Mum insisted I wore it). I found it a few weeks ago, it actually folds in half, so what good it would have done I dont know. But after last week, getting bashed in the face and my skully, by a horses neck and still getting concussion I really wouldnt not wear one now.
 
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Riding without a hat is so cool though

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Till you land on your head that is.
I knew someone that was killed falling off his horse. The sad thing was if he had been waring a hat he would have servived.
The worst thing of the whole situation was it had been his groom who axcidently spooked the horse. It was a freak axcident but it destroyed so many lives. The groom felt it was all her fault.
 
Well to be honest, if someone is paying towards training for her, the least she can do in return is put a hat on her head for a few photo's. I'm gobsmacked she would even think to question it.
 
Now I'm not a hat evangelist by any means.

But. I was told something awful today at a yard.

Lady died a few days ago. She took her horse for a hack after schooling, it bolted and flipped on concrete. She wasn't wearing a hat. She was airlifted to hospital and they had to put her in an induced coma. She never woke up.

Just unthinkable.
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Quite apart from the obvious point that it's an easy thing to do and could very well save your life, with all the fussing on here about people wanting sponsorship and financial help then surely, if one is lucky enough to get some assistance, it's important to show that one is responsible and mindful of their corporate image? Why repay their generosity by getting them involved in drama that is easily avoided?
 
Goodness it all sounds a bit spoilt brat to me. Somebody is enough happy to throw money at you in the vain we call sponsorship, asks for very little in return but gets a childish toys out of the pram reaction. Seems very selfish and immature for someone whose financial struggle to compete has been touted on here. I'd be dancing a jig to the sponsor's tune tbh.
 
She was only joking , some people have no sense of humour. Unfortuately she has watched a lot of dressage people without hats and has tended to copy them when schooling. Of course she would not have dreamt of not wearing a hat for the photos but I thought the comment about Carls chin strap was funny ......apparently not....
I think it is completely stupid to ride without a hat and think riders are lucky that hats are better today than they were in my day.
 
Sorry
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It's so hard to get tone across in writing, I just took the post at face value.

Blame my bad day - competition horse just back in work and he's blown an abcess and my car died!
 
That's ok , you know I have had a very bad weekend and needed a little smile [ not that head injuries are at all funny]Just had garage phone to say horsebox has to have a new exhaust to get through plating so I am now expecting large bill for it but hey ho , we are all in the same boat I feel , who has the paddle?
 
i dont think she's a brat, possibly just a little naive....sponsors will not want her hatless image associated with them in todays health and safety culture.

TBH im very pro free choice/anti the nanny state and thank god my parents dont nag me, i rarely wear a hat at home unless a client asks me to on their horse.

but then i dont hack, or walk round the yard etc or anything like that without a hat, or jump without one-its called risk assesment.

i would also not submit pictures to any publication or a sponsor without a hat-i know how it works!
 
WEAR A HAT!!! I fell off the safest horse I know over a tiny fence, and was concussed for a week WITH a hat on, god knows what state my head would be in if I hadn't had one on. We sent hat off to maufacturers to scan and see if it was dented on the inside and lo and behold it was - that could have been my skull.
I know its not cool and they're uncomfortable, but you get used to it, and you won't look cool when you have memory loss or even worse, brain damage!
At the end of the day, a horse has its own brain and is capable of catching you out, so don't take the risk, please!
(And btw I'm only 21, not a nagging mother!)
 
I don't work in the equine industry, but the industry I do work in is so safety orientated that I find myself a little obsessed with being safe in life outside of work!!!

I have heard stories and met people affected by accidents that have had serious consequences when people have not used the correct safety equipment for the job they were doing. Injuries include permanent blindness, loss of limbs, permanent back troubles.

It doesn't even cross my mind not to wear a hat, it takes me 2 seconds to put it on, compare that to a lifetime of goodness know's what if you had a fall and you weren't wearing one.

Same as putting on a hi-vis jacket etc to go out on the roads, I don't care if I get laughed at for being luminous, at least I know I have done what I can to protect myself and my horse.

(and yes, I am a dressager, but I don't own a beagler or top hat and probably never will!!)
 
I work with dangerous chemicals and I wouldn't touch any of them without gloves/labcoat on! I also ALWAYS wear my hat when I ride. I don't understand why people don't wear them? Mind you, I never wear a BP so does that make me bad?

Not digging at carthorse or her daughter, but how can we change the culture of "it's not cool so I won't wear it"...

PS Another member of the garage pain club here. Need a new wiper motor... Oh, and my horse just threw his first ever abcess just as I was about to bring him back into work!
 
WEAR YOUR HAT LOVE, MUM IS ALWAYS RIGHT!!!!

Our YO (an eventer believe it or not), does not wear a hat when doing flatwork. The 3 teenages on the yard (my daughter included), now think its cool not to wear a hat. Mind you she wears her HS1 for jumping.

I cringe when this happens (the other mums think its cool as well). I stick my trusty Charles Owen on even to lunge my horse (have had a few near misses with a few massive bucks when he was fresh). Yes, it does not look cool, but I wont take risks. SILLY, SILLY GIRL.
 
Unfortunately I believe that the top dressage riders who are always being photographed looking hat-free, elegant and glamorous are entirely to blame. In the same way that the likes of Katie Price are unwitting role models to the young so too are the likes of Carl Hester et al to the horsey teenager.

I feel naked if ever I get on a horse without a hat on but then I'm not "on the pull" so it matters not the least to me whether I look glamorous or elegant!

That said I'm having battles with my husband to get him out of wearing a Pateys cardboard hat and into wearing something sensible but he says he wouldn't be seen dead in the hunting field without one - what worries me is that he might otherwise be seen dead in the hunting field with one. With one small baby and another one arriving in a month, I believe his responsibility is to his family and not his vanity.
 
I'm an idiot and will poodle around on my 17.2 chap hatless but never properly ride like it.
In November I had the most ridiculous fall where he just lost his footing on wet grass... now I have Post-Concussion syndrome that may take a year to go away. I dread to think what state I would be in had I not had a hat :/ Saying that, it is the only time I've landed on/hit my head in a fall in all my riding life :/
 
It is SO not cool. We all know that ANY horse can be unpredictable. Tbh my worst fear isn't dying in a fall, it's being brain damaged and needing constant care for the rest of my days, a huge burden on my poor family.
Many top riders do wear crash hats at home. It is an utterly stupid fashion not to.
 
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Riding without a hat is so cool though

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Until you are brain damaged and a vegetable. Very cool. Not.

Sorry to be harsh, but one of my daughter's best friends was killed last year when in a moment of madness she rode her usually sane horse without a hat. Utterly tragic waste of a life. It wasn't all that long ago when no one wore a seat belt in a car, now everyone does. Not only is it stupid to ride without a hat, but arrogant and selfish. As Kerilli points out, it is family and friends who have to pick up the pieces.
 
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Well to be honest, if someone is paying towards training for her, the least she can do in return is put a hat on her head for a few photo's. I'm gobsmacked she would even think to question it.

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Sorry but I have to agree with this!
 
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