Commuting to work on your horse?!

I know a girl who works at a yard local to her and she rides her horse along to work! Think she just stables it or turns out while she is working then rides back home again lol I think it's great!
 
I used to ride to work everyday when I worked at a stud not far from me, just put my pony in a stable then rode home again
 
Isn't it strange how times have changed. 100 years ago, or even 50 probably, these riders wouldn't have even been noticed. Now they are news. So sad that our cities are so full, and busy, and we've lost the horses from them, and the spaces to keep them, and the safety and the space to use them. I'm not being romantic here. I understand that the horses of London worked hard...but I think we are the poorer for not sharing our cities with them any more.

I'm following a blog by Jon Katz (Bedlam Farm Journal) and he's just now very interested (and opposed) to the banishing of the horses that pull tourists round Central Park - that are just about to be replaced by ELECTRIC CARTS if the current mayor and administration can push it through. Actually, I think I'll put up a new thread about it. I'll be interested to see what people over here think.
 
I just read the link, those people are brave hacking around London with bicycles, buses and sirens whizzing past. They need a bit if fluorescent IMO but they look like the old school type which are above bright gear! Nice to see it though it's like the good old days.
 
my daughter wants to ride our horse (when we get him/her) to school! not sure they would be very happy to have a horse grazing their rugby/football pitch!! :D
 
I've considered it, it would save me a little fuel as I do mine then drive back in home direction to work then back again after to my yard. However we have no spare stable now at work and my horse is a major wind sucker which would drive my boss insane. Also even though he has other company my daughters pony dislikes being without my horse too long!
Maybe one day!
 
Suec04 said:
my daughter wants to ride our horse (when we get him/her) to school! not sure they would be very happy to have a horse grazing their rugby/football pitch!! :D
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My mum used to pick me up from play school and primary school on horseback, used to ride and lead. She didn't do it every day and it was always a surprise to see the pony at the school gates :D
 
I groomed for a polo player one summer at uni and used to ride my eventer up to work sometimes... He was 15.2hh, bay and didn't look dissimilar to a polo pony... Was always worried I'd get back from a match to find some well meaning argi had hogged him!!
 
stencilface said:
My mum used to pick me up from play school and primary school on horseback, used to ride and lead. She didn't do it every day and it was always a surprise to see the pony at the school gates :D
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i think thats what she has in mind, except we would only have the one horse which means i would be walking! :D
 
Suec04 said:
my daughter wants to ride our horse (when we get him/her) to school! not sure they would be very happy to have a horse grazing their rugby/football pitch!! :D
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I rode my pony to school once (GCSE results day) - not sure it would have gone down too well every day!
 
I would suspect that the photo is of officers and/or officers wives/partners in their spare time exercising the Household cavalry horses that are kept at the barracks on the South side of Hyde Park.

During the 3 day week (1973) I rode my horse to work and stabled it in the lower ground floor stables (rear entrance to a mews) a few hundred yards from Oxford Circus in Central London.
 
How embarrassing. The cyclists are wearing Hi Viz and the vehicles have head lights on but the horse riders seem to think they can be seen by everyone in their tweed.
One doesn't even feel the need for a chin strap on his bowler. Snobbery, stupidity or both ?
 
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Isn't it odd that they look so dark compared to the cyclists in hi vis behind?
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MerrySherryRider said:
How embarrassing. The cyclists are wearing Hi Viz and the vehicles have head lights on but the horse riders seem to think they can be seen by everyone in their tweed.
One doesn't even feel the need for a chin strap on his bowler. Snobbery, stupidity or both ?
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Both my thoughts exactly!
 
yup, they must be nuts - and even the household cavalry wear hi vis when they go out at silly o'clock in the morning so I'm surprised if they let the relatives hack them out without.
 
I'd love to ride my horse to work in the summer, but don't think they will let me section a bit of the school field off, mind you...there's a riding stables across the road!

Hmmmmmmmm....................
 
A kid from school forgot to take a homework sheet and went off to our yard round the corner from work, only to realise and come trotting round on her pony. I have no idea what she planned to do with him had I not usefully been standing chatting to someone on the drive!
 
:DI've taken the ponies to school so the girls could ride home.I could see the teachers eyeing me nervously as I waited in the car park and fully expected a letter home telling me 'no ponies on school grounds',but,no,nothing.
 
Is anybody else irked by the 'and privileged' comment? Clearly the journalist has no clue about the majority of equestrians.

Though the article does seem in jest. So I'll try not to get too annoyed lol :D

However I do agree with the high-vis comments, I can't imagine why anybody would want to ride through London at rush hour though!
 
I always wanted to take the SecA to school to pick up daughter but she wouldn't let me. At secondary, there are 2 little fields opposite school, we eyed them up when they were for sale , but commuting to school down the A4 didn't really appeal, there's also a livery yard opposite. For 6th form she's eying up a local college which has an equestrian centre, and (when the ford isn't almost 6ft deep) she could hack there, will take about 2 hours, almost entirely off road and on bridleways, but again she will have to cross the A4, it's manageable as I think the traffic might be slow enough to let her across (there are islands).
 
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