Do you ride anywhere special on xmas day?

[Blizzard]

I was wondering with the roads being quiet do you ride anywhere a bit special on Christmas day?

Im thinking of riding Lance over to my aunts (where we go for xmas lunch), its only about 4 miles each way.

 

[maddielove]

I would love to hack home-but afraid my slow horse might land me in the forest in the pitch back!

There was a person at my old yard booked the school for a lesson on christmas day?!?!?! or so i believe...quite strange!

 

[Bettyboo1976]

I wont be here for christmas.. going to scotland.. so mare will be on Full livery that week.. However I will be leaving her some extra special pressies and if anyone at the yard (all good riders ) wants to take her out for a wonder it will be fine. If not i'm sure she will enjoy a nice week off work

 

[wizoz]

Yes, but i'm not telling you what on!

 

[Donkeymad]

We take out cob out for a drive and go through the town and down normally busy roads, we tend to get people looking out and waving. Depends really on if we get any Christmas Day bookings this year though.

 

[zoesophie]

Nothing special this year but a few years ago we used to drive round our local village with our pony and pick up/drop off people at the pub so they could have a drink and not have to walk home

It was really nice coz all the kids used to come and give our pony a carrot (he and the cart were dressed up with tinsel (sp?) and prezzies!) and we got free mulled wine

 

[Blizzard]

Aww that sounds lovely!

 

[zoesophie]

Yeah it was so cute to see all the kids faces. The driver was dressed as the big man in red himself and they tried to dress me up a a pixie - I was having none of it, I looked more like a micheline man with the amount of layers I had on!!

 

[DiablosGold]

Yeh we go to the gallops woopee

 

[nemlin]

Last year my best mate and I rode straight down the main road to the beach, early (6:30 ish) and it was amazing! It normally takes us about an hour to hack to the beach cos we go the back roads, but it took only 20 mins and we had the beach all to ourselves for a damn good blast. We have made it our new tradition now

 

[mrgoop]

I haven't ridden on christmas day, as i have always been in a relationship where i didn't feel i could disappear for a few hours without feeling selfish.

Was hoping to go this year with OH but now he's gone. So had already decided to go on my own, and enjoy myself!!

Don't know where we will go...... and i don't care, we will go where we end up. Looking forward to it, and nothing except lousy weather is going to stop me this year!!!!

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

Nowhere special, just really pleased at it being likely to get out at all! Normally things are just too rushed, this year my parents are coming to us, it makes sense as we are the ones with all the animals!

So I reckon we can get out for a quick round the block in the morning before they arrive, will take us 30 mins and involve a quick blast up the bridleway!

 

[Nickijem]

Haven't been out on Christmas day since I hacked over to my mum's, let Jake have a nibble of grass on her front lawn and he trod on his reins, snapping his bridle!

I was 3 miles from the yard with no bridle - fortunately I had a few spare bits of bridle in my old bedroom which I had to send my mum on a hunt for while I desparately tried to hold onto Jake with virtually no bridle!

Might get out this year as its the first Christmas I've had Jerry.

 

[grandmaweloveyou]

im flying back from my holiday on christmas eve purposefully to take my boy home for a pint of guiness on christmas day! sad or what!

 

[Joya]

I took Gem to my nan's care home last year, it was lovely, everyone loved her...though they were all ill at the time, and my whole family caught it and were terribly sick all night and all of boxing day!

 

[WeeBrown]

Well, I don't usually have a horse on Christmas day (Just bought my first one in May). I might however use her to escape the mad selection of people coming for dinner this year at my parent's place. It gets more bizaare as the years go on - worse than any soap!

 

[Gentle_Warrior]

mine gets the day off in the field

 

[Vicki1986]

to our dismay the local pub shuts mxas day :-( might look around the local area and see if any others open for a xmas drink as the horses love going to pub and being petted