do you smoke and ride at the same time?

Used to until I gave up, but always where it was quiet enough to ride one handed. Never had a problem but then it wasn't frowned on as much then.
 
i don't smoke anyway. so this may be a stupid question- but could the hot ash not accidentally fall on your horse? driving through Lambourn i see many jockeys both smoking and on their mobiles on spooky racehorses in the middle of the road!
 
I used to before i gave up...........I loved my last half of a mile ciggie! I rolled my own as well , nothing worse than getting one rolled and then dropping it because the horse has took off!
 
I don't smoke, but I have vivid memories of my old instructor riding her horse and rolling up a cigarette whilst riding and leading me when I was young! She also used to smoke whilst we were having a slow canter. Her horse was a saint and she would just brush the ash out of her mane.
 
I gave up smoking a few years back but I did smoke and ride a few times, always if I was riding with another girl who smoked when she rode and sort of hassled me into it! I'd never have done it otherwise simply because I didn't need to- it never occurred to me usually! I know I can't have a coffee riding and it was the same!
Now tbh I think it looks awful seeing someone ride and smoke (I'm a bit snobby about some things)
 
All the time. I love a smoke in the sun on a hack. I did drop some ash on my new calf skin saddle thou lol but never on the horse.

I have smoked hunting and jumping when we stopped and me and the lady Master lit up and they moved off.

My horses know to stand if it's windy whilst drop the reins to unzip my coat so my lighter will work :)
 
Are you ready for this............I would not allow anyone to smoke on my horses or on my yard. It is an insult to the horse.

Stands back and waits for a beating !
 
Copperpot said:
All the time. I love a smoke in the sun on a hack. I did drop some ash on my new calf skin saddle thou lol but never on the horse.

I have smoked hunting and jumping when we stopped and me and the lady Master lit up and they moved off.

My horses know to stand if it's windy whilst drop the reins to unzip my coat so my lighter will work :)
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There's a photo of me out on a mock hunt with a ciggie in my mouth whilst jumping a hedge as the same thing happened! :redface3:

I smoke whilst hacking, I roll my own so roll 2 before leaving the yard and put them in my pocket with a lighter and have one on the way out and one on the way back. I'm very careful about not dropping ash on the pony and he doesn't seem to mind. Most of our hacking is off the roads anyway so I'm also very careful about where I throw the ends, especially in the summer :)
 
They don't mind. They have no concept of smoking being right or wrong. My horse would be more insulted if I put a onesie on him that by me having a cigarette as we are ambling along a country lane :)
 
Copperpot said:
They don't mind. They have no concept of smoking being right or wrong.
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This. Same as they don't mind being called 'it'.

I used to when I smoked, but gave up years ago so now don't. Never had / caused an issue, but as Jill A pointed out it was so frowned upon then.
 
I smoke occasionally, mostly when stressed or drinking, I think it sounds nice to have a cigarette break on a long hack but in that case why not get off the horse and let them have a grazing break too, I do that quite a lot on hacks anyway to have some water etc.

Nothing wrong with it really but it reminds me of being in Italy where big fat 'cowboy' western riders would sit slumped in the saddle at a show smoking when the weather was so stifling hot I could barely breathe, I just thought It's a horse not an armchair and it would probable like a break too actually!

I would probably do it hunting since I imagine there would be enough nerves and drinking to justify it and getting on and off might not be so easy!
 
Copperpot said:
They don't mind. They have no concept of smoking being right or wrong. My horse would be more insulted if I put a onesie on him that by me having a cigarette as we are ambling along a country lane :)
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To me it's more the stuff you're forcing them to breathe in. You'd not get a lit cigarette near our horses without being told to put it out.

But then, I try very hard not to be near smokers. They can poison themselves but I'd rather they did it away from me.
 
Copperpot said:
They don't mind. They have no concept of smoking being right or wrong. My horse would be more insulted if I put a onesie on him that by me having a cigarette as we are ambling along a country lane :)
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I know !, it's just something I don't like to see, I cannot stand the smell or taste of smoke and it annoys me if I have to walk through a cloud of smoke outside a pub or cinema.
 
AdorableAlice said:
Are you ready for this............I would not allow anyone to smoke on my horses or on my yard. It is an insult to the horse.

Stands back and waits for a beating !
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Oh Il join you behind that barricade! Dentist tried to light up and I said er sorry but no, non smoking premises he nearly swallowed the thing whole in surprise.

Disgusting habit I don't want near me or mine. End of.
 
I do. Horse is very stressy when we first leave the yard and makes me a bit nervy so we wind each other up. Once he's settled enough to take a hand off, I light up and we both relax. I know it's just a crutch but it doesn't do him or anyone else except me any harm. One per hack is it - once we've relaxed, we've relaxed! I only do it on quiet roads and am careful about where I put them out
 
I am shocked at how many people here admit to doing it. I have never seen anyone smoke on a horse in my entire life. What if something spooked the horse and you dropped the cig and it got caught under the numnah or pommel? Unthinkable.
 
I don't smoke but worked on a yard where it happened regularly. I think its wrong in my eyes its an accident waiting to happen. I occasionally meet a rider who is in dark clothing, no hi viz, smoking and most time on mobile with reins sitting on horses neck. I hate passing her in case horse spooks and she has no control.
 
I don't smoke.
Am on a livery yard and people are allowed to smoke there which I hate!! (Its always me that ends up sweeping up the fag ends too!

I wont allow anyone to smoke sat on a horse of mine (but then its very rare Id let anyone on my horses anyway!)
I do hate to see it though
 
No.

I was out hacking with a smoker friend some years back on a fresh autumn day. She lit up her fag, her horse spooked moments later at a plastic bag flapping in a hedge, horse shot forwards then sideways, my friend dropped her fag and it burnt him - he rodeo'd her off and took off home! When we managed to catch him we found a small burn mark on his neck/shoulder. She's never smoked again around horses.
 
TigerTail said:
Oh Il join you behind that barricade! Dentist tried to light up and I said er sorry but no, non smoking premises he nearly swallowed the thing whole in surprise.

Disgusting habit I don't want near me or mine. End of.
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When I first read this I thought YOU were at the dentist, and was outraged for you - duh:o

I will join the ranks of the great unwashed and admit to doing it, including bareback on an ex racer
 
There is a notorious yard near where I live and there are lots of ladies that ride out of there with fags in their hands, down the road, sometimes on the phone, horses covered in mud, no high vis etc, it really paints a lovely picture :( I don't smoke but if I did I would be embarrassed to ride and smoke, surely you don't need a fag that badly you cant wait till you have finished??
 
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