do you smoke and ride at the same time?

I've never tried a cigarette but yard I was at about 12 years ago, nobody smoked on the yard but everyone smoked on a hack. I'll always remember going out with another livery on her highly strung horse and it rearing, resulting in her putting the cigarette out on him. Horrible white patch after. Ok the horse never reared again, but still horrible. Cant imagine smoking on mine... He goes sideways if I go in my pocket for a tissue before I've even got it out!
 
Spring Feather said:
Gawd I'm almost afraid to say I ride in bare feet sometimes in the summer. And god forbid in a strappy top and shorts, occasionally a bikini too. Hells bells, this forum .. lol!!
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Me too :D Well, not the bikini, that really would be a step too far at my age and size! It's ok for you slender young things :D
 
Spring Feather said:
Gawd I'm almost afraid to say I ride in bare feet sometimes in the summer. And god forbid in a strappy top and shorts, occasionally a bikini too. Hells bells, this forum .. lol!!
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Holy focaccia! A bikini! Tut Tit, I mean Tut. I'd be arrested under the obscure law 'indecent exposure whilst attempting to ride an equine'. Good on you, girl - you are a female aren't you?
 
I am very happy to announce I AM COMMON :)

That is, pretty much the same as everyone else (which I think is what common means, or at least, that there are lots of them).

I have smoked on and off (currently on) but it has never occurred to me to smoke on a horse. TBH I could never manage the manual dexterity required to hold the reins (sometimes 2), my special 'oh *****' strap, and my whip. In my youth when I saw people smoking on horses I always thought it looked rather dangerous and silly, but its a free country.

It was drummed into me as a child NEVER to ride without sleeves - and I never do! :)
 
Spring Feather said:
Gawd I'm almost afraid to say I ride in bare feet sometimes in the summer. And god forbid in a strappy top and shorts, occasionally a bikini too. Hells bells, this forum .. lol!!
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Sniggers. When I worked with event horses, we used to hack out and do fast work in shorts, bikini tops and half chaps - occasionally with a cigarette too. We were remarkably popular amongst the local young farmer population!
 
babymare said:
lol tut tut Spring Feather thats far to chavish and commiting so many sins :)
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jemima*askin said:
Me too :D Well, not the bikini, that really would be a step too far at my age and size! It's ok for you slender young things :D
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blazingsaddles said:
Holy focaccia! A bikini! Tut Tit, I mean Tut. I'd be arrested under the obscure law 'indecent exposure whilst attempting to ride an equine'. Good on you, girl - you are a female aren't you?
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Lol, there are other things I do which wouldn't be de rigueur on this forum :biggrin3: Yes I'm female, and the right side of 50 years old, but I still have my girlish figure and I do live in a country with extremely hot summers so I don't care :smile3:
 
My mum never smoked whilst on the yard, but quite often we used to go hacking and she would have reins in one hand, cig in the other! Never offended me nor her horse so...

I wouldn't let someone smoke around or on one of my own but its personal choice imo.
 
Auslander said:
Sniggers. When I worked with event horses, we used to hack out and do fast work in shorts, bikini tops and half chaps - occasionally with a cigarette too. We were remarkably popular amongst the local young farmer population!
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I'm not surprised you were! lol! Ye well I'd be popular among the farmer population around here too if I went out on the roads like this (mainly because most of the local farmers are ancient and hard of seeing :biggrin3:)
 
putasocinit said:
I ride in wellies so does a racehorse trainer in newmarket and he wears shorts lol
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so? The trainer I worked for rode in deck shoes, all the lads smoked on the way home, the dressage rider I worked for wouldn't be seen dead in a hat because it would give him hat hair. didn't agree with any of it, don't really give a 4X either. But if the forum existed with noone giving opinions, well how dull would that be :p
 
Oh my goodness - have some of you really listened to yourselves! There is a yard near us with 'That' sort of person, it looks common, insulting to the horse ... LOL seriously guys - if I fancy a fag on my horse then I light up - only ever on a quiet country path and defo not in traffic. I see riders do a lot worse than puff on a fag and trust me the horse doesn't give a ....
 
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Whilst I don't smoke, I DO wear uggs and sometimes track suit bottoms. Hell, it's comfortable. I've even ridden like that once or twice.. Yes, I am common, yes I am a super chav. However, I'd much rather be those things than have a stick up my bottom whilst looking down on and labelling others.
 
When i was training it was drummed into me re sleeves. If dragged less damage to skin supposdly. Gosh if i get on a horse in a strappy t shirt now i can visualize my old trainer glaring at me lol
 
mcnaughty said:
Oh my goodness - have some of you really listened to yourselves! There is a yard near us with 'That' sort of person, it looks common, insulting to the horse ... LOL seriously guys - if I fancy a fag on my horse then I light up - only ever on a quiet country path and defo not in traffic. I see riders do a lot worse than puff on a fag and trust me the horse doesn't give a ....
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I'd love to know how "posh" the people commenting are! All the very well bred people I know don't give a monkeys what anyone else does!
 
I stopped smoking 12 days 9 hrs and 47 minutes ago (courtesy of the nhs smoke free app!) and reading this now I WANT ONE!
I actually hate smoking and have tried for years to stop. I can honestly say though I never smoked riding . Nothing wrong with those that want to and I wouldn't judge anyone.
Today I saw a woman smoking in her car with a couple of kids inside - that to me is wrong.
 
But babymare - all the counselling in the world wouldn't make us a proper posh horse riding person!
They must take hundreds of years of in breeding to achieve true elite status! I'm a not too distant relation of the Mountbatten lot.. They're posh, innit?
 
Funny that, same as those that come from old money they dress like you and i, but those that have made new money dress well Posh Beckham springs to mind
 
putasocinit said:
Tobiano - why the sleeves, explain please
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Yes as Babymare says. The theory went that if I fell off on the road not wearing full sleeves, both my arms (or at least one of them) would be skinned from the friction. Now I think about it, probably just a sleeve wouldnt stop that but it was definitely brainwashed into me!

Also I had a friend who had to deal with motorcycle accidents & hated it when people werent wearing leathers - similar issue but far more common. UGH.
 
Erm babymare, my uggs are encrusted with the working classes crushed dreams. I'm THAT posh. You better had get curtsying.
 
I also had drummed into me always hat gloves and correct footwear when riding and i always always always keep to those rules.Does that make me posh? ? ? :)
 
I don't think smoking/wellies make people look common, just tacky-posh people can also look tacky ;) and the smoking, boat shoe wearing trainer was hellishly posh :D

I also struggle with no sleeves-partly because up here its never that blooming hot and because I've seen people end up with nasty road rash-and when I was a kid someone got horrible skin injuries from falling off in stubble in a strappy top.

nothing wrong with uggs-except the price.best thing for your feet ever! I've been wearing them since the early 90s before they got fashionable and expensive! wouldn't ride in them though-bleurch ;)

I was taught, and I am quite old, that to not turn yourself out properly is disrespectful to your horse and its stuck with me. I don't think its true (although I like the sentiment) but I do like to wear proper riding gear-its not even posh gear either-because anything that helps me stay on/not get so hurt when I come off is a bonus :)
 
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