for those who say you don't need an arena for schooling...

[milliepops]

No, you're quite right, you can just ride in the garden

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3429843300574743

I can definitely see the value of having a chute of hedges for improving straightness in your tempis!

 

[ycbm]

? novel!

 

[Tiddlypom]

I’d never get the IDx past all those tempting snacks shrubs without her reaching out to snack on them .

 

[ester]

we'd def trash the box hedge at some point.

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Amazing!

I want his indoor arena
*stamps foot petulantly knowing I dont have the funds*

 

[The Xmas Furry]

we'd def trash the box hedge at some point.

B would see them as xc fences..... ?

 

[CMcC]

a Friend of friend bought a house with a sand school from a non-horsey person. They had planted a tree at X for shade. I thought it was perfect, would help you find X, the centre line and do the perfect (well not quite) 20m circle!

 

[Mule]

The beast would try to jump the hedges.

 

[Mule]

B would see them as xc fences..... ?

The beast would be the same

 

[dorsetladette]

I like the idea of dancing round the garden

 

[rara007]

Yes, that’s just like my garden And my horse...!

 

[milliepops]

Yes, that’s just like my garden And my horse...!

haha! yeah, um.. *looks wistfully at the squiffy pots and minuscule "lawn"*

I suppose I could do pirouettes round the rotary washing line just about be space for that!

 

[cobgoblin]

The thought of maintaining that garden is enough to make me dig out an arena by hand.

 

[Kat]

I'm not sure L would fit in my garden, nevermind have room for any schooling!

 

[ester]

I think actually we would likely spook at the box hedge on the left and in doing so land in the one on the right.

 

[Not_so_brave_anymore]

my lawn is about 20x30m. It's just a pity it's on a 45 degree slope!

 

[Equi]

Well he’s not going to spook at the flower boxes beside the judge is he! Lol

 

[ForeverBroke_]

I did actually ride my horse in my garden once It's about half an acre of just lawn and really flat, and I couldn't be bothered to hack to my arena hire so I 'popped,' in the garden thinking meh, no one will notice ... Had a hard time explaining why there was hoof prints in there when the sun caught the garden a particular way one evening

 

[palo1]

I showed my OH this and said 'Could we have one like this please?' His reply was simply to gesture at the very scruffy garden I have here and suggest I get cracking on!!
!!

 

[ycbm]

Do any of the eventers on here remember Sansaw?

A step bounce hedge into the garden along the gravel path, past the fishpond and out the other side.

I loved it, such a unique set of fences!

 

[PapaverFollis]

Hmm. Does one need planning permission for a few nice garden paths?

 

[doodle]

Robin would spook and hyperventilate the entire time.

 

[cauda equina]

You'd have to spend hours raking the gravel, and it would be a bugger picking out the poo

 

[planete]

My young horse trampled all over somebody's lawn once. I had hired their unfenced sand school to lunge him and he made an unscheduled excursion onto their lawn. I apologised profusely and spent a couple of hours on my hands and knees raising the sunken hoof prints with a hand fork.

 

[blitznbobs]

No, you're quite right, you can just ride in the garden

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3429843300574743

I can definitely see the value of having a chute of hedges for improving straightness in your tempis!

I’m not sure which I want more - the horse or the garden!

 

[ihatework]

I’m not sure which I want more - the horse or the garden!

definitely the horse, just think of all the weeding!!

 

[Trinket12]

Madam would just try to eat it. She was eating a lavender bush today while my attention was elsewhere ? and all I could smell on our hack was lavender ?

 

[palo1]

When my older horse was just 4yo I took him for a lesson with a lovely trainer, using her neighbour's arena. This neighbour is pretty posh and the walkways to the school were gravel and lined with with rosebushes. The whole place was lovely - beautiful, well kept and calm. Everywhere you looked you could see wonderful gleaming bay warmbloods with smartly trimmed manes and perfectly banged, level tails. As I left my trailer askew on the driveway, unboxed my wiry, spotted and rather excited young horse, the owner squeaked very politely 'Ooh, how exotic!!' I had to do a few circuits of the car park with the halter to establish forward rather than upward motion and then as we made our way up to the school, my darling young horse stopped dead whipped his head down and started munching said roses. The final humiliation, just after I watched someone finishing their schooling with a very calm, perfectly executed half pass was for my trainer to say 'I think I might pop yours on the lead rein for a few minutes - he seems quite keen today'!! It was not the impression I had wanted to give tbh....

 

[Honey08]

I got shouted at a few times as a child for cantering my pony round the garden when my dad wasn’t looking! (Pesky hoof prints gave me away!). Never did get those tempi changes in between the roses though!?

 

[palo1]

Eek - I had a rather terrifying experience years ago with a runaway horse ( a serial bolter ) that took off down a very steep hill with me. I managed to steer him, somehow, into a garden where he proceeded to gallop round and round churning up the lawn and flowerbeds with a still terrified me clinging on round the corners. I was not aware until later that this was, in fact a very much loved garden that was occasionally open to the public for very special accompanied visits. When I called by to apologise for my intrusion the owner was so lovely, it just made me feel even more of a lemon but I was so grateful for her understanding and sympathy. Rose bushes were definately trampled...