hacking etiquette - quick question

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When you are hacking on a bridle path or track and another rider is coming towards you, is it correct to pass right shoulder to right shoulder (like driving a car) or left shoulder to left shoulder ( like in the school)?
 
I don't really school, I'm deffo a happy hacker :D, so I instinctively move into the left and pass right shoulder to right shoulder - not very helpful, but I've never had a problem.
 
I'd say right to right. As effectively you are both 'road users' so I always pass things on the road whether it be cars, people, etc right - right. I heard somewhere if you do left to left with a car it can go against you? Don't know if this is true though.
 
Thanks - I've always instinctively passed right to right however someone at the yard told me it should be left to left - your answers tend to back me up :)
 
holeymoley said:
I'd say right to right. As effectively you are both 'road users' so I always pass things on the road whether it be cars, people, etc right - right. I heard somewhere if you do left to left with a car it can go against you? Don't know if this is true though.
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I was forced to pass a car left to left and it felt utterly weird! I always do right/right
 
Can't remember the last time I passed another horse out hacking. I would always pass at a walk and wouldn't worry too much about the side - whichever one they weren't on! I think it only matters in the school and on the roads because you are travelling at higher speeds. I have never felt in danger of crashing on a bridlepath.
 
Hi, depends on the situation but I dont think theres a had and fast rule - not around our way anyway. On road (quiet access roads but tarmaced) I keep left passing another horse. On a hack it depends on which track (up hill gives way to down hill etc) - whether i'm alone and how many are passing ( theres two RS in the area) - if i'm alone the hack with more horses take priority - one school passes on the left and one on the right but passing is always at walk.
 
I've always passed right to right like driving. If you are doing ride & lead the led horse would be on your left, so it would be a bit daft to have that between two ridden ones if passing left to left. Plus bridleways are just 'roads' not open to motorised vehicles.
 
Mike007 said:
On the otherhand .Boats and aircraft pass left to left.
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So if you're swimming on your horse in a lake / the sea / etc you should pass left to left to avoid confusion...

Which raises the question, what should one do on a bridlepath which runs along a stream like this one? :eek:

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JFTD said:
So if you're swimming on your horse in a lake / the sea / etc you should pass left to left to avoid confusion...

Which raises the question, what should one do on a bridlepath which runs along a stream like this one? :eek:

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Wow, I have suddenly become an animal communicator......He is saying ..Bloody satnav .
 
JFTD said:
So if you're swimming on your horse in a lake / the sea / etc you should pass left to left to avoid confusion...

Which raises the question, what should one do on a bridlepath which runs along a stream like this one? :eek:
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hmmm, tricky but having spend a lot of my life on the river my warped logic would say that manually powered wins over something with an engine and if it's got a sail then that takes priority over everything otherwise keep right so depends on whether you meet a motor boat, sailing boat or another horse :p

... oh and if there's a strong current I'd give way to those going against the stream :D
 
Ankerwycke said:
hmmm, tricky but having spend a lot of my life on the river my warped logic would say that manually powered wins over something with an engine and if it's got a sail then that takes priority over everything otherwise keep right so depends on whether you meet a motor boat, sailing boat or another horse :p

... oh and if there's a strong current I'd give way to those going against the stream :D
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Oh good points, very true!

But what if there's a narrow channel of depth meaning that the small sail boat (or horse!) has lots of room (in the shallow edges) but the larger engined boat is restricted to the centre - surely then the sail (and horse) should give way to engine?


NB my only rational for that comes from an Arthur Ransom book, possibly we didn't mean to go to sea :o
 
JFTD said:
Oh good points, very true!

But what if there's a narrow channel of depth meaning that the small sail boat (or horse!) has lots of room (in the shallow edges) but the larger engined boat is restricted to the centre - surely then the sail (and horse) should give way to engine?


NB my only rational for that comes from an Arthur Ransom book, possibly we didn't mean to go to sea :o
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Ah well if it's shallow & narrow the keel of the sail boat is going to get stuck in the mud if it moves to the side then it'll topple over and the crew (rider) might get thrown overboard so I'd say sail wins :D

Personally I like to think of passing on bridleways as a game of paper, scissors, rock.;)
 
monkeybum13 said:
Just whatever is easiest, surely? That's what I have always done.
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Agree with this. Whatever side has the clearest 'pull in' or better ground. As long as room is given, I can't imagine anybody getting their knickers in a twist about it.

* Awaits the 'somebody passed me on the right out hacking thread :eek::D *
 
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