Holcombe Boxing Day Hunt

[lisan]

Arrived nice and early to get a good parking space, May was fairly chilled.

Did the first couple of gallops round the field, May was extremely strong! She was'nt too bad up round Rivington Pike until way up the track when we had another gallop, completely lost my brakes and only just managed to pull her up when I was level with the Hunt Master Apologised profusley and headed back after that!!

I had planned on going back after that bit anyway as I knew it would be really boggy up on the moor, so had a good 2.5hrs out, shame she spoilt that last bit!

But there were quite a lot of over excited horses, and she was not the worst behaved - One Chestnut Mare took off, galloped under some trees, decked its rider and went and jumped staight into the rivington Pike lake thing!!!!! :shocked:

She jumped in after it and swum back out of the lake with it :shocked: Horse arrived back at its box a bit shivery but otherwise non the worse for its ordeal.

Another pony reared and went over backwards with its rider, luckily she got out of its way.

An eventful day - Would have liked to take some video footage but needed two hands on the reins!

Camera was set to vid instead of camera! Ooops!
http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b38/L154xxx/?action=view&current=Video012.flv

 

[apkelly01]

I looked at your video - you're mare looks stunning :grin:

 

[lisan]

She's a cheeky lil girl! Makes me laugh how she would stand so calmly when they all stopped, but when they galloped - that was it, she was ofski!

 

[peakpark]

There's a picture of the mare in the lake in the Daily Telegraph today - it looks very dramatic!

 

[lisan]

oooh, I'll go and get a copy! It was very dramatic! The horse was very relaxed and calm when it got back to the horsebox, they just put a blanket round it and it was shivering.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/27/nhunt227.xml

 

[Krysha_n_Helga]

that was a girl of my girl her horse is fine i think she couldnt believe what had happen.
She told me the full story and i cant beleive what some ppl are like really
she told me that at one point she feel her mare give up like she just wanted to die : (

 

[dozzie]

The report says horse slipped on the ice and they both went in together? Sounds horrendous whatever happened. The pics look awful too. Glad they both got out ok. It's lucky they didnt get hypothermia or worse. I think it would put me off hunting though!!

 

[lisan]

that was a girl of my girl her horse is fine i think she couldnt believe what had happen.
She told me the full story and i cant beleive what some ppl are like really
she told me that at one point she feel her mare give up like she just wanted to die : (

So did the horse deck her and run and jump in? It certainly did'nt slip! The lady I headed back with saw her jump in after it. Thank god they are both OK, I don't think I would have jumped in!

 

[Krysha_n_Helga]

it seen the other horse who she was with who just got of her the girl without waiting. they was trying to get back on and as she did there was a branch in the way and it pushed her of backwards. the her mare ran offer her horses but didnt know how to get round so just ran through the water.
it defo didnt slip in the papers tell so much lies.
she had us all crying when she was tell us when she said she almost lost her shes only have her since the summer as well

 

[ChestnutHunter]

where was the hunt?
I live in loveclough near the social club,and I always get the Holcombe hunt going on the fields at the top

 

[lisan]

It went from Rivington Barn up and round the resovoir then onto the Moors.