I do worry about some people sometimes

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I've just come back from my physio who I know quite well and always have a laugh and a joke with. He was joking about how many horse riders he's treating at the minute and how risky a sport it obviously is.
He then told me about a young girl he's treating who had just been bought a new pony. Bascially she jumped on it, bare back inside its stable. It went potty, flung her off into the walls of the stable and trampled on her. She's damaged her back, her shoulder and her neck. From the sounds of it she's lucky thats all it did to her. She was on her own having been left at the stables by her parents.

Is it just me how sometimes wonders where some people leave their brains? Where the heck were her parents? Obviously the poor girl has my utter sympathies - not least for being treated by my physio who is a sadist (!!) - but I shuddered to think what could have happened.
 
she's is very lucky! It's amazing isn't it the way some parents behave.....I would never leave my daughter in a stable with any of our horses, nice natured as they are, you just cannot guarantee that accidents such as this won't happen. Poor girl, I hope she gets better soon and learns from her mistake!
 
My old yard was used as a "nursey" for the kids, left at 9am and no-one responsible for them till 6pm.

When we were kids the Yard owner who was a family friend always had an eye on us. But YO and YM dont do it these days it seems-cant blame them either!
 
Blimey - poor girl. Do know roughly how old she was?
I don't have children, but at what sort of age would people usually leave their kids at the yard? I've never really had to deal with kids and horses. Just older children/ teenagers. And all of those were responsible enough to do their own horses ie 13yrs upwards.
At what age would you let your kids hack out alone?? If I was a mum, it'd probably be never! lol, I know the dangers too well!

Just to add, I'm never asking my physio about horse related accidents again! I'm in Newmarket, so you can imagine how busy the physios are around here
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Oh no poor kid. But then I used to be left alone at the stables from the age of 10 onwards. Nothing bad ever happened to me but then I am pretty sensible...
 
I've just left my 11yr old daughter up the yard but there is another Mum about and YO is happy for her to stay up yard without me and is there if needed. Daughter also has mobile phone and she will only go in the school or one of the fields.

Our YO thinks its good for the girls because they have to get on with it without parents doing everything for them but have people around if needed.

We only have 3 11 to 12yr old girls up our yard and they are sensible and sensitive to the horses.

Definatly wouldn't leave her up there to use just as creche
 
Eeek. I think back on all the times I went out riding, aged about thirteen, for two, three and even four hours at a time, cantering around, and I want to reach back through time and throttle myself for some of the stupid things I did. Not quite the same as being left on a yard but looking back I can't believe the YO let me loose for such periods of time on a pony with busted brakes and woolly steering. My god, I remember me trying to get her to jump a fallen tree log in our local woods. She objected, and then shot over it like a rocket and I got dumped, miles from anywhere. For reasons that elude me she didn't gallop off home and I somehow survived with nothing worse than scratches. *cringe*
 
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