Interesting choice of tack!

Nudibranch

Nudibranch

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OMG. Just passed my "favourite" new fieldmate riding out on the road - without a hat, grrrrrr - and choice of saddlecloth was.... a doormat???

Not the bristly kind, thank goodness.

Right, I promise to stop b*tching about her now. It's just sometimes, I really think there should be some kind of test before you are allowed to own a horse.
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Doesn't sound as if she has anything inside her head worth protecting!!
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At our old yard there we some teenage girls who knew everything about horses and wouldn't take any kind of help. One of the horses was not happy one day when being ridden and she was having a right stress at the poor boy. Told her to get off her f**king horse and sort her bridle out. She was riding in a pelham - I kid you not it was upside down and back to front.

Poor bugger must have been in agony. Sad thing is he didn't need it, he went fine in a snaffle.
 
My next door neighbours bought their children a pony. They had a "large" garden so they thought it would be fine in there. That's large as in around 70' x 50'. Pony shared the area with a swimming pool, trampoline, various building materials and several old bicycles left lying around.

There's a limit IMHO to how many times one can go and interfere. So I have only interfered on the following occasions: When the child was hitting the pony round the head with the bridle because she couldn't get it on - that's because she'd been left to put a brand new bridle together and completely cocked it up.

When they were taking the pony's rug off every morning and putting it out inside out to "air" and then every evening putting the same rug back on even when it had rained and/or was frosty and the pony was already soaking wet.

Then a combination of things - the kids had got into jumping but the pony kept stopping. This bothered me on several counts - the kids were wearing trainers and I saw one get dragged, one of the jumps was composed of a broom handle balanced on their hats as jump stands, with their body protectors to make the pole look more substantial, and they had just bought the pony (10.2 section A) some open fronted tendon boots which were not only too big but had been put on upside down and the wrong way round so the fetlock "bulb" was round the knee and the tendon protection running down the cannon bone. I told the mother that all these things were a problem and she said she'd sort the kids out. Sure enough the next time I saw them they were wearing their hats and body protectors and boots and the pony was wearing it's boots the right way up - but they were so long it couldn't bend it's knees.

Eventually I managed to find them livery with a very bossy and good hearted local lady. She's not the world's most knowledgeable but she keeps them on the straight and narrow.
 
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