Is it just around me?? Slow horse people!!

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I keep my horse at my mums house and within a square mile there must be well over a hundred horses - including a huge livery yard and a riding school.

Thing is, I hardly ever see people out and about with their horses and when I do they are plodding along SOOO SLOWLY (normally, with over reach boots, brushing boots and knee boots on!) Honestly it must take them hours to go round the block!
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I really don't see how they can find this enjoyable?? Can some happy hackers explain??

Is it just me that lives in an area with really crap horse people??
 
No I think it is a universal thing esp with riding schools. I keep mine on working livery and they pretty much get ridden five days a week by me and then do the odd lesson and I get the strange looks for riding !!! The rest of the loaners just come up muck out and thats it how boring!!!
 
It's mainly the livery yard people who I would see because I go on their land (friend of the owner - sure he doesn't mind - I hope!
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), it's great, like my own little gallops and XC course!
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Never see anyone on there though... then we have a great old railway which is nice and soft this time of year and lovely for a canter... but apparently a slow crawl is more entertaining!!

Some people must have a lot of time on their hands thats all I can say!
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Different people, different horses, different attitudes, different things to get out of life. Not everyone wants to compete or gallop or jump or even canter and many, many people simply enjoy the close-to-nature harmony and partnership that quiet hacks on a wonderful horse can bring. I've never thought this makes me a crap horse person.
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didn't really mean crap horse person as in bad horseman/woman, it's just I can't quite get my head around what is the fun part - but now I know it's because they "enjoy the close-to-nature harmony and partnership that quiet hacks on a wonderful horse can bring".

don't think those kind of people are my kind of horse people.
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it just me that lives in an area with really crap horse people??

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As someone who rides a horse at steady walk if on a road but prefers not to do roadwork, but ride in the fields or in the school and then goes to competions etc. most weekends, I do not consider myself a crap horse person!.

When we go for long rides, we find it just as pleasant to walk as to gallop.

Others on our yard go out very ealry in the morning to avoid the traffic,and are back by 7.30 to go to work.Other horses are retired or youngstock, so not in work.

Riding schools may not find it easy to do hacks if they are on the roads, and insurance etc makes it easier to give lessons.
 
It depends on my mood!

I can be a 'happy hacker' if I want to chat, but I do like a good gallop and a jump.

Got bored of competing.....no too poor......and taking the quiet life at erm..21!


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don't think those kind of people are my kind of horse people.
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Good, coz I'm dam sure you wouldn't be their type of person (horse or otherwise)!!
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Some people must have a lot of time on their hands thats all I can say!

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After a busy week of meetings, deadlines, rushing round shops, being frustrated by Mway jams, late trains, several hundred emails demanding instant response, family commitments , schooling, competitions, etc, its chill out time, for a plod around in much needed peace and quiet.
Not only that, sometime the old bones ache, mine, not the horses!
 
Can I tell you a little story about a new recruit to the army, let's call him 'Jock', and his passing out parade.
His proud parents were all dressed up for the occasion, and watching eagerly trying to spot their son in the lines of smartly dressed troops heading towards them.
'There! There!' shouted his mum, pointing 'And look - they're all out of step except our Jock!'
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;they are plodding along SOOO SLOWLY (normally, with over reach boots, brushing boots and knee boots on!);
what iswrong with this?Protecting their horse, on a controlled horse, they seem perfectly sensible to me.....
I recall you posting about struggling to hold your horse recently, wonder who is the better horseperson/has the better ride, possbily them on their controlled horses?
 
Nothing wrong with walking on roads - so do I (most of the time), and we honestly have to really great hacking - the big livery yard (70+ horses) leads on to the trans pennine trail which leads to a huge forest - so no roads involved! Probably why it is so popular!

It's the walking speed that gets me - they are slower than me on my feet!! It irritates me when people walk slow on there feet too so maybe it's me with the problem!
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perish the thought! :-)

Perhpas you see them when they are plodding along on just setting out, or the last mile home to cool off?
 
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;they are plodding along SOOO SLOWLY (normally, with over reach boots, brushing boots and knee boots on!);
what iswrong with this?Protecting their horse, on a controlled horse, they seem perfectly sensible to me.....
I recall you posting about struggling to hold your horse recently, wonder who is the better horseperson/has the better ride, possbily them on their controlled horses?

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Thanks for the advice hun, maybe I should go and ask them... my problems tend to arise hunting and XC though, not walking at snails pace along the (disused) railway line!

So does asking for bit advice on HHO make you a crap horse person then?
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I sold my old ID X to a lady who plods him round the block 3 times a week, the perfect partnership between that owner who has no desire to do more and a steady old boy who's earnt it.....He's suited and booted....why? In case he spooks, is in an accident or what have you. Just because they plod along doesn't mean that he doesn't have a mind of his own, nor does it mean he shouldn't be offered the same protection as any other horse, whatever his pace/work load.
 
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Perhpas you see them when they are plodding along on just setting out, or the last mile home to cool off?

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Perhaps, but they don't really look like they have worked up much to cool off!
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Don't get me wrong if I'm out with a mate/my mum we do tend to "plod along" to a degree because we are too busy talking, but horses are still walking on/out, even if on a long rain and chilling out.
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I sold my old ID X to a lady who plods him round the block 3 times a week, the perfect partnership between that owner who has no desire to do more and a steady old boy who's earnt it.....He's suited and booted....why? In case he spooks, is in an accident or what have you. Just because they plod along doesn't mean that he doesn't have a mind of his own, nor does it mean he shouldn't be offered the same protection as any other horse, whatever his pace/work load.

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Aww, sounds like a nice home he has!
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I tend to feel that all horses should manage a hack without any boots, maybe i'm wrong?
 
Ummm, I dunno.
Everyone at my yard just wants to jump. No hacking at all, which I think is a bit sad. They certainly don't muck out or tack their own horses up!
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With regards to boots; I put tendon boots on PF because she brushes in front but I don't think I'd bother if I were going for a plod round the block.
 
Exactly - PF you've got it totally right!! If these people were riding skinny TBs then I could understand it a bit.. only a bit.. but they are not, they are on big chunky hairy things!

Have boots on for a reason - but not just for the sake of it! I've even seen people hacking alone with over reach boots on the back??? Now WTF is all that about??
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Do you hack/school/jump in knee boots, brushing boots and over reach boots?? From the pics in your sig I'm thinking not....
 
at the end of the day people can - and will - do what ever they want with their own horses.

i dont see why you want to bitch about people hacking near you.
what harm are they doing to you??

sorry i just dont get why it is such a huge problem
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edited to say - no not knee boots etc - but always tendon boots in front and some kind of boot behind either brushing or fetlock.
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at the end of the day people can - and will - do what ever they want with their own horses.

i dont see why you want to bitch about people hacking near you.
what harm are they doing to you??

sorry i just dont get why it is such a huge problem

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It's not a problem at all, I'm just bored and it just makes me wonder sometimes, thats all.
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I'll tell you what makes me laugh (although it's harmless) it's the current fashion here to use girths with stud guards... even if horse is skipping over 70cms and his hooves aren't going anywhere near his tummy- and of course he's not actually wearing studs...
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I've set myself the task of making pink the 'in' colour!
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Maybe not the best thing to say, but I like a bit of controversy!
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i had noticed
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im irritable and tired!

i used to get wound up about things too - but each to their own.
at least they will never have an injury caused by lack of bootage!!
 
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