Just had the loveliest weekend

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I'm back in work today (had yesterday off to recover!) having had the best weekend for ages (well, since the same weekend last year!) I went to the Gower for a weekend with my riding club - 20 of us in all, although we rode in smaller groups. My ex-hunter gets a bit excited in a big group so we stuck to a group of 5!

We stayed here: www.piltonmoorstables.co.uk
It's fab, good post and rail paddocks or lovely airy stables for the horses, while we slept in the trailers and had a barbecue in the barn! The owners can't do enough to help - picking up a lame horse one day, fixing a broken trailer the next and giving us a lift to the pub!

We were really lucky with the weather and the riding is the best I have ever known - 5 hours on staurday with only 30 mins of really quiet roads, and then the beach on sunday before we came home. I just wish I could have stayed there longer, although I was pleased to see a proper bed on Sunday night! I would add some pics but my boy won't stand still long enough for me to get the camera out!
I had to share it, as it was just such a great weekend!
 
Oh wow what a lovely weekend. I am green and positively fizzing with envy!
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I believe the broken trailer may have been a friend of my mums ? After the horse made an exit out of the jockey door ?
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Glad you had a lovely time
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Yes!! Sounded scary when she told us so I can't imagine what it was like to see a 16.3 wiggle its way out of it. As you said luckily he is ok
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It wasn't so much the coming out of the jockey door as the getting stuck with front legs over the breaching bar, head through jockey door and back legs 2 feet in the air! Once he'd freed his legs the jockey door was no obstacle! I was trying to get the front ramp down so he'd have an alternative route out, but I'm quite glad I didn't manage it now as he'd probably have trampled me. It was 5 minutes of an otherwise lovely weekend though!
 
I am astounded he fitted through the jockey door! Sol and B are the same size and I'm sure she wouldn't fit !

Glad it was otherwise a great weekend !
How long did it take you to get there from Cardiff? A few friends were considering doing the same but one horse is a stressy traveller and we haven't found somewhere close enough!
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He didn't - hence the broken trailer! The side buckled out so the opening was wider, but still not quite sure how he did it as I was the other side.

It took us about 1 1/2 hours to get there, longer to get home as the traffic through Swansea was a nightmare. I drive quite slowly though - never over 50 even on the motorway so you could do it quicker maybe! You could also stop for a ride at Kenfig on the way down if you wanted the stressy one to have a break. It's well worth the trip if you can make it there.
 
Ahhh I see , my mum was convinced he'd fitted through (she's not horsey!)
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1hr30 isn't too bad (we were looking at 3hrs plus and going for 3/4days) so its a definate one to look into (even if I have a fear of the beach
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