SONIC1704
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Morning
This weekend a friend and i went on our first fun ride. It was good fun.
Ponios where quite fizzy to start with but half way round settled, we took it quite steady three short canters and one short gallop. Fair enough we where the tenth goup to set off and came home first, but they are fit and 10 miles is a normal weekend hack across the moors.
I have a arab, and my friends is a full tb. (Both ridden in snaffles but can be sharp and fizzy.)
To start the mare got wound up which set both off just jog troting as there where quite alot of people in front of us (and they arn't use hacking out with other horses), as soon as she hit grass she does a very boncy canter at a walking or trot speed but doesn't go anywhere, my gelding jog trotted next to her.
But to someone who dosn't know the horses god knows what it must of looked like. Until they settled
When we caught up I asked to if we could be passed then over took at walk pace, then thanked them. Asked if they where having a nice ride etc. Thanked everybody by the gates. And made sure if there where kids i spoke to the child as well as the adult.
Common manners, I was amazed at people who looked behind them saw us, and almost seemed like they where being put out to let us pass. (my fault really my little arab normal forward going walk is at the speed of most people trots).
What amazed me the most was a person on their horse with two kids on ponies, I asked if we could get passed on a wide track at walk, got passed the two kids ponies and then the adult almost refusing to let us pass almost leaving the kids, I got passed due to ponios fast walk but the mare got wound up and did her canter on the spot act until she was passed and next to mine. They where just behind us, when we came through a grass feild gate, the next thing i know no word of warnning and they kick off for gallop just behind us pass extreamlly close with no work of warning. Thankfully both of ours took this in there stride. But due to our fast walk we caught up with them again and again they did exactly the same, so this time we circle at the gate and wait to let them go. To find them waiting on the grass at the other side.
Needles to say i was ready to kill, the person in question is very well known and i didn't have the guts to say "hey have some common sence and manners" if they had set off ours that would have been all of us at full tilt across a feild we don't know with horse we don't know, with two young kids on 13HH ponies, in a feild with livestock.
I have never hacked my boy out with more then three horses(not because i didn't want to there isn't any other around lol) and this was his first outting, and I could not have been more proud.
Cake and coffee for anyone who finished this
This weekend a friend and i went on our first fun ride. It was good fun.
Ponios where quite fizzy to start with but half way round settled, we took it quite steady three short canters and one short gallop. Fair enough we where the tenth goup to set off and came home first, but they are fit and 10 miles is a normal weekend hack across the moors.
I have a arab, and my friends is a full tb. (Both ridden in snaffles but can be sharp and fizzy.)
To start the mare got wound up which set both off just jog troting as there where quite alot of people in front of us (and they arn't use hacking out with other horses), as soon as she hit grass she does a very boncy canter at a walking or trot speed but doesn't go anywhere, my gelding jog trotted next to her.
But to someone who dosn't know the horses god knows what it must of looked like. Until they settled
When we caught up I asked to if we could be passed then over took at walk pace, then thanked them. Asked if they where having a nice ride etc. Thanked everybody by the gates. And made sure if there where kids i spoke to the child as well as the adult.
Common manners, I was amazed at people who looked behind them saw us, and almost seemed like they where being put out to let us pass. (my fault really my little arab normal forward going walk is at the speed of most people trots).
What amazed me the most was a person on their horse with two kids on ponies, I asked if we could get passed on a wide track at walk, got passed the two kids ponies and then the adult almost refusing to let us pass almost leaving the kids, I got passed due to ponios fast walk but the mare got wound up and did her canter on the spot act until she was passed and next to mine. They where just behind us, when we came through a grass feild gate, the next thing i know no word of warnning and they kick off for gallop just behind us pass extreamlly close with no work of warning. Thankfully both of ours took this in there stride. But due to our fast walk we caught up with them again and again they did exactly the same, so this time we circle at the gate and wait to let them go. To find them waiting on the grass at the other side.
Needles to say i was ready to kill, the person in question is very well known and i didn't have the guts to say "hey have some common sence and manners" if they had set off ours that would have been all of us at full tilt across a feild we don't know with horse we don't know, with two young kids on 13HH ponies, in a feild with livestock.
I have never hacked my boy out with more then three horses(not because i didn't want to there isn't any other around lol) and this was his first outting, and I could not have been more proud.
Cake and coffee for anyone who finished this
