My "quiet " Sunday morning hack !

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Eeeee gods,

Decided to take my boy out on his own this morning for an earlyish quiet hack as he is not that good on his own yet, can get very spooky and over reactive.

8.30am left the yard and headed up the road
(ourlanes are very narrow with high chalk banks with trees on top to start with)

8.31am car comes flying round the corner with 5 muli coloured canoes on its roof hits the brakes and shoots past us at 40mph
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8,32am hear a big lorry coming fast - he can't see us yet and we have no place to hid. Yeah, oil tanker lorry, he sees us, hits the brakes and crunches onto the loose chalk on the side of the lane and SKIDS!

8.40 stopped shaking! hear the sound of motorbikes, omg 10 in a row
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They were really good and slowed right down to go past.

8.45 Man with dog leaps out of bushes - we both have heart failure!

9.05 riding around the edge of a field - bang,bang,bang,bang
the guns go off - followed by very fast trotting
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9.10 turning for home decide to have a controlled trot
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all of a sudden horse puts on turbo charge and is flying in trot - no steering - no brakes
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only one thing to do - one rein stop with head into hedge, as we stopped I heard the squeal of brakes behind us and turned to see idiot mountain bike rider on the floor not 5 feet from us.

Turns out Mr Stupid bike man had been chasing us on his bike ( no wonder my boy was turbo charged) and then SHOUTED at me for stopping so quickly and making him fall off his bike
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So, heading for home, past the killer chickens! the lambing pens and more cars than the M25! I heard the unmistakable sound of - you guessed it - Mr oil tanker coming just as fast back the other way!!!!!!! This time I had to dive into a gateway on the other side of the road as there was no room for both of us and HE BLASTED HIS HORN at us
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9.35 back at the yard phew........................

HOW BRILL IS MY HORSEY
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Sounds like you invoked the law of sod!! I know the feeling though - the farm/yard is in the middle of no where and yet somedays riding in the middle of the M25 would be quieter!! Still carrots and hugs to your horsey for being so good (although I think it should have kicked the mountain biker in the head for being a tosser!)
 
OMG im amazed your still alive, I could'nt do that id have to move to a place with safer hacking! your horse is brill mine would of passed out at the first car, lol!
 
Bloody hell, sounds similar to the hack I had this mornign but you forgot the 4 piglets that came snorting towards my quaking horse who shot off in the other direction!!!

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OMG im amazed your still alive, I could'nt do that id have to move to a place with safer hacking! your horse is brill mine would of passed out at the first car, lol!

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Safer hacking lol - am on the downs but thought a road ride might be safer and quieter on a Sunday morning.

And all because.............. "the sun came out"
 
Think we have all had hacks like this. The roads seem to be getting worse, a car tooted the horn at me today for walking down the side of the road to the field to bring horses in, also got a dirty look as he passed. Whats that about? Well done to your horsey.
 
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Bloody hell, sounds similar to the hack I had this mornign but you forgot the 4 piglets that came snorting towards my quaking horse who shot off in the other direction!!!

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I have to say I am amazed and very proud of him coz normally at the first sight of something he didnt like he would slam front feet into the ground so hes wearing me like a necklace and then spin 180 and "run"
 
Good god, should think you needed a stiff drink after that! Well done for getting back safe and sound. Big pats for your brave horse!.
 
Were you maybe walking on the wrong side of the road?

I give walkers dirty looks for that but when I'm getting my horse in I always walk with the traffic
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it's like auto pilot like I'm riding or something!

When I'm out walk or running I always face the on coming traffic which tends to get less dirty looks!
 
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Good god, should think you needed a stiff drink after that! Well done for getting back safe and sound. Big pats for your brave horse!.

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Just wondering if I should open that second bottle of wine
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You are very lucky you have such a brave horse.

I was in hospital after someone blasted thier horn at me when I was on a horse
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report the driver!
 
I dont think so, its a single track road and I have to admit that I tend to just walk on whatever side has the biggest verge to stand on to let the traffic past, is that wrong.
 
oh god! interesting hack there

mountain bikes are a pain by me because we have a big downhill road we hack down and the bikes love nothing than to blast down there!!! all great fun until my horse spots them before i do and pegs it down hill while i'm slogging it on a long rein!!!!!!!
 
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You are very lucky you have such a brave horse.

I was in hospital after someone blasted thier horn at me when I was on a horse
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report the driver!

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Thats the really strange thing about today - my boy is normally a complete wus
 
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Bloody hell! I'm pleased I don't have to ride on the road!

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We don't go on the road that often but feel that its good to sometimes just for experience
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and they were shooting in the forest this morning
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so felt it might have been safer on the roads
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Yeah but he probably over heard the conversation about a possible replacement!!! Thought he ought to try to impress whilst he still had the chance.

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Hehe... sounds like my kind of hack!! Good on your horse sounds like he did well! My boy is a rite wus saying that I know I can count on him to be brave when it reli matters!!
 
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Yeah but he probably over heard the conversation about a possible replacement!!! Thought he ought to try to impress whilst he still had the chance.

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Hmmm, we were talking about it again this morning!

Didn't think he heard us coz he was too busy trying to kick the door down as I was giving B sweeties!
 
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