Never long rein an 18.3hh...

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

I'm putting myself on blast here, but I just came across this video from when I had my boy (he was sadly PTS last year) and it's so hilarious I just had to share! This is what happens when you try and long rein an 18.3hh'er in a deep school and you're not so talented at running... I miss his trot, it was beautiful to ride! I miss him everyday.

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Supportive friends were howling in the background as you can hear...

 

[Roxylola]

He's not even really trying is he ?

 

[Barton Bounty]

That’s too funny ? he coulda dragged you off your feet but didnt , he looks like he woulda been lovely to ride

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

He's not even really trying is he ?

He really wasn't, he was incredible when he got going!

That’s too funny ? he coulda dragged you off your feet but didnt , he looks like he woulda been lovely to ride

Oh he was a kind chap, that's why I was trying so hard to run as I really didn't want to jab him in the mouth with the long reins ?

 

[Errin Paddywack]

What a fabulous mover.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

Talking of 18.3 horses. My sister was talking to retired vet friends of hers yesterday. They are involved with the Inland Waterways and were asked to clear a stretch of towpath for a horse drawn narrowboat, something to do with the Commonwealth Games, not sure if it was part of the baton relay but irrelevant. They duly did this expecting something about 14.2. Turned out to be an 18.3 Shire. Good job there were no bridges. Anyway the boat wasn't one designed to be towed by a horse so they tied the rope to railings on the prow and ran the motor so all the horse had to do was keep the line looking tight. What a farce.

 

[smolmaus]

Oh look at that trot! ?

Obviously his, not yours. Yours needs work ?

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

Oh look at that trot! ?

Obviously his, not yours. Yours needs work ?

This made me chuckle! Mine needs more than work... it's lucky I'm not a horse really anyway as I'd have been PTS by now with all my issues ?

 

[poiuytrewq]

So funny ?
A guy I know used to long rein horses everywhere, including over courses of jumps. I couldn’t look at the horse, too busy watching him sprinting round leaping over fences. It was hilarious.

 

[smolmaus]

So funny ?
A guy I know used to long rein horses everywhere, including over courses of jumps. I couldn’t look at the horse, too busy watching him sprinting round leaping over fences. It was hilarious.

Tried this myself exactly once with a tiny cross pole.

Got a big mouthful of sand and I am positive the pony was embarrassed for me. Luckily no cameras around!!

 

[Baywonder]

Oh my days that is hilarious!!??

This reminds me of a duck on water.....your horse is the elegant 'look at me aren't I beautiful part above water' and you are the 'legs paddling like crazy under the water' ?

Sorry OP, but his has made my day! ?

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

This reminds me of a duck on water.....your horse is the elegant 'look at me aren't I beautiful part above water' and you are the 'legs paddling like crazy under the water' ?

I just choked on my coffee!! You are so right! ??

So funny ?
A guy I know used to long rein horses everywhere, including over courses of jumps. I couldn’t look at the horse, too busy watching him sprinting round leaping over fences. It was hilarious.

My god, he is much braver than I! I used to long rein him for hours over the Downs, I started when Covid hit and they were advising people not to ride but jumping would have been suicidal!

 

[Laurac13]

Love it ? had to watch it 3 times !

 

[tda]

That is so funny, hes just floating along, doesn't even seem to be going very fast.......then you appear ?

 

[Lurfy]

That is hilarious, lucky your boy trotted with the handbrake on. I like your enthusiastic clicking him up in the beginning, be careful what you wish for . So nice you have this memory of him xx

 

[Dave's Mam]

Oh your friends' laughing!
& Oh what a mover.

 

[Tiddlypom]

Ah, bless him! He's doing his best version of a polite economy trot while you are flat out!

Thanks for sharing. What a lad he was, I'm so sorry that you lost him.

 

[AandK]

Beautiful horse!! And bless your little cottons trying to keep up

 

[Chuffy99]

Well as someone who would have been eating surface after 10 metres, no derision here, I’m impressed, very impressed ??

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

Thanks everyone, I have been laughing at all of these comments all evening.. he was most definitely a beautiful swan, and I am most definitely not a runner!

 

[HorseMaid]

This immediately reminded me of this video..... Your boy was stunning

 

[Errin Paddywack]

This immediately reminded me of this video

I saw something like this happen at Blakesly show one year, not a horse but a cow. Came flying down one side of the ring then the cow stopped and the handler carried on and went flying into the ring ropes.

 

[Antw23uk]

OP I was starting to laugh before i even clicked on the video

He was a beauty and what a trot, how lucky you were to have him in your life x