Oh no......not again!

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attheponies

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Fell off again yesterday while out hacking thanks to a bird scarer going off right beside my friend & I (new style of scarer that seems to involve a small bomb falling from an innocent white plastic fencing pole). Fortunately both ponies escaped with only minor scrapes despite galloping for home down a lane and across a road. But why oh why do I always seem to fall off just when I'm getting my confidence back from the last fall and just when I have decided that I really do enjoy riding! Suggestions please on places to ride in England where there is no road work and absolutely nothing spooky!
 
The horses just know how to play up/when to make things go wrong I swear! Its happened to me recently too, took my pony out twice and he's bucked me off so now I'm having to start from in hand to blow his mind (he gets too excited :mad:) and yet at home... complete steady neddy!

Don't worry, so long as you keep trying you'll get there, it just takes time (frustrating sometimes!) and hope you weren't hurt :)
 
Thank you - mild concussion and quite a few bruises, I'm just getting too old to bounce! After riding on and off (more off than on in more ways than one!) you'd think I'd be used to it!
 
Ohh, they are horrid things aren't they? Thats how I broke my ankle as horse bolted when the gun went off and all the horses in the fields we were passing bolted :(. I had to pick the ground or the dry stone dyke! AND the woman that had the horses the bolted saw me come off, saw horse bugger off withhalf bridle hanging off, and saw I was FACE DOWN and she never came to help - I know this as I came to and called the ambulance myself!
 
Agree with you there hate those bird scarer guns. Heard a few going off in the distance while I was hacking today. Luckily they were far enough away not to add to the other problems encountered during the hack!!!

I have also put a thread on today about my hack, so can't give you too much confidence adivce I'm afraid but hope you are feeling ok and not too hurt!
 
If the bird scarer was right near/next to a bridleway, RUPP, BOAT or road then contact council or BHS Rights of way person. Altho not legally binding, theres a code of practice about where these things are supposed to be sited, and theyre not meant to put them in the locations mentioned above.

hope you are ok.
 
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