Oldie back in the saddle

You are in summer now? Last summer in a heat wave I went on a long plod all walk and when we met a group of riders from the yard, she walked straight past them as if in a trance. YM remarked later that the mare looked half asleep. I usually trot soon after leaving the yard to losen up my old bones but that day I didnt and I walked and walked the tracks we usually canter.
Very interesting that the mare never once offered canter. But all that plodding did feel very companionable, so your horse sound just right.
 
What a lovely welcome, fellow right at home in snail paced plodding land now 🥰! Funny how when you are young your mind might on where are the most dramatic gallop spots and death defying jumps. As a little old woman, now it is something like, "Where is the first aid kit? Where is the bathroom? Where is the mounting block? Where is the quiet wandering through the bush bit where there are least likely to be kangaroos and snakes to spook Mr. Plod. Thats if you can ride at all, Australian summer seeming to consist of boiling followed by rain, thunder & lightening then some more rain😂😘 Luckily I don't mind just grooming and smooching for hours undercover. Loving trick training.
 
Luckily not many snakes or kangaroos in South Oxfordshire but we do have pheasants 😱
And don’t mention the weather!!
Another who loves grooming, massaging and just being with horses, therapy for both of us…
 
Rumtytum said:
Luckily not many snakes or kangaroos in South Oxfordshire but we do have pheasants 😱
And don’t mention the weather!!
Another who loves grooming, massaging and just being with horses, therapy for both of us…
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I think the most dangerous things in the UK may actually be the multi lane roundabouts rather than beautiful pheasants! Having driven in the UK, I would rather ride a wild Mustang through a pit of snakes and deadly spiders any day:eek:
I think I love grooming, massages and in hand walks more than riding. No therapist could come close to the sort of therapy horse connection gives.
 
Skib said:
You are in summer now? Last summer in a heat wave I went on a long plod all walk and when we met a group of riders from the yard, she walked straight past them as if in a trance. YM remarked later that the mare looked half asleep. I usually trot soon after leaving the yard to losen up my old bones but that day I didnt and I walked and walked the tracks we usually canter.
Very interesting that the mare never once offered canter. But all that plodding did feel very companionable, so your horse sound just right.
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We are in summer, allegedly. Sitting here in full layered woolly's. Did your heatwave snail pace entice you to do more gentle paced rides? I wonder about that, horses being as lethargic as we are in extreme heat makes sense. What if my horse is secretly a firecracker and just appears plod like because we have had some incredibly hot days?🫣😂. My old bones would be shocked out of their old skin.
 
Welcome to the forum.

Visiting Australia is on my bucket list, though unfortunately I’m scared of spiders 🕷️)
 
Rubyrush said:
I think the most dangerous things in the UK may actually be the multi lane roundabouts rather than beautiful pheasants! Having driven in the UK, I would rather ride a wild Mustang through a pit of snakes and deadly spiders any day:eek:
I think I love grooming, massages and in hand walks more than riding. No therapist could come close to the sort of therapy horse connection gives.
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Ahh the roundabouts 🤪
Pheasants gah! Dratted things crouch silently and invisibly in the grass then launch themselves skywards squawking their bl@@dy heads off right under your horse’s nose. Been the downfall (literally) of many an equine partnership 😱
 
Reacher said:
Welcome to the forum.

Visiting Australia is on my bucket list, though unfortunately I’m scared of spiders 🕷️)
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Thank you 😊

Please don't let the spiders deter you from your bucket list! You are hardly likely to see many and I am sure friendly locals will remove the odd visitor.
When I moved here decades ago, I would sleep in my car if I saw a huntsman spider, I now give them names and let them be. Still can't quite manage fear around snakes but they are very real danger around horses in rural areas.
 
Rumtytum said:
Ahh the roundabouts 🤪
Pheasants gah! Dratted things crouch silently and invisibly in the grass then launch themselves skywards squawking their bl@@dy heads off right under your horse’s nose. Been the downfall (literally) of many an equine partnership 😱
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I had no idea there were scheming pheasants gathering around conspiring to be the undoing of UK equines🫣 Off with their squawking heads. rotten sneaky beaks. At least you can generally see a roo a few seconds before the jump scare 👀
 
Rubyrush said:
I think the most dangerous things in the UK may actually be the multi lane roundabouts rather than beautiful pheasants!
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Pheasants are no joke. One of my sister's teacher colleagues was killed riding when a pheasant flew up in a field and spooked her horse

Rubyrush said:
What if my horse is secretly a firecracker and just appears plod like because we have had some incredibly hot days?🫣😂. My old bones would be shocked out of their old skin.
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Old bones probable create reliable plods. Both my shares have become ambling donkeys when I rode them. My old share had a reputation for throwing off staff riders who now wouldnt ride her. But she only once spooked and span with me and made for home, but I didnt fall. My present share is known to buck in canter when excited. But at the Christmas party it was revealed that her young riders encouraged her to run and to buck. Remedy - I mostly hack on my own and dont get her excited.
 
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