People that claim that they can ride...

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BTW Rudey i love your coloured foaly in your sig i'd love to see some more pics please!

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Thank you! I have done a massive picture over load post just for you to have a nosey at in PG XX
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As for the log cabin, theres a lovley place in santon downham, thetford, called little lodge farm. We used to go yrly with our neds and dogs, great rides / walks, and not overly expensive either

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Oh that's great, I will have to keep this thread to refer to that place when I want to book something! Might have to pick your brains too and get all the in's and out's too! Nice knowing someone off HHO that has been somewhere and recommends a place! xx
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When I was a teenager,helping at a racing yard in epsom>It was my job to take Pluto,the Connemara cross devil horse,over to City of London Freemans school,to give (led) pony rides to kids from central london. Pluto took this all in good part and a welcome relaxation from the rigours of hurling apprentices to their doom....However,one of the teachers insisted on riding,but then strongly objected to me leading Pluto. Told me to let go and basicly snatched the horse away. Oh how we laughed. His uncontrolled lap of the grounds,on the fastest horse he had ever sat on was ended abruptly when Pluto,with a typical Connemara sense of the right thing to do. hopped over the wall into the chapel graveyard and deposited him.
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Happens at the riding school all the time, people will book in for a walk-trot-canter ride (it says EXPERIENCED RIDERS ONLY in big letters on the leaflet thing), but when you get them to have a go in the paddock before they go out they can barely steer in walk. It's bloody annoying, especially if someone who can ride is booked onto the same hack
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Don't they assess people before they book them on these hacks though???
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Sorry, that's what I meant about getting them to have a go in the paddock first. Anyone who hasn't ridden here before gets assessed prior to the ride going out. We get a lot of people up on holiday booking in claiming they can ride, but when it comes to the assessment they're hopeless.
 
It amazes me that people actually act like this, but I guess you get 'those' people in all areas of life, the ones that are overly confident about everything and only have to be able to do something reasonably well on one occasion and after that think that they can do it and don't need to learn anymore, I had a boyfriend like that actually!

Me, I'm more the opposite. I rode for a few years from about the age of 10 and the only reason I stopped was because my friend didn't want to come anymore and I was too shy to carry on going to lessons on my own! I knew how to walk, trot, canter, some little jumps and gymkhanas etc and I've done a few basic hacks since then but I would never say that I can ride. If anyone mentions horse riding I might say that I did a bit of riding when I was younger but when I go for my first lesson as an adult beginner on Friday I'm not going to rock up thinking I know it all, in fact they told me that it would probably come back to me when I get on the horse and I'm not so convinced! I can remember it but actually doing it is a different story, the fact that I did a bit of riding 10 years ago means nothing!
 
I can't ride for toffee, rode as a child, did a bit of jumping, was brave enough and able enough for the riding school to put me on the nutters and I did OK.

Fast forward 30 years and I am happy to plod about at a walk. I trot sometimes and have inadvertantly cantered a few times. I can however still sit Chads silly spins and spooks and his wonderful rocking horse impression with its little bucks and rears.

OH on the other hand............. he once rode a horse on a trek. He was insistant he galloped and jumped and tells everyone he can ride. However, I put him on Ellie on the lunge and we started to trot. He was like a sack of s**t, bouncing all over the place screaming that he hadn't told me to make her gallop and he was going too fast! Bless!

OH will ride Ellie who basically takes herself out on a hack, no riding ability is required at all and we walk all the time. Now Ellie is retired OH is eyeing up one of the others but I have told him he will have to have lessons first - there is no way I am letting him on Chad or Blue without being able to ride a little first.
 
That reminds me of a friend and I who went on a long weekend to Iceland, and went riding.

We said we were experienced riders as did 2 of the other 3 people who were joining us.

The so-called experienced chap couldn't get his horse to move because he was hanging so tight onto the reins and couldn't move his legs, he looked so terrified.

And the woman had forgotten to do her girth up, so ended up under her pony and then off, wherein her pony bolted off the track and onto the lava fields.

I caught it as it dashed back past us, which the guide dead was impressed

Anyway, after that all we were allowed to do was walk. Although in the end the guide let me and my friend go off on our own because we wanted to tolt and canter.

So we whizzed off up 2 hills and back to the group again. Would've been so much better if we could've gone in 2 parties which we probably could've if only the other 2 people had said they were beginners!
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