Reason to get your horses in if the hunt are in the area

[Irishcobs]

Out hunting today a youngster left in a field with its friend tried to jump a metal gate and got a hind leg stuck.
I'm not sure how or why it jumped out as the hunt hadn't gone past it nor where they that near to it.
2 hunters were trotting up a lane when they came round a corner to see the youngster lying in the road with its leg stuck in the gate. Luckily it didn't panic and they got it free and down to the yard. Its friend was then going mad in the field so they got it to follow the hunt horses away from the now broken gate to another gate where they got it out and down the road to the yard.
The youngster that got stuck was getting veterinary treatment when we passed later and from what the guys that found it said it had cut a tendon but not broken anything.
Apparently the owners had been told that the hunt were in the area.
I will definitely get mine in if the hunt are in the area from now on.

 

[MissMillie]

Our horses will always come in if the hunt are about although i know my ponio wouldnt ever do something silly. Especially if she's out in a nice field with lots of grass

She stays out in the yard and watches them all go past

 

[LizzieJ]

I always turn mine out because I once had one go completely mad in the stable when the foxhounds were around and fractured it's skull Whenever I had left him out he had cantered around a lot but never gone completely bonkers. Mine are all experienced hunters and although they get excited, they don't lose the plot when they are in the field but I feel they might if stuck in their stables.

 

[Springs]

I always turn mine out because I once had one go completely mad in the stable when the foxhounds were around and fractured it's skull Whenever I had left him out he had cantered around a lot but never gone completely bonkers. Mine are all experienced hunters and although they get excited, they don't lose the plot when they are in the field but I feel they might if stuck in their stables.

we do the same with ours, far safer that leaving them in.

 

[sandr]

Its far too muddy and slippery to leave mine out when the hunt come, he goes totally mental, he slip & break his leg

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

2 hunters were trotting up a lane when they came round a corner to see the youngster lying in the road with its leg stuck in the gate. Luckily it didn't panic and they got it free and down to the yard. Its friend was then going mad in the field so they got it to follow the hunt horses away from the now broken gate to another gate where they got it out and down the road to the yard.

Regardless of the rights and wrongs,I think they did a great job of helping your horses in a crisis.

 

[Irishcobs]

2 hunters were trotting up a lane when they came round a corner to see the youngster lying in the road with its leg stuck in the gate. Luckily it didn't panic and they got it free and down to the yard. Its friend was then going mad in the field so they got it to follow the hunt horses away from the now broken gate to another gate where they got it out and down the road to the yard.

Regardless of the rights and wrongs,I think they did a great job of helping your horses in a crisis.

It wasn't my horse I was one of the field that day, it was me and my horse that lead the other youngster down to the yard.