Regional Variations!

[not_with_it]

A bale of shavings - my lancashire friends call it a bag of shavings
My horse travels in a box, eats flaps of hay and is ridden on the arena.

 

[Rachel_M]

Bag of havings.
Bring the Horse in.
I travel in a lorry.
Bale of hay.
Sand Arena.

 

[Chex]

I say:
shavings, usually a bale of
school
bring horses in
leaf of hay

Just normal I think lol

 

[Salcey]

Bale of shavings (though I use bag of auboise)

School
Bring them in
Slice of hay

 

[flohelf]

A quickie for learners of French if any

Shavings = copeaux
Slice of hay = pli de foin
Indoor arena = manège
Outdoor arena = carrière

The French call a bad/poor rider a 'PEINTRE', painter in french which I find funny. What is it for you ?

 

[tractorgirl]

I fetch horses in, give then a slice of hay, ride them in the school, bed them on shavings and travel them in a lorry or horsebox.

 

[Rachel_M]

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Crap!

To be honest I do pronouce it as "Menage.

 

[Tia]

I pronounce it man-ege.

"Tutor's tip: At the exclusive "manege" (school for horsemanship) students were taught not only equestrian skills but those with which to "manage" (to control) a "menage" (a household) as well. " LOL!!

 

[tigers_eye]

Aha! How about the Belgian bastardisation of such words then?! Have never heard of a peintre. The word for a slice of hay I seem to remember ended in -neau, but can't for the life of me remember the first part! We used manege for all arenas in general, only the people who'd studied at the Cadre Noir used carriere (please remind me of the short-cuts for accents!). We also used "piste" a lot, not just for "en piste" - now in the ring - but as a general term instead of manege. I'm sure some others will come to me! There was also a little cross-over between the french and flemish.

 

[flohelf]

Well, good for you !

because MENAGE has nothing to do with horses

but MANEGE does

 

[flyingfeet]

I'm going to stick with menage... if nothing else just to p*ss off the french. Anyway the'll soon be changing to 'arena' once we've all moved there!

 

[flohelf]

Come on over and you can just stay at the yard to do the mucking out/ménage

 

[barkinghorse]

I ride in the "paddock",
Feed a wad of hay
Chuck horses out
Horses travel in a wagon
Go for a toot (hacking)
Oh and the muck heap is a midden
Jo

 

[tigers_eye]

I think you win the prize for randomest words!

 

[flohelf]

Yep !!!!Learning loads of new words on this forum

 

[Twiglet]

Finn, I'm from the same town in Essex as you live (well Finn lives anyway!), I've never heard anyone say 'pull horses in'! maybe that's just a phrase cropped up at the yard?! (although I think it's a pretty apt description in some cases......!)

Woodchips ARE chippings!

My friend in Kent is the only person I know to call her lorry a wagon.

And I'd only ever call an outdoor school a menage - an indoor would be an indoor school!
I think this is changing now because so many outdoor arenas aren't sand anymore - would be a bit weird to call a gel track or rubber menage a sand school?!

 

[Safina]

Morning Finn

I do know what you mean - I was in Essex but am now in Beds.

Few things are different - they say shavings as well but the manage is called the outdoor school and they refer to the fields as paddocks.

I always say that I am catching the beasts - I think thats a phrase which crosses county borders!

 

[Jo C]

Hmm - you must live in a strange part of Essex. I call shavings shavings, I bring horses in and ride in the school, either that or I live in a strange part of Essex!

 

[RobinHood]

I live in Surrey and I use shavings, bring my horses in, travel them in the lorry and ride in the school.

 

[Gingernags]

Bale of shavings
Indoor/outdoor school
Wagon
Slice/wad/wedge of hay
We either bring or fetch the nags/beasts in and chuck them out!

Oh and we ride out, not hack out...

Am in the northern england area...

 

[Blackhawk]

Learning to ride abroad and then coming to the UK was awful. Had a lesson and couldn't understand what a BHS instructor was on about! So many different words for things!

 

[Weezy]

Section of hay
Turn out/chuck out - Bring in the horses
Trailer or a horsebox
School or picadero

 

[Twiglet]

Jo C, that's what I mean, I don't think it's so much a regional thing, as there's such differences even locally! I'm sure my groom has her own language, I have to ask her for an explanation half the time.

Always say a section of hay personally, although know some people who say cakes.

Definitely say 'chuck out' too - often very apt!

Come to think of it, I do call an outdoor menage/manege a school, just not a sand school!
At my yard, it's called a menage, an arena, school, sand school by various people!

 

[cobwithattitude]

I was searching for the use of the word 'leaf' of hay - that's what i call it and everyones else refers to it as a slice. Thanks for that, Tia!

 

[Blackhawk]

I call it a leaf of hay too.

school
chuck out/turn out
wagon

 

[Nic]

Shavings (bale of)
School/menage
Bring horses in
A leaf of hay (TIA!)
Horsebox or lorry
and we go for a hack

 

[RobinHood]

section or flap of hay, I;ve never heard of cake before that's something new I've learnt today

 

[Ferdinase514]

Honestly...they say these things. Safina will stick up for me....

 

[Tia]

Must be a Scottish saying then; a leaf of hay?

 

[Oaksflight]

I'm from the border of West/North Yorkshire, and I say shavings, either school or arena and occasionally menage, catch the horses or fetch them in usually, and tend to call them horse boxes but a lot do call them wagons round here! Oh and it's a flap of hay, not a cake of hay?!