rider was in the wrong in this situation I am correct, right ?

Rider sounds a bit of a twonk, youre husband did nothing wrong, rider on the other hand sounds like theyve no idea and need to learn how to ride on the roads, shes lucky it wasnt some boy racer in a souped up car. If i were the police officer she complained to, id have to take her aside and advise riding and road safety training
 
Silly bint could have got off and led it. Or if she's that scared of the horse maybe get a quieter one, or a rabbit. These idiots are why many of the general public would like to see horses banned from the road.
 
good lord what a nutcase, in situations like that i trot to the nearest gateway and get the horse out of the way!, i always turn her so that she can watch the tractor pass and she's getting a lot better, last time out she was ready to leave the safety of the gateway before the trailer had gone by :D in that instance the tractor driver gave me a grateful wave, perhaps he'd already met your loony livery!!
 
Thank you all for your replies, I have read everyone of them and whilst we ate our tea i read some out to OH. He now feels a lot less guilty about the situation because he simply couldn't of done any more in this situation ! I swung by the YO's house on my way home from work who apologised on behalf of her livery and said it was unacceptable behavior and she will speak to her about this. I offered to bring one of the older tractors to the yard in a few weeks whilst it isn't needed if people want to use it as a training aid and YO was very thankful and took me up on the offer.

No contact from the police as of yet so i presume the woman has gone home and thought about how rude she was to OH.
 
Please tell your OH what a considerate guy he is. The rider was totally in wrong and to go to your door like that was rude. Yes it could well be she had been frightened but still rude and hope she realises this in time. I hope,and sure he will, continue to show such great consideration to us horse people. :)
 
I had a pony who was terrified of tractors. In rural Somerset. If I heard or saw one coming, then I would hide in a gateway or go the other way. No way did I expect them to go out of their way for me! The bloody cheek of her!
 
Rider needs to learn to ride the horse if you ask me!! I may not be able to canter in a school or jump but I can deal with a tractor on a road!!! Your OH really has nothing to worry about, especially seeing as the police take very little action over real dangerous drivers anyway!!
 
It's riders like this that give us all a bad name! How incredibly rude of her to call round at your home AFTER the event, after the adrenaline had died down! Unbelievable! Your OH was very considerate to the riders, could not have done more.
 
Luckily it was my OH who knows plenty of riders and regularly has the hunt on his land so is very understanding, she would have got a totally different reaction if she went to another farm down the road !
 
Pretty sure that if the horse has a known issue with tractors and she keeps taking it out on the road, she is on dodgy ground herself.

The YO had the right approach. The rider is the idiot who gives the rest of us a bad name and she was in the wrong.

We had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago having met a supersized tractor cutting verges. He cut his engine and put down the roller so we could get past. Did my toad react? Yes he did a bit but got over himself. Was I grateful that the driver had shown such consideration? Hell yes!
 
As the owner/rider of a tractor phobic horse (although only if they come from behind him), please thank your OH for me. I would have been extremely grateful in that situation!
 
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Partner has rung me whilst I'm on my break to have a good old moan and I agree with him 100% as a rider myself. So here was what happened, OH was returning the tractor and trailer to the yard, a good 3 miles away from our farm is a livery yard and we don't tend to have any issues with them as we are always very polite when out on the roads. Turn engines off if needed, slow right down and move over onto the verge as a combine coming head on isn't always nice. Partner said he was nearly back at the yard when two riders coming the other way started waving and shouting something at him he couldn't hear a word so slowed right down and at this point their horses started trying to spin so he cut the engine off. First rider said thanks by raising a hand and managed to get her horse to walk on although it was jogging sideways they got past. The second rider was panicking because her horse wouldn't walk past the tractor and follow her friends horse started rearing with her so in the end she got off and walked the horse past. Fair enough not a big drama , OH set off home waiting till they were gone before he started the engine and got back to the yard. The rider has just come round to the house and had the cheek to tell OH he should have gone into one of the field and hid the tractor out of sight for her ?! To me this is pure stupidity, surely the world shouldn't stop for a rider because there horse is scared. I know it probably was a scary situation for the rider but OH did everything correct and sat patiently whilst it all happened, I am rather angry that she came round to our house and shouted at OH and explained she will be reporting him to the police. I wish her good luck with that , I am correct in thinking OH did everything right and there is no blame on his behalf. I'm not really sure what she is planning to report to the police as nothing happened, she said it was 'dangerous driving' loony bin.
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Your OH sounds an extremely sensible and very considerate man. He did absolutely nothing wrong whatsoever.

As a rider who had a horse that would have responded in exactly the same way as the one in your story, I would have taken the opportunity of his kindness in turning off his engine to try and show my horse that tractors are not horse-eating monsters and asked OH if he would be kind and patient for a few minutes!!

You are one lucky lady having such a sweet hubby!
 
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