lannerch
Well-Known Member
Just a friendly warning ceris comet daft but unfortunately true!
So need need for sarcasm!
So need need for sarcasm!
If I had kids I'd certainly be dipping them and their ponies in luminous paint and covering them with fairy lights!!
fwiw I have noticed that whenever H&H print an even slightly critical letter from a reader, the editorial response is always dismissive, defensive and reactionary
If this thread isn't in the top 5 threads in next weeks edition then we will all know that H&H is fake
Naturally - meant tongue in cheek
Ps stop stalking me
Today's H+H has an article on mollycoddling horses. Most is about overfeeding/rugging/clipping etc., but it also implies that wearing more than a hi-viz tabard is excessive.
Bit shocked to be honest. Thought the recommendation was for some hi viz on both horse and rider.
What do you think?
Right and so what if we molly coddle horses???
Some of us think of horses as family.
To be honest I never view article H&H post unless its on the front page more often than not I don't bother with their articles.
So I wear a tabart- leg wraps-martingale wrap-hat band -hi viz rug- hi viz gloves etc and more so I look like a beacon but at least I give my horse the best chance of being seen.
I have a hard enough time convincing the children and students that I teach that hiviz is cool enough to wear without the idea that others (including H&H mag) consider them "frightened" Bertie Bassetts for wearing it
How many deaths will it take before H&H support hi- viz ?
I agree AshTay.
Also the Bertie Basset comment was quite derogatory and will not make it any easier to persuade reluctant teens to put safety over looks.
Re the comments about yellow Hi-viz and oil seed rape fields, I agree with that too. A combination of yellow/pink or yellow/orange helps you stand out against more backgrounds and is therefore better and safer than yellow alone.
I think hi viz is useful and use it myself, but to read some of the posts here you would think that a horse was invisible without it!
Sorry Leviathan, you are like [most of] the rest of us, nervous novice numpties who don't have a "traditional" horsey background and therefore are not worthy of horseownership. We over-rug, overfeed, overclip, underexercise, over supplement, and use excessive traffic as an excuse to only ride in arenas, except for those of us who are REALLY nervous and stupid and deck ourselves out in obscene amounts of hiviz before venturing out on a hack
Forgot to put before for those who use l signs for young horses be careful for if something was to happen (heaven forbid ) it may like the wording caution young horse be seen blame wise as an admission of lack of control,
I'm afraid Lannerch is right concerning messages etc on tabards and L plates. I undestand the official advice is to avoid any statement ie young horse, that could be interpreted that you are contributing to any incident.
"Please pass wide and slow" is considered acceptable as a non admission of liability.
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