Should I really plait up tomorrow??

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I left work nicely on time at 5pm today planning to get Bagder nice and clean and plaited ready for tomorrow. :) HOWEVER - ended up getting stuck in a traffic jam for 3 1/2 hours so that kind of put that plan to bed.

Thing is I'm a bit new to plaiting and very slow - can see it really stressing me out in the morning!!!

Hunt is quite smart but some people not plaited, although most are.. meet is at a pub.

Do you think I'll get away with it? Or should I just get up extra early?? :)
 
Plait. Sorry.

To me, unless your horse is hogged, then it is unthinkable to hunt and not be plaited, I may be a stick in the mud but there you go.

It isn't the end of the world of course if you don't plait, when it comes down to the nitty gritty bums on saddles at Meets is what really counts not whether you got up half an hour earlier.

Have a good day.:) Very jealous as I no longer have the opportunity to hunt.
 
If its a lawn meet, then all horses should be plaited. If its not a lawn meet, then only hunt horses need to be plaited. Don't stress about it, just go out and have a good day.
 
You should plait unless your horse is hogged or a registered M&M. Even then people will look sideways at you and many M&M owners plait anyway just to keep the peace. It is polite both to the landowner and to the master.
 
I didn't plait!! What a lazy so and so I am!! TBH, don't think I'll be doing it again, just because everyone is uber smart with the Meynell and I felt a bit of a scrubber! Of course no one said anything or looked down their nose - nice bunch of people and too busy thinking about the next hedge to care if some new girl was plaited up or not! :)

Had a super day, got to say they have some AMAZING country!!! Unfortunately we had some unwanted visitors. :( They were less scary than the ones we get with the Rockwood though and hunt staff/masters handled it all very well and the day ran smoothly from my point of view at least! :)

Badger was a total super star as usual and got lots of complements despite his scruffiness!! I hacked back with one of the masters and he said he'd tried to follow me because his horse was inexperienced and my horse jumped so well! :) :) :)

Rosie - don't think mum cares too much, she's not plaited for plenty of pub meets before! Although definitely much easier to get away with when hunting with the Rockwood!!
 
Shay said:
You should plait unless your horse is hogged or a registered M&M. Even then people will look sideways at you and many M&M owners plait anyway just to keep the peace. It is polite both to the landowner and to the master.
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In 40 years of Hunting and 15 as an MFH, that is the first time I have ever heard it suggested that being "registered M&M" somehow exempts you from plaiting...

Being registered M&M is to do with showing and competing. What on earth has it got to do with the price of fish on the hunting field?

As you correctly say, turning out smartly is a mark of respect to the land-owners and to most of them M&Ms are an american brand of Smarties. All they will see is an unplaited horse and they wouldn't have the foggiest idea why.

It is always best to plait if you can, but unplaited is mostly fine as long as you have made an effort and the turnout is as smart as you can make it.
 
tootsietoo said:
Fab! Glad you had a good day. I probably wouldn't have plaited, sleep is VERY precious to me!
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That's not really good enough.

The landowner's crops, fences and hedges are precious to him or her. Real money precious.

If you want to take advantage of their generosity by riding your horse all over their land, damaging their property as you go, then getting out of bed half an hour earlier is by no means too much to ask.

As I say above, being smartly turned out is what is important, but to say that you couldn't be bothered to plait just because you want to stay in bed a bit longer is a bit out of order.
 
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oh well! I never have actually turned up without plaits in so it's a bit hypothetical. I suppose I'm trying to say that I would tend to give people the benefit of the doubt if they weren't plaited on the odd occasion. And the landowners and farmers would probably prefer to have people crossing their land who say thank you to gate openers, stay off the crops and fix the fences they may break than someone who is plaited who doesn't do all of that!

But I don't think it's really worth arguing about. I agree a beautifully turned out horse and rider is a very good thing and shows due respect to all, but at the same time I think plaiting is a little over rated (does nothing really for the look of my chunky ID/TB) and that the issue of turnout is really over discussed as it is far from the be all and end all of hunting!

I think I have some splinters in my bottom!
 
eeeek mine is a m&m tried stallion plait but had to do both sides as so thick and long and it still looked awful how am i going to plait this
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yes is goes past her shoulder is too thick for an arab plait oh no now im worried again
 
Seriously - DONT WORRY! SU are a lovely lot and will compliment you on her lovely locks. You could, of course, always HOG her, but what would the lovely B be without a mop of hair? I will see you on the 4th and look after you! LOL!!
 
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