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your hat, your head, your choice

EXCEPT that you expect the NHS, your family and the state to treat you, support you when you are a vegetable after a head injury and keep you in comfort with special equipment until you die


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I agree. It may be your head and your hat but its everyone else taxes that will be paying for your medical care when you are seriously injured.

I'm of the opinion that people who ride without hats on should have to cover the cost of any medical care out of their insurance should they be hospitalised. For me its right up there with climbing Snowdon wearing flipflops in winter because it looks sunny at the bottom and then expecting mountain rescue to come and get you.

Even the quitest, safest horse can trip, stumble or spook when you least expect it. Yes I'm tempted to ride my horse in from the field but the last point I would want to be hatless is when the horse is also bareback and without a bridle (both of which I can ride without and do)
 
I love wearing my hat
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Kids always wear theirs, too.
 
I always wear a hat. Rode ONCE without one in the US (where its not "done" to wear one) and it felt very odd.

However I will admit that my usual riding-at-home-hat is the old style (ie. not current accepted level). I have 4 other hats all of which ARE up to standard but they were damn expensive so are kept for competitions!

Never wear a body protector except for XC. I hate them, too restrictive and hot. But I wouldnt even train XC without one.
 
I can't believe someone actually ticked,

"I'm good enough not to need one"

How flamin arrogant is that, who is it Carl bleeding Hester? !!!

So I wear a beagler occasionally when competing Will', I'm probably more likely to be injured at work but to go bare headed is just foolhardy!
 
I used to work up in the granite city area, and there was an 'instructor' there who used to never wear a hat because 'the horse isn't foaled who can throw me'.
Wonder if she's departed this mortal coil yet? I could almost hear the gods laughing....
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Always ride in a hat but then I value my head! IMO it is selfish to not ride in a hat as if anything happened to you then think of how your family and friends would feel. However it is entirely down to personal choice so up to to the individual. I would never drive the car without a seatbelt on for example.
 
don't often wear it on the flat, but for jumping i always do. I only wear a back protector when going xc, because i find using it in other places is uncomfortable and mostly useless
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. In the nature of riding, you WILL fall off at some point. But you are just, if not more likely to be paralysed in a car crash as you are to from having fallen off! there are always horror stories surrounding horses, but generally common sense can avoid bad accidents. Being over the top about safety won't always help!
 
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I used to work up in the granite city area, and there was an 'instructor' there who used to never wear a hat because 'the horse isn't foaled who can throw me'.
Wonder if she's departed this mortal coil yet? I could almost hear the gods laughing....
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PMSL

I could point her in the direction of several if she's like to test the theory....

What about when the horse falls? Is she that good that the horse floats on a cushion of air rather than crushing her underneath?
 
yes always, in my opinion your a fool if you dont, have witnessed 3 people ruin their lives through not wering them, and their close familes
 
I always wear a hat, as a child i wouldn't haven't been allowed near a horse without one and i think it would feel really strange now not to wear one. I also wear one most of the time when lunging/long reining my youngster. I wear a BP for XC and some jumping.

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I have never, and will never get on a horse without wearing a hat. In this country it is downright STUPID not to wear a hat - there is NO good reason for it. No matter how safe your horse is you never know when it will be spooked or when it will trip over and fall.
There is no need to kill yourself for vanity.
 
always...you are a muppet if you don't......

just get yourself off to the local hospital and take a look at folk with head injuries....that are learning to talk/walk/feed themselves/get to the loo before it's too late/try to dress themselves...

very selfish attitude to NOT wear one...

it's not cool to be a cabbage......
 
Do you know, I had a few that could test her abilities...as I was breaking and schooling then....but she never seemed to want to waste her talents on anything other than schooled dressage horses.
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Are these two posts talking about the same girl
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http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/sh...rue#Post2342822


Excuse my nosiness.

In answer to the question yes I always wear a hat, however Im not completely surrounded by a halo as I do compete in beagler - I trust my horse entirely & to be brutally honest I was reluctant to spend £100 on a hat when I could get a better looking one for £30!
 
What nasty, snotty, stuck-up pigs some of you lot are who sneer down your stupid noses at people who choose not to wear hats LOL!! If people don't want to wear a hat they certainly don't need YOUR permission and they certainly don't need to give you or anyone else a reason for it. What business is it of yours anyway? You are not paying for my health care, even though some of you arrogant sods seem to think you are!

I'll take my chances thanks
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. 3 falls in 40 years isn't so bad - none were on my head - my risk, not yours. My choice, definitely not yours. Oh and I'm far from stupid thanks very much - I can give a fair number of dopes on this forum a good old run for their money.
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I choose not to wear one therefore I voted "other" - other= because I choose not to.
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PS... I've always always wanted to make a post like this on this forum......and now I have and wow! it's liberating and very exciting!!
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Maybe I'll do it again sometime.
 
Totally agree with you on the evolution front - survival of the fittest!! If you can't do something properly or with good competency, then best not even bothering in my opinion because you sure as heck won't be a member of "survival of the fittest" when you fall off; regardless of whether you have a hat on or not.
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I have always worn a hat when riding and have done so since the age of ten.
You can easily replace hats but you only have one head!
I would not allow my daughter to ride without one and neither will I allow her on a horse without a body protector.
I don't have a body protector. I have been looking for one for ages but because I have a rather large chest I have not been able to find any in local tack shops and the one's I have seen on ebay have been damned expensive.
Have plenty of padding though and any time I have fell off a horse ( not many about 5 times in 25 years) I have not been badly hurt just my pride.
I swear that the bad fall I had a few years ago could have been much worse had I been a slim jim because although I had bruising to my ribs there were no breaks. I could not have afforded a body protector then either and the riding school didn't have them to lend either.
I wear a hat and leather gloves when lunging.
I also wore a hat when we we first had Mcfly and were getting him used to having feet picked out etc as we had a few issues with him and I didn't want to take any unnecessary risks. I also made my daughter wear a hat at the time as well.
IMO it only takes one stray kick.
A very good friend of mine -and one of the nicest people you could ever meet in horse racing- Chris Kinane had his life and independence totally wiped out by a stray kick from another trainer's horse as he was legging up the jockey onto his horse at Wolverhampton racecourse 2 years ago.
His life will never be the same again.
After suffering a horrific injury and enduring numerous brain operations the chances are he will never ever be able to live what is considered to be a 'normal' life again.
He was an experienced horseman, jockey and trainer.
He was not complacent around horses.
The wearing of suitable head protection has not been made compulsory for trainers and other representatives of racehorses during the prerace preliminaries and post race activities.
Maybe if it had been then my friend -and a wonderful man-would still have been enjoying his life as assistant trainer to Ian Williams and enjoying a fulfilling life with his dear wife and two lovely children .
He was not undertaking any undue risks that day at Wolverhampton and what happened was a freak accident.
However even for a person who is as safety conscious as me it has made me think long and very hard about all my activities with mine and other people's horses.
Protecting one's head should imo be in the forefront of everyone's mind. Not just for your own self preservation but also for those innocent people who are there to pick up the pieces in the event that the worst should happen because you were not protected.
Sorry about the post but in light of what happened to my friend I feel very deeply about this subject.
Caroline
 
My daughter will wear a hat until she is old enough to decide for herself. The Law states she must wear one on a public highway until she is 14.

No I don't wear a seatbelt on my property, however on public roads yes I do as it is the Law.
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What nasty, snotty, stuck-up pigs some of you lot are who sneer down your stupid noses at people who choose not to wear hats LOL!! If people don't want to wear a hat they certainly don't need YOUR permission and they certainly don't need to give you or anyone else a reason for it. What business is it of yours anyway? You are not paying for my health care, even though some of you arrogant sods seem to think you are!

I'll take my chances thanks
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. 3 falls in 40 years isn't so bad - none were on my head - my risk, not yours. My choice, definitely not yours. Oh and I'm far from stupid thanks very much - I can give a fair number of dopes on this forum a good old run for their money.
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I choose not to wear one therefore I voted "other" - other= because I choose not to.
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PS... I've always always wanted to make a post like this on this forum......and now I have and wow! it's fun and very exciting!!
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Maybe I'll do it again sometime.

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that'll be me then, Tia...

still visit and take a good friend for a "push" in her chair, help her in the loo, take off her coat, cut up her lunch, wipe dribble from her chin.....27 years after she had the same attitude as yours, still chokes me...she is a great mate....but as you say, each to their own.....
 
Cheers and claps...............You go girl!!!!
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I'm in the 'other - other= because I choose not to' camp too.

I would also like to point out that I am neither stupid or a muppet either!!!
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Wow.
You must be a brilliant rider then.
And you're right...for some people a hat won't protect anything valuable.
Hope you don't have to look after your daughter with a skull fracture...or even worse...she has to look after you.
Oh, I know, it'll never happen to YOU will it, because all life is predictable, especially horses if you're highly skilled. LOL!
I've heard all that before (usually just before I scraped them off the deck and into the air ambulance
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Thank you for the compliment - yes I am a pretty darned good rider.
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Unfortunately lots of people really can't ride to save their lives.......literally!
 
I can't believe the arrogance of some of these posts. I work in a hospital and have seen the concequences of head injuries. Yes it is your head and some people have no dependants, don't need NHS care etc etc but for those who have it is selfish because your irresponsibility could have life long devastating affects for your families. I don't think any of you would want to spend the rest of your life unable to communicate or being incontinant etc.
 
I don't know why people have children and allow them to kill themselves. My daughter is alive you know - same as me.
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