MrsMozart
Just passing through...
As I child I regularly jumped, galloped, and generally looned around with no hat (no saddle or bridle quite often), and luckily I lived to tell the tale.
However, as any regular on this Forum will know, these days I am a great advocate of hats - if I hadn't been wearing one, three weeks ago today I'd have probably died, but I was on a 16.2 DW going at a great rate of knots. The children in the pictures are being held onto, there are people holding the horses. It's what life is about, making things as safe as possible within the circumstances at the time.
I have spent most of my life doing so called dangerous sports (horse riding, rock climging, winter mountaineering, white water canoeing, riding a motorbike, etc.), but last fall off a horse apart, the most and lasting damage I've had was somone landing on my foot on a tube train! Oh, and cracking my head getting into a car last year.
Lovely pictures OP and others
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However, as any regular on this Forum will know, these days I am a great advocate of hats - if I hadn't been wearing one, three weeks ago today I'd have probably died, but I was on a 16.2 DW going at a great rate of knots. The children in the pictures are being held onto, there are people holding the horses. It's what life is about, making things as safe as possible within the circumstances at the time.
I have spent most of my life doing so called dangerous sports (horse riding, rock climging, winter mountaineering, white water canoeing, riding a motorbike, etc.), but last fall off a horse apart, the most and lasting damage I've had was somone landing on my foot on a tube train! Oh, and cracking my head getting into a car last year.
Lovely pictures OP and others