fairhill
Well-Known Member
My RI very kindly offered to give me lift to the RC dressage comp I was doing yesterday, as she was judging the later classes, and wanted Meg to have more 'oomph' then if we'd hacked there (7 miles).
So... she loaded in fine, and as there was no partition in the trailer I tied her fairly short, and off we went. We could hear her stamping a bit when we stopped at the first set of lights, but just thought she was finding her feet as it was only her 2nd time of travelling by herself, and the first time without the partition.
Anyway we got a bit worried when I couldn't see her head in the window, just her back and neck, but put it down to her travelling oddly...
When we got to the show ground we realised she'd turned herself round and was nearly garotting herself on the leadrope and headcollar
Thankfully there were lots of people on hand to help, I got the headcollar undone as the rope was too tight to undo, got a spare leadrope on her, and backed her enough for the back ramp to be lowered.
She was very sweaty, and a bit shaky, but some grass and a walk round helped her to forget her trauma. I'm not sure my RI's trailer will recover quite as easily, the flooring was very pulled up...
She still didn't have any energy for her test, despite warming up lovely, but had recovered for her hack home and was very happy to gallop along the bridlepath. Pah! Horses
Thankfully she has a short memory span, so I'm fairly confident she'll happily load next time and there's been no lasting damage...
So... she loaded in fine, and as there was no partition in the trailer I tied her fairly short, and off we went. We could hear her stamping a bit when we stopped at the first set of lights, but just thought she was finding her feet as it was only her 2nd time of travelling by herself, and the first time without the partition.
Anyway we got a bit worried when I couldn't see her head in the window, just her back and neck, but put it down to her travelling oddly...
When we got to the show ground we realised she'd turned herself round and was nearly garotting herself on the leadrope and headcollar
She was very sweaty, and a bit shaky, but some grass and a walk round helped her to forget her trauma. I'm not sure my RI's trailer will recover quite as easily, the flooring was very pulled up...
She still didn't have any energy for her test, despite warming up lovely, but had recovered for her hack home and was very happy to gallop along the bridlepath. Pah! Horses
Thankfully she has a short memory span, so I'm fairly confident she'll happily load next time and there's been no lasting damage...
