Tack up for travelling?

[Squeak]

Yes, I am boxing to hack every time with a 5 minute journey and the only thing that makes it feasible is travelling both ways with full tack on as I am unloading by the side of a road.
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I’m pretty much the same. It also does make life a lot easier so if I’m only going 5/10 minutes for an arena hire I travel with tack on. Anything longer and I tack up there.

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

What did he catch it on? I can't see anything in my van that could do that.
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We 'think' it some how caught around a ring that a hay net was tied to (haynet tied to string from the ring). But we could never be certain as by the time we opened up and found him, the horse's head was free and the poor chap was just standing there, bridle still in place, one cheek piece and rein with bit still attached dangling down to one side through an ugly mess of torn flesh, gums and lips. Three teeth had to be extracted (they were already partially out of the jaw bone) and it's lower jaw wired back together. There was so much blood and mess everywhere you could never have been certain exactly what had happened but that was our best guess. Absolutely horrific, but he did recover to a certain extent.

 

[ycbm]

We 'think' it some how caught around a ring that a hay net was tied to (haynet tied to string from the ring). But we could never be certain as by the time we opened up and found him, the horse's head was free and the poor chap was just standing there, bridle still in place, one cheek piece and rein with bit still attached dangling down to one side through an ugly mess of torn flesh, gums and lips. Three teeth had to be extracted (they were already partially out of the jaw bone) and it's lower jaw wired back together. There was so much blood and mess everywhere you could never have been certain exactly what had happened but that was our best guess. Absolutely horrific, but he did recover to a certain extent.

Bloody hell! What an unlucky fluke, poor horse. A friend left her horse tied up by the bit once and the removal of the subsequent broken front tooth cost about a thousand pounds in total.
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[AdorableAlice]

I find it surprising that people give a haynet to a tacked up horse whilst it is in transit.

The journey would be short and if being tacked up means the horse is easier to handle when the destination is reached, why does it need a haynet given it will be 'in action' immediately it arrives. Who wants to jump onto a hunter that has a mouthful of hay wrapped around its bit.

 

[m.l.c coloured]

I had to travel my cob with saddle on under rug to go hunting and put bridle on before unloading, he came off lorry like a raging bull the second time he went hunting when he knew what it was about and everytime I tried to put his saddle on he exploded.it was his favourite thing in world and would squeal waiting to be loaded to go on a Sunday morning,sadly I lost him two years ago

 

[Barton Bounty]

I would never tack up in a trailer , the thought of ruining my saddle that cost an absolute fortune ??‍??‍

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Who tacks up their horses for travelling? I mean the whole lot saddle and bridle? In a trailer with partition?

nope never would

 

[spacefaer]

We travel the hunters tacked up with fleece rug or thermatex over the top.
We put the stirrups over the wither so they don't rub the saddle or walls.

Bridles depends on the horses, the destination and the length of the journey.
I'd never try to put a saddle on a hunter at the side of the road or on a farmer's concrete yard while there are other horses milling around and they can see hounds.
I tried it once at fun ride this autumn - horse's first outing in a while. He danced on the end of his lead rope like a landed salmon and my saddle ended up on the floor ?
I've travelled with tack on for decades and I can't remember having a major problem tbh

 

[Eventing2022]

Yup all the time. For journies up to an hour. In a trailer but I travel with no partition.

 

[nutjob]

Never since being involved in helping to stem a friend's horse from bleeding to death before arrival of (luckily) on site vet. He had caught his bit and ripped half its mouth away, the leather on the bridle did not break but the horse's mouth did.

I've also seen something like this but nowhere near as bad. I don't know what the bit had been caught on but it was in a trailer not a lorry.

 

[First Frost]

One of my horses quite often travels with saddle and bridle on to local venues or hunting, up to about 30 mins away. The other only wears his saddle as he wears a fulmer snaffle and i would worry about it getting caught. Both are excellent travellers and don't lean on the partition.

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

I find it surprising that people give a haynet to a tacked up horse whilst it is in transit.

The journey would be short and if being tacked up means the horse is easier to handle when the destination is reached, why does it need a haynet given it will be 'in action' immediately it arrives. Who wants to jump onto a hunter that has a mouthful of hay wrapped around its bit.

Neither horse was hunting AA, not sure where I said that? A day out at a show about 45 minutes away, purely showing in hand and ridden and far from leaping off the trailer, jumping into the saddle and away off hunting at a flat out gallop! Quite the opposite in fact. Not that I have actually attended too many hunts where I have found myself immediately galloping straight off in any pace that could be vaguely called 'in action'. Yes of course they could have travelled without a haynet, but hey ho, no of us get it right ALL the time do we?

I've also seen something like this but nowhere near as bad. I don't know what the bit had been caught on but it was in a trailer not a lorry.

Yes this was also a trailer nutjob. I am pretty certain it was a one in a million fluke type accident, but nevertheless it shook me and my friend up enough to never travel any horse tacked up again.

Bloody hell! What an unlucky fluke, poor horse. A friend left her horse tied up by the bit once and the removal of the subsequent broken front tooth cost about a thousand pounds in total.
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To be honest I cant remember how much her vet bill was, the onsite vet as I recall was pretty reasonable considering a lot of emergency aid was administered and the horse did have to be taken to Newmarket for further surgery over the next couple of days. But it was over 25 years ago and I can't recall either of us being particularly shocked by Newmarket's bill either. I think vets in those days were actually more reasonable than what we are used to paying today.?‍