Teenager and horse rescued from drowning

irresponsible if you ask me.

who, except a teenager, would think it ok to ride after heavy storms, beside a swollen river??

would serve a lesson if her parents were charged by the fire service for the call-out!
 
Gosh, that really makes my blood run cold and sent shivers up my spine. After mine and Believe's experience falling in the ditch the other week, where initially I had to call for the firemen thinking that was the only way out... Well I can't believe how lucky were were....
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I really hope the horse and brave rider make a speedy recovery. Well done to all who helped save them. H xxx
 
A bit harsh there JM07. Y'know...[****] happens when you are riding, we are all risking our lives and the lives of our horses every time we go out.

Just glad the horse and rider are OK.
 
Harsh??? Why???

i know sh1t happens...but common sense would/could have prevented this....
 
I dont tihnk so, and i dont tihnk 'only a teenager' would think to do this- you could say that about any situation.
I think its a terrible thing to happen, and no ones to blame really, glad they are okay, and the girl was doing something useful holding her horses head up
 
well done her, then, for stopping her horse drowning!!!


she wouldnt be the "heroine" if she hadnt been there, putting her horse and herself in that kind of danger in the first place...

and i know EXACTLY what most on here would be saying if the horse had drowned....

some of it with expletives...so no i'm not being harsh
 
True, i dont personally know what state the land was in, if she chose to go into the water, then a bit stupid, but i got the impression the horse slipped or something?
I just dont think tis somethig only a teenager would do- theres plenty of idiot horse owners who are adults- its good she kept level headed enough to look after the horse, and did she call the fire service herself? Lotsa people would be too busy panicking
 
JM07 i do think you are being to harsh, the girl wasnt being silly and entering the water nor was she swept away by a flash flood, the river whilst swollen was still within its banks.
The horse slipped off the path, it happens, I'ts happened to me on a perfectly dry day (luckily we only slipped into a ditch and pony was able to get himself out), I will congratulate her on being quick enough thinking to save her horses life i wouldnt have been, i'd have been to shocked by the fall.
 
i've read the story..i didnt say she'd taken it in..it slipped from the bank....

and after all the rain weve had over the country this past few days, not the brightest thing to do hacking on the river bank, beside a swollen river.

sorry, but if she was MY daughter, she'd have had a damn good hiding when she got home.
 
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Not the brightest thing to go hacking along a river bank any time of year
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unless you want to get yourself in H & H and waste the time of the local fire service?
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Conniegirl I echo your sensible comments.

JM07, accidents happen. Get real. I have a friend in her 50's who slipped off of her horse when it put it's head down to graze. She broke her neck. Do you think she might deserve a good hiding and to have to pay for the services of the air ambulance who took her to hospital?
 
"she was just out on a hack".......

i thought so.....

nothing whatsoever to do with the point i made....
 
Yes - agree with all views. But to tell you the truth, I probably would have hacked out, not expecting the horse to slip in. But it was amazing that she saved her horse - shows that although she may have not been thinking straight to go in the first place, she does have a 'bond' with the beast.

Glad that all involved are doing well.
 
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Sigh. Have you got children?

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yes,

2 well mannered, well educated, well brought up, sensible adults.

thank you for asking....
 
Many of the bridleways in the Cambridgeshire fens run on the banks alongside rivers or dykes which are deepwater whether or not it's been raining. (River Ouse, River Nene, Bedford New River, Wissey, Burwell Lode, Cam to name a few deep watercourses with stretches of bridleway on the riverbanks).

Bedford New River is a one-off - an almost 10-mile dead straight cut artificial river (like a wide canal) with bridleway running down both sides, in flat open arable countryside, the only landmark on the whole route is a pylon line you ride under, halfway along. (Welney to Downham Market).

So riding on riverbanks, unless the river's flooded over the banktop so the bridleway is underwater, is a way of life for most riders round here.

Mind you, us fen inhabitants are referred to by outsiders as having webbed feet!

Glad to hear she and the ned are okay.
 
As we all know that the equestrian world has its risks on what ever we do
from the time we set out on our hacks to the time we get back there is risks
risks are part of the game im affraid to me this was not ittentionly and im sure she wouldnt of wanted a horse to fall on her
im just so glad both horse and rider are ok
 
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Indeed they do
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and I've spent many, many *hundreds* of hours riding along such bridleways, for well over a decade, and yet 11 days ago fell in one
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- it was nothing to do with the weather or the ground, but a freak accident. These things happen. It's the risk we all assume. Someone asked me today (when I was discussing seeing the doc over my back problems) if the paramedics minded being called out to my riding accident. As I said, I'm sure that the emergency services prefer that, when people are out and exercising/doing a sport, than they do getting into fights in the town on a fri/sat night...
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Well I used to hack my mare beside the Mersey when it was in flood and I was well into my 30s. Obviously I didn't teeter along right on the edge, but as my mare didn't like putting her feet in water when she couldn't see the bottom at the best of times, it was unlikely she would suddenly decide to throw herself into the river. We did have one kid and her pony go in one day on a summer evening. I think the pony spooked and ran down the face of the bank. The emergency services hauled them both out unharmed, but I remember they were pretty rude and unkind to the poor child in the process.
 
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sorry, but if she was MY daughter, she'd have had a damn good hiding when she got home.

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~Child abuse as well as obnoxiousness - my what a lovely character you sound!

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My friends horse was found in a river nearly two years ago. It was winter and she jumped in and held the old mares above the water whilst the fire brigade got prepared to haul her out.
Its still a mystery how she got there.
In the same river i know a girl whose horse fell in and drowned. Horrific accident but she got some real abuse.
I am so gald horse and rider on this occasion are o.k. I have always hated rideing near water. As a child we went on picnic rides along river banks, i hated the river bank bit. I won't ride along one now and i will not let my children. I know accidents can happen anywhere and far more road accidents happen but its a fear i have. It must have been terriefying.
 
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sorry, but if she was MY daughter, she'd have had a damn good hiding when she got home.

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~Child abuse as well as obnoxiousness - my what a lovely character you sound!

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Don't i just!!!!
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was she riding by a swollen river after 48 hour of intermittent storms???

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Now see, this was on our local TV news with video footage - the horse was in the shallows but caught in mud and they said it was a proper crossing point. And we hadn't had intermittent storms up here either!

Plus it wasn't some deep and fast flowing river - it was more like a wide stream and didn't look bad at all from the footage, its just the fact the horse slipped and got stuck in the mud. I honestly don't think she was doing anything dangerous and reckless.

Local press aren't always hugely accurate. For example according to them - an elderly chap died at the weekend "whilst out for a walk on his own, and was found with his faithful terrier by his side". A good friend of his told me it was an organised group walk and he'd been left behind, and the dog was missing.

Diffferent local paper but they are terrible on details!
 
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