Jingleballs
Well-Known Member
I honestly think that if I hadn't been wearing it today I would be in hospital!!!
Due to bad weather Mr C and I have not been on a hack for about 3-4 weeks and have not been on the roads for at least 2 months.
Today I took him out with one of my friends into the forest for a nice calm hack to get them back into it.
We decided to enter via the road to start building up their road work again and it did not begin well when the normally unflappable Mr C had a tizzy a the first vehicle we came across with happened to be a tractor - I should have taken that as an omen!
Rest of the road was fine, passed some vans and cars and he settled.
In the forest they were good - both a bit excited on their first canter and Mr C did try and overtake and muscle the other horse off the track which seems to be his new trick.
We'd had about 3 or 4 nice controlled trots and canters and were nice and relaxed and decided to have another canter - big mistake - the horses went from walk to gallop and started racing. C was behind trying to keep up and I did have some limited control of him but he was galloping so fast that I couldn't actually sit in the saddle to use my seat to slow him.
So here we are galloping uncontrollably with me wondering if perhaps this is how fast this girl usually goes (haven't hacked with her before) and thinking I should perhaps ask her to slow down. Suddenly, a fox runs out of the bushes - cue a spook to the right by both horses causing me to be slightly off balance to the left. I thought I could recover until I realised we were galloping into the path of a large wooden pole - Casper dodged it unfortunatley to the right again scupering any chance I had of regaining my balance, I came flying off through the air and met the pole at high speed and ended up wrapped around it while the horses continued to gallop away.
I actually thought my chest had collapsed - I could not breath - my poor friend came rushing over white as a ghost expecting me to be dead or unconcious. Fortunately I'd worn my BP - I nearly didn't bother but because we were going out on the road I thought it best to! Poor girl feels responsible because she was infront but I couldn't see that she was desperately trying to stop her horse the whole time!
So instead of having broken ribs I have just slightly sore one, a very sore bruised hand and an horrible big scrap on my arm. My friend, who has been riding for about 15 years says it's the worst fall she has ever seen and is still really upset about it -poor girl!
It just shows - you can never be too careful! One good thing that has come out of this is that I don't think anyone will be going into the forrest without their BP!!!
K x
Due to bad weather Mr C and I have not been on a hack for about 3-4 weeks and have not been on the roads for at least 2 months.
Today I took him out with one of my friends into the forest for a nice calm hack to get them back into it.
We decided to enter via the road to start building up their road work again and it did not begin well when the normally unflappable Mr C had a tizzy a the first vehicle we came across with happened to be a tractor - I should have taken that as an omen!
Rest of the road was fine, passed some vans and cars and he settled.
In the forest they were good - both a bit excited on their first canter and Mr C did try and overtake and muscle the other horse off the track which seems to be his new trick.
We'd had about 3 or 4 nice controlled trots and canters and were nice and relaxed and decided to have another canter - big mistake - the horses went from walk to gallop and started racing. C was behind trying to keep up and I did have some limited control of him but he was galloping so fast that I couldn't actually sit in the saddle to use my seat to slow him.
So here we are galloping uncontrollably with me wondering if perhaps this is how fast this girl usually goes (haven't hacked with her before) and thinking I should perhaps ask her to slow down. Suddenly, a fox runs out of the bushes - cue a spook to the right by both horses causing me to be slightly off balance to the left. I thought I could recover until I realised we were galloping into the path of a large wooden pole - Casper dodged it unfortunatley to the right again scupering any chance I had of regaining my balance, I came flying off through the air and met the pole at high speed and ended up wrapped around it while the horses continued to gallop away.
I actually thought my chest had collapsed - I could not breath - my poor friend came rushing over white as a ghost expecting me to be dead or unconcious. Fortunately I'd worn my BP - I nearly didn't bother but because we were going out on the road I thought it best to! Poor girl feels responsible because she was infront but I couldn't see that she was desperately trying to stop her horse the whole time!
So instead of having broken ribs I have just slightly sore one, a very sore bruised hand and an horrible big scrap on my arm. My friend, who has been riding for about 15 years says it's the worst fall she has ever seen and is still really upset about it -poor girl!
It just shows - you can never be too careful! One good thing that has come out of this is that I don't think anyone will be going into the forrest without their BP!!!
K x
