That's it, We're definitely the local laughing stock

While we are talking laughing stock... I can't wait until I ride out with this on my filly... I'm soooooo OVER brown/havana/black/leather... :D

I'm going to look like I'm riding a merry-go-round horse and I'm looking forward to it :)

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tallyho! said:
While we are talking laughing stock... I can't wait until I ride out with this on my filly... I'm soooooo OVER brown/havana/black/leather... :D

I'm going to look like I'm riding a merry-go-round horse and I'm looking forward to it :)

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I love it! :D
 
Hi ImmyS! We'd get on fine! I'm an eccentric too! I came to horses from training dogs and hawks for over half a century and was utterly condemned for some of my theories. I'm thought even worse of now as they are seen to work!;)

Keep doing what you are doing. It is the eccentrics like us who put the Great into Britain!:D
 
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Lol i only ride a couple of time a week but love walking him out in hand, I do get some funny looks :D

I also take him for grass on a rope quite a lot and read my book ... again funny looks

There is a big quite posh yard up the road they must think I'm a bit of a nutter lol.

It's just what works for you and your pony isn't it :D
 
My old pony was a little b***er, but you could ride him bareback in a halter, with just a leadrope attached around a course of jumps and he would spin on a sixpence if you asked him to.

He used to take a hold and buzz off down bridlepaths from time to time and I can honestly say it made not one whit of difference whether I had a bit in his mouth, or just a rope and halter. As for bareback, well, he was a bucker, and not having a saddle makes you sit up, and sit to (if you want to stay put!), which got him back under me faster...
 
I think I am the mad lady of the village! Got two barefoot and with the wet weather we have had this last week I have been walking them out in hand (one in each hand 16.3 and 14.2) both bridled. Quickest way to exercise them both and get their feet out on the roads.

I used to walk one a lot as she was green and it gave her confidence and often joined the dog walkers but now I am doing it because I am short of time and trying to get them done quickly without being soaked and am not happy to ride and lead. I really quite enjoy chatting away to them it's just more difficult to find places to stop them both to be able to chat to other people!

Also friend has 13.2 grey and black shetland and someone phoned her last night to say her ponies had been stolen and someone was walking them down the road! Bless her she did come looking but knew it was probably me and by 2 bigger versions!
 
I'm always a little jealous of anyone who can ride in just a halter - I would never ride my boy in one, purely because I know I couldn't...

To me, it's the ultimate test of balance and partnership - my friend rode my new cob with just a halter and single lead rope in the field when I first got him to prove how good he was. If you can ride it in nothing and be in control, hats off to you!

Doubtless it would get me funny looks and they would think I was crazy at my lovely traditional dressage yard....but if I could ever get my lad going, even in the school, in just a halter, I would be so chuffed. But I know that my balance just isn't good enough - I don't think my position is secure enough to just ride him off my seat etc, I still need the reins (and of course saddle!) to help me :rolleyes:
 
Please can I join this club?

People at my yard (mostly SJ and eventing orientated) already look askance at me for having mules.
If that wasn't bad enough, my horses have no use for shoes, I trim them all myself, and on the occasions I use a snaffle, it is set low enough for the horse to be comfortable so forget about wrinkles, and flash/drop nosebands are a four letter word.

Recently on ebay I found the bridle my youngster is destined to be spending the first couple of years of her ridden life in -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-8-Solid...172?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item257d68676c

It cost a weeks wages but is now hanging up with the rest of my tack.
 
That's an interesting bridle LBM, I'd be interested to hear how you get on with it. (Did you know we've got an Amanda Barton clinic near Crowborough in July?).

Tallyho, I've tassels too... ;-)


Honestly, I look a right mess when out riding. I lurve my HM dressage saddle, which happens to be black. Both my western bridles are brown. As is my bosal. I suppose the riding halter is the best matchy. I may need to buy a brown saddle just to conform.

Bosal (sorry, I keep posting this, but I waited months for it to be made and shipped and am thrilled now it's here!).

 
TP, I already have been using a sidepull for years and generally have far better results with it than a bitted bridle. But this one is special as it is in black, which for a quality sidepull is rare, and made by one of the most elite vaquero tack makers! :D
This is my old sidepull in action:

 
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LittleBlackMule said:
TP, I already have been using a sidepull for years and generally have far better results with it than a bitted bridle. But this one is special as it is in black, which for a quality sidepull is rare, and made by one of the most elite vaquero tack makers! :D
This is my old sidepull in action:

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I saw that very nice! I like the bosal-style noseband. Put it this way, it's on my "favourites" now, just in case I get an unexpected tax rebate maybe. :-)
 
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hnmisty said:
Same as Satan's little helper here...is it legal to ride on the road in a halter? It's illegal to ride bareback I think but not so sure about head gear.

Tbh, I'm not fussed about how people keep their horses, as long as the horse is happy! I certainly did enough things with my old pony that people were horrified by...such as riding her in a bridle with no cavrsson
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When you say a caversson do you mean a nose band? I don't have nose bands on my bridles, took them of years ago, could'nt see the point of them but if it negates PL insurance then they need to go back on!!
 
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When you say a caversson do you mean a nose band? I don't have nose bands on my bridles, took them of years ago, could'nt see the point of them but if it negates PL insurance then they need to go back on!!
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Of course riding without a cavesson noseband doesn't invalidate your insurance. :-)
 
It's perfectly legal to ride out in a halter. The highway code only states that you must be in control, it doesn't insist on any specific means of that control.
I think some insurance policies might try and insist on a bitted bridle, but they would then have to prove that you would be more in control with that than in a bitless.
 
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