kate32
Well-Known Member
After 20odd years of having horses in the same area I took my 10yrold daughter out on 12.2hh pony around the same VERY busy main roads that i ride on and used to ride on alone! when i was her age and a little younger on a 11.1hh my first ever pony prone to a good buck
and thaught nothing of any danger no one ever minded that i was gone or where i exactly was (my parents have never been horsey and they tried to help sometimes as best they could but mostly left me to it untill i wanted picking up to go home )
I would never dream of letting my daughter do such a thing now after a car passed us at 60mph it left me quite shocked that i ever did such things at the same age and never gave it a seccond thaught ,i was the only child on a yard full of adults so entertained myself quite alot my mother would probly be horrified!!! now if i ever told her i used to go jump the dikes and such plus meet up with friends from other yards and canter along the grass next to the roads
I would never dream of letting my daughter do such a thing now after a car passed us at 60mph it left me quite shocked that i ever did such things at the same age and never gave it a seccond thaught ,i was the only child on a yard full of adults so entertained myself quite alot my mother would probly be horrified!!! now if i ever told her i used to go jump the dikes and such plus meet up with friends from other yards and canter along the grass next to the roads
