Lol! you know what I meant. I sincerely hope you do as it would be lovely to see you both. xxxx
Not called out at all. Welcome to opinion.
Equally, not all fact.
He's 3 in less than 8 weeks exactly to date now, and this month is the first time he's been 'ridden' properly on his own, which from one end of our village to the other is exactly 9 minutes walking, which he has done a total of 2 times in two weeks and two times walking up the driveway and back at home.
Other 'riding', has been a grand total of about 4 sit ons with a leader/me on him for about 15metres each time [If memory calls, twice in January and once in Feb].
Rest of 'work', is all groundwork.
Always start them at around 3, be happy that they're quiet plodding about and seen a bit of the world, then do sweet sod all till later in the year. Summer possibly hack him out again once or twice a week, and then come late third year/early 4th, start schooling.
So hardly being ridden since he turned 2...but to each their own opinion.
Damn blondes. 
And so felt that tack wasn't needed for the 10 minutes she was riding.
).I don't know about horse maturity and the physical aspect of things, so can't comment on that. But in my opinion CS doesn't deserve this slating. Yes, high viz and tack might have been a better idea - but I know coblet has had lots and lots of ground work, and I would bet that the two have a very good relationship - there is always a risk, but sometimes you are so in tune that it's not as unresponsible as it appears (controversial maybe?
Aside from whether that may or may not be the case, I would suspect that CS has lead coblet to the house, I know he has had lots of walking on roads, getting used to traffic - and probably only had a little sit on and walk around within the cul-de-sac, so not a main road and not many cars actually driving. From what I've seen CS is very accomplished with bareback, so it is probably safer than using tack! The simple way is sometimes the best.
