Well baby coblet would appear to be backed...

In the context that if she can find someone else doing something with a horse they 'shouldn't' then she will feel a whole load better about making her horse carry almost 300 pounds.
 
Billie1007 said:
In the context that if she can find someone else doing something with a horse they 'shouldn't' then she will feel a whole load better about making her horse carry almost 300 pounds.
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If ever there was a post that hit the nail so completely on the head!
 
zigzag said:
You don't have full control in a headcollar..... and it is also illegal to ride in a headcollar. So what is your point on that?
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Is it illegal though? Or does the highway code just suggest that tack should fit well and that you should never ride without both saddle and bridle?? I dont think it is a law!
 
Fii said:
Is it illegal though? Or does the highway code just suggest that tack should fit well and that you should never ride without both saddle and bridle?? I dont think it is a law!
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"The Highway Code advises riders never to ride without both a saddle and bridle."

Advisory not law, you are quite right. See good job this thread has gone on for fifty years, we needed Fii to come along and point this out :D
 
Jesus! Why is this threat still going on? :rolleyes:

Erm I guess I should say something on topic. :o

I like Babycoblet he is coot and fuzzy but not the best idea to ride a 2 year old round the village, maybe round the field?
 
Fii said:
Oh to ell with it, *coughs*
Hello i am fii, i have also ridden youngsters bareback in a headcollar through my village!
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I once rode a horse I couldn't get a bridle in a head collar, everywhere, for 3 months until someone felt sorry for me and gave me a hackamore :D

On holiday in Wales we used to ride bare back in a head collar and lead three others up the village twice a day. We also used to get a lift down in the back of an open pick up.

My daughter rides her pony everywhere in a head collar as his head is too small for any bridle I have found.

Shoot us :D
 
Whilst I agree that all of us do things we shouldn't from time to time, I find people making light of riding a youngster (or any horse for that matter) in a headcollar, on a road, a little bit akin to making light of the fact that someone may have had a couple of drinks over the limit whilst driving. Nothing may have come of it, they may well have been fully in control, but why put other people, innocent people, more at risk? I understand that nobody can guarantee a horse's behaviour, bridle or not, just as nobody can guarantee they aren't going to accidently knock somebody down in a car, but to actually take the decision that they aren't going to do anything they can to prevent that happening, seems a bit much really.:(
 
Fii said:
Is it illegal though? Or does the highway code just suggest that tack should fit well and that you should never ride without both saddle and bridle?? I dont think it is a law!
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Just spent a boring while, looking through the Road Traffic act and I couldn't find anything. Seems like you can ride on some verges though and you're not committing a criminal offence by riding on a footpath unless it is along a public road. Nowt about bridles though.
 
urgh I thought this one was finished and to add my tuppence I think this pony is well loved and my goodness worse things happen(and nothing happened) I am more concerned CS wont come back but hope she does as the pics were lovely and the ponio looked happy as larry. Then you have dead ponies dumped somewhere and time should be spent thinking of that instead. So good night I hope this particular thread is done now....
 
Fii said:
Is it illegal though? Or does the highway code just suggest that tack should fit well and that you should never ride without both saddle and bridle?? I dont think it is a law!
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My bad, I meant that you are required to have a bridle when riding on the road for your insurance purposes
 
I think in the event of an accident, if its judged/found that the consequences would have been avoided/reduced had you had correct tack on, you would be held responsible. So if for eg I ride my 23yr old, who can be safely hacked in a snaffle by a novice child, & who I've been riding almost 20yrs since I was a kid, & is about as bombproof as they come, chances are in the event of an accident occurring with me riding in a headcollar, I'd stand a good chance of being believed to have been in control still. Whereas if I hopped on a 3yr old, it could be argued I had less control than in a bridle from a legal pov. Same applies to hacking bareback, if its likely something might have been prevented if you had a saddle, you'd be held responsible. Fwiw I wouldn't back a horse that young, & don't agree with it. But I do think billies hit the nail on the head re bb.
 
You know what would be great?

Three months from now the thread finally goes cold and drops off the first page. It all goes quiet. Nothing.

Then CS necro-posts and says "Did I miss anything?"

EDIT: Snorts at double-posting with BB ;D
 
Big Ben said:
YouKill off Big Ben here and possibly this thread by saying


**** the lot of you, with a few notable exceptions, you are a bunch of mean minded, foul miserable bitches, and I will not waste any more time with your petty vindictiveness.


For those who have offered encouragement and some degeree of understanding, I thank you, thank you very much


The rest of you, I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, you are NASTY
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Gosh, my ghast is flabbered
 
Big Ben said:
You are totally priceless, all of you who came over, started ranting and raving and wondered why the thread has been taken down, priceless and clueless.

I love the fact that you can not only say how my horse carries me, rubbish any opinions that I get on the ground here from people I know but now you think you know the context I asked the question. Un freaking believable.

The question was asked as this

Is this OK?

Followed by the pic the OP posted, and then the shot from the video.

Then the question, something along the lines that would it make any difference that the horse is 2 years and 10 months.

I was very interested in the responses, because of the different views over there hand here about riding youngsters, and rider size.

I NEVER invited anyone to have a go at CS

I certainly didn't post it to make myself feel better in any way

BUT who cares, you all have me hung drawn and quartered so no wis teh time to do you a favour.

Kill off Big Ben here and possibly this thread by saying


**** the lot of you, with a few notable exceptions, you are a bunch of mean minded, foul miserable bitches, and I will not waste any more time with your petty vindictiveness.


For those who have offered encouragement and some degeree of understanding, I thank you, thank you very much


The rest of you, I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, you are NASTY
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BB, I am never normally negative towards you but I considered what you posted earlier on this thread as 'bad form', I considered your posting on another forum 'really out of line' as by the sounds of it were the replies on their from other members from here, for example DD, but your latest post is a disgrace!

In light of what ive witnessed from you and DD I would say this: just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do it. You should both put your brains into action before you press submit!!!:mad:
 
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