What safety equipment do you wear?

[The Trooper]

What constitutes "proper" riding boots? I mostly wear Ariat ankle boots, but also hack in mid-calf muck boots (with heel and chunky tread) when it's very wet. I don't think they'd qualify, given that I think chunky tread is frowned upon as something that might potentially catch on the stirrup. Still, I have an old pair of Barnes Buckles on my stirrups, so feel pretty safe in that respect.

Boots that are designed for riding, for example Ariat paddock boots or Togga long riding boots, not wellingtons, muck boots or waders for instance.

I tried to ride in my muck boots one, I really didn't like it, I didn't feel 'with' the horse.

 

[AHarley]

I don't think I could ever ride without gloves and have only ever ridden without a hat once which was in a European competition where it was mandatory to wear one of those fancy Portugese hats instead of a protective helmet, fair to say I was shitting myself as I was riding a stallion!

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I don't think I could ever ride without gloves and have only ever ridden without a hat once which was in a European competition where it was mandatory to wear one of those fancy Portugese hats instead of a protective helmet, fair to say I was shitting myself as I was riding a stallion!

If the stallion is well schooled and well behaved you should never have to worry about riding one. I never worry about what I am riding or leading but I dont trust anyone around me to be jn control.

 

[Cortez]

Why would you suppose that riding a stallion was particularly dangerous? Especially a Lusitano; he was probably much better schooled than 99% of the yokes you'd be riding in the UK

 

[AHarley]

If the stallion is well schooled and well behaved you should never have to worry about riding one. I never worry about what I am riding or leading but I dont trust anyone around me to be jn control.

Why would you suppose that riding a stallion was particularly dangerous? Especially a Lusitano; he was probably much better schooled than 99% of the yokes you'd be riding in the UK

He was an absolute sweetie as it turned out, but was my first time on him. I was 15 and didn't speak a bit of Portuguese, it was all a bit of a worldwind experience for a wet behind the ears British kid like me!

 

[Widgeon]

A cricketer's box is a moulded plastic pouch which male batsmen place over their genitals for protection from a fast ball. I think that it would be hideously uncomfortable to wear one when riding .

ETA Though as a female, that opinion is only supposition.

Yes. Those would be my thoughts. You'd need a specially designed saddle with a box hole in it....jeez the mind boggles. Anyway the question is, who is the one vote for this option!?