What things do you do that other HHO mightn't approve of!!

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Okay, I'll start.....

Clip off a bit more than is strictly necessary every winter - just to make my horse look smarter

Use over reach boots on hind feet

I don't always pick out my horse's feet before I turn her out in the morning

:o
 
We never had any boots at all for my old pony :o (Current pony wears brushing boots for XC but that's all)

I also forget to pick out feet before turn out sometimes :o

We don't boot or bandage legs to travel...
 
Oh loads. :D

I've been on :eek: DIY livery :eek: for a start. :D

I've had horses pts because they were only field sound.

Sometimes my horses have been stabled 24/7 except for ridden work.

I've ridden hatless.

I have a :eek: barefoot :eek: sports horse and a :eek::eek: shod :eek::eek: sports horse. ;)


Those are some I dare mention. ;) ;)
 
Another Wintec owner here - Master Saddler says it's a perfect fit. Just saving up for the Isabell dressage version now!

Oh, and I ride in a Pelham (with two reins). Horsey is not evil/strong, but he likes it and so do I. So there :p
 
Lying under jumps? Riding in bikinis? Not at the same time though :p
Ride in a pelham. Ooooh I'm evil because I hate hauling on a snaffle :p
Riding in the dark, (in the field) with the lights from the house to kind of light it up (that was my mums contribution)
 
I lead my 3 year old to the field with a rope around his neck (he can't go far if escapes) I abandon one crutch and use him as the other then hop back. Simples.
 
ridden bareback in a headcollar, and dropped the leadrope so i'm riding holding onto no reins (and trot too :D), text while bareback, have a v odd style of approaching jumps (FULL SPEED AHEAD)!
 
Oh, probably a bundle of things, but it is no-one's business but mine, so I don't really care. I haven't killed one through mis-management yet. I manage to have shiny, happy, healthy nags that come to see me at the gate so I can't be doing that much wrong.

Here's a few:

I don't feed by hand.

I sell a horse if I don't get on with it, or even like it.

In an emergency I'd try to rescue a human over a horse/animal every time.
 
Actually hack, using heaven forbid, "public rights of way" shock horror :eek:
we should all be proper riders and stick to going round and round in circles in a menageri :p
 
Where do I start? On the ground I use bribery in the form of food, as she is a pig to groom/tack up. I also tie her up in the yard to groom/tack up rather than risk getting squashed against the stable wall by 500kg of cob. To be honest she only gets minimal grooming as I can't be bothered fighting with her. (has anyone called WHW yet). Riding-wise it gets worse. She is totally wasted as all I do with her is hack out and have lessons. If she is nappy and threatening to deck me out hacking I'll get off and lead her (very bad horsemanship I know). I don't wear a body protector either.
Ok so I've got a bad mannered horse and can't ride for toffee but who cares, it takes all types and wouldn't the world be boring if everyone was perfect.
 
I have 2 horses that I dont ride - and dont intend to do so
Both of them are barefoot
Neither of them get hard food, just hi fi lite
I am a walking polo shop
I groom both of them till they gleam and then turn em back out in the mud, just because I love to see them roll
My little mare is at stud - because I want a baby and Im certainly not going down the children route - my girlfriend would be a bit suspicious!
I use TONS of show sheen
I rarely wash my rugs
I own enough tack to kit out 4 horses fully, but I dont ride
I own more rugs than I care to admit!

My horses are happy healthy and love me to death, my big girl even protected me from an attacking dog last year, nuff said!!x
 
I sometimes ride without a hat and use a beagler for competition :eek:

I am not afraid to discipline my horse for naughtyness and am a fan of Mr Blue Pipe :eek::eek:

I have two unshod dressage horses and use a normal farrier :eek:

I only groom when I ride :eek:

I do not wear a body protector :eek:

My horses go out in most weather conditions for at least 8 hours :eek:

Anything not ridden lives out 24/7, including my 30yo :eek:
 
none, i am utterly perfect, obviously. ;) ;)
and my horses are perfect too and we are going to win the Hickstead Derby, the Epsom Derby, Badminton, and the Nationals next year, obviously...
actually, schlepping around the countryside safely and getting to the odd little BE event would be nice!
 
I hacked out on the (quiet) roads to get to the miles of bridleway bareback, and at one stage while skint and loaning used a firmly fitted head-collar with a snaffle bit tied to it with bailer twine and lead ropes clipped to the bit because I didn't have a bridle.

I have tidied up the snaggles and roll on a ponies hooves with a rasp myself when she needed it.

I have fallen asleep with a book in my hand under a tree in a field with 6 horses grazing in it.

oops, very naughty.
 
I regularly ride my four year old through one field to get to the back one their locked for the summer, with just a headcollar and no saddle...have also done this with older pony whilst leading another in-hand.
 
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