Who rides on xmas day??

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So who rides on xmas day - and how do you fit the horses in around xmas day??

I never ride xmas day its mine and their day off always.

I will be riding xmas eve with Nat for our "xmas hack"!! with our tinsel, antlers etc!
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And I think this year due to it probably raining I will get over early ish (7am) to muck them out and will leave Dexter in (spider is in on box rest anyway) then home to unwrap pressies and have breakfast
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Then will go back over in the afternoon or evening not sure what time yet, to finish them off!
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I often do as i like the peace and quiet
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It usually gets me out of various family things and the yard is always so quiet ;p

The need to ride is generally the excuse i use all over christmas to avoid parties id prefer not to go too ;p
 
It's a tradition to go out in the morning with the neddy's all dressed up in tinsel! We do a few pressies first, the do the horses and then back home to start sorting out christmas dinner & more pressies
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This is the first year for 3 years that I won't have been in hospital trying to die after operations so I'm hell bent on enjoying it!
 
no, that is the one day of the year when my long suffering family get to spend time with me rather than me leaving them to it.

Last year I did have lovely long hacks on both Christmas Eve and Boxing Day though, boxing day was amazing as went out about 8.30 am and had the world to myself, I've never seen it so quiet
 
Me and OH always ride together on Christmas day. It is the only day of the year I can guarantee he will ride.

We tend to get down the yard about 9.30ish. Do all our work, then go for a nice quiet hack. We then go to which ever set of parents we are spending the day with, and then I will go back early evening to finish them both off.
 
I've ridden on xmas morning, weather permitting, for the past 15 years, but probably won't this year. It's my first year with OH staying at home, so I think I'll spend the time with him and family instead. I might manage a quick hack if I wake up early enough
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I'll go up and turn them out and get all the jobs done in the morning, then after dinner we'll probably walk up to the yard to bring the horses in. I do my mum's horses jobs so she can concentrate on cooking dinner for us
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It's tradition for me to ride out aroun town centre Xmas morning with other liveries done this for the last 16 years! I love it and the horse has to go past train stations and through lights etc so it is good for them to see new things
 
Don't have time on Xmas day with doing the lunch and opening presents etc. I don't know how anyone who cooks the meal manages to ride too. I do go over and muck out etc usually I get someone else to bring him in for me and feed later
 
I will be! Will be going on on our own, and hopefully will have the park to myself - can't wait. Equine Twiglet will be wearing his reindeer antlers, and tinsel, and I will have my 'merry christmas' flourescent tabard.
Will try and ride at 8am, then muck out and head to parents. Someone else will bring in for me, as I will be getting thoroughly drunk
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I go up early in the morning and lunge for a bit to make sure he actually gets a bit of exercise as I know if I put him in the field he'll just stand in the same place for hours! He then goes out while I do the stables which is about 2 hours, then comes in and has his xmas cake and stocking and I go home to open pressies and someone feeds him later!
 
our family does (me, my mum, my brother, the dog and the 1 horse
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we do it every year, go out on a nice hack, it means that we all do something as a family
 
Usually take the dog to the beach at 7am then have breakfast. Poo-pick, feed etc late morning, sandwich for dinner then go for a carriage drive, it;s lovely. Then go home and have roast for our evening meal, thoroughly enjoy it then!!
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I don't as we have the rest of the family for the day and i will be cooking. I'll go over early to turn out and muck out and hopefully get someone else to bring in.
 
I do - sprog wants to make the most of her pony over the Christmas holidays, so we usually go for a Christmas day hack. Horses are at home and usually live out, so not too many chores to be done.
 
I normally do, but in a fit of madness this year, I have invited the family to ours for xmas lunch, so will probably be flapping like a chicken!!

So i will get up early and shove the turkey in, go to the stables and sort out the donks, then come back for pressie opening, and use the donks as an excuse to pack the family off home in time to go back and sort spooks out - then see OH's family in the evening (and hopefully by 11pm i may get the chance to have a drink!!)

It is times like this that I realise it was handy being on a big yard so there is someone else that can chuck the horses in at night - being on my own and the stables, there is no one to do it but me!!
 
I always try too - weather permitting, its lovely feeling we have the world to ourselves. Now i'm within a 20 min hack to the beach and the tide is right on Xmas day i'm off down there for a blast before coming back mucking out then off to OH's parents for dinner then i will be back at the yard giving her some more hay and her dinner, she normally goes out xmas day but i'm having her in this year so i don't have to rush back to get her in!
 
I definately will be as I'm going to be totally on my own this Christmas for the first time ever, no family whatsoever. So its me and my two boys, will probably pick Murphy as we can go for a good gallop. Sadly our hunt is meeting on Christmas eve when I'm working and not Boxing Day so gutted.
 
I always ride xmas morning! A nice hack sets me up for the rest of the day.

They live at home, so are easy to do. Sometimes they get their dinner a bit late if we're enjoying ourselves & sometimes they get used as an excuse for a hasty exit if we're NOT enjoying ourselves...
 
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