Whoes been out hacking?

EllenJay

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Yes - I went out today. My horse has just got over 2 weeks off with a lameness issue - so had a lovely walk only hack with a friend and an elderly companion. Both horses looked like they throughout enjoyed their morning constitutional
 

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Me. Managed a quick hack with a freind this morning. Not been out for a couple of weeks. Lots of walkers about for 9.30 on a Sunday morning. On the plus said not much traffic.
 

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It's been perfect hacking weather - to be fair, hacking I'd our main 'thinģ' so its rare we don't!

Two rides this weekend, about 17.5 miles in total - lots of canters, mainly perfect going and no flies! Bliss ?❤

Pony is having a day off tomorrow before we try our first 'leaving in the dark by headtorch' hack in the week before work :D
 

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Yes! New boy went out hacking alone, met 2 sets of neighbours for lengthy chats and then, finally, just as we reached the driveway, someone blew up the local power station cooling towers. I thought a plane had crashed, it was defo an explosion and all the local dogs started barking.

Baby horse? Didn't flick a whisker!
 

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Yes! New boy went out hacking alone, met 2 sets of neighbours for lengthy chats and then, finally, just as we reached the driveway, someone blew up the local power station cooling towers. I thought a plane had crashed, it was defo an explosion and all the local dogs started barking.

Baby horse? Didn't flick a whisker!

didn't realise spook training had to include that nowadays! :eek:
 

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Me! Wasn't quite the peaceful hack I had in mind as we met all sorts today, but their were no dramas and we had a lovely hack mostly on a loose rein.

Hacking is what it's all about for me and I'm so happy that October is being kind to us. Next week looks like staying pretty quiet weather wise!
 

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No. Horse is lame (barely 1 tenth now but he's off to horsepital next week). He really wants to go out for an adventure and gets a bit excited whenever one of his buddies is tacked up but he's grounded for now. We spent the afternoon in his field with me poo picking and getting a few rogue ragwort while he follows me round as if I'm there for his amusement.

Not bad weather for poo picking though.
 

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didn't realise spook training had to include that nowadays! :eek:

Haha, I have been spook busting, as he is not the most confident of horses, but no, I had not included local explosions!

I am on a few FB pages locally, and they were alive with people wondering what on earth happened, for miles around. I genuinely thought a passenger plane had crashed a few miles away. I would have been more scared, but I was attending to him.
 

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Had a lovely weekend hacking. Yesterday I rode both my boys out separately for about an hour and a half each The mist with the sun shining through was beautiful. Today I rode with another forum user up to the South Downs way with some lovely long canters. It was grey today until later this afternoon. We were out for about 3 hours.
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Tried a new route today, one I had been fancying for a while, but has 200m of descent, then 200m of ascent, and I didn’t think Gypsum was up for that.

Foinavon is a machine on hills so managed it nae bother. Highland pony on the West Highland Way, with his pal Millie and my OH the foot soldier.993EACAE-B8DB-4D5E-B51A-EE0322BF6830.jpegD60453FD-A759-4987-83B5-51278B850BCA.jpeg44A82E76-75F0-43D3-B46E-9D59C02CF0F0.jpeg73079493-470F-41EA-9449-CB4F83C5D72E.jpeg
 
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