Would you canter on a disked field?

Check that the going is not too deep. It depends on how hard the ground underneath is and the depth of the disking. Just take care and use your common sense. Around here, I would, but I know that our fields are rock hard, like concrete and very rough, not suitable for cantering or at least only with great care.

I went on a pleasure ride once and one field had been disked, and then it rained and the horses were going in up to their knees. I got off and led mine!
 
It's not the best idea in the world, but if not deep, good soil and dry and you were a bit loopy then go for it! If your horse tripped and fell, you'd have a lovely soft landing (if not too stony of course ;))
 
benson21 said:
As title really. When the top of the field has been broken up so its crumbly, do you still canter on it?
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Canter, trot, practice bending and barrels, roping, the lot. :o

If I didn't disc and till I would have no surfaces to ride on. My ground is pretty sandy and there are no stones. Then I harrow, a lot, after a while it all breaks down, I roll it too if I need be.
 
Where we have disced we have also flatlifted, and you can't tell to look at it but your horse would vanish, so no, never.
 
Clodagh said:
Where we have disced we have also flatlifted, and you can't tell to look at it but your horse would vanish, so no, never.
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It's like quicksand when you do that isn't it? :)

We obviously don't do it, and I'd never ride on someone elses' fields without asking first for just that reason. The wheat fields here have been cut but are so deceptive, they look fabulous, but are as hard as rock and have gaping fissures in them that are feet deep.
 
My disked/tilled (and rolled, and harrowed) riding ring...

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Thought about this yesterday when coming into a mahoosive one. Decided against it as I am paranoid about his legs/feet, and waited to be on a flatter more grassy track before letting ned have a canter :)
 
Sorry, probably spelt it wrong! As far as I understand it,Its when a stubble field surface layer is broken up. We do have permission to ride on it.
 
Clodagh said:
Lovely pic, just what riding is all about. Your disked field looks a bit more level than ours!!
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My fields are all disgustingly flat:( the slightest bit of decent rain and I get lakes, but it drains within hours thankfully.

The ring isn't perfect by any means, and certainly not pretty, and it's dusty as you can see, but it gives us a softer surface than the rest of the place which is rock hard. The bonus with a make do surface is that I can just stop harrowing/tilling the heck out of it and it will grow back again pretty quickly, it is only about an acre so not using much land.
 
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