me jumping my friends pony

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well it's in the right section anyway!
 
Why are you suprised they let me ride in trainers?? I ride barefoot in shorts in the summer don't see anything wrong with it???
 
Apart from the safety aspect? Last thing in sure you want is to have your foot stuck in the stirrup with you head dragging along the floor..

As for the barefoot bit, we've seen a lot of degloving injuries to feet recently from not having the correct footwear and then getting trodden on.

Safety 101.
 
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yea i understand the safety aspect of it, but all my friends know im a very capable rider, i know this pony like the back of my hand so i can tell when hes going to play around, i don't always ditch the safety rules but there is times when i will safety with horses has gone way over the top recently, horses to me are fun, there not a chore, but with all these safety rules they are making it seriously boring, like the one you have to ware high vis out on a hack, yes if its a dim dark day and its getting late by all means where high vis, but on a bright sunny day where its the middle of the day theres no point cos either way you can be seen.


just to show you i dont always ditch the safety rules heres a few more pictures of me riding

me riding my horse, (who is classed as a dangerous horse)


DSC_0619 by Hayleyprice photography, on Flickr

heres why hes classed as a dangerous horse

DSC_0690 by Hayleyprice photography, on Flickr

and heres me and him jumping

522638_10150761787601204_603466203_11509021_25060760_n by Hayleyprice photography, on Flickr

and a few where i dont bother with safety (never been hurt)

jumping my cousins pony bareback

207736_10150199588713900_744753899_8192374_2564688_n by Hayleyprice photography, on Flickr

full pelt gallop in trainers and someone elses hat witch is too big for me


CSC_0316 by Hayleyprice photography, on Flickr

this one all these safety conscious people would kill me for. this pony is 3 years old it was the first time he had ever been sat on, bareback, and no hat, in a head collar, on concrete


DSCF1737 by Hayleyprice photography, on Flickr



im not stupid when it comes to horses and i will only do what i know im capable of doing without getting hurt when i ditch safety if im doing something i havnt done before or think i will get hurt doing it then yes i do do saftey
 
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Good grief what idiot taught you.. My other half has been riding 30 years, let's talk about some injuries. The most serious.. Broken collar bone, broken jaw. Had 2 offs recently both very reliable horses/ponies, one went down on a wet road (she ended up smashing her knee into the floor as the pony went down on her leg and it went purple, lack of boots would probably meant a snapped ankle), the other reared for no reason. Now at this point last thing you'd want is your trainer slipping through the stirrup because of the lack of grip and stepped heal, she just stepped of the side door luckily.

Go to any self respecting yard, competition, equine college, or indeed the other half when she teaches and you'll get told to go away until you have the correct kit.

I'd suggest googling foot degloving injuries on google and then see how fearless you are. Not something I'd wish on anyone.. I suspect WHEN (not if) you have a serious injury and you're out of action for weeks/months/permanently you'll have a different opinion.

Seriously, good luck. With the level of foolishness displayed here you'll need it.

Im out.

/rant
 
However good you are, it is an animal which at some point will do its own thing, however good you are.

Don't fool yourself into thinking it won't happen.
 
Aha I have fallen off hundreds of times I worked at a riding school n I was classed as the stunt rider by my boss she would out me on all the new school ponys and use me to bomb proof them, I used to train Racehorses,one of witch with me on it bolted towards the road I had to turn him suddenly into the bush to stop him from getting hit by a car, he then galloped full pelt back to the yard only to try and jump a 5 foot gate to not make it impale himself onto the gate and send me flying head first into the concreate on the otherside. After she had sorted the horse out my boss come over to me and suspect I had a broken rib, I just got up carried on working the full day rode about 6 other horses on that day then never did get it checked, but now do get ache ribs because of it and its very painful, when I was growing up I was taught to get over it and get on with it, my mum broke her knee falling of the black horse in those pictures she was walking on it for 5 weeks before anything got done about it . Any consequence that come of my actions on my horses are my own fault and I will take them as such I'm not putting anyone else's lives at risk and I am not putting the horses so there's no problem with doing this
 
don't bother guys.
 
I can't say anything re trainers as I remember a couple of times riding in them and jumping my pony, but I was young. But I don't really understand what point you're trying to prove Hayley with all the photos of you riding? Horses are unpredictable horses. I know this for sure, my pony was as safe as houses and had her days.

I would also quit whilst you are ahead as by the sounds of it, people are going to dislike you on this forum.
 
How a person prepares for their own safety should be up to them, not a bunch of Internet busy-bodies ;)

Carry on the way you are Hayley, you bounce / heal much faster when you're young :thumbs:




(but God, do you ache when you are older :bonk:)
 
hayley.price said:
Aha I have fallen off hundreds of times I worked at a riding school n I was classed as the stunt rider by my boss she would out me on all the new school ponys and use me to bomb proof them, I used to train Racehorses,one of witch with me on it bolted towards the road I had to turn him suddenly into the bush to stop him from getting hit by a car, he then galloped full pelt back to the yard only to try and jump a 5 foot gate to not make it impale himself onto the gate and send me flying head first into the concreate on the otherside. After she had sorted the horse out my boss come over to me and suspect I had a broken rib, I just got up carried on working the full day rode about 6 other horses on that day then never did get it checked, but now do get ache ribs because of it and its very painful, when I was growing up I was taught to get over it and get on with it, my mum broke her knee falling of the black horse in those pictures she was walking on it for 5 weeks before anything got done about it . Any consequence that come of my actions on my horses are my own fault and I will take them as such I'm not putting anyone else's lives at risk and I am not putting the horses so there's no problem with doing this
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Apart from the example you set for others? Time to grow up I think.
 
I think you have done really well so far Hayley :thumbs: My opinion however is that people like yourself who partispate in sports or pastimes which can cause injury and take no sensible precautions, should in fact be made to pay for any hospital treatment you may need in the event of an accident.
 
mrgubby said:
How a person prepares for their own safety should be up to them, not a bunch of Internet busy-bodies ;)
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Well, speaking as someone who's worked with children on ponies, it's pretty hard to convince them to wear the correct attire when they turn round and say "but she isn't". It's not just her own safety but the example she sets to others around her.
 
mrgubby said:
How a person prepares for their own safety should be up to them, not a bunch of Internet busy-bodies ;)

Carry on the way you are Hayley, you bounce / heal much faster when you're young :thumbs:




(but God, do you ache when you are older :bonk:)
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thank you at least someone on this site has some sense


look guys im 18 years old i have been riding before i could walk, my mum taught me to ride by putting me on a pony as a 2 year old saying to me you either learn to ride or you fall of and smacking it across the bum to make it canter off, i was bought up to not fear getting hurt or falling off to push myself and the horses to do better things, having confidence in yourself and your riding skills.


i fall of i through myself into a position that's not going to hurt me, tuck and roll and you hit the ground where it doesn't hurt, using the same methods champion race jockeys use not to injure themselves when they fall off.


i chose to ride like this because i want to enjoy the horses i ride not have to spend hours n hours every bloody day doing the same thing on them causing the horse to get bored and me to get bored, you might think what i do if brash and hazardous but its fun and its not going to change.


weather alot of people on here are going to hate me or not, i don't care if they do that's there choice.
 
fabs said:
Well, speaking as someone who's worked with children on ponies, it's pretty hard to convince them to wear the correct attire when they turn round and say "but she isn't". It's not just her own safety but the example she sets to others around her.
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as for setting an example to others, i set the example that when it comes to riding horses, weather there easy riding school pony's or highly strung nutters confidence if the key if you don't have confidence in yourself you not going to get far with your riding
 
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u8myufo said:
I think you have done really well so far Hayley :thumbs: My opinion however is that people like yourself who partispate in sports or pastimes which can cause injury and take no sensible precautions, should in fact be made to pay for any hospital treatment you may need in the event of an accident.
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n i have to pay for my hospital treatments anyway even when there not horse related so i dont know what your going on about?
 
I would say the beech hedge in the background is more in focus than the pony.

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Sorry but I agree with the others, many yards would throw you off the premises for your attitude to saftey.
 
hayley.price said:
as for setting an example to others, i set the example that when it comes to riding horses, weather there easy riding school pony's or highly strung nutters confidence if the key if you don't have confidence in yourself you not going to get far with your riding
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Selfish & irresponsible. No other words to describe you other than a teenager who thinks they know it all.

hayley.price said:
n i have to pay for my hospital treatments anyway even when there not horse related so i dont know what your going on about?
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You can afford private healthcare? Good for you, others aren't so fortunate.
 
admirable said:
I would say the beech hedge in the background is more in focus than the pony.

Sidenote;

Sorry but I agree with the others, many yards would throw you off the premises for your attitude to saftey.
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they problem would that's why i don't go to to them,

my horses are quite happy living out in a nice n large field happy as houses, rather then going to some snotty yard full of stuck up people who always think there so much better then you and are constantly looking down on everything you do.

i would hate then and that's why i would never go to a yard that's run like that, they way i see it my horse my decisions my actions my consequences my fault

and no one is ever going to change that
 
hayley.price said:
they problem would that's why i don't go to to them,

my horses are quite happy living out in a nice n large field happy as houses, rather then going to some snotty yard full of stuck up people who always think there so much better then you and are constantly looking down on everything you do.

i would hate then and that's why i would never go to a yard that's run like that, they way i see it my horse my decisions my actions my consequences my fault

and no one is ever going to change that
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unless someone gets seriously hurt and the "yard" gets shut down..

anyway, ignore button ahoy!
 
fabs said:
Selfish & irresponsible. No other words to describe you other than a teenager who thinks they know it all.



You can afford private healthcare? Good for you, others aren't so fortunate.
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first of all as a mod that's a very stupid disrespectful thing to say and im surprised that let you be a mod when saying things like that.

as to thinking i know it all that's not true, cos i don't know it all there's always new things to learn but what i do know is that the things i know are right and all the people that come to me for advice about there horse know i know what im talking about otherwise i wouldn't ask me for advice.

i still dont get it i dont have private healthcare???
 
neil_g said:
unless someone gets seriously hurt and the "yard" gets shut down..

anyway, ignore button ahoy!
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where i keep my horses is not a yard its a field with 1 stable n 1 field shelter that we rent off the owners so its our field our rules no ones getting shut down
 
hayley.price said:
first of all as a mod that's a very stupid disrespectful thing to say and im surprised that let you be a mod when saying things like that.

as to thinking i know it all that's not true, cos i don't know it all there's always new things to learn but what i do know is that the things i know are right and all the people that come to me for advice about there horse know i know what im talking about otherwise i wouldn't ask me for advice.

i still dont get it i dont have private healthcare???
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Ignoring the silly comments about me being a mod, if people are coming to you for advice then you are setting an example and if that example is to ignore safety then it is a very poor example to set.

And if you don't have private healthcare, how are you paying for your hospital treatments?
 
I rest my case :D
 
This could be up there with the wedding threads :lol:
 
fabs said:
Ignoring the silly comments about me being a mod, if people are coming to you for advice then you are setting an example and if that example is to ignore safety then it is a very poor example to set.

And if you don't have private healthcare, how are you paying for your hospital treatments?
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well i don't tell other people to ride like that, even tho half my friends are just the same.


i always put for anything i go to the hospital for always have done
 
hayley.price said:
well i don't tell other people to ride like that, even tho half my friends are just the same.


i always put for anything i go to the hospital for always have done
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I have no idea what you mean by that. Ambulances & hospital treatment cost thousands of pounds a time.
 
hmm, well i have no interest in horses and therefore no experience (other than as a 9 yr old pony trekking in a very wet wales on a PGL holiday - that was enough to put me off.)

What i do know though, is that the insurance company I work for a very large Equine book of cover covering everything from Dobbin the donkey through to some bloody expensive stud animals, and I've seen some of the injhuries caused to riders who skipped the common sense bit of wearing protective gear (including a girl similar to your age who is now Brain injured requiring 24/7 care as she went out for a trot one night without even a hat on, the horse got spooked by a car and threw her off onto a tarmac road. The horse had to be destroyed as it ran into the path of another car and got injured pretty badly.) It's not H&S gone mad. It's about being sensible, setting an example to others (younger riders), and having the respect that pretty much any animal is not 100% predictable.

I'd say that's a pretty big price to pay for the sake of a hat...
 
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hayley.price said:
first of all as a mod that's a very stupid disrespectful thing to say and im surprised that let you be a mod when saying things like that.

as to thinking i know it all that's not true, cos i don't know it all there's always new things to learn but what i do know is that the things i know are right and all the people that come to me for advice about there horse know i know what im talking about otherwise i wouldn't ask me for advice.

i still dont get it i dont have private healthcare???
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There is nothing wrong with what Marc said, like ALL moderators, he is a member first and foremost and entitled to an opinion.


However, this thread is going nowhere so time to bolt the stable door methinks.
 
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