Horse Chat

I know, It was a joke

Hahaha!!! What a caring friend!!!!  Saying that though, its probably what my instructor would do if it were me and then tell me to hurry up!!!!

Good photos, I like the first photo Annabelle

I have fell off a few times like

Once was when I was going over a jump with my friend's Thoroughbred (ex racehorse) and he just decided to stop and I went flying over his head

Another is one of my horses sometimes randomly rolls over while I am on him! I still love him though!

I was at horse riding tonight, and words cannot describe how happy I am!!!!!!!

I was on Avi tonight (and I love him!) and we were doing jumping. We had a 5 jump course set up, I was with 2 younger girls (about 7 or 8), so the jumps were low. Then Lisa says right we will all do this twice and then Rebecca we will put them up for you, I was a little uneasy at that as I hadn't done high ones for a while. So we did our courses, then she starts to higher the jumps and my heart was pounding, particularly when she decided to put up a raising double!

But..... I did it!!!!! TWICE, I did the course 2 rounds in a row so it was 10 jumps! I didn't fall or fall behind Avi and Avi just rocked it!!!!!!!!
I remember watching somebody on Clyde doing the same jump heights before and saying 'I'll never be able to do that'! 

I am just over the moon right now! I was so happy, I actually leaped down the hallway to my room to put my hat and boots away!

bextull, I know just what you mean about the thrill.

I still remember going riding at a riding school when on holiday with a friend in Italy many years ago, we were around 30 at the time. The instructor only spoke Italian & luckily we'd learnt Italian including some of the horse terms. We were trotting in the arena & the instructor kept saying (or so we thought) 'Alte gambe' or High leg so we shorted the stride or anything else we could think of but then it clicked he was saying 'Altre gambe' other leg but still couldn't work it out so changed direction everything. However we eventually got it sorted & found that in Italy they do rising trot on the other diagonal leg!!!

After they established we could ride, they took us into another arena which had a line of 5 jumps - uprights - down the centre. My heart was in my mouth, then he took them down a little but they were still bigger than anything I'd done before, around 4 foot I think. He made sure we kept a loose rein so the horses (arabs) didn't get socked in the teeth & basically said let the horse do, just point them in the right direction & go with them. It was fantastic & we didn't make a hash of it. Then he took us on to their cross-country course, luckily lower jumps. we had 2 good hour long lessons at that school in that week - it was great

At least during those 2 hours I didn't fall off! I've hit the ground many times, only once going to hospital to be checked for concussion but have definitely provided amusement to others around at the time, especially when it went sailing over the horses head & did a perfect head first dive & slid on the school floor. that one made me remember to keep my mouth shut in the future. Mucky sawdust isn't very tasty!! I was covered.

Well he's not gone (well maybe from the school) but just enjoying his retirement. Maybe they'll let you visit.

I used to horse ride

Sorry to hear about Bobby

Lovely pictures PP xxxx