Post by haffyfan on Mar 17, 2013 13:43:37 GMT
It's endurance season again and i got it wrong it again, because of where todays' ride was based and as i couldn't access the route map i assumed they wouldn't come up to us. Right like that was going to happen plus that means we've seen other horses whilst hacking twice in last couple of weeks 
As soon as we got to top of lane we met some, great, however we went the long way round the common to avoid them and then into country park, as never use those tracks, and being clever i thought we could nip out of country park via a 'short cut' and go back on the parallel path to what they were using...sorted!
Well until my stupid doofus of a idiotic pony got all unecessary and over excited on seeing the horses agin as we crossed their path (literally) to go back over the common. Launched himself in air, whilst stood on the edge of a rut on the 'short cut' and landed flat on his face
fortuntaly i clung round his neck and managed to stay onboard but why i have managed to obtain such a doofus, i mean really Harry wasn't the slightest bit bothered by their presence. Heavens knows what they must have thought!
Cue him then, on standing back up, turning into fire breathing beastie, and growing at least another hand, so i ended up getting off (before i fell off) and leading getting dragged about by him and we wound up going back the way we came as i can only imagine the fun i'd have had if he's spotted the others racing along the otherside of the common. Then naturally the heavens opened and ended up soaked.
Tell me again why do i bother? I'm sure it's meant to be fun
As soon as we got to top of lane we met some, great, however we went the long way round the common to avoid them and then into country park, as never use those tracks, and being clever i thought we could nip out of country park via a 'short cut' and go back on the parallel path to what they were using...sorted!
Well until my stupid doofus of a idiotic pony got all unecessary and over excited on seeing the horses agin as we crossed their path (literally) to go back over the common. Launched himself in air, whilst stood on the edge of a rut on the 'short cut' and landed flat on his face
fortuntaly i clung round his neck and managed to stay onboard but why i have managed to obtain such a doofus, i mean really Harry wasn't the slightest bit bothered by their presence. Heavens knows what they must have thought!Cue him then, on standing back up, turning into fire breathing beastie, and growing at least another hand, so i ended up getting off (before i fell off) and
Tell me again why do i bother? I'm sure it's meant to be fun
) and then had a bit of an argument about whether to go 'out' (i.e. around another field) or to carry on around this field and head home...since it had taken 20 minutes of zig-zagging to get there we WERE going out a bit further! She walked quite nicely for a while, had a minor "ooh I'm not sure if I dare" moment at the entrance to the stream but then went straight in after a promise of grass if she did so, and then she offered to go up the bank (which she has been spooking at for the past 2 rides since the farmer put some flappy tape on a wire fence at the top). Naturally I took her up on the offer and off we went up the bank...she had a good look for the flappy green tape and once it was deemed 'safe' onward we went...for about 10 seconds...then she'd obviously decided that successfully facing 2 scary things in such a short time was enough and that she couldn't possibly face the narrow winding track that leads through the woods and back across the stream at the other end...anyway, after a bit of an "OH MY GOD, RUN AWAY" moment, she calmed down enough to stand still for a few seconds...only for me to realise that the clip on my rein had snapped and I had no control over my ponio (who had conveniently decided that now was a good time to continue spooking!) 
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