My Weekend Trailride

[peg4x4]

My Lord, I shuddered when I read that. The same thing (the horse rearing and falling over backward) happend to my precious grandson (he was 9 years old at the time) at a playday. His horse was a piece of crap that just that day learned to spit his bit out. I won't go into the whole horrendous story, but I will tell you this...if I'd had a gun, I'd have shot that horse right there in the ring (and I don't have the guts to shoot a sick calf!). But I swear, I'd have killed that horse.

I know that my reaction was that of a grandmother. I'm sorry this happened to you...a broken rib is sooooo painful. Is the horse normally balky? Is this a horse that you've got a real attachment to? I'm sorry, hon, but, especially after what happened to my grandson, I'd think real hard about messing with that horse again.

I'm just so glad you are ok.

Alice

WHAT HAPPENED TO GRANDSON!!!!!!

 

[Alice]

My Lord, I shuddered when I read that. The same thing (the horse rearing and falling over backward) happend to my precious grandson (he was 9 years old at the time) at a playday. His horse was a piece of crap that just that day learned to spit his bit out. I won't go into the whole horrendous story, but I will tell you this...if I'd had a gun, I'd have shot that horse right there in the ring (and I don't have the guts to shoot a sick calf!). But I swear, I'd have killed that horse.

I know that my reaction was that of a grandmother. I'm sorry this happened to you...a broken rib is sooooo painful. Is the horse normally balky? Is this a horse that you've got a real attachment to? I'm sorry, hon, but, especially after what happened to my grandson, I'd think real hard about messing with that horse again.

I'm just so glad you are ok.

Alice

WHAT HAPPENED TO GRANDSON!!!!!!

Peg, thanks for the concern...he rolled away just in time. He did get back on the horse...for a moment. He's never enjoyed riding again, and I don't blame him. I told the woman who boarded the horse for them to sell the sorry piece of crap...as far as I concerned it should go to the killers (I owned that miserable animal...my ex husband had bought it for me).

He now plays football, and that's just fine with me.

Alice

 

[AngusLimoX]

"If your gonna ride horses, you are gonna get hurt".

Keep having this said to me by cattle friends and some horse folks.

Up until I was 18 I practically lived on horses and ponies. Rarely used a saddle. Had a big Arabian that nobody else could ride saddled up one day, and he balked at a gate and went over backwards. ( I swear he deliberatley flipped trying to nail me ).

Couldn't get out from under fast enough and the saddle horn was forced down into my left knee. Tore several tendoms away from the knee joint. Spent several months on crutches. Knee never 100% since. "Big Red" went to the sale barn.

Would love to have a horse here, but if it wasn't me that got hurt ( and I can't afford to be hurt ) it would be the wife. Wife wanted one pretty bad until sister in-law's younger sister, expert rider/instructor, got thrown. She was in intensive care for weeks, and they thought she may be parapalegic if she survived. I think she is out of the hospital now but needs home care ( in her mid-twenties ).

I am still considering a horse though. :lol:

Glad to hear your gonna be OK Randi and thanks for the story and photo's.

 

[randiliana]

"If your gonna ride horses, you are gonna get hurt".

I am still considering a horse though. :lol:

Glad to hear your gonna be OK Randi and thanks for the story and photo's.

That is the truth :). It's not the first time and probably not the last that I will get hurt, but I'm not willing to give the horses up so there you go. Hope your decision results in the horse ;-). I will be fine, and am already thinking of the trailrides for next year, plus of course we use horses to work the cattle here. I'm glad you enjoyed the story and pictures, there is some truly gorgeous country out there :lol: . Thanks for the well wishes from yourself and of course everyone else.