2009-06-15

Hack Chats

"For fun, in Florida," Jill informed the owners of her current riding hang out, as they cut diagonally across the field behind the paddocks to avoid all the stallion-turnouts, "I would hack right along the fence line of the quarter horse stallion of the neighbour's farm." It was true she was the only paid training/exercise rider that could take the ponies through the narrow straight electric fence walkway home -- the one that the horse-owners' insisted their horse could never handle.

But, she hacked past the alligator pond on the boss's horses everyday now didn't she? ha.
Even the boss didn't do that.
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2009-06-14

Spring Fever

"You are not giving that pony enough to think about" Jill counselled a student passing by. Just one second too late... Splat! The rider hit the dirt before the sentence was even finished.

I'm not as tough as her the other student said "If I fall off I'll cry"

"Horses are dangerous but so is living in a big city. My aunt mentioned four stabbings in one weekend and my uncle says you couldn’t PAY him to live there.”

The student's family were almost as resilient as the rider!
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for spooking across the lawn.
is that story down in here already?

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the paso fino like cantered on the spot when she asked him to slow the rythm