I have watched about every video you folks have put out. Really enjoy the trips and your stories. We ride your area every couple of years or so. Hope to meet you all at some point. Don't know if we will make it that direction this next year, but I hope to...
Stuff happens on horses. I was around 13 years old and the neighbor girl was 11. We both had horses and she wanted to ride over to her grandparents house about 2 miles away. I caught and saddled both horses and away we went. As we got near to her grandparents house, she kicked her horse into a gallop and I followed. The last couple hundreds yards were on pavement. Her horse stepped on a metal grate in the road and shied to one side. The saddle turned under and she fell off on the pavement head first. Knocked her out cold. I rode to the house and got help and they call an ambulance. They took her 75/miles to a major hospital where she recovered with no permanent damage. What happened? A horse will sometimes extend its belly when you put the saddle on so as to be able to have a looser girth after you put it on and cinch it. Then they will go back to normal and the girth is looser and more comfortable for them. You have to go back and re-tighten the girth again to make sure it is cinched up. I didn’t do that and it was my fault for her injury. Thank God she wasn’t permanently injured and it was a lesson learned for both of us.
Awesome story. Keep them coming please.
I have watched about every video you folks have put out. Really enjoy the trips and your stories. We ride your area every couple of years or so. Hope to meet you all at some point. Don't know if we will make it that direction this next year, but I hope to...
Thank you. Hope to see you there.
Happy Trails.
Great story and quick decisions saved the day
Whoa. Great story but it sure could have had a different result with the weather, night and all. Glad it ended well. Thanks for sharin!
Stuff happens on horses. I was around 13 years old and the neighbor girl was 11. We both had horses and she wanted to ride over to her grandparents house about 2 miles away. I caught and saddled both horses and away we went. As we got near to her grandparents house, she kicked her horse into a gallop and I followed. The last couple hundreds yards were on pavement. Her horse stepped on a metal grate in the road and shied to one side. The saddle turned under and she fell off on the pavement head first. Knocked her out cold. I rode to the house and got help and they call an ambulance. They took her 75/miles to a major hospital where she recovered with no permanent damage.
What happened? A horse will sometimes extend its belly when you put the saddle on so as to be able to have a looser girth after you put it on and cinch it. Then they will go back to normal and the girth is looser and more comfortable for them. You have to go back and re-tighten the girth again to make sure it is cinched up. I didn’t do that and it was my fault for her injury. Thank God she wasn’t permanently injured and it was a lesson learned for both of us.
thanks for sharing that!
Your welcome.
I'll get some more done when I can. Been snowing here for a week and Id like to do them outside.
Thank you pardner
The real deal. love GSP great dogs