Chip decided to play race horses today :)

[Teej]

I usually ride out at the weekend with another lady who also rides an ex racer and our boys are such a credit to their breed as they are so well behaved.

We have had other horses with us on our rides without any bother but today we had another TB (17 years old!) with us and when we got to the place on the track that we normally canter on, my friend likes to be in front on her horse as he can get strong if he's behind and Chip is happy to go behind so we were 3rd in line today.

As we started to canter, the lady on the older TB kept pulling him up as he can get strong and Chip decided to overtake as he was getting impatient.......... the next thing I knew we were in a flat out gallop, wizzed past the horse in front and we were off. :ashamed: He was going so fast that he didn't even see the scary log that he usually spooks at :rolleyes: I looked round to see the elderly horse galloping behind us and my friend had managed to slow her horse and he was cantering sideways up the hill!

I did say 'steady' and 'woahhh' and for some reason I told him to 'stand' which he didn't listen to thankfully or else I would have been flying without horse :lol: When I decided it was really time to stop as we were nearing the top of the hill, he was really easy to pull up, using the 'stop a race horse' technique :D

So it was great fun but I'm not sure that the other lady will want to join us again even though we tried to convince her that we usually have a nice controlled canter :lol:

Chip hadn't even worked up a sweat by the time we got back ......

What a little monkey :D

[Loony]

:lol: Sounds like a blast!! Reliving his youth! :lol:

[My Crazy Clan]

:lol: sounds amazing though!

[Teej]

Yep it was quite good fun :)

Emmalou he's only 9 and came out of racing 2 years ago so still living his youth :lol:

[torgrosset]

Awh bless him!!! Boots and Dyce used to live for stubble fields!!!!! And we are really lucky in that my parents farm is usually surrounded by them, so we used to let them have a good old blast around them! Such good fun!!! And just out of interest what is your "stop a race horse technique"??? I used to make a fist out of one hand and put it in his neck just above his withers and then pull back with the other rein. It used to work on Boots as he'd then be pulling against himself!

[Teej]

:lol:, its nothing new Tor ..... my 'stop a racehorse' technique is simply a quick pull & release on alternate reins with a lot less pull than release :) I ride bitless so probably a bit easier to stop him.

[Loony]

Yep it was quite good fun :)

Emmalou he's only 9 and came out of racing 2 years ago so still living his youth :lol:

Ahhh I thought he might've been one of those that stopped racing early at about 3/4, 'childhood' was probably the best word to use!! :lol: I wasn't implying he was past it! :ashamed:

[ness]

Aww bless him-I bet Chip enjoyed that!
(I hate being behind someone when they are stopping and starting too!)

[XenaWarriorPrincess]

Haha! Sounds fun!