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Post by Hannah on Dec 31, 2010 19:45:21 GMT 1
We are looking for a little house, somewhere I can have the neds at home but lots of places seem to have no bridleways at all in the vicinity and I don't fancy doing roadwork all the time.
So, where do you ride? Arena? Roads? Bridleways? Beach? Other (with or without permission?!)
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Post by Mellymoo on Dec 31, 2010 19:51:33 GMT 1
We have to do roadwork if we don't want to box up, but the roads are not too bad round here. We have a bridleway on a beach 10 miles away, and access to the Moors about 20 miles away. Mainly ride on roads and canter on grass verges though! We have an arena, but Jos is scared of half of it so we can only ever work on a 20 metre circle (daft horse!!)
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Post by wabuska on Dec 31, 2010 19:55:20 GMT 1
I would be lost with the forestry to ride in. We have a lot of commercial forestry around here with tracks of various lengths. We can get over the banks to get in if the barriers are up.
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Post by sara on Dec 31, 2010 20:24:26 GMT 1
School in arena 3/4 times ish a week, then hack normally twice a week. Half decent bridleways, but not amazing. Road work, some on busy roads. Would love to be somewhere with access to the beach
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Post by Katieleeown on Dec 31, 2010 21:03:14 GMT 1
We are reaallly lucky where i am just outside newmarket - we can use our arena, or hack out our yard is right between two large estates that let us ride on both of them and we can also sneak on the training grounds in the afternoons as long as we keep off the all weather gallops one of the few advantages of living in a racing town. Bridleways are few and far between tho.....
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Post by Lulu on Dec 31, 2010 23:13:00 GMT 1
Hardly any roadwork, all off road riding on the farm estate tracks Fabulous, and on shoot days I trailer the horses up to the local forestry for a change of scenery, as surrounded by many different forestries here, spoilt for choice where to ride thats safe and off road. No arena here, as rent a field, but have no trouble with other liveries as there are none. Beach is 2hr drive away, 1.5hr on a good day. Fabulous bridleways here too, as got the famous Ickneild Way ride, and the Peddars Way Ride. Just never got that far as that would take some serious exploring, maybe Arabiangem would like to move here (good choice of schools to teach at for her !) LOL
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Post by gill on Jan 1, 2011 9:25:42 GMT 1
We do roadwork hacks and beach 10 mins up the road would love some bridleways but we dont have any.
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Post by BJMM on Jan 1, 2011 9:44:50 GMT 1
We ride on bridleways, local lanes, cross a busy dual carriageway (sometimes!!) over a motorway bridge (other times!) anywhere and everywhere!. Luckily Blaze is 1 million % bombproof and Jas is getting there!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2011 11:00:32 GMT 1
We don't have a school, we use bits of our fields and try not to use them too much when it's wet. We have direct access onto Ashdown forest so we don't have to do roadwork, but that block of the forest is bounded by very busy roads which I'm not prepared to cross so it's probably at most an hours hack. If I'm ever fortunate enough to have a trailer it would only be a 5 minute drive onto the main part of the forest, then 80 odd miles of off road hacking
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Post by Yann on Jan 1, 2011 11:20:23 GMT 1
Our yard is actually on a bridleway, at the top end of a sparsely populated valley. There are numerous bridleways along with some permissive and also unofficial but customary routes, so it's possible to do a lot of riding with very little roadwork. Downside is how muddy some of it gets in wet weather. We also have a cross country course at the farm to hack round, and a floodlit school. If you have transport then there's easy access to three different long distance trails and a couple of country parks. A little further afield there are several estates and forestry areas to ride in (some need permits), as a result it's a popular part of the world for endurance rides. Not bad at all really, only downside is we're just about as far away from the sea and a beach ride as it's possible to get
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Post by lauranash on Jan 1, 2011 20:36:09 GMT 1
Our hacking is on road mostly unfortunately, but they are extremely quiet roads (we take the dogs with us loose, and often go an hour without meeting a car). There are lots of horses ridden around there and livestock moved about on the roads, so drivers are usually very well-behaved. We do have a floodlit school. There are two short local bridleways - but one has masses of gates and the other goes beside a field full of mad youngsters.
There are loads of places to go in a trailer. The herepath (big circular bridleway) is less than a mile away but you have to ride along a really dangerous road to get to it without a trailer. There's also a gallops for hire nearby that some of my fellow liveries sometimes use, and you can also get to a good riding beach if you really want (about an hour and a half in the trailer) but I haven't plucked up the courage yet.
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Post by anastasia55555 on Jan 1, 2011 20:50:39 GMT 1
We ride in the field a bit, the roads whicb are semi busy people do tend to fly along the lane and there is a lot of big traffic like tractors over harvest time etc. And we have a TROT route right next door. We do have to pay to use, its nice to use it but getting a bit frustrated as almost every other saturday its shut for the shoot over the winter!
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Post by christi on Jan 1, 2011 21:05:19 GMT 1
no roadwork here, 18,000 acres of fields and moorland to hack around on , and i dont see a single soul .. bliss.
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Post by arabiangem on Jan 1, 2011 21:45:42 GMT 1
Bridleways, roads, beach, all-weather gallops for fast work training, arena for lessons, forest. One advantage of having transport!
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Post by cinnypony on Jan 1, 2011 22:07:19 GMT 1
Straight out on to the New Forest, so miles and miles of woods and heather, oh and the bog.....
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