Comments on: 10 Comments You Don’t Want to Hear from Your Trail Partner

By: ginger20037

ginger20037 — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:42:52 +0000

I’m all for challenging/exposing your horse with/to new things, but a couple of those are a bit extreme for me…

By: Chele

Chele — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:46:29 +0000

I have heard about all of them! That is why I ride alone.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:39:08 +0000

This makes me glad I don’t trail ride.

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:49:22 +0000

Super great! But I never had a bad trail partner before and we mostly ride in the ocean (close to beach) or in the alpes so we are not going more than a canter for just a short time during the ride. Mostly walking & trotting, never around any highways,LOL!

By: Patty

Patty — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:10:45 +0000

I agree with the comment ride to level of the least experienced rider in group. It is rude to take someone out and run amuck because you can. People and horses get killed that way. Plus a horse and rider train best at slower trots and walking. I look to the way horses travel in their own time, running once in awhile and walking most of the rest of the time.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:00:19 +0000

This is great! Reminds me of my trail pals, only they’ll tell you that I’m the one who’s crazy… I wonder where “that” path goes?

By: Sherry

Sherry — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:38:57 +0000

My friends and I have developed a list of questions we need to have answered before we ride with anybody. We’ve joked about making it an actual paper survey because when you’re already on the trail with somebody is NOT the time to find out that their horse ‘is scared of trains’, ‘jigs all the time, but I don’t want to trot’ or ‘I’ve fallen off so many times and broken so many bones’. That was all from one never to be forgotten trail ride which resulted in the person getting dumped and I had to chase her horse down and catch him after he bolted down the road.

By: Cass

Cass — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:09:58 +0000

HILLARIOUS!!!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:58:44 +0000

Made me laugh!
One time when my (ex)husband and I went trail riding on rented horses, he made the comment, “that’d be really neat if your horse took off and I’d have to rescue you.” Lo and behold, about 5 minutes later the horse did just that, and he was not stopping for anything-until we reached an access road that he slipped on, fell, and slammed me up against a fence, laying on my leg! Still have no idea what caused him to run.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:55:29 +0000

I’d go riding with you anyday, AND I’d let you pick where we go. My story is: Let’s stand on our horse’s backs and pick some wild grapes! It only worked as long as I gave my horse a grape for every one I picked!!