Went eventing today.

[Jaded]

[Rig of Jarkness]

Great photos 

[Tewdric]

Superb piccies.  A lovely day for eventing too.

[Wowbagger]

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HUNTER TRIALS

It's awfully bad luck on Diana,
Her ponies have swallowed their bits;
She fished down their throats with a spanner
And frightened them all into fits.

So now she's attempting to borrow.
Do lend her some bits, Mummy, do;
I'll lend her my own for tomorrow,
But today I'll be wanting them too.

Just look at Prunella on Guzzle,
The wizardest pony on earth;
Why doesn't she slacken his muzzle
And tighten the breech in his girth?

I say, Mummy, there's Mrs. Geyser
And doesn't she look pretty sick?
I bet it's because Mona Lisa
Was hit on the hock with a brick.

Miss Blewitt says Monica threw it,
But Monica says it was Joan,
And Joan's very thick with Miss Blewitt,
So Monica's sulking alone.

And Margaret failed in her paces,
Her withers got tied in a noose,
So her coronet's caught in the traces
And now all her fetlocks are loose.

Oh, it's me now I'm terribly nervous
I wonder if Smudges will shy
She's practically certain to swerve as
Her Pelham is over one eye.

Oh wasn't it naughty of Smudges?
Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust.
She threw me in front of the Judges,
And my silly old collarbone's bust.

John Betjeman

[YahudaMoon]

@ Jaded. Fantastic animals, fantastic pictures ! I would love to ride them horses though I cant even afford to maintain a push bike at the mo.

So do you compete in these trials ? Trials may be the wrong term ?

So thats how they recycle christmas trees then !

[Jaded]

No, I don't compete - or even ride a horse!

A relative used to compete, and got to quite a high level 7th at Badminton trials. But then did a bad thing and got banned from the sport and on the front page of the Daily Mail.

[Wowbagger]

I always found it ironic that the Burleigh Horse Trials are sponsored by Pedigree Chum.

[Wombat]

Seems perfectly logical to me, nothing like protecting your source of raw materials...

I love the third pic down - speech bubble from horse "Not fooking likely, mate!"

I'm more in favour of sitting behind them in a carriage, rather than being bounced around on top of them.