Horses on Courses

Graham L

The same thought had struck me Bluebell.

PhilPub

verfügbar is my new favourite German word.

Haven Exile

Photos of horse incident:

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popsider

Photo not working for me.

The thing about horses is they are animals and they are never going to be bombproof.   We either accept that and act differently around them than we would a motorcar or a bike rider or we ban them from the roads.  

Personally I don't think it's too much to ask for people to give horses and their riders special consideration.   You can't just say well it's up to them to keep their horse under control - strange sights such as 500 runners charging at them or a bunch of 50 bikes is going to spook them, or some of them.    For most horse riders horses are a huge part of their lives and having to slow down or stop for them every now and again doesn't cost the rest of us much.

Haven Exile

Sorry not much good at this internet lark.

Couple of photos on flickr.com - search athletesinaction.co.uk & click on Brampton to Carlisle section

popsider

HE - If you've got the URL click on the little chain link picture at the top of the box when you are posting - that lets you post a link and it's pretty self explanatory - you put the link in the one box and then a word/phrase in the other - clicking on that word then becomes the link.