Thinking About Driving

[Field-of-Dreams]

And THAT is why safe drivers use breeching. Then you don't have to make sure you avoid hills!

Leia

TOTALLY agree- but when we started it was just in the ring. I didn't realise we had to go down the hill until we were RIGHT there, and then it was too late as she wouldn't stop and I couldn't get out!

 

[Katiean]

I have had 1 mare try to run off with me. With a good drip on the reins I pulled back HARD. When that didn't do the job I reverted back to what I learned as an excises person for the standardbreds. Pull back hard and seesaw. She stopped pretty fast. My niece had a mare flip over back wards. She jumped out of the cart and held the horse down and I got the horse out of the harness. We then re-harnessed and did the task all over again. We have never had a cart flip on us to this point. Knock on wood.