I know Andrew is basically outcast, but what about Edward. From a quick Goggle search he is still very active as well.
4 Likes
Yes! And it bloody HURTS! For some reason, I regularly clock heads with my horse while grooming (mostly painting feet) and Iâve just started putting my helmet on beforehand. Hoping it was something more like this and not an actual kick.
7 Likes
Because she is part of the Royal Family.
4 Likes
Huh? All of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philipâs children are still alive.
1 Like
Charles is dealing with cancer and Andrew has screwed up enough that, AFAIK, he is basically outcast as far as official duties. I did look up Edward and it does look like he is very involved.
2 Likes
I think there is a move to sort of try to restart Harry into some visits and duties, but it is obviously being resisted. I do not follow the royal family, but I have always been interested in Anne because of her riding, and participating in the Olympics. I ended up watching the Crown and thought it was a terrific program, and I know the dialogue was all made up but it gave me a look at the royal family I had never seen. I do look at them a little differently now than before. The whole thing with Camilla. How awful would it be to not be able to marry whomever you want? I still feel sorry for Diana, but what a freaking mess.
9 Likes
Yes, Edward is very involved. Thats why I said âalmost the last man standing.â
I wish her a speedy recovery. My friend and I, who are also both on horse-related stall rest at the moment, were talking about her earlier.
5 Likes
Everything I read in the British press is that there is no way back for Harry. He has insulted too many people and burned too many bridges with Oprah, the Netflix documentary, Spare, and other interviews he has given.
It seems that King Charles at least is willing to try to have a modicum of a personal relationship with Harry and the grandkids (Charles allowed Harry a 30-minute visit when Harry flew over after Charles announced he had cancer). But it is said William may never forgive Harry, and is not interested in any relationship with him at all.
When you see Harry at âappearances,â those are things cooked up by Harry, Meghan, and their PR team. They are not associated with The Palace in any way.
9 Likes
Harry and Meghan need to calm down and be quiet for a decade, then he can come back as a functioning royal. That seems to be the way it works.
It only takes a year or two for lower-profile status symbols. For the royals, probably the full decade.
I donât know if Prince Andrew is ever coming back, though. That door probably has a half-dozen dungeon locks on it.
10 Likes
Happened to me. I had an old horse, blind in right eye, I had a carrot in hand to catch him out in a field. Just as he had that carrot firmly in mouth, I was on his left side, another horse approached on the blind side. So my horse was startled and threw his head up and took off. When he did, that protruding butt end of that carrot hit me in my forehead and knocked me off my feet. Stunned I reached up and got a handful of blood. I got back to the barn and wrapped my head with a colorful leg wrap and drove myself to the ER (no one there at the farm/barn). The butt end of the carrot had made a 3 pt boxerâs blow impact with a hole down to my skull. Lucky for me the ER Doc was a horse lady and she believed every word of my story. I still have a depression there. â Now imagine this I worked part-time as a bartender beyond my regular job - my 20âs and I had to afford horses. So when the fellas there asked me sweetheart what happened to you?? with my head all wrappedâŠ
18 Likes
Years ago a family friend went out to feed her 30 something year old horse her evening grain. Friend leaned over to pour grain into the feed pan, horse for who knows what reason swung her head to look at something, caught Friend right on her eye hard. Friend was wearing glasses, which shattered and imbedded in her face. She managed to get in the house and call us and we took her to the ER. That was nearly 30 years ago and I still keep an arm between the horse head and me when in a similar situation but of course it can happen at any moment. Fun things, horsesâŠ
12 Likes
I know when a horse is in the pasture it is on its own time - but it kills me the people that allow a horse to sling its head around when you are leading it. Nope - not while I am leading you. I have been head bonked enough times in my life. Not enough for a concussion but it still really hurts. Really bad habit to allow a horse to do.
6 Likes
Bent down to look at something on my âsafest horse in the whole wide worldâ Old Man. My hair tickled him, he snatched his foot up thinking it was a fly. I woke up a few seconds later.
It can happen anywhere, anytime, for any reason.
18 Likes
My medium-sized DOG and I accidentally bumped heads hard one day and it was enough to give me a bad headache for about 12 hours and a bruised skull that was sore/tender for several weeks.
All animals are dangerous, all the time.
12 Likes
My horse swung his head to look at another horse making a racket in its stall and he clipped me with the bit. Thatâs was serious pain! I had tweety birds flying around for a few seconds.
Iâm with the poster that said their helmet goes on when handling their horse on the ground. I put mine on when Iâm grooming and tacking up. Of course it can happen when theyâre loose too, but I only âhelmet upâ once theyâre in the grooming stall.
2 Likes
Agreed! Weâre going A to B Pookie, stay focused here.
Itâs also why I prefer a horse to walk a little behind me, and well off to the side.
My Hackney pony and I were the same height at the head. I was haltering him in the corral one day and I did not see my Paint mare come up on his other side, because his head blocked my view. She bit him in the face, and of course he pulled away, hit me in the face, and knocked my glasses off. I yelled ânobody move!â and amazingly, all three horses stood while I scrabbled around in the dirt to find my glasses. I found them, blew on them to get the dirt off, gave the mare the stink eye, haltered the pony and took him out to harness. But man, that hurt! You can bet I kept an eye out for either of the other two horses sneaking up from the side from then on.
Rebecca
9 Likes
Ever heard of Courtney King Dye?
5 Likes
Of course I am aware that any fall (even from a walk or a halt) can be potentially catastrophic, like CKDâs, but in terms of worst case scenarios, itâs hard for me to conceive of a blow from a shod horse to the skull being anything but.
If she was hit by the skull of a horse while leading him and got concussed, as some of the reports indicated, that would obviously also be terrible.
1 Like
I bent down to pick up a toy the same time as my Doberman. He popped up faster than I did, hitting my face with the top of his head. Broke my nose.
6 Likes
