Horse ate my saddle

[Steve Walford]

This should give you all a laugh, it really happened to me today

Out for a ride today I stopped for a pit stop leaning my bike against a gate into a field. I noticed
something in the hedgerow and been the nosy type I went to have a look. After a minute or so I heard
a noise, but took no notice, when I stood up I noticed a horse leaning over the gate and licking my
saddle. I went up to the gate and shood the horse away, used my sleeve to wipe away the saliva and
noticed the bloody thing had taken a bite out of my saddle.

Perfectly good saddle ruined

So watch were you lean your bike

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[Wafflycathcsdir]

>This should give you all a laugh, it really happened to me today

And it did Sorry about the saddle, but it was funny

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[Simon Hay]

Steve Walford wrote:
> This should give you all a laugh, it really happened to me today

<snip>

> I went up to the gate and shood the horse away, used my sleeve to wipe away the saliva and noticed
> the bloody thing had taken a bite out of my saddle.

Hehe... that's truly classic Hope the saddle wasn't TOO expensive and/or prized (hadn't taken
you several decades to mould exactly to the shape of your posterior...)

Simon

 

[Lenny Taylor]

We are all grateful to hear that you weren't on the saddle at the time of the "attack" thus
preserving your posterior for the future. . .

"Steve Walford" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> This should give you all a laugh, it really happened to me today
>
> Out for a ride today I stopped for a pit stop leaning my bike against a gate into a field. I
> noticed something in the hedgerow and been the nosy type I went to have a look. After a minute or
> so I heard a noise, but took no notice, when I stood up I noticed a horse leaning over the gate
> and licking my saddle. I went up to the gate and shood the horse away, used my sleeve to wipe away
> the saliva and noticed the bloody thing had taken a bite out of my saddle.
>
> Perfectly good saddle ruined
>
> So watch were you lean your bike
>
>
> Remove nospam from email address to reply

 

[Dave Le Good]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:10:02 +0000, Simon Hay <[email protected]> wrote:

>Steve Walford wrote:
>> This should give you all a laugh, it really happened to me today
>
><snip>
>
>> I went up to the gate and shood the horse away, used my sleeve to wipe away the saliva and
>> noticed the bloody thing had taken a bite out of my saddle.
>
>Hehe... that's truly classic Hope the saddle wasn't TOO expensive and/or prized (hadn't taken
>you several decades to mould exactly to the shape of your posterior...)

Could have been worse. At least you were not sitting on it at the time.

Dave

 

[Nick Kew]

In article <e22s7v0sv193d195fi8a626139[email protected]>, one of infinite monkeys at the keyboard of
Steve Walford <[email protected]> wrote:

> Perfectly good saddle ruined
>
> So watch were you lean your bike

Heh!

Don't forget that lesson if you do cyclecamping. Either cows or horses will eat a tent, so take care
what you share a field with.

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[Andrew Sweetman]

Simon Hay <[email protected]> wrote ...
> Steve Walford wrote:
> > This should give you all a laugh, it really happened to me today
>
> <snip>
>
> > I went up to the gate and shood the horse away, used my sleeve to wipe away the saliva and
> > noticed the bloody thing had taken a bite out of my saddle.
>
> Hehe... that's truly classic Hope the saddle wasn't TOO expensive and/or prized (hadn't taken
> you several decades to mould exactly to the shape of your posterior...)
>

but a Brooks is tough enough to stand up to a horse without much damage - it happened to a friend in
Ireland about 4 years ago

Andrew

 

[Luigi De Guzman]

in all probability, it licked the saddle, found it salty (from your sweat) and then took a bite.

on summer evenings, i notice salt crystallizing on my h****t straps. sometimes my fancy wicking
coolmax shirts, too.

-Luigi

 

[Albert]

"Nick Kew" <[email protected]> wrote in message news[email protected]...
> In article <e22s7v0sv193d195fi8a626[email protected]>, one of infinite monkeys at the keyboard
> of Steve Walford <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Perfectly good saddle ruined
> >
> > So watch were you lean your bike
>
> Heh!
>
> Don't forget that lesson if you do cyclecamping. Either cows or horses will eat a tent, so take
> care what you share a field with.
>

I was once rudely awoken by a slobbery cows face with a strand of flob just inches from dripping on
to my face after I fell asleep doing the happy camper with whisky fall asleep starwatching move

Albert

 

[Steph Peters]

Wildlife do seem to like saddles. A white cockatoo in New Zealand took several bites out of my
prized Terry ladies saddle with several thousand bottom miles in it. Even worse, this was the start
of a six month tour. So I found an upholsterer, got them to patch it with furnishing foam, and
bought a yukky fluorescent yellow cover for it.

And when I got back home I did claim on the insurance, as the Terry's saddles weren't then on sale
in UK and had to be imported from US, so they cost a bomb.
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[GearóId Ó Laoi]

I'm surprised no-one has come up with..

Dobbin is not recommended instead of Dubbin...

 

[Matsav]

"wafflycathcsdirtycatlitter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >I'm surprised no-one has come up with..
> >
> >
> >Dobbin is not recommended instead of Dubbin...
>
> Neigh lad, I'm not surprised at all ;-)
>

Surely that should be Sir Prized, the knight who was riding Dobbin

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[G.Harman]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:27:36 +0000, [email protected] (Nick Kew) wrote:

>I Heh!
>
>Don't forget that lesson if you do cyclecamping. Either cows or horses will eat a tent, so take
>care what you share a field with.

During a long ago School holiday summer spent working on a Nursery Garden the two resident Bullocks
ate a Caravan. have admired the good taste of bovines ever since.

G.harman