Horse trekking - Wellington area

[Shadows]

Shame you are'nt up here in the bay, we have 7 trekking horses, missus does all that.
You can ride them.........

......I'll ride ya bike eh.

Not as good as you tho.....

Yours wouldn't be the outfit that runs treks up the Mohaka River? With the cabins and shit near the water?

[Fatjim]

......I'll ride ya bike eh.

Not as good as you tho.....

I think this came out out a bit dodgy.

[Number One]

P'raps not this one:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2328...-riding-school

Been there done that they are crooks and the horses are not well looked after and are not in good condition.

Further to that they offer horses to punters that none of the experienced riders would get on. This place put me off horses as I was lucky enough to be given a feiry boy called Judas...he was an ex race tracker and just wanted to canter off into the distance - that was fine and good fun except that he didn't know the property or run so well and wouldn't respond to reigns to stear him off course so instead headed straight for a bit of scrub in the middle of a paddock as we got up close he realised it was actually full of coiled up barbed wire, tried to stop, couldn't so did a delayed jump...causing me in all the confusion to lose my set in the saddle come off and then be dragged hanging with my foot stuck in the stirrup through the barbed wire/scrub backwards head first! Dragged through a bush backwards

I haven't been able to relax on a horse since and prefer two wheels to four legs EVERY day now! BTW - I had declared I was not an 'experienced rider'. They ended up turning him loose as no one would get on him and he wouldn't run alongside any of the other horses to get back home again.

Could have been very nasty if a bunch of kids had gone along!

[allycatz]

Theres a riding school at Te Horo...not sure if they do treks also the Stables in the Park at QE II Park Paekakariki

[Dooly]

Yours wouldn't be the outfit that runs treks up the Mohaka River? With the cabins and shit near the water?

No, the missus has the nags here on our land and she is involved in the local trekking scene, either riding locally on the farm next door or around the north island like the big Waiouru one.
Beats me why she needs 7 horses and heaps of saddles.
You can only ride one at a time eh.........

Mind you she asks me why I have more than one road bike.
But thats different...........

[Hans]

Been there done that they are crooks and the horses are not well looked after and are not in good condition.

Further to that they offer horses to punters that none of the experienced riders would get on. This place put me off horses as I was lucky enough to be given a feiry boy called Judas...he was an ex race tracker and just wanted to canter off into the distance - that was fine and good fun except that he didn't know the property or run so well and wouldn't respond to reigns to stear him off course so instead headed straight for a bit of scrub in the middle of a paddock as we got up close he realised it was actually full of coiled up barbed wire, tried to stop, couldn't so did a delayed jump...causing me in all the confusion to lose my set in the saddle come off and then be dragged hanging with my foot stuck in the stirrup through the barbed wire/scrub backwards head first! Dragged through a bush backwards

I haven't been able to relax on a horse since and prefer two wheels to four legs EVERY day now! BTW - I had declared I was not an 'experienced rider'. They ended up turning him loose as no one would get on him and he wouldn't run alongside any of the other horses to get back home again.

Could have been very nasty if a bunch of kids had gone along!

Edited out my nonsense drivel.

[Hans]

Theres a riding school at Te Horo...not sure if they do treks also the Stables in the Park at QE II Park Paekakariki

Run by the same lovely people.