I went to visit some friends near Southampton at the weekend and my friend Elizabeth is an avid horse rider.  We went over to her stables to look at her horses and she brought one over to us from the field where it was grazing.  As we stood by the gate for no apparent reason, it turned, bucked and kicked the gate where we were standing, severely damaging one of the metal bars.

Had we been standing inside the gate we could have been killed given the force of the kick.  It just cemented in my mind just how powerful a horse is and how dangerous it can be to be  if you don’t think safety first.

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