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  • That is so sad I wouldn't be able to cope if one of my horses died x your such a hero x

  • :(

  • Soo sorry I am joining

  • You can also ride on the left side of the rode so the horse can see the car coming instead of it coming up behind the horse. Im so sorry that had to happen.:(

  • In the law, horses are the only thing that are legally allowed(other than cars) to be on the road.

  • this is why i love my polite jacket<3

    hehe my sister who knew what it said thought it saw police!

    I RECOMMEND GETTING ONE TO ANYONE! THEY ARE AMAZING, HACKING ALONG ROADS WHICH CARS SPED ALONG WHEN WEARING ANY OLD FLOURECENTS TO SUDDENLY THINKING IT SAYS POLICE SLOWING DOWN AND BEING EXTRA CAREFUL! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GET ONE THEY COULD SAVE YOU AND YOUR HORSES LIVES!

    and im a typical 16 year old and i swear by them! seriously i hated hacking with yellow stuff and now i have one im always using

  • :(

  • Tracy I'm so sorry! Holly sounds like such a great horse and I hope that idiotic driver was sorry!

  • Oh, Tracy, i'm so sorry. Holly sounds like she was a great horse and she is definately happy now. I agree with you. Drivers like that should be forever banned from roads. I almost cried. Were you hurt?

  • I'm so very sorry for your horse :( I hope you got through it well :( May You Rest In Peace Holly<3 <3 <3

  • R.I.P Holly xxxx Drivers these days just don't think properly, do they? Did that driver who hit Holly get out and see if either of you were alright and apologise??

  • @starunicornsky - Hmm x I dont think that would of helped :( xx

  • If I met that driver I'de get a car and hit him with it really fast so he'd know how Holly must have felt when he decided to be the cruelest person in the world and by the sound of it once he hit her he didn't stop to try and help probably screamed about a dent on the front of his stupid car!!!

  • Aw that is so sad i almost cried

  • im soo sorry thats so sad poor horse! ):

  • Very sad. Great idea for a safety and awareness. I have to ride along the road sometimes and am careful because -some- drivers can be idiots. One semi truck driver BLEW HIS AIR HORN at my friend and I while we rode. Thank god we saw him and pointed our horses into a field & that's where they ran. We were all safe, our horses only spooked a few steps, but if we hadn't had them facing the field, we would've ended up in the road.

    Again, fantasitc awareness/safety idea.

  • Heartbreaking...thank you for sharing your story!

  • good for you

  • oh my, thats a tragity </3 my heart goes out to you and your poor horse </3

    i love horses, i love my horse and if anything ever hurt him i dont know what id do.

    but hes boarded so we drive alot to see him and i get to see other riders with there horses and i yell at my mom to slow down even more so i can yell hello and see their pretty horse

  • That's so sad:(

  • tragic, absolutely tragic. I keep telling silly riders to wear hi-vis jackets because as a driver I know what a difference it makes. Really annoys me when riders canter on grass verges as well, it goes for us too we don't know what is round the bend and cars do 60mph on country roads so in the time it takes for you to do all the downward transitions and move over its too late. And the modern engines are so quiet the minor roads are a death trap for riders. Be safe always x RIP HOLLY x

  • I'M SO SORRY

  • Awwww, that must be so sad :'( i feel for you xxxxxxxxx

  • wow thats so sad :'(

  • thats one of the reasons why i dont take my horse on the road. there are all sorts of crazy drivers that dont slow down or anything!

  • omg that is really sad i am going to be careful when inext ride on the road

  • I want to know if you felt anything!!!! ouch im soooo sorry about what happened and if i could i would find that person and slap them upside their head

  • I think its a great thing that your doing, a good friend of mine was hit on the side of the rode while riding a horse i loved very very much by a hit and run driver the police never found and I remember the heartache i went through :(

  • I'm Definetly Joining The Campaign this made me cry

  • We live in Spain up a mountain with lots of bends. The people that live up the mountain (our neighbours) drive crazy. We have had so many near misses.

    We have even visited some of the neighbours too to ask them to slow down but that is taken the wrong way. Don´t know what we can do Tazzsmum. I am sorry to hear about your horse I hope time has healed a little bit for you.

    Good luck with your quest. Lee x

  • when my horse was put down, i hugged her, and looked into her eyes, and she looked at me. i was the last thing she saw.

  • @BREYERKID i did pretty much the same thing when my 1st ever pony died of old age. at least i have the satisfaction of knowing that it was a natural death. if my boy res or any of the other horses i know were hurt by cars, i would track them down and kill them. i always wear high vis jackets, exercise sheets, leg and tail wraps, rein wraps, nosebands, etc. make it as safe as possible. and i salute Tracey and anyone else who's trying to prevent road accidents involving horses.

  • what pisses me off most is that if that one car/truck had slowed down for 30 seconds it could save that person/people years of devistation!

    its just 30 seconds drivers!!! come on!

  • one of my horses is extremely spooked by motorbikes (because his old owner who neglected him rode a motorbike) and i was riding him down a bridleway and 20 odd motorbikes came it was horrrid he absoloutly freaked luckily they all slowed down and stopped but i had to et on my mums horse and she lead him becuse he was so freaked and could have gotten hurt (but luckily he didnt cus one of the motorbikes broke down so they all had to go th eopposite direction to get sum1

  • i agree i would be devastated if this was my pony sooo sorry they should kill there speed

  • i'm so sorry.......

    i hate it how some drivers don't give a damn! around where i ride,theres hardly any horse signs which doesn't help ,and the only horse and rider sign is half covered by a over grown tree. :(

  • i feel very sorry for u my self is a horse lover and i wear lots of protects gear i have a horse called fergie she is fantastic and if anything happen to her i dont now what i would do because she is my 1 horse and if she dies there will be no more

  • two horses killed today. hit by a car. three riders where heading home, one mad it across the street waiting for the others, truck came, horses killed instantly.

    thats just not right, inasent people haveing a good ride have it ruind by there best friend being killed by a stupid careless driver.

  • i paniked savhnna was smart and lead to the bank i could fill the car as it went bye i was so scared and i ow my life to my horse for saving us

  • Im sorry!

  • that is horrible

    some people out in the world are

    selfcentered idiots,where im from i ride on trails and so many idiots on motobike

    and in cars go speeding around the trails, it is so dangeroues but there is nothing we can do about it :(

    people should be more carefully;(

  • i agree wiith you the driver need to slow down poor holly and tracey

  • My horse was killed by other horses AND a motorbike - the story is i was riding and so was a hunt far off. i cud hear the dogs yapping, and a motorbike came and zoomed into the hunt, scariung the horses aklong the lanes. Then the horses ran into me and my horse and my horse got crushed to death (he was a small welsh mountain)

  • was the driver cot

  • today, my friend fell off her horse because a motorbike passed on the road beside the field we were riding in. it was weaving between cars and going sooo fast. luckily, nobody was hurt...but what an asshole!!

  • i neaver go out on the roads with out my hi viz vest on also becasue my horse is dark dark bay i have a new working sheet for him and now leg bands also on his bridal he has hi voz too x

    the othy time i dont were hi viz is when im in the indoor school or in our feaild

  • im sooo sory ;(

  • i also live on a country road and just today there were people motorcycle racing!!! my horse is right next to the road! i can't ride on our road at all.

  • Its a verry sad thing, even here in the us drivers don't pay attention or have no respect for people on horse back. I've had peopeel come within inches just flying past me an my horses in the past. We make it a habbit to carry cell phoens for peoelw who do thinsg like that an try an get heir tag numbers an report them.

    We have even had peopel pass us with onc oming traffic just feet away, an even weave in an out between horses or try to. It can be really dangerous :S.

  • i agree with you 100%

  • This is my worst nightmare!! If I have to go on thre roads I always wear my hi viz gear and ride in single file. The one thing that really shocks me is the number of riders in our area (Usually the hunt lot) who don't wear hi viz gear & insist on riding 2 wide around blind bends & refusing to move over. When I was younger & there were less horses on the roads everyone but few slowed down. Now nobody does. Sadly I Think its riders as well as drivers that need educating. Keep up the good work x

  • I posted your video to my FB page w/over 3800 friends, & 100 are horse people who I pray will post to theirs. I live on a busy country road and its rare for anyone to slow down. Speed limit 60 mph and motorcycle racers have been seen going in excess of 100 mph. The fire department up the road however, will slow down, even if on an emergency run. Sorry for the loss. I found your story while viewing my loss, and a email from Youtube wanting to take the music away. "In loving Memory of Lexus"

  • omg...........i wont die im my horse died!!!! i mean i cried all night when my horse got attak y a moutain lion..she lived but she has a scar from it

  • i so join, thats terible!!!! no wonder we dont go on hikings @ my horse camp anymore =[

  • horses were on the roads well before cars so I dont know how you work that one out!

  • Aww this is soo sad im sorry

    One of my old horses got hit by a train because some stupid peole thought they would pull down the fencing to the fields there was also 6 other horses who got hit by a train or a car and there was only 15 horses in the field altogether

  • im i so so very sorry! i will join ur campaing

  • i will join your campaign

  • I sent this to all my contacts!

  • Man. I am not crying or laughing. I am having a Poker Face moment. Dead silence and nothing to describe about how I feel about that video. Good for you to be able to express your feelings towards the one who I KNOW for a fact you desperatly loved. Great Job =)

  • im soo sorry that was really sad...and I saw your website! good job on it. =)

  • im so sorry about your loss.

    one of our horses got hit by a pickup truck a few years ago...but thankfully thre saddle saved his life...but harley died last year of melenoma cancer :'(

  • omg:(]

    sorry for your loss:(

    im cryin sooo sad:(

  • my 18 year old cat died from a speeding car too. Thank you for starting a campain... it means alot to know i'm not alone...

  • It's horrid having those words spoken to you. `There is nothing we can do` I'm sorry for your loss.

  • :,(

  • this is awful! the amount of times ive gone out riding on my horse and had to flag drivers done is unbelievable...cos shes a cob they think shes guna be fine and safe as houses but shes very spooky. yo are very brave for doing this well done :)

  • o my god!! i m in tears!! i m balin like a child!! thaz just horrible!! people need to respect that the road isnt just for cars... horse riders and byciclists also use the road/side of the road... curse hell on anyone who doesn't realize this!! hope the campain spreads quick!! :`)

  • they should make a lane for horses. like in america they have bike lanes.

  • This Made Me Sob Like A Child.

    It Broke My Hearrt :(

    I Am So Sorry For The Loss Of Your Horse

    I Respect You For What You Are Doing..

  • the retard who killed Holly should be runover by a car himself so he knoes what its like

  • so you should! great campaign! i would have that driver put in jail and everything ... i cant imagine how you feel i am so glad you are doing somthing about it well done for being soo strong!

  • soz man

  • this is brilliant stuff! I'll ask around the yard I'm at if they know anything about this next time I'm up. We're at the edge of a small village and the main road to get to all the hacks is full of blind corners used by lorries often going at high speeds. I can't take my horse out because he's too spooky and unpredictable. Will spook at almost anything even a crack in the road!

  • RIP holly! :-'( i would be so upset if my fave horse was killed some peple sjouldnt be drivers!

  • i no whant i would do to the driver .......... and a love this campaign

  • I hope your campaign brings safety to both horse and rider and also brings you some kind of closure. The loss of Holly must be devastating and I know your pain in losing such a close friend as her. Holly is free of pain now but also free to run in fields of green and watch over you every day. She is free to keep her hooves above the grass and fly.

    Be safe.

  • im so sorry...

    this campaign is such a good thing though.

  • omg i really feel for you oh and did u keep holly in catthorpe or leic

  • Aww Sorry Bout Holly :[

  • Me and my friend were riding down the raod and two teenagers were driving past. . .

    At first they seemed respectable, seeing as though they were going rather slow, but the next thing I know they are blaring thier horn and speeding away in a matter of seconds. I can only be so thankful that I have a bomb-proof horse that won't spook at that -.-

  • When i go to ebay what do i type in?

  • Just type in KILL YOUR SPEED. All the difference item will come up x

  • ok thanks and i love this campaign

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  • Tracey honey i feel so badd for you.Your horse was beautiful.Last weekend me and my friend were riding on a dirt road and the speed limit was 15mph and here comes this car come flying around the corner doing at least 25mph.He almosts hits me and my friend it was horrible. I love my horses with all my heart and im sure you loved Holly just as much!This is a wounderful campaign i love it,because people truly need to kill their speed not our horses!And once again my heart goes out to you and Holly!

  • i always stop till horses pass or give a very wide berth as i had my own , the worst example of bad manners and obnoxiousness was a car seeing i had stopped for a horse blew his horn shot down the middle of the road accelerating past the speed limmit ( a driving school car ) if i'd remmembered his name i would have posted it for free advertising for him..

  • Oh Tracey. My heart goes out to you and for sure Holly is with all her friends that have passed over the Rainbow Bridge. It is just such a shame that ignorance took here before her time. I live in Spain where the drivers seem to even speed up when they go past horses. I ride into the traffic because otherwise they come right up behind the horse so it almost sits on the bonnet and take a long dressage whip to hold out at 90º angle to mark ´my space´. If the car comes to close I whip it!

  • @LaRanaTJ I do that too! generally seems to work

  • my friend got hit by a car while riding a horse. unlike this story they were both ok. People need to be more aware.

  • I feel really sorry for holly :( Drivers really do need to kill their speed, horses cant move onto a tiny bank to the side, there too wide, !

  • :<

    Oh... that video.. is so sad :((

  • This reminded me of something that happened 30 years ago on Long Island. The usual jackass- young- man in a hotrod showing off on a country road. My horse saved my life and kept the other horse and rider from panicking. In herds, the head mare keeps the young males in line with proper behavior. But what do we humans have?

  • omg you poor baby i bet you fell realy sad god bless

  • omg thats so sad my horse got killed by a semi he was in the pasture and a car cut off the semi and the semie flew acros the road into the ditch flew up and hit 4 horses 1 was mine 2 where my uncles and 1 was my litteles sisters 1 of my uncles horses live but cannot be ridden the others died

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  • some people are idiots! once when i was out whit my horse this car speeded up as they pased me from behind and the same time on of the gyes in the car tok his head out the window and scremed as they pased! i was glad i had my old mare she is verry calm and just jumped a bit, if it was my younger mare she would get totaly panic! and it was a big trafic!... realy sad to read this.. R.I.P Holly

  • I'd kill the person driving if they ran into my horse.

    So sorry about the loss! R.I.P Holly

  • Oh..I too sad,,, I favored your website and sorry for Holly !She was georgous from the pics i saw !!

    PEACE LOVE GOSSELIN

  • my old mare(Ino longer own her) almost got hit by someone driving like an idiot on our road

  • ill join that campaingn

  • omggg poor horse i ;liuv dem rrr if my horse peppa dies ill be so sad

    DONT rive fast plz

  • omfg..

    People at my road, drives like Crazy to when i'm riding..

  • I know how you feel at least I was only lucky enough to watch my horse get hit..Her name was Brandy and amazig lill horse she slid down on some leaves and out into the road and i was lucky enough to grab onto a tree i can still here her scream and scramble along the road

  • i dono if its true or not but if it is i fell so sorry

  • its true im tracy the rider of holly ! i miss her every day and feel sooo gutted the driver only got a half day driving course! thanx plz buy our items on e bay !!!! love to all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • omg :(

    i hate it when people put on storys of how there horses.. die, To think of the pain what they went through.

    R.i.p holly

  • Did she sell t-shirts on ebay with the logo on at the the beggining?... if so.. i bought one ! i remember this being the reason they were selling them to rase money.. but it was a while ago and dont remember names. I hope the money helped some how if it was her =)

  • wow, this is soooo sad. Its a good thing the rider wasnt killed. Its amazing how some motorists are REALLY kind and patient, and others will blow by at 50 mph, or HONK THEIR HORNS.

  • Omg Thats Well Sad :(

  • omg this is sooo true

    my frend went out on her horse pilgrim and this driver came up behind her at about 50mph and beeped his horn at her!!! her horse then bolted down a main road on the rong side of the road and all she could do was hold on!!!

    wen she came back she was in total shock and could not speak at all!!! both of them were fine but it explains that its happening to ppl all over the world and it has to stop

    i feel soo sorry fr tracy and fr everione else it has happend to !!!

  • omg thats so sad

  • Did the driver get chargers pressed aginst him?! I hope so thats a crappy thing to do!

  • I think the driver did it on purpose how could anyone not see a big horse and rider in the middle of the road.

    I'm really sorry that happened :( Just hearing about it makes me so mad at the driver.

  • im so sorry you lost her :( its all the stupid drivers fault! they should be arrested! dont ya think?

  • hi guys thanx to all of you for your support tazzsmum again i cant thank you enough this page always makes me cry ! due compensation any day now but i wish i could bring holly back with the money !!! xxxxxxxx KILL YOUR SPEED NOT MY HORSE !!

  • One of my horses has a sad story she is called lucy she is a bay connamira. I got lucy from a rescue centre 2 years ago when i was 8.Lucys old owners had starved her and one day they tried to load her and she refused to go in so they tied her up to the back of the trailer and she walked trotted and cantered for 5 miles untill the police took action.

  • thats soooo sad what happen to hollY! :)

  • i would never ride out on the roads on my own and its not me or my horse i dont trust its the drivers

  • I road-ride all the time. I am very careful about cars. Moving over and all. But the thing that gets me is when they don't slow down and then they think it is funny to honk. RIP Holly.

  • por holly and tracey:9 r.i.p holly.. she looked a lovely horse.. it a good campain

  • Nice Campain!!! the people need open his eyes....

    thanks god the horse by ingurid not you!

  • hay is it your ebay site

    iv just got the stickers from there

    so sad xx

  • Terry runs the EBay site, it's the same campain, Thanks for buying the stickers! xx

  • brill vid n dats a shame 4 wee holly :(

  • I feel so bad for you. If my horse died, I don't know what I'd do.

    *btw i love that eric clapton song.

  • i ride in iowa around a little town but i grew up in the counrty on gravel roads and when i'm riding i always make my horse get off the road and into the ditch because drivers don't expect you most of the time i'm sorry about holly and i'm glad your ok but i get off the road i NEVER EXPECT a driver to move around me thats probably why i'm still alive GOD bless you and holly
  • May I suggest that now the driver has been fined that you take a private prosecution action against him and take him to the cleaners. That will send a message to drivers to take more care when approaching and passing horses.

  • hi im posting a special thank tou to tazzsmum ! from tracy the owner of holly whom i still dearly miss every day every minute ! gone but never forgotten ! tazzs mum u are a star !xxxx

  • I know how it feels to lose a horse. My horse was hit and killed on Thursday. She got out of her pasture on Wed with her two other buddies. She died instantly. She well be greatly missed. R.I.P Reba and Holly

  • Oh my god, I'm so sorry, I go cold every time someone adds a comment like this xxx

  • I'm so sorry for tracey. this campaign should open peoples eyes to the dangers there are out there...

    R.I.P Holly

    KILL YOUR SPEED NOT MY HORSE

  • ya my mare and i were riding on the road and i just had to move her into the ditch fast cuz he was going like 80MPH!!! i was sooo pissed! i am rele sorry about Holly god bless!!

  • thats sad, im sooo sorry, me and zook were nearly hit by a car on my first hack out on him and its been my last, worst was i new the driver it was a quite dirt rd and he was going 70kmph, its pathetic how sum ppl drive and look wat happned tracey lost her beautiful mare coz of idioticness.

    great video, ill b spreading this campaign around.

    xoxo

  • thats sooooo sad X( its just a waist of a beautiful animal just because of an idiot!! God Bless U Holly!! D,:

  • Of course it was a man driving. A girl would´nt be so careless and do someting like that!

  • Holly, bless her.. was it a hit and run or did this person at least stop to see if they were alive! Spread the Word. xxx

  • Yes he did stop, the police told him to leave the sense for his own safety as there was so many people that were angry about what he'd done...in court, he got away with a fine...

  • I bet your tears never stopped i dont know holly but i cry about this story its really realy sad i really think your very brave if my horse got ran over my life would be a disaster id never stop crying your a wonderfull person i hope your ok R.I.P. HOLLY XXX

  • i had a motor bike almost kill me i had a 10% chance to live the doctors said [i had fell on road and stepped on by my horse]

  • ;_; That's such a sad story TToTT I'll spread the word!

  • Thank You!

  • if that pic at 1.43 was holly she was so beautiful.i almost cried when i was reading that story.i cant imagine how that would feel but i fell soooooooo sorry for tracy.i would hate it if that happened to me.i hope the person in that car is dead.they dont deserve their life after doing that.

  • yeah thats Holly, bless her. The person driving the car got away with it, I guess it would of been different if it had been a person he killed, it's so wrong! xx

  • that is sooooo wrong.even if he did get away with it then he has that hanging over his head for the rest of his life and he has to wake up thinking that holly wouldnt be hurt and her horse would still be alive if he had just slowed down.

  • great cause, ill spread the word. xxxx

  • the people who do this JUST have to slow down!!it's such a simple thing!

    poor horses!(and riders!)

    good vid

  • i hate it wen they dont slow down!!

    but there are those fewdrivers who do :)

    xx

    great video!

  • Yeah there are some drivers who slow down and give you a chance, it's so important that we thank these drivers by holding put our hand or with a nod and a smile so that they know we are greatful

  • i totally agree!

    xx

  • Absoloutly right ! i agree totaly :)

  • this is sooo true. your horse can be dancing around in the middle of the road and drivers will still try to pass you. I don't think that ppl realise that a horse cn jump out in front of a car without a moments notice and how many of those cars would stop if a horse jumped out in front of them. I dont like riding on the roads anymore cz of the stupid speeds that drivers do. Hardly any1 slows down these days.

  • thats so true, I just wear lots of hi-vis clothing and a hi-vis rug on Tazz in the winter, they still dont always slow down though

  • that happened to my cuz and her stirrup rubbed the side of the car so that just proves how stupid peepl can be.

  • Well done .. that must of been soo horrible too anyone thats been in a traffic ridding accitdent !

    car drives just dnt have much respected for us ridders much anymore .. :( its defooo worth setting kill your speed not my horse my sisters friend was killed and her horse in a traffic ridding accditent :(

    xxxxx

  • i know someone neally crashed into tammy the horse i was riding becuase she pushes her but

    but out to the cars and this guy was going like 100 donw the hill but luckly i kiked her into a gallop just befor it hit us =[and my cusin got killed by a car on his horse but thats in nz i didnt know him that well

  • That so sad about your cusin xxx

  • i think that most of the peaple who dont slow down are murders and dont care about anyone but themshelf

  • omg wow. thats soo sad about that poor horse..people are sooo stupid they need to slow down

  • i agree,great way to handle it all the way around.i will spread the awareness over here (ny).i too will now wear reflective gear to help.

  • Great way to handle a terrible accident.

    Ping =^.^=

    USA

  • how sad! keep up the good work, its so worth it! i ride out on little country lanes and they still dont slow down! iv had alot of little accidents, where traffic has scared my pony, so i only ride some1s older bombproof horse out now

  • I live on a counrty road, the speed cars go past is frightening, it's like they think they can do what ever speed they like because there is no police around. I've had so many near misses with my horses, I don't take Jack out on the roads anymore because he's so spokey and you can't trust cars to slow down if he starts messing about

  • HI I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY IF YOU TYPE kill your speed not my horse INTO FACE BOOK THERE IS A PAGE THERE TO JOIN ALSO X X

  • I set up that group! x

  • Fantastic well done to you i will join and post it on my page x x

  • GREAT!! Thank you so much! x

  • omg R.I.P Holly

    car drivers are so inconciderate they seriously do need to slow down i will spread the word cause this is 110% true in every way

    hope you were okayy too

    heather xx

  • Thank you. It wasn't me, it was my friend Tracey, she had to go to hospital but was ok

  • oh my god hun thats just horid iv been in a car accident with my old pony when i was 9 it was 2 mins away from my farm when a car came around the bend and hit my horse in the belly aswell as me leg with its mirror i fell off but held on it was so scary we even had the police involved and the guy was band for 7 months from driving its very scary at any age horses are r life we would be lost with out them xxx soo sorry RIP holly

  • sounds like you were lucky, was your pony ok? As far as I know the drive who hit Holly didn't get banned or get a fine. Its frightening!