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My thanks to careful drivers
Daleside Greetland
I would like to use your letters page to thank every motorist on Wakefield Road, Copley, who slowed down when I asked them to on Sunday morning (June 28) as I was forced to ride on there when my normal route was blocked. My special thanks go to the Sita wagon driver who stopped and caused a bit of a tailback so I could pass him safely.
Bearing in mind the poor lady who tragically lost her two driving ponies at Greetland, I always treat the roads with utmost caution but had no choice on Sunday but to run the gauntlet of a busy road and, while my horse is normally reasonably quiet, all horses and ponies can spook at the strangest of things: white lines on the road, plastic bags in trees, cars with boom boxes blasting out as they speed past or dogs barking in gardens.
For those drivers who ignored my requests to slow down, you were lucky this time, one day you may find yourself with a horse's foot kicking your car.
Please pass all horses slowly, widely and with caution. They are, in essence, wild animals.
Jannine Bottomley
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