Alternative equestrian olympics - what's your horse's event?!

Trish C

Trish C

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Monty has developed an absolute love of buckets. Doesn't matter if they're food buckets, clean buckets, empty supplement tubs, brand new, tatty, he doesn't care, he just loves playing with them. If you're holding a bucket anywhere near him, he'll steal it out of your hand, hold it in his mouth and not let go... going to have to train him to 'leave'!!

But he's developed a very good technique for his new favourite sport, the bucket hammer-throw. He picks up the bucket by its handle, swings it from side to side building up as much momentum as he can, and then flings it as far as possible across the yard/field/arena.

It's properly hilarious, he was training for this event earlier and six of us were absolutely creased over laughing at him. :D
 
Meg would be in a competiton to see which horse can go from standing still, to mach 100m/ph in the field for no real reason other than to show off, and then perform her 100-0 in 0.0000 sec!
Penny would be entered into a contest to see if any pony can roll in a feed bucket! She obviously hasn't realised she has grown, but she still tries to fit! (Not that she has ever fitted, but it doesn't stop her from trying!!) Seconding that, she will have a good go at 'getting food bucket out of tire, while eating', yet to accomplish the task, but she won't give up!!
Juno would just be a spectator, who may be interested in 'I can lose more hair than you in a moult' competition.
lol
 
The Event: Liberate the Horsehage

Requirements:
1. Extract unopened bale of haylage from feed bay through two slip rails - by going down on knees if necessary.
2. Briskly puncture bag in about 20 places.
3. Swing Horshage, pendulum-style, to and fro not less than six times (bag should reach the '9 o'clock-3 o'clock levels on each swing)
4. Endurance section. Carry bag, gripped in teeth, at least 20 yards onto open pasture.
5. Aim: to finish the bag (sharing with friends) before owner materialises.

Type of horse: Any type can compete, but fat cob with time on her hands is best bet.
 
Rose Folly said:
The Event: Liberate the Horsehage

Requirements:
1. Extract unopened bale of haylage from feed bay through two slip rails - by going down on knees if necessary.
2. Briskly puncture bag in about 20 places.
3. Swing Horshage, pendulum-style, to and fro not less than six times (bag should reach the '9 o'clock-3 o'clock levels on each swing)
4. Endurance section. Carry bag, gripped in teeth, at least 20 yards onto open pasture.
5. Aim: to finish the bag (sharing with friends) before owner materialises.

Type of horse: Any type can compete, but fat cob with time on her hands is best bet.
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:D You have just described Melly perfectly! She hass a passion for trying to get into any bag...full, empty, already ripped, rubbish bag etc etc! :D
 
The most amount of time you can resist the temptations of carrots, apples and all types of feed whilst turned out in a field on your own, with three or four people trying to convince you to come in. This would be Alfs event. He has ultimate will power when it comes to not being caught. His personal best is 8 days!! lol
 
Ooh Honey has invented her own sport :D
The longest rear .. who can hold their front legs in the air for the longest time?
Hons a pro ;)

Mysti would have to do the quickest escape/high jump (12hh pony over 4ft + fencing)
 
Bucket-bashing to Music
with high-scoring extras thrown in such as the girth-buckle-against-the-door-to-a-syncopated-rhythm, the rattling-the-gate-chain symphony and the whip-end drumroll....
 
Eating on the go. The sport is performed at walk, trot and canter and involves snatching at shoots, leaves and birch twigs at lightning speed. Henry is quite the master, even at canter!
 
The Spooky Pony would certainly give Meg a run for her money in the 0--100/100--0 mph event!
He'd also go for the Longest Tail one, or maybe Thickest Tail. Or just Tail Occupying The Most Volume (including length and thickness)?

Alternative Dressage would include movements such as "canter-to-spook" transitions, and at least half the test would have to be conducted in rein-back while bucking.

His best event, though, might be "High Speed Jacket-Button Removal and Swallowing".
 
My old one could have won the eating contest.

Once he escaped from his stable and ate half a bag of dried sugarbeet. The next day we thought he was going to die but he was happily trotting round the yard mythed why he wasn't getting any breakfast.
 
Fransurrey said:
Eating on the go. The sport is performed at walk, trot and canter and involves snatching at shoots, leaves and birch twigs at lightning speed. Henry is quite the master, even at canter!
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:D I had a Henry who would have been good at that too! :D

Sneakiest eater would have been another one. To qualify your human must take you out for an hour's hack and swear blind you didn't eat anything. Placings are awarded by how green your slobber is when your bridle is removed ;)

I'd also like to see:

  • Best contribution to environmental methane
  • Most trashed bed
  • Fastest trashed rug
  • Most musical horse: Frankie was a pro at playing the stable bars using the metal curry comb, he also did good singing when seperated from his best buddy
  • The high-buck
  • Most comical horse
  • Most inventive evasion
 
Monty would also be a contender for the most trashed bed competition. He craps for fun, and has perfected the art of soaking the floor and bottom layer of straw whilst still mainting a deciptively clean looking layer on top. This also contributes towards the sport of "owner baiting" whereby I think that I only have a quick skip out to do but end up taking three barrows worth of *****e and p*ss out. Within three seconds of being in a stable, he will have made huge holes all over his carefully laid bed.
 
Trish C said:
Monty would also be a contender for the most trashed bed competition. He craps for fun, and has perfected the art of soaking the floor and bottom layer of straw whilst still mainting a deciptively clean looking layer on top. This also contributes towards the sport of "owner baiting" whereby I think that I only have a quick skip out to do but end up taking three barrows worth of *****e and p*ss out. Within three seconds of being in a stable, he will have made huge holes all over his carefully laid bed.
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Frankie would be good at that too.

In our field we have 4 horses who have been training hard over winter for the new sport of Rug Wrestling. Grab hold of your opponent's rug and hold on tight. Points can be gained for not letting go through bucks, pirouettes and at the gallop. The winner is the one who has sustained least damage to his own rug while causing maximum damage to his opponent's. Frankie has developed a special technique which involves undoing the velcro on the neck so you can access the inside.
 
My horse would like to enter the bucket tossing section, and reckons bed wreaking is a good possibility as well.

When it comes to medal chances, he wants to enter the apple bobbing. Any bucket, any apple in 20 seconds max. he is also outstanding at "spot the difference" ie any changes at all. Makes hacking far more interesting.....
 
Just revisted the site and am laughing about it all over again :D I can deff put the current appy in for the dressage against the clock after our last outing! No where in the prelim test did it say gallop down the long side, but she thought we should! :eek: :D
 
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