Any one else have a silly fear, due to something a horse has done?

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As thread title really.

I am now TERRIFIED of my horse rolling :o
I used to watch her roll and laugh at her, and think it was really cute.

She has banks in her stable, but managed to get herself cast months ago, and it took a few people on the yard to help flip her over so she could stand.
She then did it again in the field because she was in a stable sized paddock after box rest.

Now if I untack her, and she rolls, I have to stand at the side of her, flapping, so that she doesnt try to go all the way over. And if Im in tackroom and hear her roll, (tack room is behind my stable) I rush back round to keep an eye on her.
If she does it in paddock (much bigger now) I instantly gage how far from fencing she is.

I also can't bear to watch her stand up after :o
 
Horses feet vs my feet.

Ive only been trodden on once and it broke my toe and now im extremely cautious of hooves being near mine if im with a horse i dont know.

Oh and being squished, i had the biggest WB youve ever seen lean on me in a stable and i had to prong his ankle with the fork to get him off. i couldnt turn over in bed or bend for a week. i tend to keep myself the open side of a horse.
 
Ditches!!!! My old horse tripped whilst jumping a ditch and went over on her knee's, I managed to stay on, mare got up, I looked basically all over her and said to my riding partner "phew! She's ok I think". Riding partner went White
and said look at her knee's, turns out my mare had ripped her knee's completely open almost to the joint!

6 weeks later she was back jumping and I later sold her to a lovely show jumping home!

However, since I have not jumped a ditch, petrified! Jump anything else, any height, any drop etc but no ditches!
 
Oddly, I feel nervous if I have to ride a horse over about 16hh. Who knows why! I used to get on anything without a care, even 17 + handers, but now I find myself politely declining offers of riding 'monsters'! Nothing has happened to warrant this 'fear', maybe just lack of match practice?!
 
I am very wary of arena fences, better with most now but specifically bad with my instructors as I caught my foot in hers and due to horses reaction to this etc it ended with 4 broken ribs, 6 breaks in total and a collapsed lung. I now find if I feel remotely too close I clamp my outside leg on but Im trying to get better lol!!
 
I think I have fears of everything that my horse can do, but it's become such a habit I should be a full time health and safety officer. Though it doesn';t stress me out or worry me, I just notice now.

The list is endless, but I have flexi stirrups, and ride on the edge of my toes if I don't have them. I will tell my boy to get up from rolling if I think he is near the side. I will always let him look at jumps, and build them so safely incase anything should go wrong, making sure he can see what it is he is supposed to jump. I am aware of the sides of arena's, spaces between horses when riding, firmness/slipperiness of the ground, metal cups being left out on the floor, stones in the school... etc etc etc.

All things that while when you think about it, it seems logical sensible common sense, but you look out for more when seeing or hearing of other's experiences.

x
 
Low flying jets scare the life out of me.

I had a nasty accident many years ago when a youngster bolted because of an extremely low F15.

If im on my horse and I can hear one approaching I force myself to stay on. If its a horse I dont know I have to get off.

Even if im no where near a horse and one sneaks up I have mild panic!! Im ok if I can hear them coming as I can prepare myself but I have on a couple of occasions been caught out and ended up on the floor in a quivering heap in the middle of the yard!!!

Sounds pathetic but they just freak me out!!
 
I'm scared of loose horses in a field after I was fixing my mares rug once and my YO's horse (who she shared with at the time) double barrelled me and I ended up with a concussion and four broken ribs! I can't get over the fear of being in an open space with loose horses now, luckily mine come to call though - phew!! :)
 
Colic - we have lost 2 horses due to colic, and every time a horse paws at the ground and rolls, we stand watching in fear that they have colic!
 
getting hung up - always very wary of the size of the stirrups, never wear steel capped boots, safety stirrups if possible - is due to an incident where the saddle slipped right round and I couldnt get my foot out the stirrup so couldnt jump off - had to hang on like a limpet round horses neck ( 3yo racer) while everyone else wet themselves laughing - inside I was freaking out - also made me over tighten girths and put breast plates on everything for a while.
 
Getting kicked.
I got kicked by a horse out hunting many years ago.Im waiting for an operation now to fix it.
If out hunting now and i get in an enclosed area with horses,i feel really panicky and sick
 
I dont like being inbetween the stable wall and a horse I dont know, Ive had to many kick out or squash me. I couldnt ride for a week once because one horse managed to get me in both knees. With my own horse I dont mind though I will squeeze between the smallest gaps.

Actually thinking about it I dont like being in the stable at all with some horses :o
 
pixxie, same here!! riding a youngster in spurs, my foot got caught and poor thing bronked. luckily i wasnt hurt. nor was the horse but its made me really paranoid.
 
My toes being squished. And horses charging down the hill at me-only ever to say hi but they never leave enough time to stop!!!!
 
Being trodden on!

2001 Big toe on my left foot was trodden on was very infected had to go to the doctors twice a week for a year - in the end went private and had half my toe taken away due to gangrene and neglect form the NHS.

Same foot was jumped on in August last year - honest it is not a pretty sight and have half a big toe and the hoof imprint on my foot!

So scared of being trodden on again - but the worse thing is the tube to central london everyday to work thinking please dont step back and tread on my foot!!!
 
Missmac said:
Low flying jets scare the life out of me.

I had a nasty accident many years ago when a youngster bolted because of an extremely low F15.

If im on my horse and I can hear one approaching I force myself to stay on. If its a horse I dont know I have to get off.

Even if im no where near a horse and one sneaks up I have mild panic!! Im ok if I can hear them coming as I can prepare myself but I have on a couple of occasions been caught out and ended up on the floor in a quivering heap in the middle of the yard!!!

Sounds pathetic but they just freak me out!!
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Low planes scare the hell out of me too!
Doesn't help that I am near a very well known army base where they use the terrain around my house and yard to train over and sometimes they have those HUGE plane thingies that carry the men in them, and they do come quite low :eek:
Horse isn't bothered but I am sat there having a nervous breakdown! :rolleyes:
 
Being bitten, having my back facing a horse or having a horse touch my back.
A horse at a yard I used to work at attacked me out of nowhere, he was a good mannered horse who wasn't known to bite. His stable had his door, then a "window" (just a big opening, no window/bars etc) then the next stable door. I was going into the stable next door, and the horse lunged out of his window, grabbed my back and threw me to the ground.
Luckily(?!) it happened in winter so I had many layers on from jumpers/gilets and coats but I am still left with a decent scar in the middle of my back.
It worries me now to have a horse go near my back even if it is my own who just nuzzles me when I pick his front feet out.
 
sometimes they have those HUGE plane thingies that carry the men in them, and they do come quite low :eek:


That reminds me of another close encounter with a low plane at the same farm!

A Hercules (I think) came so low we could read some of the writing on the undercarrage of the bloody thing!! Luckily we were in a small-ish enclosed field and we got all the kids off in time because the horses took one look and all buggered off to the far end!!
 
I don't really like trotting on the roads, because I'm afraid they will slip or stumble. Once had a horse go right down on its knees with me which is probably the cause of it, though its a bit irrational.
 
My horse fell in the trailer on the way to an event in May & now I'm totally terrified of travelling. He didn't hurt himself & I have travelled him since but I stress so much that while i'm sitting in the car I gag & think I'm gonna be sick!! lol..rediculous I know! Even if I see a box or trailer it makes me feel ill & I watch to see how fast they're driving!! lol
 
Not a fan of trotting on tarmac, when i was looking after my friends mare, trotting along a road (private so no cars luckily) we must have come to a worn bit of road and she slipped and landed on me....since then i refuse to trot if the road is not straight lol :D
 
I cant watch my horse gallop and leap around the field :o It makes me cringe especially if its wet or muddy. My last horse broke his leg by either playing in the field or a kick, everytime i go to fetch her from the field i feel sick until i can see her walking across the field. That probably sounds really silly! Im also a bit paranoid about my horse travelling in a trailer. My friends horse fell through the floor of a trailer, so i always find myself looking through the wee window of the trailer every few minutes to make sure i can see her.
 
NicoleS_007 said:
I cant watch my horse gallop and leap around the field :o It makes me cringe especially if its wet or muddy..
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This.....i have the best horse in the world.....except she is a complete retard in the field when she doesnt want to be caught....she gallops about, leaps, bucks, im petrified she will slip and hurt herself or bust her tendon (had an injury 4 yrs ago) she was really pratting about this morning its awfull to watch.
 
Getting on! Not riding in general but just that second when u push off from the mounting block and your hanging there with all your weight in one stirrup! I had a mare with undiagnosed (at the time) kissing spines. She would react as soon as she felt your weight in the stirrup! Either reared straight up or pissed off broncing round the school. I lost count of te number of times I ended up on the school floor underneath her as she freaked out. Even now 6 years later I still hold my breath until I'm actually onboard!
 
tricanas (sp) i fell off because my horse bucked then tripped AFTER it and then trampled me. had nothing to do with the jump but now i am petrified of tricanas. thankfully i have a schoolmaster - i wouldn't dream of getting a youngster over though
 
Bending down to pick up a horse's foot.. Once I wan't entirely concentrating due to someone shouting something at me from across the yard, horse's hoof came up quicker than I thought it would and I was caught in the face :o wasn't bad, just a bit of bruising and the horse simply did as it was told, just quicker than I'd anticipated :D Now I keep my face a good distance away :p xx
 
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