Mildred
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My worst was a few years ago from my big beautiful dapple grey irish horse (who was subsequently found to have horrendous KS). Our yard is on a fairly fast country road with a large gate, so we have to get on outside the gate in the small pull-in. I was on gate duty, went to get on and my horse reared straight up, bronced on landing then reared again - each bronc shot me forwards and each rear set me back in the saddle - all the while I was acutely aware of making bizarre whimpering immininent death moans and could hear the lady I was with saying 'oh ****' repeatedly. He wouldn't stop bucking/rearing and I couldn't seem to succumb to the forces of gravity for quite some considerable time, until eventually he put in a spin which sent me rocketing towards the road where I landed flat on my back. I managed to get up and get me and him back into the yard, at which point a double decker bus went trundling past and I can't even begin to imagine what would have happened had it been just a few seconds earlier! I broke my scaphoid bone in my wrist, had whiplash and a seriously sore back. I don't recommend being chucked off onto a road but the poor horse was trying to let me know just how much pain he was in and obviously I didn't get the message quickly enough!
Another funny one was a friend riding another of my old ex-racers who was trotting along the road nicely beside me on my baby pony, when he saw some malevolent looking cow parsley hiding in the verge, so he sensibly jammed the brakes on to avoid any witchcraft/magic spells emanating from the plant, and sent my friend neatly over his head to land on her backside on the road, whereby he obligingly dragged her backwards on her bum for a bit, much to my intense mirth
Another funny one was a friend riding another of my old ex-racers who was trotting along the road nicely beside me on my baby pony, when he saw some malevolent looking cow parsley hiding in the verge, so he sensibly jammed the brakes on to avoid any witchcraft/magic spells emanating from the plant, and sent my friend neatly over his head to land on her backside on the road, whereby he obligingly dragged her backwards on her bum for a bit, much to my intense mirth