Bonkers/quirky Cruising progeny stories...

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tell us your funniest. Or scariest........

Just to start on a modest note...mine finds vehicles deeply interesting. Never happier than when peering under a bonnet.
 
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Ours is scared of white things. Otherwise he's a lovely generous horse. He just can't help himself letting you down by spooking at a dressage board or a white SJ pole when he's already seen a million of them!
 
Mine (the late Catembi) was literally afraid of his own shadow. The sun came out once when we were in a warm-up, his shadow appeared on the kicking boards & he spun round so fast that I ended up on my a**e... He also did something similar when we'd finished jumping the Disco jump-off (on another occasion) when the steward rolled the door open to let us out. Spun around soooo fast at the terrifying noise of the rolling door that I was left on my a**e. Errm, we'd only been going for lessons at the same venue once a fortnight for the past 4 years, so he'd only experienced the terrifying rolling doors about 100 times, plus all the other times we'd competed there, like the first round of the Disco about 40 minutes earlier...
 
Started backing mine last summer, he was great under saddle. Leapt about 50ft when some cows scared him out on a hack but otherwise pretty cool. However he is sharp as anything on the ground if he's not in work. He has a very active brain and has to be kept working otherwise you'll have a ginger, horse-shaped kite.

By far the most athletic horse I've ever seen. I'm hoping he doesn't learn he can do those sorts of acrobatics under saddle otherwise I'll be off to A&E. He also has a gold medal in rearing, loves to practice out in the field and occasionally in hand too. But he is also very sweet and very brave, with a little patience he will eventually stick his nose on the thing that was scaring him...and then try to climb it - like he did with the not so terrifying tractor.
 
Mine has Cruising as the dam sire he’s sane and sensible he had done very little hacking before he arrived here in December but is well on the way to being a super easy hack.
I have not spotted the Cruising in him yet .
His grand sire on the dam side is cloverhill and his sire is Contendo he’s not short of good blood lines .
A friend had a Cruising great hunter but lethal to hack at home he also would not stay in the field .
 
Oh yes, mine wouldn't stay in the field either. He was bad to catch, & if pursued would jump from field to field over the fence. Then he was playing a galloping about game with my other horse one day, got over-excited and jumped out over a very big five bar gate.

He was also iffy to hack as he would spin over nothing, e.g. a sparrow taking off about 20 metres away. But as has been said above, once he'd finished having a meltdown over something he wasn't going to go near under any circumstance, he'd then want to investigate the same thing.

He wouldn't go anywhere near a filler in a lesson one day, & the trainer said to circle him in front of it. Cue hysterics, shying, snorting, eyes on stalks. Then all of a sudden he decided that he had had enough of being scared & tanked over the jump off no stride at all, and it was a decent newcomers height.

Oh, and one day in a lesson we were jumping a triple bar, probs a good 1 m 20 high and wider than it was high. Both of us got more & more reckless the more we jumped, but then he totally snatched the reins out of my hands and charged for the jump. I'd already seen a long one, & he took out another one on top of the one I'd already planned to take out. OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG...! It was like flying. Goodness knows how we came out of that one the right way up! We then had to stop the lesson as both of us had got a bit giddy on adrenalin!

Oh gosh, how I loved that horse. But he was terrifying at the same time! 17 strapping hands of attitude.
 
Yes, ATTITUDE.

But pigs are cute and need to be kissed.

And hacking out to meet a pal is so exciting that it means doing a 1/4 mile of passage.

But on a bad day the whole hacking thing is too horrible to be considered and we'll back up to exactly 2 inches away from a deep ditch and say "Ok you try to MAKE me and this won't end well"....

But very loveable and when he does jump fluently rather than doing a H&S assessment and then cat-jumping...OMG!
 
Mine is cruising also through his dam sire!

On the whole he is super and unflappable, very brave. Though have seen him tilt his head on an angle to watch a plane fly over, and if he spots things above him on hacks., in a very weird puppy cocking head way.

His biggest foible since maturing this winter is putting himself wherever he wants in the field by jumping whatever fence is in his way. Including the 5ft fence posts I bought to stop him.

Think his cruising quirks were mellowed out by his sire Shannondale Sarco.
 
The first time mine went to an ODE he galloped out of the dressage arena :o He has since redeemed himself!

He used to do quite a bit of eventing before he retired. Every time he was away he'd refuse to drink. Even at home he'll only drink out of one particular tank. It has to be black in colour.
When we'd get home he'd run down to his black tank to drink. Once we were at an event, at the stables there was the exact same black water tank! He was thrilled:D

He'll also herd anything. He even herds the cats around the arena
 
Lammy said:
Started backing mine last summer, he was great under saddle. Leapt about 50ft when some cows scared him out on a hack but otherwise pretty cool. However he is sharp as anything on the ground if he's not in work. He has a very active brain and has to be kept working otherwise you'll have a ginger, horse-shaped kite.

By far the most athletic horse I've ever seen. I'm hoping he doesn't learn he can do those sorts of acrobatics under saddle otherwise I'll be off to A&E. He also has a gold medal in rearing, loves to practice out in the field and occasionally in hand too. But he is also very sweet and very brave, with a little patience he will eventually stick his nose on the thing that was scaring him...and then try to climb it - like he did with the not so terrifying tractor.
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I'm laughing at him trying to climb a tractor :D
 
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