Craziest things you've done?

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Ever done something then, in hindsight, wondered what the heck you were thinking?

When I was 14/15 we went to meet a potential loan pony for the first time, only for the owner to realise that she didn't have a girth that fit. She put the saddle on anyway and we went for a hack with her and her horse. These days I don't know if I'd dare get on a riding school horse (lost my confidence completely) but I had a cracking 6 months loaning that pony.
 
Working at a trekking farm where the horses were all rounded up on a quad in the morning and herded up to the yard and then turned out of a night by riding one bareback with a head collar and leading 4 others! Sometimes we walked and then would lead a few at a time, think the most I did was 6! Even had to cross a railway... Crazy looking back at it now but the best time when I was there! Although now I'm more sensible and too worried to ride and lead my own on a hack but wish I could.
 
Heck loads of things
If i saw an open gate to a field i would have a gallop around the field not giving it second thoughts.

i bought my first horse at the age of 16 i bought a wormer then rang the vets to say if i rode up to their office could a vet give him his wormer.

I bought a shetland mini foal at an auction from gypsys i didnt have any money on me but my friend had a credit card on her, we got in there van with them and they frog marched us both to a checkpoint for the money, we handed the money over to them, we went back to the auction, where they picked up the foal and put it in in the back of my 4+4, i then drove home with it, in the meantime my husband got a phone call from defra saying they had had a report from the rspca of a horse being traveled in the back of a car and they were going to fine him, { he didnt even know i had bought a foal} needless to say he just got off with a worning.
 
Needing to transport a shetland up the forestry roads to a remote area in Snowdonia (he was going to carry sacks of tree saplings up the mountain ready for planting). Made him walk from a bank into the back of the long-wheel based Land-Rover where he travelled like a pro!
 
I'm still young so have plenty of time lol. Did once ride a horse sidesaddle bareback (if you get what I mean) that had been ridden 2 times in the past 3 months cantering over jumps in a field.
 
My friends and I would regularly ride bareback in a headcollar and rope. In the summer, we'd be hatless, barefoot and in shorts and a tshirt. We'd take them swimming in the lake and then have a picnic. We'd be out all day like that. We'd jump anything that stood still long enough!

We had some fairly sharp ponies too. My little Section D x Arab had a mean buck on him and my friends midget Thb was an awful lot of horse for its size.

Now I won't fetch them in from the field without a hat on! And I hardly jump at all.
 
Riding and leading on the road, no saddle, headcollar and leadrope for bridle, no hat and no hi vis....but at the time its what everyone was doing!

I can barely handle leading two horses together on the ground now, how on earth I managed it when I was younger whilst riding the horse I have no idea

I think my skill level has decreased at the same rate that my sense of danger has increased!
 
Drunken night with a girlfriend playing "reverse limbo" jumping, then raising the jump until someone chickened out or kicked the pole. In the dark of course because if we turned on the lights the trainer would have had fits. Bareback because then there was plausible deniability about what we were doing with the horses should anyone walk outside.

Both our horses were saints.
 
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