Drunk in charge of a horse!!! Stories please

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Hi y'all, am sitting here sipping Sloe Gin (which I'd meant not to touch before the Boxing Day meet but there you are). Can't ride coz snow everywhere + roads icy, sooooo, got to wondering if anyone has any experiences to recount re. being "drunk in charge" of a horse?

Go on, tell all, let your alcoholic capers embarrass you ......
 
How much time have you got ;)

Got on Backwards. - several times.
Broke a collar bone and just carried on.
Ripped my Jods and flashed everyone for the rest of the day giggling because I thought it was funny!

Always in the presence of a sober person a) to ensure horses welfare
b) to drive me home!!! :D
 
In my defense I had no intention of riding. We dropped into the yard on the way home when I rather "happy" and I was watching someone struggle with jumping their horse so I agreed when asked to get on and help.

Sobered up after being bucked off on the second time though. I sorted him out wonderfully before the fence but he was being a wotsit afterwards. Everyone else thought it was very funny!

Or again, years ago, wandering up in TIGHT jeans to watch friends in the school. She gave me a leg up on her cob (who was very laid back). I did because I was showing off. She asked me to demonstrate how you should ride side saddle - and then as I was doing it, made hunting horn noises.

Yes I did rip my jeans right across my backside and put my then OH off riding for life!
 
At wales & west away show, got the horses stabled up and went down to the bar. Woken up in the lorry the next day with sick in my hair, sick in the feed buckets (which I had to go and wash to feed pony his breakfast) and no on sight showers!! Had to jump the derby feeling very worse for wear, pony was absolutely flying, clear and in top spot, jumped into the dyke and I fell off!! The most ridiculous fall ever, slow motion and everything, just fell off the side. Then had to walk back across the entire course, with friends jeering and shouting!!! Awful!!!!!!!! Never again!! Xx
 
what about 'horse drunk in charge of rider'? lol! ;)

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walked down to hay and bandage my boy late one night after a party, got there again in the morning, and wondered who the hell had bandaged my horse as they were round his ankles, and i'd forgotten I'd even been there... :rolleyes:
 
I seriously doubt one or two would hurt. It's not like its getting a 2kg bucket feed of crisps. I just thought that this was clearly a light hearted post and there was no need to be so po faced.:)
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
Hi y'all, am sitting here sipping Sloe Gin (which I'd meant not to touch before the Boxing Day meet but there you are). Can't ride coz snow everywhere + roads icy, sooooo, got to wondering if anyone has any experiences to recount re. being "drunk in charge" of a horse?

Go on, tell all, let your alcoholic capers embarrass you ......
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oh ive just thought of a good one for you.

a few years a go hubby bought me a lippizaner for my birthday.. said horse was sharp but had been in same home 12 years.. so yes spolit.. anyway decided to head off to bicton for a bit of evening dressage.. on grass..

previous owner was coming to watch her beloved horse! anyway said horse would not load. I was just about to call po and tell her to buy her horse back when the sod went in.. phew! anyway this was my first time out competing in years and my first ever dressage so had a bottle of wine in the landy for after.. After the fiasco of loading I decided to open the wine, then discovered that A... I had no glass, And B .. it was a cork, by the time I got to bicton id drunk the bottle! ..

I dont actully remember doing the the test.. BUT said horse had been taught tricks, it bowed etc, so theres me sat on said horse, peed when previous owner gets it to bow.. horse dissaperes in fron of me and I nearnly go over its shoulder!

said horse a year later got sold back to previos owner lol!

I have lots of drunken horse stories, but if people are going to get funny over a horse eating a few crisps I better not post to many lol!
 
Anywhoo, away from the childness and back to the original point of this post:

Does being disgustingly hung over and probably still very drunk about to depart for a days hunting - New Year's day many years ago. I was sat on my lovely horse with her bouncing all over the place and me very green. Even the hair of the dog didn't help - neither the contact ribbing I got from people out hunting with me!!

That's the only one I can think of - although I once got my hubby to sit on a recently broken 4 yr old after him having a couple of cans of beer. I only wanted someone to lean on her back but he sat on her - I was 4 mths pregnant so couldn't do it myself!!
 
If any of the Patchetts old guard ('86-'92) are on here then there should be plenty of these stories!!

Plenty of staff lessons while still intoxicated from the night before!

The Cinderella on horseback panto, drinking mandatory before wearing a ball gown and doing a musical ride in below zero temps!

And one particularly funny evening where all the ponies escaped from their field and were running round the neighbourhood. Unfortunately there had been a party that night, cue many drunken staff members trying to round them up! When the police arrived he stopped the car next to my friend wound down his window and she sort of followed it, falling head first onto his lap!!

(names witheld with great restraint, but you know who you are!)
 
many moons ago, had a show jumping comp on the sunday morning, well the night before a friend got some sad news so all girls got together and had a few drinks anyway 5am still drinking when i realised i had to go get ready for the show, got there very hungover and rather drunk thankfully the girls from the night before came to support me with a couple of bottles of wine few good slugs before going in, well, i lost my stirrups, at one point no reins could not remember the course so everyone had to shout which colour fence next and was dry heaving over every jump. but still managed to come 3rd
Never ever again, so much easy showing when drunk
 
Does being STILL-drunk-the-morning-after in charge of a horse count???

I made myself go to local show (10mins ride away) as was meeting friends there - turned up still quite merry in the rain but after finding out they'd all got hangovers and couldn't move in bed, mine kicked in... resulting in one wet, green but well turned out young lady, head in a hedgeful of vomit holding equally wet but well turned out horse who was trying desperately to run away in embarrassment!

My dad was so cross. Everyone in the village recognised me after that.......................... I still walked away with a blue though for a wh class!!
 
Have never ridden drunk or hungover but I did have way too many at New Year a couple of years ago and the following day I had to traipse through snow/ice to the yard to feed, rug and turnout three, muck out, do hay etc and I was still intoxicated. Thankfully my husband who was in much better shape than me managed to do most of it because I spent most of the time on my backside and not able to get up. Never again have I been that bad and don't intend on repeating it, I was gibbering to the horses like some fool and was probably a danger to myself let alone anything else!! :D
 
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lol done that soo many times whilst working at yards... i often end up with head over the wheelbarrow when taking out the wet. I don't know how but I always manage to get through it. I got told off once then caught the boss doing it himself...... oh how I laughed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sod.
 
One Boxing day, after a tipple or ten, I took all the yard helpers out for a jolly around Richmond Park. On spotting a very inviting track which was just begging to be galloped up, I hollered "Tally Ho" and took off followed by eight hooligan ponies and whooping teenagers. Unfortunately I hadn't spotted the mounted policewoman standing amongst the trees, whose horse decided to join us.... after depositing his rider. In my drunken state it took a while to realise that the riderless horse was not one of my charges!
I recieved a caution in the post a couple of weeks later..... for galloping a horse in a Royal park. :o
 
Mary Christmas said:
I recieved a caution in the post a couple of weeks later..... for galloping a horse in a Royal park. :o
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Love this!

I have competed many times whilst still being drunk from the night before, hunter trials being my favourite - always have more confidence, as long as I can stay on long enough!

In fact some of my best competing has been done when hungover :o :D
 
not really with the horse, but was walking down the yard (20 mins down a busy country road) and had a major hangover, was sick about every twenty metres, people stopped to ask if i was alright i had to explain it was self inflicted... SO embarrasses, luckily no-one was down the yard when i got there :rolleyes:
 
MrsHutt said:
what about 'horse drunk in charge of rider'? lol! ;)

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Reminds me of the joke "horse goes into a bar..."

Did you know there is still a law that says you can be sentenced to a day in the stocks for being drunk in charge of a horse ;)

Disappointed I missed the troll - glad the thread is still open. Looks like the TFC has decided on a new way to moderate. I like it much more :)
 
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