Embarrassing falls

Does it count if it wasn't at a competition? Was merrily cantering through the woods out on a hack when D and I had a disagreement about which direction to go in when the path forked. She went left, I went right and landed at the feet of two rather startled dog walkers having bitten through my tongue. Had to spit large amounts of blood out before asking them if they would mind holding my stirrup so I could get back on. They looked mildly terrified!
 
Years ago at Skipton horse trials on the XC. Set off very positively over fences one and 2, commentator mentions I'm Scottish so must be good (his words, not mine!). Approach fence 3 where horse decides that the hay spilling out of the bottom of the fence is scary, slams brakes on and I land on top of the fence. Thank you, Mr commentator!!
 
Fell off in the yard once in front of YM, Assit YM and my instructor. Forgot to tighten my girth on a manky synthetic saddle, one foot in stirrup (from a mounting block) and landed right on the yard drain on my backside.

Very elegant :D
 
event_rider- are you the one whose horse continues on over the corners? That's the most impressive IMO, and I can really see it being shown again and again on Sky to make people laugh....
 
Mike007 said:
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You amateurs!!!:D This is how to fall off!!
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Mike - your photos remind me that I don't have the bottle to try hunting!
 
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Got this sequence of photos of my then 5yos round jumping at Scope in 08, its not an embarassing fall but its a how did he stay on moment... round was going pretty well, unseated rider a little over second from last fence (can see that on landing picture) then shot left and then met last fence completely wrong resulting in quite a skid on his backside. Both completely unfazed, when fence was rebuilt just popped over it. The fence were huge and the biggest track he had ever seen at the time so very pleased with him :)
 
What about when walking a SJ course on foot with my younger sister. I stepped over a jump, as they were particularly tiny, tripped and fell flat on my face!

Does that count as there was no mention of having to have been on a horse at the time?
 
Does out hacking with friends count? Got dumped when I went out with a few friends for a it of a yee hah. The little sod decided that it was going to be great to buck and bronc and flung me off into the path of a hiker who has unwise decided to walk across the field we were in. He is supposed to be a veteran and sedate!
 
I got legged up onto a horse I was trying out to buy at a very posh yard in front of a number of people, and somehow ended up on my bum on the other side of the horse. :o:o:o

Or, galloping to the finish at a hunter trial having gone around clear, the horse veers in one direction, and I continue on in the other! The shame!!! :o:o
 
Halfstep said:
I got legged up onto a horse I was trying out to buy at a very posh yard in front of a number of people, and somehow ended up on my bum on the other side of the horse. :o:o:o
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Lol, I've done this too ;) but off my own horse! Admittedly he can be tricky when getting on - not many people have fallen off Rauti but those who have have fallen off whilst trying to get on :D
 
Umm, other than the numerous falls of Bramble (anyone who knew him will know that he was not happy until he'd managed to throw you off, then he behaved :rolleyes:) it's probably got to be the time when I fell of a friend's HOYS qualified WHP - who didn't actually do anything wrong :o To be fair the saddle slipped and so it was a sort of mistimed half-bail-half-fall. I landed in some nettles :o

And my sole fall off Wilby wasn't embarassing (no shame in getting bronced off when the bronc was as big as that!) but what was worst was that I spent nearly two hours trying to find him, when he had someone managed to slip back past me and go home :o
 
My boy refused the first fence at a comp once & I went over the top & he buggered off......instead of getting up & going after him I brushed myself off & started building the fence we just trashed......lord knows why I felt like such an idiot!!!
 
Riding the pony out in a stubble field one morning, pony was on a long rein and I was off with the fairies, pony took off bucking down the hill, I managed to stay on to all the bucking and galloping but then pony suddenly stopped I went sailing over her head and landed sitting up, holding the reins looking at the pony.

Riding the same pony, just hopped up on her in the field and was tightening my girth so had my leg up, bird flew out of the hedge and pony b*ggered off to the right, leaving me sitting on the ground.

One of my most cringey was out in the woods. Had to go round a barrier that had a big steel pole sticking upright at the side. Horse in front went through and pulled a branch back with him, when I was going through the branch swung back and pony went sideways and forward, I got branch in the face and because the pony had gone sideways my knee was on the other side of the steel pole, I got pulled clean off but managed to land infront of the horse with half the tree stuck to me . . . and we were only walking, it takes skill:D
 
oh god, i just remember mine. I must have blocked it out! I was doing a working hunter and was about 13. Approaching a small gate fence and horse refused suddenly, i fell off and forward, and my head went through one of the decorative holes in the gate. horse legged it and i was stood with my arse in the air bent over with my head in the gate. all the staff ran over as they thought my head must have smashed throught the fence. I was the most embarassed ive ever been and never went near that show again ever. The walk out of the show ring was the longest ever, I couldnt look at anyone and just bawled crying out of embarassment!
 
Used to take care of a shetland, as well as the pony I jumped. Had a friends son walking out on the (13.2hh) pony, I was leading the shetland to give her some exercise. Thought hell with it, I reguarly rode her in the school, so went to jump on her (can't exactly mount a shetland, too short). Emma thought she'd had a laugh & moved, so I ended up jumping over her & landing the other side. She stood there, I swear with a grin on her mush. Same shetland used to bolt with kids when they tried to ride her, under the crab apple tree knocking them off. One took her in the school one day & only put up the top slip rail. Said pony came out under rail leaving kid dangling from it. That was an absolutely superb pony!
 
Most embarrassing fall I ever had was at XC schooling at Somerford Park.
I was warming up on a very fiesty little mare. I was cantering up the stretch of the field when all of a sudden she just went like a bullet from a gun. Silly mare fell over her own legs and she went sliding on the floor, I got shot into the air landing in a heap.

A gentleman who happened to be there picked me up, caught my horse and helped me back on.

I must have caught my legs on something because my beige jods were covered in blood, all down the inside of my thighs.
Noone noticed untill I got off the horse in the car park, where I hosed down the horse, went and got a drink etc.

I didnt notice untill my mum pointed it out to me, looking back I can remember people staring at me as I wandered to the vending machines. Without being disgustingly graphic.....What they must have thought!!

I have never been so embarassed in all my life!!
 
talking about blood.. in gold cup at bsps summer champs.. big big course that i didnt think i would get round.. last fence, raised water trays, bang on the brakes,
i go out the side door, and landed on the number.. bigggg wedgie!! :o:o:o:o:o:o:o and yes, i had drawn blood!! :eek:
 
some of yr falls are far too heroic - if you want embarasment try falling off a stationairy horse next to a bus full of people:o
I was hacking out with teenage wunderkind rider & his v silly spooky boy - bus came down the road - stopped nicely - we showed spooky anxious the bus - all good - then rock steady behmoth takes some exception to the bus & there i was on the ground:o:o - & just to add to the shame then had to go & find a fence so that i could clamber back on:o
 
A few come to mind:

- I used to have a brilliant pony who would turn on a sixpence in jump offs. Was in the middle of one at a PC show many years ago when he turned way too quick on landing and I went out the side door. Was embarassing as it was at the feet of my future boyfriend!
- Fell off pony above when I jumped on him bareback with a headcollar to bring him in and was merrily cantering along the fenceline when he spooked and took off, I slid off landing upside down with my leg up a fence post, the bruise was highly impressive. I've had a few run-ins with barbed wire fences!
- Current horse when he was younger was quite spooky, it was a windy day at one of his first BE comps. Trees were blowing by the dressage ring. He held it together through the whole test but just couldn't quite make it - as I took my hand off the rein to salute at the end, he exploded, dumped me at G and took off across the arena's, over the warm up ring to my mum.
- A past horse threw in the towel majorly at a BSJA competition (he did quite frequently, but I rarely fell off) - I remember falling off at the very first fence in THREE classes (normally do 2 but since I hadn't done the first 2 I tried a 3rd attempt!). That must have been a record for me. He was sold to a hacking home shortly after!
- I also remember vividly falling off a project pony twice in a row playing around at home. I'd just backed this little 13.2hh and was just introducing jumping when for some reason when he jumped a jump on landing I fell off in a heap, and then did the same again. To this day, I cant understand why I fell off - he didn't jump oddly or anything, his neck just seemed to disappear because he was so small! Felt quite a moron falling off this tiny pony though.
 
My first fall is still my best even though it was about 17 years ago. Hacking along a nice undulating river bank when my pony decided it would be fun to treat it like a roller coaster and had a sudden burst of speed. I exited sideways, rolled down the banking and knocked a fishermans knees from under him sending him and his maggots into the River Don! Happy days!
 
Sleepy said:
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Got this sequence of photos of my then 5yos round jumping at Scope in 08, its not an embarassing fall but its a how did he stay on moment... round was going pretty well, unseated rider a little over second from last fence (can see that on landing picture) then shot left and then met last fence completely wrong resulting in quite a skid on his backside. Both completely unfazed, when fence was rebuilt just popped over it. The fence were huge and the biggest track he had ever seen at the time so very pleased with him :)
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:eek: Talk about "sitting on the hocks" !!!
 
Friend came to watch me compete in a SJ competition...Got jumped off every fricking fence! I kid you not. It was about 12 years ago. I was small and the pony was not jumping the most fluidly to put it mildly. Said friend had great fun ringing around and telling how I kept falling off to our school friends. I still go red about it but laugh now or, should I say, try to. Haha.
 
HuggyBear said:
Friend came to watch me compete in a SJ competition...Got jumped off every fricking fence! I kid you not. It was about 12 years ago. I was small and the pony was not jumping the most fluidly to put it mildly. Said friend had great fun ringing around and telling how I kept falling off to our school friends. I still go red about it but laugh now or, should I say, try to. Haha.
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Totally forgot my most funniest, hairaising, dive of a fall.

Jumping a little maniac of a pony (its amazing what you were willing to ride when you were younger and your bones had more bounce in them) and we jumped a single upright. For some reason, don't know why, but the pony bolted after the fence and went head long in to the group of horses waiting at the other end of the arena. Pony did a sliding stop, dispatching me in a super man fashion, head first into the arse of another rider's horse who bucked and by the tiniest of spaces just missed my head with its back feet!
 
Had plenty of falls in my time, but the most embarrassing one was falling off in a sand school, at walk on a free rein when cooling off after a lesson. Being completely relaxed now the lesson was over, we ambled on a long rein just a little to close to the post and rail fence to the school and what I hadn't realised is that there was a nail sticking out of the fence. The nail caught up on my half chaps and dragged me off my horse.

Thing was, the instructors and the handful of friends who'd been watching the lesson couldn't see the nail or anything, and thought it was highly amusing that I couldn't stay on at the slowest of ambling walks!
 
1st time back on a horse after having my baby i forgot to do up the girth and fell straight on my butt in front of a yard full of people.

I was also the only person ever to fall off a 30 year old highland pony when she tripped, i sailed straight over her head and face first onto the ground. Result was 2 black eyes, a broken nose and very bloody mouth.
 
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