Funnies please - silly mistakes you have made

I've done the whole punching self whilst tightening girth thing. I've also fallen off going around a corner in a jumpoff; horse did an absolute cracker of a turn (in fact had I stayed on I'd've won probably) unfortunately I sort of got left in midair! I've also had to chase horses across fields before now because the only part of their rug I've done up is the front straps. I've tried to set off on rides with no hat (& been *******ed by various people!), rode with chaps on the wrong way around and have even been known to complete whole rides with my safety stirrups turned the wrong way before anyone bothers to mention it to me.
 
Kenny doesn't have a martingale normally. He's been out of work for a few months so I've been able to ride quite a few other horses. Set out for a hack the other day, looked down and thought "what's that keep swinging between this ponies legs?!" I'd forgotten to put the girth through my martingale :rolleyes:
 
When I worked on a livery yard I turned out a very fussy livery owners horse with its stable quilt on, they were the same colour in my defence.

My friend who noticed it came running up to me to tell me and we both stood there in hysterics, we then got the horse in took the rug of and proceeded to clean it with water and a brush as it was covered in mud still in hysterics, her husband must have heard us and just stood in amazement while we tried to explain what we had done I think he thought we were nuts, we must have done an alright job as the livery never mentioned it.
 
My best friend has a 24yr old TB mare who is very sweet, but at that age gets her kicks out of embarrassing her owner, she has done various things to make her look totally clueless infront of the vet or farrier, like barging out of her stable with no headcollar on etc, which is totally out of character but the best one to which I am partly to blame was on a funride:-
16.1 TB who rushes out of the trailer, so we get to a very posh equestrian centre and literally loads of people around, and where we parked seemed to be in everyone's eyeline! I made a great suggestion or so I thought to my friend, that I would take my mare out and stand her on the front ramp so her mare doesn't rush out and make us look like pillocks infront of everyone on this immaculate yard, so I lead my mare down the ramp and stand patiently awaiting my friend to come up our rear, nope TB mare see's the tiniest of gaps and leaps off the side of the ramp throwing my friend in a heap on the tow bar, dead leg and looking like we are a couple of complete amateurs, while said TB prances like a demented racehorse, seriously everyone was watching and thought why would someone be so stupid as to not get the other horse out of the way!! :o
 
When I was young I was going to take my pony to a show. I bathed him and pimped him up with the care and intensity that only seems to exist when you are young. I'was just letting him dry in the sun when my friend offered me some what was then new-fangled show sheen spray. I took her up on the offer and went to spray him with it. He too offence at the spray, snapped the string he was tied to and ran off down the yard and straight up the pig midden where he stood up to his belly in pig muck refusing to come down. I was not well pleased!
 
Oh god! I must stop reading this, keep remembering silly things I've done! :eek:

I've turned out a horse in a stable rug too! :o

One of the young liveries dad put her horse out in her stable rug, when she came back in she'd rolled and it had rained... she was soaking but looking quite pleased with herself ha ha! :D
 
ZondaR said:
I gave my tack a very thorough cleaning, soap and leather dressing and everything. It looked fantastic. I then tacked up to go for a super shiney clean ride. It is my habit to hold the saddle flap up with my head as I tighten the girth before mounting (my horse is 16:2 and I am 5 foot 3). So I was pulling up on an oiled girth strap when my hand slipped off and I punched myself quite hard on the nose. I didn't know whether to laugh of cry.
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I sported a beautiful black eye for a few days after doing just this.
 
One of the silliest mistakes I made was not pushing the catch handle of the loose barn up tight.

I had four horses hunting the next morning - early start so I had fed last feed and skipped out at about 9 p.m. When I went down to the barn at about 5 the next morning I was greeted by a wrecked barn.

Four youngster, 2 weaners and 2 yearlings plus their dams had been out all night and trashed the place.
They had opened bales of shavings, haylage, empty feed sacks and spread an open big bale of straw all over. There was not an item left in the grooming buckets outside the stabled horses boxes. Bales of chaff were spread about, shat upon and they never managed to eat all the carrots so trod the rest into the ground.

I really thought I would have four colic cases but they returned to the loose area lay down and only got up to poop.

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None of those horses expected any hard feed for three days - not that they were going to get any!
 
glamourpuss said:
Recently I was going to a show, loaded all my tack etc in the living & jumped in. Drove down the drive. It wasn't until I thought
'Gosh, the lad is quiet' (he's a prolific pawer when excited)
That I realised I hadn't actually loaded him into the horsebox :D

Luckily I hadn't got far, not like my eventer friend who got 2 hours to an event before realising she's forgotten one of hers!
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Thats so funny..... I drove of with my ramp down luckily I spotted it as I pulled out !
I was surprised that I never took out any parked cars. As the lorry is 7.5 Tons and the ramp is rather large.
 
YO left me a hunter to tack up for his owner who was on full livery. I didnt see they had left a martingale. Anyway owner came and collected the horse and took him hunting. YO went mental with me saying there would be trouble as there was no way he could manage without a martingale on. Anyway he returned and she said did you manage ok and he said yes fine. She said didnt you notice you didnt have a martingale on. and he said nope.

Just goes to prove he didnt even need one on.
 
on the yard where I kept my mare we complained about the mounting block being wobbly unsafe so yard owner replaced it with an old plastic water tank turned upside down, a few months later I was standing on tank to get on maisy my mare when it cracked and I fell through! im stood up to my thighs in the tank looking like a flower in a pot with everyone howling with laughter and maisy looking at me over her shoulder wondering why I had no legs. they had to lay tank on its side so I could wriggle out!! not my finest moment and I started the diet the very same day.
 
A second hand story I heard was of an aquaintence that is a tad dotty! She arrived at a show with her ramp undone and a horse missing.

She was sure she had loaded him in the last space before leaving so a search party went out. The horse was found 20 kms away from the show grounds happily munching grass at the side of the road.

The catch on the ramp had not caught and the springs being a little slack let the ramp down - the horse untied and only held in by a chain across the back of the truck had fallen out.

She swears she felt no commotion in the back so the horses departure must have been swift. Being New Zealand roads in the early hours there had been no traffic behind her to notice it.

The horse was totally unscathed and walked up the ramp back into the truck as if nothing had happened.
 
Put the wrong bridle on the wrong horse, 'Batgirl would you put this bridle on Black horse No1?' 'Sure thing...' 'Urm, Batgirl, that's Black horse No2'

Not too ashamed of this as they were very very alike :o

Couldn't find a horse in its' field, looked and looked and looked (it was nearly dark), ran to YO house panicking that it had escaped. YO comes out, bangs on gate with a bucket.....thundering hooves and horse miraculously appears at gate (was 16"3 as well, hid behind a blade of grass it did!)
 
Remembered 2x more :D

Friend show sheened her entire horse, including saddle area. She was having trouble with the barrel shape of her horse any way. Took horsey show jumping and came off with a thud as she went round a corner in a SJ class and her saddle swing round horses belly.


Also same friend and luckliy on my old much smaller than Mr Arnie horse. We were cooling off after a schooling session chatitng and she said something rude to me so I playfully smacker her with my riding crop, on her puffa jacket..... big noise, 2x horses bogging off with owners doing backwards roly poly of back of their horses. we hit the ground howling with laughter to see both horses at the other end of the arena giving us dirty looks :D
 
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