Go figure

[Penny Less]

My big cob is terrified of anything different or not in its usual place, usually something small like a pheasant or a piece of hose, today I watched him as a JCB with the bucket right up in the air and a tractor and trailer came into his paddock and went straight past him about 10 feet away and he didn't even raise his head from the grass !

 

[Holzdweaver]

haha typical
My boy is fine with any sort of big machinery, never bats an eye at tankers, lorries, tractors or trailers, never even glanced at a huge tractor going past with a massive roller attached, it made a right racket! hes the same with motorbikes, dirt bikes, diggers splitting rocks anything.
but... someone once had the nerve to paint their garden gate a different colour and he turned into a dragon every time we went past for ages. and if theres a bit of aper in the hedge which wasnt there the day before? well to him, it must be a tiger in disguise xD

 

[twiggy2]

new flowers in peoples flower beds are monsters in disguise as are puddles when the rest of the ground is wet-if everywhere is wet puddles are fine?!!!

lorries/dustbins/rubbish etc no problem-cattle fine but chickens are out to eat you but peahens are no threat


keeps us on our toes we love it if it was not for their quirks horses would be boring like cars

 

[Polos Mum]

mine flips at things that aren't there! OH parked big scary tractor right by the school and it was completely ignored for 2 weeks, OH then moved it and the space where the tractor had been was terrifying !!

 

[Amy&]

My girl is a total star, will hack past anything and is good for going out with horses that don't hack well as will walk past any "monsters". But the other day we were schooling, she did a poo, we came round again and she spooked at her own poo! Think she does it just to keep me on my toes!

 

[p87]

We have a fire exit door at the bottom of the indoor school. On the right rein he schools/lunges past it like a normal horse, but on the left rein all hell breaks loose, he grows into a 18hh arab dragon while I do my best to ride on through gritted teeth...
I got a face-full of sand today while lungeing him, as he decided the best course of action would be to do a 180 skid turn, and do his araby toe prance thing, tail and head up, nostrils flaring, while looking at me as if to say "don't tell me you can't SEE that down there?!"

Only thing I can think of is maybe the light catches it different on the left rein. Or he is just being a tit. Most likely the latter.