Has anyone here ever fallen off during dressage comp?

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i am about to send the entry off for my first 'proper' dressage comp. I am not ashamed to say i am shi**ing myself even thinking about it. OH has agreed to come with me, its in April.
Only just up the road form me, in an indoor arena. Thing is my ponio is very very spooky - I just wondered if anyone on this forum had fallen off during a dressage test? x
 
nooooooo - but I have seen someone take a tumble when their horse had a horrid spook then galloped off causig mayhem at the show!! Both rider and horse were ok in the end! Dont be nervous - think of it as a lesson in a new arena and make sure you enjoy x Good luck
 
Yes, I fell off 3 times in as many minutes in the last dressage test I did!! Bl**dy horse warmed up beautifully too
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no i have had some funny experiences example: some idiot had a massive dog not on its lead and the dog took a very big disliking to my horse..we galloped off accross the show ground causing havok. Luckilly we were alowed to start again
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But im sure you will be fine like Garfield said just think of it as alesson
 
I was judging once and my writer was the show organiser. As a very nervous novice lady entered at A, my writer spotted someone warming up where they shouldn't be.

The horse had got 3/4 of the way down the centre line just as the car door was flung open and out leapt the organiser (no shrinking violet) who bellowed at the offending rider.

The competitor's horse spooked massively, the lady fell off, horse pee'd off round the field, and my writer got back in the car and said, "Oh, how did that happen?".

The lovely lady got up unharmed, and fortunately for the organiser she had not realised why the horse had spooked as she was concentrating so hard on riding a straight line, so was equally perplexed as to what had happened. We dusted her off, someone grabbed the horse and legged her back up, and she asked if she could start again. We said 'But of course! We are here to help you!'.

I was trying hard to keep a straight face by this stage, and let's just say she was marked very generously after that little blip!

Let's hope your writer is paying attention
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My friend got bucked off and left sitting a 'X' as she was leaving the arena in a free walk on a long rein (all got a bit too free!!!) at the end of her test.
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I have once ,horse i was riding was a tempermental baggage and she reared and went over backwards,although technically i bailed out because i knew she had hit the point of no return so i jumped off before she went over.
Had plenty of oopsies in dressage tests but that generally because i take the first few rides for people.

Its like anything though i think people fall less in dressage due to the nature of it,but you still get lots of stroppy neddies.
I worry if i am competing jay inside as he is like a ironing board,he wont bend,reluctant to go forwards and he is so much hard work.He has a habbit of doing some nasty stops,luckily he has never done that with me though just his owner
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no not myself, but i know a very good rider doing an advanced medium test fell off once in a test, later in day went on to win another test
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thankyou all for your replies - it has given me confidence that i wont be the first person in living history to hit the deck during dressage!!!
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thankyou all for your replies - it has given me confidence that i wont be the first person in living history to hit the deck during dressage!!!
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Nah you wont fall hun,my fall brought some excitment to a rather dull night at west wilts though
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No, but a long time ago I had a horse who couldn't resist trying to roll in the indoor warm up. He'd never done it before and it didn't matter what I did he wouldn't get up. I ended up letting go of the reins before he rolled on me, belted him across the bottom a few times before I eventually got a reaction and he leapt up with huge bucking farting leaps and raced through all the smart dressage horses - heading out into the hundreds of acres of open grassland only to do a handbrake turn and find the nearest empty stable!! I was 13 at the time and absolutely mortified!
 
My sister felloff mypony a few years ago at her first comp. he was entering the indoor school and the pony jumped a beam of light on the floor. Funniest thing ever!!!!
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Your be fine
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go and enjoy your-self. nothing to do with dressage but.... I was watching a pro show jumpers class of 1.50m and a very well known s.jumper started the jumps in the wrong order
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then the elimination buzzer went and the horse spooked and he went out the side door. it happens to us all even the best
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My sister felloff mypony a few years ago at her first comp. he was entering the indoor school and the pony jumped a beam of light on the floor. Funniest thing ever!!!!
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Sorry but PMSL
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last thing you would expect she was slightly caught off guard then.
 
I haven't fallen during a test (yet!) but the very first time I did one (work and trot test) I could not get the pony to move at all. I ended up doing the whole thing with one of my instructors running next to the pony so that he keeps moving. Very embarassing that was
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I fell off in a BE dressage test (so not pure, dont know if it counts then?!) - it was a very windy day, trees rustling nearby - we went down the centre line to do our salute to finish, came to the halt and he exploded sideways neatly depositing me at G and galloping out of the ring back to my mum... The judge found it highly amusing and wrote something funny on my sheet - cant remember what it was. I had to get back on and complete (ie. halt and do my salute!). I think the organisers were going to eliminate me for it, but judge was very kind and somehow kept me in and we went on to get placed so horse made up for it
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Otherwise, we have left the arena several times - I remember my first test on my first "proper horse", it was horrific. He suddenly turned into this floating, snorting, ignore-the-rider, psycho creature. He jumped over the boards three times during the one test! It was my worst score at pure dressage - 40%
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Last year, one of my horses felt a bit fresh and bronc'd a few times mid-test... that was fun. Needless to say, I hate dressage - its the bit I HAVE to do to get to the fun jumping bits!
 
DazzlingD thank you soooooo much for posting this!! Having fallen off neatly at X when Av decided to do a 180 degree spin and bu**er off, I thought I was the only one and havent been back to the venue coz am paranoid that they will forever remember me as the 'One that Fell off in a Dressage Test'! I now realise that there are other dressage test tumblers and I am not alone. Thank you :-) (I was allowed to remount and continue, and the kind judge even gave me a 2 with an 'oooppps' comment!)
 
I once fell off, well leapt off in a test, my old horse was being so lazy when we entered the ring to trot round that I thought I'd better razz him up a bit and asked him to canter, to which he promptly tripped over his own feet and fell forwards onto his face (was very scary at the time, it was like he was bowing but with his head trapped under him!), I leapt off panicking, terrified he'd broken something. He stayed in this position for a few seconds (which seemed like a lifetime) and then heaved himself up, thankfully unharmed. I was extremely shaken and crying as I was so worried about my horse. The judge was very kind and let us go outside to calm down and then come back in a bit later. It worked out well in the end as we did the test again later (with no falling over) and my boy was a lot more forward and came 4th which was the highest I ever got placed with him in a dressage test.
 
Oh yes, I got bucked off a youngster in a dressage test and then he pissed off bucking and galloping away. We were eliminated obviously and the judge put 'left arena at A' at least that made me smile.
 
Yes!!
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I went somewhere once in terrible weather, felt like gales and sidways rain. Indoors was ok but warm up was outside and horse was spooking at everything. I was warming up and cantering around the outside of the arena. Woman doing a circle in trot near me suddenly stopped dead in front of me to do her stirrups (no joke, she just appeared on the track, having been trotting a circle away from me, and just stopped dead). My spooky pony swerved to avoid her, went running into some jumps that were piled up away from the track, swerved to avoid those and I went out the side door. Broke my finger
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Yes we were supposed to come back from showing some medium canter up the long side. The short side of the arena ended is a nice 3ft bank with a fence on top, I asked for working canter and mare so no sod off I'm on the perfect stride , I hit the deck black eye from the boards and mare did her thing.
Other embarrasing fact is that a regular poster on here was judging. I believe I'm still her only faller
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