Has your horse had you in tears? (Ridden-wise)

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I don't mean for really sad things, like injuries and pts. I mean, you got off (or were ejected) or even stayed on, and just cried? If so, how often, and why? And did you fix it?
 
No, not really, a couple of years back i cryed through anger, but not at my horse, it was the instructor that wound me up.... Tryed to get me to whack my horse with a whip, she was a youngster learning to jump!!! I said no so he decided to just make me look like an idiot infront of everyone...
 
Yes. I cried once after she threw me off into a wall. T'was shock I think. I have also nearly been in tears through nerves when she tits about and tears through fustration when she just won't work properly and I know she can work so much better.
With regards to the titting about I sorted it with a smack on the bum, I said to myself I am a good rider, if she bucks and buggers off I am going nowhere, and if you get me off I will be smacking you the whole way down
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And when she won't work properly and won't listen? I get the side reins out and lunge her until she softens then I get back on her. She can't win that easily..
 
Not through riding I don't think, but through groundwork (loading / grooming etc.). Not really these days, but when I first got him, he went through an aggressive phase. All I did was try & do right by him, and get him back to full health (poor condition when I got him). He would repay me by biting, kicking, and generally being thoroughly evil. I think there was a day where I looked at him & thought there was no chance of ever bonding or having the partnership I had with my old mare. This is what reduced me to tears. However, although he remains tricky at times, we did eventually bond. Just took time. The riding side was frustrating, but I don't think I ever took it personally - it was annoying more than anything as he can be challenging ridden too. I think it just upset me that he seemed to dislike, dis-respect, and resent me so much to start with as his handler - and that felt personal!
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Yes! Axel used to be so awful that I often used to cry when I rode him. He would have his head in the air like a giraffe and would spook and p*ss of across the school. He wouldn't listen and he would spin round and rear up, and nap.... the list could go on for pages!
So much for my 'dressage horse'!!!

Luckily I found a wonderful instructor who in less that a year turned him into a lovely happy horse that loves his work and tries his hardest for me.
 
Yep! Tears of joy! My boy took me round a huge XC course with a derby bank, irish bank etc. And I cried when we got to the end!
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I was sh...ting bricks beforehand and he was such a superstar!
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We didnt go clear but we got to the end!
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Yup
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I cried when after 45 mins of different things under the sun he still wouldn't canter on the correct leg in one part of the school- He canter was perfect doing the transition anywhere else.
I often have a good cry about other random things when I am out riding too, totally not horse related, and I cried with pride after his first dressage test, we didn't get placed or anything
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If I'm not crying about any of that then I'm crying about how luck I am to have a pony like him
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The old Appy did for about the first two years
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She was a nightmare, nappying, spooking, just generally refusing to go in the direction she was meant to go in! I then lost my temper with her one day, spinning her on a river bank, her instinct for self-preservation kicked in before mine did
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She was never and easy ride but by gum she was a lot better after that day!
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Yes! the last time i cried with him tho i was on the ground. I had walked quite a long way down to the field to bring him in in evil wind and rain and he planted himself, I couldnt turn him back him up nothing. I tried everything from being nice to shouting then realized i was stuck- I couldnt go for help coz by this time he was on the track outside his field and could have gone anywhere so 45 minutes later i cried!!
 
Yep
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My fault though. Frankie went throughh a period when his canter was awful, he couldn't gt the transition, he couldn't get the right leg, he would motorbike the corners so badly...

I was going through a horrible time in my life, signed off sick with stress thanks to a nasty bully of a boss, I cried instantly and randomly with any small negative thing in my life, and my confidence in general was in tatters. Riding Frankie was the one relaxing enjoyable thing I had.

One evening Frankie was doing his motorbike job good and proper and turning circles tightly to boot - i was convinced he would slip over sideways, and that night was the straw that broke my back. I got off him and sobbed to his astonished owner that i wasn't doing him any favours and was making him worse. I wouldn't get back on him for a week or so, i just cried at the thought of making him worse. Stupid thing was, he had actually improved during that session!
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His owner later told me she had tried everything to make me see sense, and was about to try shock tactics and tell me that maybe i was right and i shouldn't ride him again. I'm soooo glad she didn't as that would have made me 10 times worse!
 
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Yep, out of sheer frustration on several occasions. Maybe that was my PMT though>!
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Ditto
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I try to avoid the school at that "time" of the month
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Yes ... main one was when I'd had a shitty day, and he started napping on a hack - and he never EVER naps - that was just it, I sobbed into his mane for about five minutes. And then he ever so carefully started walking forwards again.
 
I went through a bad phase when I'd lost a bit of confidence hacking and my horse was playing me up. I came back from one hack in floods of tears as he'd been such a git. I wne home and wrote an advert for him, but my OH tore it up as he said I was in no state to make that sort of decision.
It turns out he had a back problem, so he was probably trying to tell me something. That was 3 years ago and I don't think he's made me cry since - I'm just so pleased that I didn't sell him.
 
Yes... many occasions. Quite frequently at cross country because she gives the most horrible ride ever, even over BE 80 courses which is really not fun...
 
Yes, all the time. I often wondering why I have a money eating, soul destroying, pain in the bum
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But then the next day I go for a gallop and it all makes sense again .
 
Yes! I spent most of yesterday afternoon and evening in tears because I've finally realised that we do each other no good when jumping as we're both nervous, so I've given up jumping him. Felt completely useless and pathetic, but slightly bolstered by the fact his owners also find him tricky to jump (he's v spooky and can be quite backwards).

Just means the poor horsey is going to be dressage-d to death over the spring and summer now
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When I read the title I thought 'Yes!', but thinking about it, I don't remember any tears riding - pleanty of fear on last mare, a good dose of hanging on to manes and anything else I could grab at the time, and quite possibly some choice language on the odd occasion
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The only time there were tears were of frustration when I'd get to her only to find that she was lame again. Happened so often. Ho hum.
 
I have lost count over the years.
I have cried through frustration, nerves, anger, joy. I am rather emotional!!
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I haven't cried whilst riding for a long time now. The last time was tears of joy over 12 months a go.
However,,,,in the next year or so I have a youngster to bring on and no doubt she will scare the living daylights out of me at some point. I will then do what I always do and cry!! LOL
 
One of mine constantly had me in tears when I rode him he was just so difficult and he really wore me out. Unfortunatly we both knew how to piss each other off so it was a constant battle. However if I could go back and do it all again I would I just wish he was 5 not 25 and 15.1 not 13.1
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My TB is yet to have me in tears.
 
Yes, once, but it wasn't really my horse's fault. She was being a total arse about something when I was schooling her and a "friend" who was also in the arena told me to wallop her with my stick - hard. I did. I got the desired reaction, finished schooling, went back into the yard and sat in my horse's stable and cried that I'd been so horrible to her as she is never really horrible to me without reason - why had I taken such "advice" and not looked for the reason my horse wouldn't do what I wanted? I sat in there hiding and crying for a good half hour/45 mins! Said "friend" never found out
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I hug my horse far more often than I use my schooling whip these days
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Mainly because the only other time I've really cried about her was when the vet told me what was wrong with her...!
 
Yes
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Through frustration, i gave up and got off him.

Think that was a couple of years ago now when we first started attempting dressage
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