Have you ever got off a horse out hacking because it was misbehaving?

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I did it today and am feeling a bit of a failure.
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So how many of you have got off a horse mid-hack because of its behaviour/because it bucked you off/because you didn't feel safe?
 
Yep, I have, and have advised riders too also. (is that bad grammar? too, also? means the same? lol)

anyway, yes, Coco, now in new home, did exactly what yours did, and lost the rider. We walked him home and then lunged him for a bit so he didn't associate the naughtiness with stopping work.
Don't feel a failure, you are not!

ets because my typing is so bad today!
 
No I haven't - and I possibly wouldn't consider it. I have hacked out on a friends pony a few times, who is a little nutcase, and rears quite a lot on you, but I felt it was better to stay on as getting off may let him think that I've admitted defeat.
 
answered yes, however I will never to do it again as I got off as horse was a time bomb, and bucking constantly, so decided to get off, did not check what I wouldland on and twisted my ankle, had a month off riding and eventually rode last week for 30 mins and it hurt !!!

Now I understand the saying that you have more control on a horse than on the ground with it. Was hard being in pain and controlling horse, although he soon realised I was in pain and calmed totally and helped me hobble home on one leg.

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When I first got Willow walked nearly everywhere, I was always getting off, I'd had a really nasty spill on the road with his predcessor. Eventually got fed up of walking and work colleagues taking the p***. Had him 7 years and he's lovely but would still get off if I had to, dont feel a failure, none of us can afford to end up in casualty.
 
nope ,never got off & unless i had no choice i wouldn't ,friend did this once & the horse reared up & hit her on the head with it's fronts
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don't feel a failure, your not hun xxx
 
when i was on possibly one of my first ever hacks many years ago we were crossing a tiny bridge (which we shouldnt have been on) probably about four foot high, with no sides, and the horse started napping and going backwards towards the edges! i was petrified and jumped straight off! got a sharp telling off from the older "wiser" girl i was riding with and didnt do it again!
 
I haven't but, i have swapped onto another horse, when mine was bucking and being a cow, and i have had someone walk me back on leadrein after i fell off after a horse bolted. When my mare bucked me off i had five minuted to gather myself together then got back on and made her walk on a weeny short rein for the rest of the hack.
What happened hun???? And don't feel like a faliure, if my horse was constantly rearing/bolting/bucking i would get off if i didn't have a more experienced rider with me.
 
Once on my first pony, he planted and wouldn't move so got off lead him for a couple of yards and got back on, he then decided he would do the rest of the hack
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Yes, I have done on a couple of occasions when PF has been particularly spooky and traffic has been hairy. I wouldn't have got off if I didn't know that she would settle immediately (little madam that she is!) with me on the ground and an easier lunch for lions/bears/etc.
 
I have, when pickle gets really scared he likes to be reassured on the ground, it really does calm him down!

Like I rode him past a tractor (and trust me it was a battle to do that) on the way back he was going so mad and silly I walked with him, he walked past nicely that time, It wasnt as if I avoided the problem I was just reasuring him it was ok to try and encourage him to walk close to it
 
When I first had my boy and he spooked and got his knickers in a twist over just about everything I would get off a fair bit to lead him past things...which worked as he would ride past the next time. But I had to be careful because if he was really not listening and in stressed mode he was quite un-manageable from the ground..better off staying on top and ignoring the behaviour until he calmed down and listened again! One day I broke this rule and got off him when he was megga wound up and he started to drag me down a steep hill on the road...we gathered momentum and I could not hold him so ended up falling very heavily on the road and rolling round a blind bend because of the force...he galloped off heading for a busy crossroads and I started running after him in a right state. Luckily I did no major damage, a local picked me up to look for him and even more luckily, my horse had got past the junction un-harmed and was stood by his gate eating the grass verge!
I stay on wherever possible now and can guage his mood better as to when to get off and lead...hard lesson to learn.
That said I do believe it is best to get off if that helps get a horse past a 'monster' and would do that rather than have a battle any day! Although it helps having a 15hh horse that I can get back on though without needed a step ladder!
 
I did once when I couldn't get past a lorry on a narrow verge and panicked a bit. Don't feel that I would need to do it now because I feel confident enough to stay on and win the battle! But it made me feel better at the time and it worked. I think that once I thought to myself that I can always get off if worried I haven't needed to
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Don't worry - you will get over it.
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I have been known to get off and walk..but my back and hips are so stiff I prefer to stay on board if possible, because remounting is a challenge unless I can find something to stand on
 
I got off my 4 y o a few times if he was going nuts cos he was scared eg rattly tractor & trailer in a lane & the tractor had its bucket in the air, first field of cows that he'd seen, man pulling 2 wheely bins behind him...

I felt a failure for getting off until I read an article by Richard Maxwell. He said that if a horse is scared & you bully it, the horse feels as if no-one's on his side, & if you get off, instead of seeing you as feeble, the horse thinks that you're helping him out / acting as herd leader.

It worked with Mac as the second I got off, he tucked in behind me like a frightened puppy & calmed down.

Whereas I wouldn't have got off Cat because if he was acting up, he'd be pushing the boundaries instead of being frightened.

You know your own horse and if you know you did the right thing, don't worry about it!! You're still in one piece & so is the horse, which is what counts.
 
Watcher,
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I know where you're coming from
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Yes, I've baled out before and would again if certain death was on the cards
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DON'T feel a failure, you're not
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I said yes but I can't remember if I have or not - but my mum used to get off her horse to lead him past stuff quite often (he was a comlete little sod and knew every trick in the book - rear, buck, spin, bolt, you name it he did it out on a hack!
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) - all ended in a very bad way which I'll not go into but it could have been worse for her had she been sat on him!!
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Oh yea, and she got off my horse the other day when two loose riding school ponies came galloping past!
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Yes. twice.
First time because I was riding a pony stallion who was enjoying himself rather too much and was jogging. We came out of a bridleway and went to cross onto a t junction onto a road that went sharply downhill and the pony wouldnt let up, and I was making him worse
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. Rather than risk him doing his prancing on downhill on tarmac, I got off and led him for a bit. Gave me a rest and settled him a bit. I then got on and rode home.
Second time I was riding someone's tB. I think it was only the second time I had ridden him and was going to hack alone. Went out onto the bridleway and some stupid oaf cantered past us. Of course, Tb got all excited and wanted to give chase. I could feel him coiling up, and he kept backing into a ditch, going foward and backing into same ditch further along. Seeing as the ditch got deeper and deeper, I decided I did not fancy returning him to his owner injured, so got off and led him home.
I think where safety's concerned, then sometimes it's the best thing to do.
 
Yes I've done it once, the pony was being a complete ****.

The only other reason I'd do it would be to lead a horse through water if it didn't want to go through.
 
i was exercising the YO cob, he took off with me through woodland, had trees whip my face and eyes and he ran into the main road at the end of the track-i have no idea how we weren't killed, but i couldn't ride him back to the yard, was so shaken up.

not got any lack of nerve over it now, doesn't bother me at all, but i really felt my safety was being compromised and couldn't trust him at all.
 
No. I feel safer on board than on the ground!!!! Once you get off it can be hard to get on again if need be. However I suppose you could say I got off my old pony from time to time. She was never totally traffic proof and would disappear over hedges if she came face to face with lorries/tractors and I found it was safer to get off, at least if she then launched herself over a hedge I wasnt with her!!! Lets just say she was 13.2 and would happily jump over/through 6 foot hedges to avoid noisy vehicles!!! Not good!!!
 
I've got off before but not intentionally!!! Cropi reared on a blind corner and because I didn't sit up (taken totally by surprise) I ended up dismounting over her neck
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I dragged her to a bank and jumped back on though, I was fuming but a bit shaken up too. That was about 18 months ago now....touch wood....its not happened since
 
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