Have you ever known a horse that regularly gets rid of riders?

[JackFrost]

Yes, two of them:
1. As a learner, I rode a pony known for his 'dead stop trick' - middle of a canter, stop dead, novice rider goes flying ???. That was my first time falling off and I learned never again to land on my head.
2. Loan pony who had form for dumping people for no reason. Had everything checked thoroughly, no physical issues, just very full of himself, and when he'd had enough, well it was time for you to get off. Never did it with me, but I felt it coming once and pre-empted with a swift dismount!!!

 

[rabatsa]

An unregistered welsh pony. There was a weeping willow tree that was the favoured rub the rider off tree. No matter where you were he would do a runner to this tree and do tight turns round its trunk then come home smirking. He even ran off from the house gate, removed his rider and came back to the house.

 

[Sealine]

You've reminded me of chestnut mare called Prawn (awful name) that I used to ride at a riding school as a child. If you were riding on grass she would buck you off so she could graze. The first time I rode her I was walking on a grass verge next the road and the next thing I knew I was on the floor. The ride escort then said 'Oh... I should have warned you she has a habit of doing that'.

 

[marmalade76]

You've reminded me of chestnut mare called Prawn (awful name) that I used to ride at a riding school as a child. If you were riding on grass she would buck you off so she could graze. The first time I rode her I was walking on a grass verge next the road and the next thing I knew I was on the floor. The ride escort then said 'Oh... I should have warned you she has a habit of doing that'.

I used to ride one named Shrimp!

 

[honetpot]

My CB would do headstand bucks out of now where, I was a much better rider then, so when she didn't get me off, decided she would go sideways at speed into traffic. It was a game of chicken and she was too smart to get hurt, she would stop before a car, she would try it out in the open and you would 30ft sideways faster than some horse can go forwards. She once got me so closely wedged against a hedge I couldn't get off, in someone's front garden which was really embarrassing. She only got me off twice, and when you got back on she was as nice as pie, as if nothing had happened.
Normal ponies do a quick wizz round and drop a shoulder, or try and wipe you off gates and trees, the other is the fast reverse, solved by taking one across a ploughed field backwards, the SOB would back into a ditch to get his own way. This is why when someone says I am selling this because its too quiet I think they must be mad.

 

[pansymouse]

As I spent my childhood on ponies that had tried to kill other kids so I had a lot of experience of getting back on mid ride. I had a bucker, bolter, rearer and shoulder dropper. I could mostly sit everything except the shoulder dropping. My Mum did concede that the rearer was too dangerous as he did it on the road so he was sent to live at the Yorkshire Riding Centre in Markington where Mrs Bartle had a word and he cut it out fairly sharpish.

 

[scruffyponies]

My first love (sorry, pony) Brave. 13.3hh welsh PB. World class bucker, rearer and shoulder dropper.
I was ejected from that pony more times than I can count, but very rarely from anything since! I like to think he was just helping me to get a better seat.

 

[JackFrost]

Interesting that most of these rogues seem to be geldings - I've counted 29 (inc a stallion) but only 6 mares.
There seem to be a lot of very naughty boys out there.

 

[Spotherisk]

Husband had a loan cob, lovely looking horse, really dolmen buckskin with a blanket spot. He was a git, dropped husband four times in a year, twice whilst he was ,punting (from a block), he would drop a shoulder when you were half on.