Here is my definition of a bombproof horse...

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Bombproof is a phrase I have rarely used and apply with caution but today I really think my girl deserved it.....

Out on hack, hear an almighty roar getting quickly louder, cows in adjacent field go beserk, birds shoot out of hedge as a micro-light aircraft swoops in to land, coming in right over our heads (about 5m above us) swooping down about 20 yards infront of us. She didn't bat an eyelid and just kept on walking!

(I on the otherhand was scared out of my wits!)
 
Did you have her vetted before you bought her because she might be deaf and blind!

Well done on her, and you, I love to hear of well trained horses that are not frightened by their own shadow.
 
Really scared me and I have to admit I sat there waiting for her to explode or bolt (even though she has never done that before) but thought it was a step to far for any horse, she didn't even break into a trot, she just looked at it, flicked her ears as if to say 'calm down mum, it's only a flying car!'
 
That's great! I was hacking down the edge of a landing strip once on the concrete with my friend and heard a plane. Turned round andsaw the plane was coming in to land! By the time I turned round to warn my friend they landed next to us but whizzed off up the strip before the horses realised what had happened so they just looked a bit stunned but carried on plodding on. Not bad considering my horse at the time hated tractors!!
 
brilliant ........... I think its not so bad when they can hear them coming from a way off . I remember almost having kittens when a helicopter came in to land the other side of the hedge from us when we were hacking down the lane ..... but she would have heard it coming way before me ;)

still a bit close though :rolleyes:
 
My mare earned her bombproof tag when a helicopter started up right next to her with my nervous OH on board whilst hacking alone. She flicked an ear and walked a bit faster.........

She's been past hot air balloons landing, marquees, music concerts, peacocks, wind turbines, lorries and the usual tractors. Never bothers.

Bless she's only 4.
 
Also, what they perceive as danger and what they've been successfully trained to ignore. Horse I ride is bomb-proof in any traffic - lorries, tractors passing him no problem. But if those vehicles are stopped at side of road, they are well scary. And tiny white flowers, clumps of fern..they will kill you apparently
 
Horses have the abilty to amaze us all the time this is my lad grazing next to the whurly bird after its just landed,

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Its a blimmin good job you're up in Kent OP, coz I'd be burning a path to your door with money in me hot little fist hassling you to sell!!! ;)

Wotta horse!

Mind you, with mine, we were up in a place where they do military training; and they regularly would start live firing on a grenade range, where the whole earth shook every thirty seconds and it would go like "boooommm!" and he dealt with that, PLUS at the same time as all this happening a blimmin gurt helicopter flying low over the trees just as we were going underneath AND soldiers running around the place playing hidey seek. All of which he dealt with without turning a whisker.

BUT take him to a show and he's a total fruit-loop; broncs, snorts, squeals, and explodes, plus the full-blown vertical rear he did in the collecting ring when we went to a show back in the spring :(

Talk about a creature of contradictions.
 
What a brilliant girl, I would be proud too.

I used to own a horse that was literally bombproof. It had a field next to a very large quarry and when it heard the blasting sirens it used to run up to the top of the field to watch them fire the shot. Bearing in mind each of these would drop several thousand tonnes of stone the noise was horrendous.

Saying that it wasn't that good on the roads, no idea how their minds work.
 
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