How much do you trust your horse?

I think my mare has a much better sense of self preservation than previous gelding, if she spooks or spins, she won't do it in the way of oncoming traffic, as she is always aware of herself and usually of me too! I had a share horse just like that before the gelding, she was a bit spooky but was generally very wise and although we had a lot of moments they were generally safe, the last time I rode her we had a comical fall where she ended up upside down in a ditch because she reached up to eat a tree, and I think it was the first moment where she was like 'ok yeah that was stupid, can you get me out of here please?' She always thought she knew better haha.

I have never had a horse for a reeally long time so I tend to stick fairly close to the rules but I know this mare is one to be trusted and generally respect her opinion, I'm sure I'll be riding her backwards down the A14 in ten years time ;-)
 
I trust my horse 110% me and a friend went on a hack to discover a new bridle path, and had to go up And down very steep hills that are dangerous for bridle paths! She slipped going a small hill and I chucked her reigns to her neck and let her sort us both out, going down a bigger hill she was slipping bad so we both got of horses and led them down, she stayed beside me and put her head in my shoulder <3
 
I trust Diamond 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000 per cent

With my life i worship the ground she walks on. That's why my heart is aching that I am loosing her on Monday:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

Her son I trust him 75%..
 
The old man I trust completely after he looked after me when another horse gave me a compound fracture of the shin whilst riding. He stood still as a rock and let paramedics and others treat me whilst surrounded by a minimum of fifty other horse all in very close proximity and even when those horses moved off he stay where he was. I was in shock and being sick and he just stood there as if he knew if he moved I would fall off one side.

We have had our disagreements but after over ten years of partnership I trust him completely, he's my rock :)
 
I trust my boy as he has a good sense of self preservation, stay with him and I will survive.

He has never reared or done a dirty buck, the odd one only for fun! I do know if I ever fell off he would stop at the first bit of grass.

He is very good in the stable and he was once startled by the other half and dodged round me.

Trust him 100%, no, he is a horse, not that he has ever done anything in the last 11 years that I have owned him to doubt him.

He would be mortified to read this!!!
 
Not 100%, but a lot. He is a horse, not a robot. Last time I got complacent it ended in me getting injured, and it wasn't his fault, mine. He wasn't being nasty at all, just being a horse, enjoying the sunshine and got a bit full of beans. I was unprepared and more or less was of the attitude he was a robot. My rule, try not take your eye off the ball and don't get complacent. Big mistake, however much trust there is.
 
I trust Blaze completely and in 8 wonderful years, she has never let me down :)
Marygold I have only had for a few months, but she is proving to be as reliable as Blaze, bless her!
Jasmine??? Not bloody likely! She has the brain of a learning disabled amoeba and can be a nowty baggage at times :D Love her? Absolutely! But I wouldn't trust her further than I could throw her, and that's not far :D
 
It depends very much on the situation - boggy ground type things I give her her head and she'll pick her own way (I hint guidence for general direction) but there are situaitons where I'll give more guidence - in a situation like yours I would be inclined to listen to her as she doesn't balk for no reason
 
The Hocamaffe I would trust with my life when it comes to stables, fields, travelling, riding etc. The only thing he has bad at is gateways - he is 17.2hh and gets a bit flustered and claustrophobic about gates so they always have to be wide, wide open or he shoots through at the speed of light incase he gets hurt - I don't think he realises that the faster he goes the more likely he is to bang his hips *roles eyes*
 
This is a hard one . . . on the ground I trust him 100%, but then we know each other really well and he trusts me when I'm on the floor. When he got away from me (in fright) and took off up a narrow footpath with barbed wire on both sides and I had to go retrieve him and he had grown about two hands and was obviously frightened, I trusted that he wouldn't run me over in such a narrow space . . . and he didn't. He stayed with me, led behind me beautifully, and followed me to safety. He has walked past things he found so scary he was physically shaking just because I asked him to on the floor.

On board, it's a different story . . . he has trusted ME to go past some really scary stuff (tree surgeons up a tree with dangling ropes, chainsaws, scary signs, etc.), but when he decides he doesn't want to do something he drops one shoulder after the other with no warning, so is incredibly unpredictable/untrustworthy, so I don't totally trust him out hacking.

I do, however, trust him in the school.

I love him unconditionally though . . . and accept that his quirkiness is just who he is.

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I'm just getting used to hacking alone and today got up my nerves to go as far as Newlands corner ( in Surrey) we got there over Albury Downs, basically the track was a thin layer of greasy, slippy grass on top of mud with a constant irritating camber. From the minute we got got that tricky track she just tossed her head in disgust until I gave up and cut back up to Newlands Corner via the public footpath not the bridleway - luckily no one saw me. I thought she new best!
 
I trust him 100% in the stable, he has never bitten or kicked me. Apart from some rudeness when I first had him, I can do anything with him. I do trust him on the roads as he is so safe, but I have to be honest when instinct kicks in, then he is a horse, and I have to do what I can to reasure him.
 
I don't fully trust my four year old yet, he can be sharp, can have a buck and can can be arsey. However, once I'm schooling him, or if I'm in a dressage ring I trust that provided I do my job properly he'll do his and that he'll ignore everything else to do it for me. I was having a lesson amongst welding, souldering and sparks and bless the pony he didn't faulter once. I don't trust him not to stick his head between his kness and bronc because some birds flew out of a hedge. I trust that he will get over this. I do however, trust that if I put a novice on him for a walk round he would listen and wouldn't take advantage.

My nine year old I trust out hunting, hacking and x-country implicitely. It's taken me awhile to trust him on roads as as a teenager he was a pain but he's learnt not to react to scary things now or at least not throw us both under an incoming lorry anyway...! I trust him 100% to at least try his hardest to get us out of trouble, I trust that if I ask him to jump something then he will no questions asked, I trust that if I ask him to go somewhere he will and I trust that he will never intentionally throw me off.

I don't trust him to trot down the centre line of a dressage ring without gawking at everything, I don't trust that he will concentrate on me when schooling if there are more interesting things going on and I don't trust that he'll not be an arse if someone else gets on him until he's figured out if they can ride or not and if they can't I trust that he will stick his ears up their nose and piddle off...

So it seems I have two horse's that are polar opposites and are trustworthy at totally different things. I love them both anyway and love that they both have totally different jobs :)
 
I think I've had one horse I trusted 100%. Utterly. I could leave him with his stable door open and he wouldn't leave until my word, he got barbed wire stuck between his shoe and his foot and didn't panic, stood still until released. I was in a worse state than he was! Poo picking, I used to scramble aboard and could easily spend hours just sitting on him as he grazed, I could canter and gallop around the field with nothing at all. He was so intune, he trusted me implicitly and I did him. He was known as 'superstar Sam' but could be a right idiot for anyone but me or my mum. Didn't mean he wasn't prone to a stop if I rode like an idiot though! Absolute sweetheart, still can't believe I sold my horse of a lifetime...

My homebred 4 y.o... Hmmm. I'm not sure. I trust her to look after me or not do anything stupid, but not to the same extent. She's still young and babyish, I think. I do reckon she'll mature to be a good egg, though.
 
Most horses have self preservation as their main goal - and that trait exhibits itself in many forms..................but I too have a horse, that when it meets ice, knows exactly what to do - i.e. the tiny steps thing. But he will also view a newly laid hedge / new flowers in said hedge / new puddle on road etc. etc. as potentially life threatening as well - at those moments, I lose patience (for he has been riden on along these lanes for over 10 years now) and will bring a paddle smartly down on his well padded rump, for all the good that does......!
 
My old pony I trusted 110% he always knew the right thing to do even if I didn't and got me out of several situations in the past. The one and only thing I couldn't trust him with was white vans, any other colours/lorries/tractors/trains no issues but he flipped at white vans :confused: but no matter what, he would do everything he could to avoid hurting me.
Honey - not at all! She took a kick for me once in the field but any problems and she freezes/bolts and doesn't care who/what is in her way! Mysti I would trust 100% but thanks to a complete pyscopath at my old yard it's taking a while for her confidence to come back so she's more jumpy/less aware so have been kicked/squished a few times.
 
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