Kicking Myself!!!!

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Well, what an idiot.

I'm riding a 6 year old 17.2 sports horse this winter (mainly hunting but schooling him at the same time). Took him out for a 'nice relaxing' hack this morning. All fine - has some nice canters, and he's going forward very nicely - but on the home straight (About 50 metres from the yard) I take my feet out the stirrups to stretch a inflamed tendon in my ankle. WHOOSH! A pheasant flies out the hedge, next thing I know I'm lying on the floor looking up into the eyes of a very smug ginger monster.

How much of a plonker do I feel? So glad no one was around to see!! All my fault for losing concentration. How often have you done something like this??
 
Oh no! And ouch, I hope your ok? Those blinkin' pheasants are a nightmare at the moment, they make such a blooming racket when they decide to fly out at the last minute too!
Oh I have definitely done some daft things that have resulted in a bruise/bruised ego haha!
 
Yes - I'm absolutely fine, just my ego that is bruised!

Sort of glad it happened in a weird kind of way - haven't fallen off for so long and been talking myself out of taking him hunting for weeks - now I know that it doesn't hurt more falling from his height I'm biting the bullet and taking him on Tuesday ;)
 
Yep that's me I often stretch out my legs after a long hack, don't feel too stupid or I'd have to feel stupid too HeHe

Glad you are ok and he stayed with you like a good boy!
 
Ahh those horse eaters are a menace, I would bet there is not a rider out there that hasn't suffered a pheasant related injury! Mine was a dislocated thumb :p
Hope you are not to bruised and don't have to see that view too often ;)
 
Falling off in woodland can be better than staying on, when a dumb-blood is spooked by horse-eating pheasants! I still remember taking an Odysseus gelding out - to teach him the facts of life. Pheasants spooked him and he went straight through some VERY high blackberry bushes - a huge frond ended up round my neck and nearly dragged me off. But I was 10 years younger then and stayed on - and went home with blood from ear to ear!
 
Pheasants have to be the stupidest birds ever! There was one ( well it seemed like it was the same one but probably wasnt, ;) ) round our yard, one day it flew almost at eye level from one end of the outdoor school to the other where it crashed into the fence, was like something out of a cartoon, luckily our nags just stood there and watched it all, think they found it as funny as us! :D
 
Haha! That's Sod's law... I was out on my four year old yesterday, with four others- two babies, two nannies... And we were ambling along on a long rein when I decided to check a message that had pinged through on my phone... One hand on rein, other on the phone, and for no apparent reason whatsoever, he tucked his bum right in and buggered off! Managed to stop him within a few strides, and not drop the phone, but not before my own Nanny horse decided that we were having an impromptu race, took hold of his loaner and did the same thing... Little sod!
 
Here's my plonker story:

I decided to take a lesson with a local riding school that had been recommended to me on their 17+hh schoolmistress dressage horseto sharpen up my technique (I have been riding for donkey's years, but a bit rusty). Anyway, the lesson left me knackered, but I did ok until I went to dismount, and I have no idea why, but instead of leaping lightly to the ground I collapsed backwards as soon as my feet touched down, and ended up on my arse on the ground.

It would have been nice to be able to pull a bag over my head and crawl back to the car park to go home.
 
Pheasant's do not only eat horses - my OH filmed a rather feisty cock pheasant yesterday running alongside his quad pecking at the wheels!! It is a complete nutter!!
 
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