Life according to Uni

[poiuytrewq]

Since having the latest ex racer there have been a few issues, things that have scared him.
These are really pretty few and far between. He’s bit of a superstar all things considered. I can usually think “fair enough” it’s a new thing to him.
I can only ride in the afternoon. So In winter, light failing he was freaked out by cars with headlights coming at him. Racehorse’s would generally not see that I don’t think. When you think about it. To the gallops in the morning probably doesn’t include being alone on a road under trees in bad light with sudden bright lights in your face.
Another was people going off the road being sucked into the hedge (footpath gap in the trees ?)
Power tools, chain saws, hedge cutters etc (not the massive loud on the back of a tractor type, we pass them no problem ?‍) but man holding noisy implement, very wrong.
And… people sitting on benches, just why? People have feet so walk.
People in electric scooters, the type disabled people use. Super scary. Supreme caution required.
Super proud of the boy today. 5 months off, a week into work and we did the village loop. Buckle end past a guy chain sawing- fine and past a group of old ladies on “the” bench. Still pretty wary, pass wide with care but pass without problems.
Past guy on electric scooter (see above, please walk) , no need.
So proud of him.
However he has confirmed weirdly that elderly women sitting having a drink are far more scary than chain saw wielding men….. really?! What the hell go’s on in their brains ?

 

[poiuytrewq]

Oh and this week, again bear in mind a week into work I met some people on horses who were worried about a big lorry coming down the road. I said oh, just pop them in behind me (x’d my fingers and hoped for the best ?) good as gold! Lorry passed without a second look.

 

[Caol Ila]

My Highland has no problem with cyclists screaming downhill past him at 90mph; he has no problem with cyclists passing him, either towards or away from him, on flat ground. But he doesn’t like it when they ride uphill towards him. Horses are weird.

 

[poiuytrewq]

My Highland has no problem with cyclists screaming downhill past him at 90mph; he has no problem with cyclists passing him, either towards or away from him, on flat ground. But he doesn’t like it when they ride uphill towards him. Horses are weird.

That’s not right is it ?

 

[Gloi]

Mine doesn't mind them flying at him from any direction. However if they are laid on the grass while the rider eats their lunch well ??

 

[criso]

Tractors so close to you, you are right underneath the prongs holding 2 round bales of hay, OK. Same tractor trundling along a field in tbe distance terrifying.

But neither as scary as a slightly darker patch of grass which resulted in a very impressive canter to halt and a lead past it.

 

[criso]

Mine doesn't mind them flying at him from any direction. However if they are laid on the grass while the rider eats their lunch well ??

We once saw one upside-down having its wheel mended, to this day Tigger says we are lucky to escape with our lives.

 

[poiuytrewq]

He’s right, you’d do well to heed that advice.
Same with tractors in fields? What’s that all about! Different coloured grass is the work of the devil.

 

[chaps89]

Mine doesn't mind them flying at him from any direction. However if they are laid on the grass while the rider eats their lunch well ??

I remember once cantering up a hill on private property and horse slamming the anchors on because there was 2 cyclists taking a break at the top. Thankfully I managed to avoid carrying on going solo but I’m afraid the cyclists got short shrift ?

 

[chaps89]

I remember being worried about taking my Welsh to London with me - he had a habit of seeing things 3 fields away and tanking off at home in semi-rural Leicestershire. I needn’t have worried, he turned out to be a city horse through and through, lots to gawp at and see and do and people to admire him on our hacks. I genuinely don’t recall him putting so much as a hair out of line there ??

 

[Keith_Beef]

People in electric scooters, the type disabled people use. Super scary.

Maybe he saw an episode of Doctor Who when he was a foal, and he thinks anybody in a mobility scooter is Davros.

 

[Flowerofthefen]

I had a pointer and he was absolutely bombproof. Nothing phased him until one day we were galloping along the river bank and went from gallop to halt because of a .......dock leaf!!

 

[Auslander]

People in ditches are highly dangerous, according to Alf. Gates in hedges are also terrifying. His own shadow "chasing" him.
Power tools, bird scarers, barking dogs behind hedges, skip lorries, cars and cyclists flying past - no problem at all.

 

[Red-1]

I had a Police Horse who was pretty bulletproof in all manner of situations.

Unless...

We were out on patrol for a protracted period where there was no grass, and he had to pee on the road. By heck, that pee pee was scary when it rolls down the hill and out between your front legs!

 

[Zuzan]

Mine tells me that recumbant bikes are particularly concerning .. humans should be vertical.. especially if they are moving..

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

Sounds like my Welsh D, the traditional scary things are fine so he makes up things to be scared of...

He will complete a lesson fine, then spook at a different coloured piece of sand

There's a fallen branch with some leaves on it on our hack. Every single time it remains terrifying

He was once confronted by a Swan in the road hissing at him, he stood there for a bit then walked past fine. Yet on the way back spooked at the Swan poo....

He will walk through puddles but trickles of water are obviously evil

Cyclists can make him jump especially if they ring the bell rather than call out though that also makes me jump. Came across a group reading a map, their bikes lying on the ground, that was scary. He then had to go over a strip of new tarmac which was clearly the gates to hell even more so on the way back..

Depending on his mood, flattened mud on the road is terrifying

Parked cars for some reason hide unspeakable dangers

When grooming, his trimmed hair on the floor or bubbles from bathing induce terror

Yet he walked past, albeit a bit tense, a parked tractor with big hay bed and round bales on the back

He tends to bring his head right up slam on the brakes and the snorting starts. When going at canter or gallop across the fields away from home I tend to be constantly risk assessing the surroundings in case he suddenly slams to a stop! He's produced a beautiful half pirouette on occasions in walk as well

 

[Keith_Beef]

Out on Equirando this year we were on a path running by a small pond.

A man was in the edge of the pond, clearing out some bullrushes.

He had been bent double, reaching under the water to grab the stems.

As the man stood up, the leader's horse thought it was Swamp Thing coming to attack.

Later that day we were riding down a sloping field towards the road. There at the bottom of the slope were a couple of houses. In the garden of one of those houses was an ornamental miniature windmill, and the leader's horse decided that it was just too hideous to be allowed and started dancing around again...

The rest of the group had to ride between her horse and the windmill to show him it was not dangerous.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Some of these are hilarious. They just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever!