Looking for horses/owners with unusual talents for a new BBC entertainment programme

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Do you have a horse that has an amazing/unusual skill? Do you know someone who can do something pointless yet brilliant with their horse or other animal?

I'm looking for people and animals with unique skills and talents for a new entertainment programme for the BBC. Having kept horses all my life I know that there are some fantastic equine characters out there as well as many talented horsey people who would be brilliant on a show like this.

I'd be interested to hear from anybody who thinks this could be up their street - from horse whisperers to people who've trained their pony to shake hooves.

Please do spread the word amongst the horse community as I'd love to get some equestrian coverage onto mainstream television.

All enquiries to me at:

frances.allum@bbc.co.uk

Many thanks for your interest.
 
It's definitely worth getting in touch with Emma Massingale - she has a horse who plays football! I think she has a website so you can google her too.
 
Most of mine also have an incredible talent for being able to undo all and every zip on a jacket, extracating the polo's and munching them whilst I am mucking out!
 
Thanks for all of your responses, it sounds like lots of you have got horses with interesting talents! I had a shetland pony who was taught to bow when I was a child....it was a bit of a winner in classes at local shows, I always got moved up a few places! Please do keep them coming, I'll be in touch individually to people who might be suitable for the programme. Thanks again.
 
I have a pony that takes mints from my mouth, gives kisses on command, and cocks his leg like a dog when wants to be scratched?
 
To stop him being bargy, my horse was taught to ask nicely for treats.... I stand with the treat behind my back, tell him to 'ask nicely' and he backs up. Pulls all sort of faces while he's doing it as it frustrates him no end, and I can get him to keep backing up if I was really mean.... usually one step back and he gets his reward.
Also tried to teach him Spanish Walk, so he will lift a front leg when tapped lightly. He's pretty nifty at flinging it up at unfortunate moments though, and has clouted me with it on several occassions.....
Nothing spectacular.... but he's also very good at making money and time diasappear!
 
Mine do all of above as in can make me look a right tit, destroy things (mainly water buckets esp in winter when tap frozen), spend money as fast as I earn mainly by destroying his half brothers rugs etc. Anyway my horse excels at versitily if this is of any intrest. We compete in BHA league horseball matches, dressage and jump for local riding club teams, show at County level, do younge dressage and event horse classes, we're doing a teams of 3 class at County show, go to camp and do side saddle (not so much this year as letting him mature but will be going to attempt to regain the ROTY title next year). I'm sure if I had the time he'd drive!0
 
The Shoe limbo's!!

Our paddocks are internally fenced with electric tape, pulled very tight, not switched on as someone pinched the battery, our 16hh ISH can get from 1 field to the next without having the gate open, she goes under the top tape (about 4.5 ft high) and over the bottom one (comes up to top of my thigh but I am very short!) without looking.

Yesterday I was trying to save her the effort and let her from 1 paddock to the next, I undid the top tape and she walked UNDER the bottom 1!! She can also walk out under those rubber coated stable chains if you hang them at recommended height.
 
my little shetland gelding can paw how old he is (6) when you ask him to. he also has the amazing ability of rolling in the field while eating from a bucket, while keeping said bucket on his head, and eating away AND rolling at the same time. i gelded him at 4 years old and before he was gelded he covered my shetland mare, i now have a 1 yr old shetland filly and she can do exactly what dad does - roll and eat.
he will also grab the handles of buckets while others are eating and whip it out from underneath their nose to steal their food. crafty little bugger.
 
My old pony can do an impression of a bicycle pump; when I pick a hind leg up to pick his foot out he never fails to trump in my ear.

Please don't contact me. lol.
 
Can't wait till this is on the TV...will be great to watch some funny/clever animals in action!

I have a gelding who will 'fetch' whichever object you tell him to, e.g. the fork, the brush or the broom. He will also pick up a grooming brush and groom your back with it. He will lift his front legs up on command, can also scrape the floor according to the number you tell him. He will turn a circle on the whistle command and if you say 'show me your bum' he will turn his back end towards you. If you say 'pick it up', he will pick up any object that is near him on the floor, such as food bowls, comes in quite handy if you drop a whip out hacking! If say 'up and down', whatever object is in his mouth is waved up and down. If there is an object in the field that he thinks shouldn't be there, he will pick it up and put it in the poo box in the field (friends think they have lost headcollars but in reality just need to look in the poo boxes!).

He is a character and a lovable rogue. He has never been forced into learning any of the above, just offered a food reward as a well done.
 
vetsbestfriend said:
Can't wait till this is on the TV...will be great to watch some funny/clever animals in action!

I have a gelding who will 'fetch' whichever object you tell him to, e.g. the fork, the brush or the broom. He will also pick up a grooming brush and groom your back with it. He will lift his front legs up on command, can also scrape the floor according to the number you tell him. He will turn a circle on the whistle command and if you say 'show me your bum' he will turn his back end towards you. If you say 'pick it up', he will pick up any object that is near him on the floor, such as food bowls, comes in quite handy if you drop a whip out hacking! If say 'up and down', whatever object is in his mouth is waved up and down. If there is an object in the field that he thinks shouldn't be there, he will pick it up and put it in the poo box in the field (friends think they have lost headcollars but in reality just need to look in the poo boxes!).

He is a character and a lovable rogue. He has never been forced into learning any of the above, just offered a food reward as a well done.
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Now that sounds like some horse! Have you ever considered writing a manual so we can all train our horses to do that? I'd love mine to pick up stuff I've dropped
 
Lol...it is amazing what a greedy horse will do for food!! I am sure he could learn some new tricks as well but can't think of any more to teach him. Must admit the 'pick it up' trick is the best...doesn't half save my back if it is sore!

He will near enough poo in the poo boxes in the field as well. He backs up to them before lifting his tail, doesn't quite manage to get them in there though unfortunately!! But he is an absolute minging wet so and so in the stable. Have tried to teach him to wee in a bucket, but he doesn't like being splashed so won't. Now that would be very useful for me.
 
Well, I want to see YouTube previews of some of these - esp the Shetty rolling in/pinching feed buckets, plus a few from the other thread about tricks people's horses do.

Ours likes to stand in buckets, especially with her hind legs and manouevres them carefully into place so she can get one, or ideally both feet in. Usually it's the big trug-type ones when we are mucking out and if you take them away, she'll switch her attention to climbing in the wheelbarrow. Bonkers.
 
Iceni can drink tea from a mug, she will not drink it if its cold and she definitely won't drink it from a bucket or anything else that isn't a mug :) She's also scared of herself when she sees her reflection in the mirror.

Lottie can take her rug off WITHOUT undoing any of the straps and can also somehow place it on a hedge, did i mention she's 31? She can also unlock and open anything, stable door with the kickbolt done up, gates which you have to lift and pull to open, clips on leadropes and she's an expert in opening tubs full of treats and feed bins :)

Shoe as previously mentioned can go UNDER the bottom electric fence tape. She also pulls the funniest faces if someone stands in front of her stable facing away from her, talking to others, no one ever listens to that person cuz we're too busy laughing at her faces :)

Beau opposite to Ice, is the most suspicious pony ever! She also licks the treats of your hand. And she could admire her reflection all day if you'd let her :) She's also our little rug shredder and an expert in putting her rugs on her head.


Thats about it atm will update if any of the horses come out with a hidden talent :)
 
My horse also does fetch, will kick a ball around and jump over things you point at. Picks things up really quickly if there is a carrot involved!



I don't fancy being on tv tho :o
 
My horse can spot an unopened and unattended feed sack at 500 paces and will stab at it with the tip of one front hoof until he's made a big enough hole. Then he eats the contents while everyone rolls about on the floor peeing themselves. I mean, how did he ever learn to do that??? He also has free range privileges round the yard as grass-verge-keeper-downer and will shove chickens off any crumbs scattered for them and suck them off the ground. Honest to god, he can be as common as muck!!!
 
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