Most Comical Fall

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Well we've had a thread about our most horrifying falls so how about the funniest ones.

My first was when standing in a lesson waiting for the jumps to go up and my friend turns to me and asks why I always wear a body protector. I'm like, well you never know what will happen etc etc. We go to do the warm up jump, Jeremy is totally not paying attention and got the pole (the fence was about 1' 6"!!) between his front legs. We did a somersault and somehow I ended up on the floor between his front and back legs. We both got back up and my first words 'that's why I wear a body protector' and then couldn't stop giggling (I blame shock).

The second was actually not me but my sister. We were at a show and she had just come back to the lorry to grab a drink before her class. So sitting there on Tucker with no stirrups and no reins and asks Dad to pass her a drink. Well my Dad (not horsey at ALL but should have known better having been around them at home for 5+ years) decided the best way to give my sister a drink was to throw a 2lt bottle of coke at her. Tucker saw this thing flying at him suddenly woke up and shot sideways. My sister sort of stayed in mid air for what felt like ages before falling in the exact spot that Tucker had been standing. It was like one of those cartoon falls where they leave the eyes behind, I could not stop laughing - my sister was less impressed than me, especially as Tucker immediately went back to looking like a sleeping donkey. :D :D

So lets hear yours :)
 
At a show when i was about 7......doing a clear round jumping class.....dad got a bit carried away.......ran round the course flat out pony was cantering full pelt next to him, he obviously thought it was against the clock as was cornering pretty tightly, at the end of the course he looked so proud of himself, only to be greeted by my mum yelling at him as he had lost me on the corner after jump 4 and hadnt realised and had done the rest very nicely but without the rider!!

Also.....same show.....another jumping course.....this time pony refused at a jumpdad kept going but tripped over the jump, i kept going over ponys head so me and him were in a heap on one side of the jump, pony was on the other side of the jump munching on the lovely flower arrangement next to the jump wing!

I think mum went home due to embarrasment at that point!
 
Um, doing a riding club camp and allowing naughty horse to refuse the same jump, not once, but 3 times and falling the exact same way over his head 3 times, THEN having the RI get on and jump over it straight away - hysterical for everyone apart from me! Funnily enough the horse was called....... Joker. :mad:
 
Jumping at RS, doing a course. Came round to a spread, probably about 2'9. Not entirely sure what happened, but landed and the next thing I knew, pony was stood still with me hanging from the saddle, only thing holding me on was my foot which had caught on something so I was just sort of dangling there, facing the pony's side.... I was laughing, everyone else was laughing too! Had to wait for instructor to come and help me down as I couldn't get back on OR off! :o So I'm not really sure if it counts as a fall, as I never actually hit the ground...... :p
 
After my first gallop when I was about 12.
Was cantering a little mare with my friend through a field. All was well and good until she shot off and I had to follow. I was fine in the gallop, then back to canter, trot, walk etc. It was when we stopped at the gate and she asked me how it was that I just slid off the side of the saddle!!

I think I was a bit in shock. Pony trotted off down the road but was caught by my friend who was in hysterics!!!
 
So many!
I was sat on my pony waiting for a friend to catch up and then I was sat next to her. No idea how, but everyone had a chuckle
I fell on in a warm up arena and landed the other side of the arena fence to my horse. Had to walk all the way round to the entrance with horse in tow. Very embarrassing!
Other than that I think I have fallen off in every possible way and have provided many laughs for those around me
 
I was on a tiny 11.2 pony and was picking blackberries off the hedges, I reached for one missed swung off the pony (who had no shoulders to stay on) and landed on the floor! :P
 
The best 2....Falling off a horse after the jump....I'd asked for canter in the corner, come straight up the center line so wasn't 100% balenced, over the first jump a bit dodgy, and didn't have time to sit up and sort my self out before the 2nd jump, I smacked my head on his neck on landing and had a moment of 'shall i try sit up.....nah F-it' *flop* My mate walked out of the tackroom to find me sat on the floor still holdin the horse who was stood lookin at me and laughing.

The other....We'd got a new pony for the RS so was trying him in the school, He bucked the entire way round in trot, i stayed sat fine, until he put in a big one...i stayed on, but the saddle went up his neck, so pulled him up (conveniently infront of the 'spectators area') and went to get off...automatically taking my leg over the back, got it caught and landed on my arse in front of every one....not sure if it counts as a fall tho as i was technically getting off anyway. lol :D
 
I was cantering my boy across a stubble field last year when the crops had just been cut. As he got a bit faster i thought i would lean forward slightly to get off his back and make it a nicer ride. Anyway, no sooner had i leant forward, the little bugger stopped dead and did a 360 degree turn. I hit the deck, in the stubble really hard. I looked up and he was just standing there looking at me on the floor!!!!!! Turns out his saddle was pinching him at the front and as i leant forward it must have made it worse. Lesson learnt to get my saddle regularly checked!!!
 
Vaulting onto my untacked, unrestrained 14hh pony & putting too much oomph into it & landing on my butt on the other side.

Pony gave me a dirty look that said "you are an embarrasment"

Again not falling off, don't get Dad to give you a leg up, he gives you a leg upandover!
 
Nicoleak0 said:
Again not falling off, don't get Dad to give you a leg up, he gives you a leg upandover!
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Oooh, I've done this one!! And it wasn't even on a little pony, was a big 17hh horse, Dad obviously thought I needed a good shove as he was so big, only forgetting that I'm quite teeny! Its quite a long way down on the other side!
 
She'll kill me for this! My daughter was jumping her pony at Southview,it was a big track and naughty ponystopped very sharply at a big spread. Daughter was catapulted out of the saddle and landed straddling the jump poles. Her legs weren't long enough to touch the ground and she couldn't get down,had to be helped by the ring party. We still laugh about it some 10 years later.:D
 
The funniest i've witnessed from my eldest daughter is when her mate legged her up onto Otto and she accidently put her knee on his back (fatal thing to do on ots!) he bronced and she ended up sitting next to him laughing. All this happened next to the first aiders car! lol
 
Nicoleak0 said:
Again not falling off, don't get Dad to give you a leg up, he gives you a leg upandover!
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I managed to chuck a kid upandover on her 15hhish horse. I felt awful but couldnt do anything for laughing :D

luckily the horse didnt move. but gawd we laughed for ages after that :D


My falls..... my horse bolted XC and i came off........ and landed in a facefull of poo.

not nice :D
 
I was about 10 years old and riding a dun pony called Champion, we were all mounted up and waiting in the yard for the lead rider to move off. Champion decided to tank me into the stable (mounted) for hay - I was left hanging from the roof!
 
my most embarrasing was with my old loan pony, mid hack walking down this narrow little hill, pony stopped and put his head down slightly, my saddle slipped forwards and propelled me straight over the top of his head and landed on my bum in front of him, still holding the reins! the bridle somehow stayed on and he was left with a very impressive mohawk!

my friend didn't even notice to begin with till I started laughing. That was the last time I ever forgot to check my girth on that pony!
 
mine would have to be a true old fashioned saddle slip. when i was at my RS i rode this little pony called brandy, and her girth was too big for her but being a cheeky pony puffed out enough that you didnt notice, managed to get on but slowly slipped round and round :p

then second would be a refusal at a jump when at the RS too mustve en abot 2ft 9 max lol pony stopped so late he had his front legs under the jump and it was a classic sitting on his neck moment, if the head had stayed up id have been fine, but he put it down and started walking backwards que me leaning off to the side and doing my best attempt at the worm as i bailed out :p
 
Don't know if this counts as I didn't actually get on!

I went to mount horse at Hunter Trial and my foot slipped. I ended up on my back in the mud with him looking at me as if I was quite mad.

It got worse, as at the water jump thro' a lake he fell in a hole and we both diappeared from sight.

Jane
 
Playing musical blocks at PC on prince. When the music stopped you had to jump off, run to a polyblock led on the floor and stand on it. One removed every round, just like musical chairs.

Anyway trotting around, a split second before the music stops prince bucks, I come flying through the air, music stops whilst I'm still in the air and I land, stood up on a polyblock. Had all the mums in hysterics :D
 
Just remembered another one....I used to ride a TB mare that was an ex-trainers hack...and very much get on and go, so used to mount her from the wrong side, I lined her up at the mountain block which is 2 tier and she was more level with the lower half, but only just so to save her back i figured i'd still use the high section and just have to jump a bit....As my foot left the floor she walked forwards, out of reach and being the numpty i am didn't admit defeat and was still convinced i could swing my leg over...I caught her bum, she bucked and I bailed :D my sister was sat on Herc p*ssin her self laughing, My YO was appologing because she thought she'd scared the mare by walkng behind her with lawn chairs...and me - complaining that my clean jeans were now filthy, then realised the mare was making her way to the yard gate and went to get her for take 2.
 
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