Most Embarrassing Things That Your Horses Have Done?

My very well behaved mare last week at PC camp.
We'd gone along to put the seniors through their Driving Achievement Badge, and one of the group asked if I could do the cones course at speed.
Mare did cones at warp speed canter, rodeoing after each pair of cones. This was after I'd reassured the DC that my horse was so well behaved even the youngest junior member could drive her and be in no danger.
 
Three of mine a couple of years ago watched the bee keepers as they put fondant into the hives next door, mid-winter. A few hours later they found a way through a fence, knocked the hives over and scoffed the fondant.

Luckily the hives all made it through the winter despite their upset, and were too sleepy to sting.
 
These are brilliant! My most embarrasing horsey moment was when I was younger, I think I was about 11ish - I had the most evil little welsh mountain pony who used to regularly throw me off using various interesting methods, he regularly took off with no warning too. We were up on the moorlands one gorgeous day - picture the scene, birds flying, sun shining, a couple of quiet walkers admiring the scenery - my mum was hacking alongside me on the hilltop, and suddenly pony took it upon himself to throw his head down and take off at full speed bucking down this steep hill, directly towards a couple having a romantic picnic complete with tartan rug and champagne - I did everything I possibly could to try and turn him away from them but he was having none of it, tore through their picnic, sent the basket and drinks flying all over them, smashing plates as he went, and then stopped dead shortly afterwards where I sailed over his head. They took it EXTREMELY well (probably due to my tears of horror at ruining their picnic), though I have never forgiven him!!!

My connie gave me so many embarrassing moments over the years, but I think the most cringeworthy was when we had our own commentary around the XC. He was very talanted but very stubborn and would regularly just plant himself for hours if he had an audience. We had schooled over this cross country course a few days prior the the competition, he flew over everything and had a great time. When it came to the actual event we got disqualified at the first fence ( a straightforward log which he had given his friend a lead over when we practised! ) as he cantered up and planted himself in front of it three times. I asked the start judge if I could miss that one and continue as my entry had actually been a birthday present from a friend and I felt awful about the fact that she'd been kind enough to sort it all for me, gone to so much effort, taken us all that way, and we'd been disqualified before we'd even begun the xc! - we were allowed to do so but in true style he tore around at great speed (we at least didnt hold anyone up!) before slamming the brakes on and resting his hoof before every fence, ironically apart from the skinny which we had never managed to get near. His behaviour was so comical that the commentators actually stopped talking about every other horse on course, and gave us a personal commentary the entire way around, which I was embarrased by but at least it had me laughing rather than crying! By the time we eventually got over the finish line an enormous crowd had gathered and I got an actual round of applause. Awful!!!
 
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I was getting abuse at a yard that i had my filly on by some woman and decided to move so on the day of the move me and my filly where waiting for the trailer to arrive and my filly pooped in the woman's hay, so funny and naughty at the same time! I cleaned up after her and left money for the hay though.
 
Not my horse, but my OH loaned a horse for the summer a few years back from our farrier. Thomas was a grand old man, well able to teach OH all manner of things, such as "if you can't get the bridle on it is really funny".

As a trainer I took it upon myself to "teach" OH to bridle said horse (the normal way for us was that the horse taught OH, as husband/wife teaching is doomed IMO- a bit like driving instruction). I had Thomas, bridle and OH assembled in the stable and was doing a slick "teach" of the intricacies of where to put the reins, headcollar, ears, bit, headpiece. I got to the bit where Thomas was to meekly open his mouth, and I demoed this bit several times, showing the lifting and lowering of the bit.

All was going swimmingly, until I looked at OH to confirm he was sure on how it all worked well, whereupon Thomas shook his head, hit my head, and felled me. A complete and utter instant KO, I was unconscious before I hit the floor and stayed that way for 10 minutes.

After that we swapped the horse to a Hackamore, OH could tack up no problem, and I stuck to teaching people who do not also happen to be my husband!
 
Mine is from some time ago. I was in a working hunter pony class and all was going well til 1/2 way round the course ... My pony jumped with his front legs but not with his back... So he ended up with the fence still up but 2 feet on either side of the jump (I sailed over his head and ended up sat on the floor). Pony starts eating nice lush grass at his feet as the judge rushes up shouting ' don't let him panic, don't let him panic' which was funny in itself as the pony was more than happy eating there... I had to stand there whilst they dismantled the fence... And the judge was discussing the number of faults I should get cos technically he hadn't refused or knocked the jump down... I just wanted to run away.

Needless to say I didn't get placed...
 
Not my horse, but I was showing my friend's mare in-hand and she a) kept farting, b) did the world's longest pee (groaning happily the whole time) while the judge was looking at the horse before her in the line up, and finally c) yawned right in the judge's face.
 
Too pick one is difficult but........

I was doing prelim7 with my heavy cob Ffin, he had been off work with an injury and we were just starting again. I had decided it would be unfair of us to do the walk and trot so we went straight in. In the warm up he had been fine and I had both canter leads.( canter leads had been a huge issue due to his injury) I think in his head he was doing a walk and trot so had completely switched off, I knew this so I was trying to switch him back on but he was ignoring me. On prelim 7 you take up canter on a20metre circle between x and c, as he was completely switched off ,therefore my aid for canter must of been a bit of a shock. Now apart from that cobby ability to ignore your rider and do your own thing, he is a really lovely horse who wants to please, so when I asked for canter he did try..........he was so shocked he fell forward tripped over the barrier and assumed a face planted position in front of the judge at c, with me just sat there. I shouted "get up".......which he did. And he then cantered off on the wrong leg. I tried to correct him so then he had a hissy fit and shot out the ring. I got him back in the ring and finished the movement in trot. He did the other rein fine. All the time I could see the show organiser doubled over at her desk killing herself laughing. She later asked me to warn her in future so she could wear plastic knickers!

Bless him I do miss doing shows with him, he is retired from competition now. :(
 
Probably would be quite happily drop about 1m into water, yet won't clear a log without a fight... Then log was fine so fight began over some of the other fences :p said horse is usually sticky XC but not quite *that* bad!
 
Farting over every fence showjumping, prompting several "Jet propelled" comments, getting his 5th leg out at any opportunity, weeing profusely in public, I could go on & on!
 
falling off a pony when I was younger - pony stopped instantly and started to graze - however he was standing on my ponytail and i couldn't get him to move - effectively tethered to the floor by my hair, much to everyones amusement! Or being discovered in a country lane flat on my back with my foot stuck in the stirrup from where i had managed to fall off again at low speed - couldn't get up and had been there a while, again pony happily stuffing face from hedge!
 
One of my little shets came 7th in a class so just missed out on a rosette. As the judge was giving the rosetts to 6th place my littlie very slyly whipped round and kicked her... That'll teach her for not placing him haha!
 
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my old boy, managed to fart the entire length of a church yard, with the wedding party standing in the churchyard, videoing the bridal party, I can imagine the laugh when they went to play the video and all the sound track consisted of was one long series of horse farts!
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hilarious
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Using a judge's assistant as a stratching post, luckily she saw the funny side. Then he decided the shetland behind him in the inhand class was the most interesting thing ever and wouldn't take his eyes off him, resulting in a lot of leaps, spins and tantrums.

That was just one show last week. A while ago he decided to use the farrier's van for his itchy tail... while he was slowly driving past us on a hack. It was pretty embarrassing having to face him when we got back to the yard :P
 
The all time most embarrassing thing any horse has done ,was told to me by a friend in the household cavalry. His horse was on duty in horse guards parade ,Horse and rider in that sort of sentry box thing. It was HOT , very HOT. Small child walks past licking ice cream cone . Horse grabs ice cream cone . Child starts screaming blue murder at horse . Horse spins round in that tiny box and tries to hide from screaming kid .rider powerless to get horse to return to duty.
 
Not my horse, but a little mini donkey that was at the trekking centre I did my works experience at. Apparently he had a thing for dark shoulder length hair. He was stuck in his stable and I'd been asked to get him out, take him for a little walk. Which I did, then he proceeded to mount me!! He was gripping to my hips with his little donkey legs and I couldn't walk away from him! He was very strong and I couldn't push his legs off my hips! Thankfully , I was rescued, no doubt observed for a while as a great source of amusement!! Yep , that was pretty embarrassing . He tried it on when the farrier visited too, they knew what they were doing.
 
Hell. How many do you want?!

Harley, now aged 22 and owned by me since he was five... How about mugging a judge for her ice cream, luckily outside of the ring, mucking about in an in hand veteran class so much that the judge seriously doubted his age ( I should have told her to look in his mouth). Bucking me off when I'd only had him a couple of weeks, and he was found in the vicars garden eating flowers. Normally lovely with kids, a youngster (about six I suppose) was stood with her dad feeding Harley grass while I was sat on him. Obviously from that vantage point you can't see what the mouth is doing... He made a mistake, and picked her up, right off the ground, by the tip of her little finger. The scream was ear splitting... He didn't flinch, just gentle lowered hi head and released her. Turned out they'd switched from feeding grass to frozen peas no idea how I missed that!

We did a pub ride one evening last summer, just to our local, Harley, Tinner not long home from backing, and a. Friends old horse. Both of my boys had the longest wees on the main Tarmac path into the pub, mortified. Friends horse had a dump instead.
 
I once had a horse who literally FELL out of a dressage arena. I believe it was a training level test. We'd begun a canter circle, he was on the wrong lead and he got his feet tangled up, tripped over the rail and skidded gracefully across the grass sideways. I had simply stepped off as he went down. Neither of us hurt but it was terrifically embarrassing!
 
Couple of years ago I took my girl to Wadebridge endurance ride. Venue is the royal cornwall showground, with the trot ups held in one of the hanger size barns with concrete flooring. There was a huge amount of echoing from horses before her doing trot up, and she got very excited, only just passing heart rate check of 64bpm (usually about 40). Before she could do her trot up, the bladder exploded (she does huge wees, one of her nicknames is beachball bladder due to volumes produced with ease. The ability to wee without inhibition very good in endurance horse, lowers heart rate) in the vetting area flooding it. Vets had to move, and vetting area had to be swept due to volume. Vet commented in all years working at ride she'd never had another horse wee on the concrete of the vetting area. Only my girl could! There were no excuses, she's an advanced endurance horse so very experienced and not new to the sport, no reason to get so over the top excited.
 
I was hacking with a friend a few weeks ago. We were riding side by side on a quiet lane, and a car came. We both started to turn as there was a gateway just behind us, but both of us accidently turned to our inside. Somehow our horses managed to get kind of...stuck? With their heads together, and it took us a good 5 minutes to sort ourselves out (whilst almost wetting ourselves with laughter).

Luckily we clearly brightened up the day of the driver and his passengers because when they passed us they were in hysterics as well.
 
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