My mare has obviously had her eyes shut for the last two weeks.......

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Today is the first day we have been able to leave the yard in 16 days due to snow and ice. She has been ridden a few times as our arena has been kept useable.
She is a pretty chilled kind of mare for a TB and a few days off doesnt send her loopy.
So we sedately mooch down the track, past the scary dog, past the sheep in the hedge, past a horse galloping around in a field and continue sedately mooching along the road enjoying being able to hack again....untill......

.......Suddenly she slams the breaks on and plants herself in the middle of the road snorting....there is nothing there or so i thought!
After 4 attempts of trying to make her go forwards and her whipping round, bunny hopping backwards, snorting, squeeling and generally making a tit of herself i finally get her to walk on albeit more of a sideways jog, bounce, snort, prance kind of manouver. We passed said scary object at a fairly rapid pace, half in the ditch and still sideways accompanied by plenty of snorting and squeeling and once past it she reverted back to miss chilled out again and we went for a lovely canter on the verges.

Do you want to know what caused the above amateur dramatics?????


A FLIPPIN TINY WEENY (we are talking the size of a cat) PILE OF UNMELTED SNOW ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obviously she has been walking round with her eyes firmly shut for the past 16 days.

Sometime i really do wonder about her sanity!! :D
 
Sounds like my mare (whos got a bit of TB in her lol) with rocks, bricks, piles of muck, treestumps.....

She lives on a farm BTW and all these things are common sights :rolleyes:

The joys of mares :D

nikki xxx
 
Omg! Haha! The same thing happened to me today!mounds of very scary snow at the side of the road! Yes she has been up to her knees in in for the last 10days or so :confused:! Oh the joys of horses! Was lovely to be out again tho :).
 
Oh god yes, my TB did the same thing to me last winter. He'd been in the blummin' stuff, hock high in his field (turned out every day) and yet when it was good enough to hack along the road he also wouldn't go past a lump of snow on the side of the road and tried a mild whip round. Had to get off and lead him up to it. Also if we went trotting round a corner and there was a small patch of unmelted snow on the side of the road this also made him spook. Un-bloody-believeable is't it!
 
Mine did a similar today, as soon as he saw a little pile of snow. He's been able to get turned out so he should know its harmless.


Only for me, there was a quad bike, taxi and landrove making it a hundred times worse! He stayed prancing about in the middle of the road and the poor taxi driver was too scacred to go past him, Im glad he never though. And then he did a little bucking and rearing session when we reached the yard.
We were out for under 10 mins, and he's never been that bad ever, even with 8 weeks off last year.
When we got in the arena he soon settled down and started being nice :)

He's not a TB though, he's a usually very lazy Shire X :D
 
Same for us, my arab x mare gave a pile of snow a jolly good 'snorting' this morning. She has been turned out every day in the snow :)

To be fair to her though, this pile of snow was 'new', last time we hacked this route it wasn't there - and she is very good at spotting changes in the landscape.
 
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