Naughty pony or just one of those things?

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This is doing the Facebook rounds, an American friend sent it to me! Little girl on a coloured pony doing a rather spectacular dismount, the photographer was facing the right direction at the right time to get this sequence. From all accounts the little girl was fine and got back on.:)

I am not sure if I am permitted to post the photos but here is the link to the photographers website. Scroll down, Warlingham & District Horse Club Annual Show.

http://www.facebook.com/abbit3#!/AtticPhotographic

Reading the comments is interesting, ranging from "shoot the thing" to "that's horses for you."
 
Probably a bit naughty but not a hanging offense. It looked like a canny dropped shoulder to me!! Only went up because it found a child hanging on it's head I suspect!

Glad the kid was okay, she'll probably end up a better jockey for it
 
Oh dear!

I guess you'd hope for better from a LR pony, but then without knowing what the cause was, who can say if it was naughty or not? There are some things that make the most sensible of horses lose it (scary leaves, white lines on the road, donkeys, pigs, cyclists, people in rucksacks, people in hats.... the list goes on:D)
 
By the sounds of it, he's usually a very well behaved pony... Just not a machine, thank god... No fun if they were aye? :p
 
One of those things!!!

My son's new pony bucked him off twice in 5 mins in the first week we had him - since then he has gone to do pc, fun rides, competed sucessfully and is having a hoot with him. And yes he has occasionally bucked since, which my son has now learnt to sit.

They are ponies - not machines, and the cheeky ones are the ones that teach children the most imho.
 
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I must say that our Sec A is a bit like that. He does know how to get them off when he wants to. And even on the LR as well. I love mine to pieces, but it is certainly a love/hate relationship some of the time. I think that was naughty pony syndrome. :eek::rolleyes::p

P.S. My above mentioned naughty pony won a couple of classes at a Warlingham & District show a while back. :)
 
Aren't all little ponies naughty?! daughters little grey cutie could be a sly little bugger when he thought no one was looking, he bucked her off a few times when she was tiny because he didn't want to do what was being asked:rolleyes: As she got bigger and he realised he couldn't get her off he gave up!
 
My 7 yr old said it looks like a fun pony & she wants ago. As a parent its not something I would want one to do with my child, but perfect ponies don't teach them as much.
 
My first pony was a NF and a little sod! I came off him more times that I had hot dinners in the first 6 months but my god it taught me to sit deep! He was an absolute cracker when he discovered that I had found my superglue ;)
 
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