Really mad stuff you've done with horses....

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I used to leap frog onto my pony over his tail, and when I caught him (without headcollar) would hop on him and gallop flat out to the gate bareback, no hat, holding onto his mane. No way would I do that now! Your mad tales welcome!
 
I swam my pony across a huge lake, it wasn't madly deep, but enough for him to swim. Actually I think it was his idea :) We went paddling and he started swimming and then I couldn't turn him :D
 
Haha ... we used to do that at our local riding school - at weekends we'd bring all the ponies in - no hats, only a headcollar and scabby leadrope and gallop flat out jumping rivers as we went :eek:
 
Used to leap frog on our ponies when they were tied up half asleep!!!!!

Gallop twos up bareback with just a headcollar

Jump the benches on the side of the road
 
When I was about 12 or 13 we used to play being jockeys and gallop round the fields, sometimes purposely falling off and rolling into a ball like we'd seen jockeys do on TV. In those days, hats were so crap, they would fall off before you hit the ground. They were "held on" with a bit of loose elastic.
 
When i was sixteen i bought a pony without my parents knowing becuase I felt sorry for her. I did well though, kept her a secret for about four weeks!!!
 
Swimming bareback in the lake and galloping bareback in a headcollar. Oh and on holiday, 12 years ago in tunisia, galloping flat out on a beach and then the two blokes in front veered off to the left into a palm tree wood, I obviously followed and they shouted something in arabic, must have been "heads up" as there was this branch right level with my face! Luckily I ducked just in time or would have ended up wrapped around the bl**dy thing and then probably battling with travel insurance!! I did wear my hat though! I think they found me quite funny! I was there in my nice little classical position whilst they were there slouched riding western!!
 
bumblelion said:
I did wear my hat though! I think they found me quite funny! I was there in my nice little classical position whilst they were there slouched riding western!!
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That's a fantastic image in my head! English position, English hat, rising to the trot.... I'd be the same. :D
 
Once we did try taking the reins of the pony next to us. We were riding in pairs so each person had their pair's reins. It was a bit of a disaster. But at least we did match as we had two blacks and two skewbalds and we rode in pairs according to the colour of our ponies ha ha!
This was not at a riding school but when I was riding out with friends.
 
Put a black sock over the plaster cast covering my broken leg (to resemble a long riding boot) and then persuading my dad to put a step ladder beside the pony so I could compete in the open SJ class in which we can second!

Mad AND stupid really - the craziness of youth

What a difference all those years makes - now hardly venture over a pole on the floor!
 
haha some of these are really funny!... im new BTW :)

my horse decided to gallop down a trach when i asked for a canter and i didnt want to end up in the bush again so at top galloping speed i stupidly decided to jump off!!!

silly thing to do should have just gone in the bush again!
 
rhino said:
Hello and welcome :D

The problem is that everything I do seems sensible, it's only when I tell other people that I realise it's not :) Like going through the drive through at McDonalds - isn't that perfectly normal?!
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You're right, eating mcDonalds is a mad thing to do.
 
i used to ride bare back and bridless over a course of jumps. it was when my fellow was a youngster. i really dont now how i did it, i dont think i would even attempt jumping without a saddle! and im now a complete jumping wuss! galloping on verges, up and down stupidly steep verges, riding out on a hack in just a head collar and over motorway bridges on a footpath! i dont think i could do any of these things anymore. you see the dangers sooooo much more when you are older. oh and rounding up cattle including a breeding bull for fun! also riding and jumping/galloping in moonlight down 100 acre fields from field to field. that is a memory i will cherish tho, nothing but me the horse and silver moonlight. all you could hear was the sound of his breathing and see his breath. was a beautiful experience.
 
This is a genius post!!

When my sister and I were little on our 12hh-ish ponies we used to put our stirrups up as short as they would go and wind them round about 6 times then just flat out gallop to play jockeys!! sometimes my sister couldn't stop her pony so I had to lean over and grab one of her reins to help her stop before we got to the massive drainage ditch at the bottom of the field (6ft drop!)

I also used to have an awesome first horse (still do though he's 34 now) and we used to jump any single thing we could around the farm, hedges, gates, fences etc... one of these involved a take off with about 0.5m of grass verge between road and fence, so we used to have to get a good trot going on the road then do a sharp left turn to use the grass as a take off.

Don't you get boring/wimpy as you get older??? Latterly the Novice XC at Skipton horse trails has been the maddest thing I've done... me and about 200 other people but it was mahoosive IMHO!! :D All in a controlled envirnoment though.. yawn!
 
Isn't it funny that this forum is full of threads about confessions of mad things we do with horses, alongside threads warning about the importance of health & safety?!
 
one night on the way back from the pub crossing one of our fields my friend had the bright idea of giving me a leg up onto one of our Welsh cobs which were living out at the time my other friend decided to grab my leg to which I yanked it back kicking the pony which then galloped off with me.

No idea how I stayed on but I did and got off once we finally stopped lol
 
stacey_lou said:
one night on the way back from the pub crossing one of our fields my friend had the bright idea of giving me a leg up onto one of our Welsh cobs which were living out at the time my other friend decided to grab my leg to which I yanked it back kicking the pony which then galloped off with me.

No idea how I stayed on but I did and got off once we finally stopped lol
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Oh god - that's just reminded me of the time I decided to ride my horse at 1am to go and escort my sister back from the pub as she was too scared to walk on her own and it's over a mile away.... It was new years and I was trollied.... poor Sam wasn't amused about his midnight workload, luckily it was a full moon so we could see, but I don't think hi viz had been invented back then, so it was an ****ing stoopid thing to do!! Thank god the police didn't come accross me!!!
 
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