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

[Janah]

I remember getting Welsh cob in by riding in a headcollar and jumping five bar gate, too much effort to open!

Riding out at night on said Welsh Cob with friend on behind, no saddle, and falling off, both of us, having cantered down bridlebath and 'cos it was dark not seeing overhanging branch.

Cantering on every blade of grass.

Tracking horses for miles in local woodland and fields, when much, much younger in the hope of actually seeing a horse! Had hopes of rescueing a rider in trouble and would reward me with a ride!

And so on, too embarassed to admit to.

Jane

 

[cheeseandhorses:)]

im 14 and i still do 'mad' things , well did with friends until i moved . We would go sheep hearding, race with jockey stirrups, jump anything in our way , ditches logs hunt jumps you name it - our friends had an unfilled lake in their field so we had a mini derby bank to go up and down - we once jumped on a shetland bareback which then cantered under a broken fence , my friend made a sharpish exit ..... got on my old shetland both at once - we also went hacking for miles without saddles , did get some funny looks for that one from other riders on 'posh' horses

 

[Ali27]

As a kid we used to gallop across the greens in the New Forest sitting backwards and would laugh so much that we wet ourselves

 

[Cindygirl]

Think I have done at one time in my life all things mentioned and I must admit my 10 year old has done a few as well. As long as he has his hat on and someone responsible is with him. But we also both play full contact rugby & have done for years, so I think we both are short a few brain cells.

 

[brown tack]

I used to ride my old mare at night, by head touch I even jumped like that too

And play around in the floods.

Stupid and young that I was, never do that now thou

 

[bmw]

About 4-5 years ago I got my first loan, I'd never hacked out apart from with riding school so was all very boring, when the other girls on the yard took me out we would go galloping any bit of grass we could find, most of them had busy main roads at the end and my horse was very hard to stop once she got going! We would go riding all through the village and wait at the traffic lights, we got a few funny looks ha! Also riding under the M25, that worried me a bit, because the tunnel was so small if your horse reared up you'd be squished between the horse and the roof!