Scariest Thing You've Met Out hacking?......

Commercial waste lorries, ice cream vans, police cars/ambulances with sirens and flashing lights, double decker buses, motorway bridges, tunnels... my horses really are bombproof
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The only thing they won't accept are gypsy trotters coming up behind them at speed
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It would have to be a horse drawn hearse complete with what seemed like 1000 people in a walking procession. Everything was in silence and my girl proceeded to spin in circles snorting, farting and pooing everyhere. I was sooooo embarassed.
 
It's amazing what can be seen on an innocent hack!

Huskies pulling a sled charging downhill towards us - only time my old girl ever bolted!

One of those troop carrying helicopters, so low I could see the men's faces - old girl took no notice she was on a mission home for her tea
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Donkeys, 3 of them galloping towards us hee hawing their heads off, my poor lad took days to get over it. Luckily he spun in a homewards direction, power walked home constantly looking behind him and snorting.

The 8 foot tall blow up Santa Claus that a neighbour kindly installed on the grass verge outside their house.

Oh and mustn't forget the white stones that people mark their verges with, they are sooo scary
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Another one who doesn't mind the big scary stuff - we were nearly landed on by a helicopter which elicited eyes out on stalks and some snorting, passes pigs without turning a hair - and will try and sniff them, huge tractor and trailer on a very narrow lane merits no more than a cock of the ear in that direction.

HOWEVER, the little things... We had minor a minor breakdown over a log lying across the bridle path last week, mud or puddles are guaranteed to have him hyperventilating, tiny ponies send him into hysterics and don't even mention the buttercups...
 
The scariest thing I ever met was 2 Army tanks which had about 40 army men in camouflage with guns running along side them!!!!
 
My_Grey_Horse - that made me laugh out loud! How absolutely mortifying! Can understand completely why your horse reacted like that - mine would have been the same in that situation. But my dry sense of humour means that I get an image in my head of it happening, and it's absolutely hilarious - in the midst of that quite, sad, and sombering procession is your girl snorting, farting & pooing! PMSL!
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a SLOW sign painted on the road!!! Kelly stood and dithered wouldnt walk forward then leapt of all 4 feet and landed the other side!! Lord only knows what she thought would happen if she stood onit!
 
3Beasties they look like alpacas to me - our next door but 4 neighbour has 3, a black a brown and a cream one, when R (a forest bred NF) met them for the first time we think he'd only met sheep before, plenty of snorting and walking backwards! The other thing he actually bolted from (and I think I'd have done the same) was 2 very large hairy golden retreivers who'd been let loose at the top of the road (yes road, albeit little used!
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) to run home and thought R was a big dog to woof at and play with, owner was quarter of a mile away and couldn't see what was going on.
 
A fox jumping from the hedge in front of us and then running off....but then cue two HUGE bloodhound type dogs flying over the hedge and landing right in front of me and my 4 year old!!
Same horse was hacking along through long grass when a pheasant flew out from underneath him and flapped around his belly....needless to say pony jumped about 6 feet in the air and rider went splat
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Not the same horse, but once had a mare who was terrified of tractors. Went out for a hack and got stuck in the middle of a vintage tractor race with about 100 noisy tractors (they did not tell us they would be on all the single track lanes) bad times!
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The current Appy is totally traffic proof, BUT is scared witless of any horse drawn vehicles (if on own I have to get off and stand between her and the horse eating thing, if with sisters horse she hides behind her, presumably she thinks she will have time to run away while it eats her friend!) Red tarmac on the road is also well known for eating horses from the hoof up
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Scariest for pony has been a 3 wheeled bike which is pedaled by hand (I think they are used by people who are paralysed, sorry if i offend anyone, i don't know what the bikes are called) Pony spun and tried to canter back to yard.
I had to go back to the yard (were close anyway) so the man could go past as there was no way pony was going to go past it.
 
Ha forgot I also had a mare, we had to go past a HUGE combine harvester once. He stopped to let us past....mare got half way past then freaked out, went backwards and ended up sitting on the harvester's front wheel = crazy galloping down the road
 
My old boy was hit in the neck by a phesant we spooked out of a ditch luckerly the lane as very quiet.
Resently a low flying black and white cob, he lives in a rough field by a bridleway and lept onto and then off of a mound of soil towards us, scared the life out of Faolan.
 
Not met out hacking but on the yard the kids built a huge snowman the other week.

Cue Chad standing stock still when he saw it before leaping behind me occasionally peeping over my shoulder and snorting at it.
 
with my young mare- was hacking past a field, that-not that i knew at first- had just started t be scorched by the farmer (burnt tio ashes). very scary as smelt of burning plus crackiling fire bits. think its illegal actually!
 
At my last yard in London, hacking through the nearby estate, a woman in a Burkha came over the hill fluttering in the breeze. frankie span and crashed into the horse behind me in his panic to escape.

Didn't help that the woman starting screaming at the sight of his antics. Had to shout at to stand still and keep quiet and then managed to get him to scuttle past.
 
My grandma walkin th opposite direction spotting me and deciding she knows whats best for a horse when its about to tank off down the path, I bet you cant beat that!
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Meet the same in Mereworth woods Kent ( part of the wood is MP training ground), out hacking on my old mare.
It came thundering round the corner at a hell of a speed and was terrifying!
The mare just stood head up, shaking, (she always was too lazy to bolt anywhere!).
Thank God the occupants decided to stop and turn off the engine!
 
My local feedmerchant going too fast with flapping plastic on the back of his open truck
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The dog who will always bark suddenly when going past its gate - that always spooks me, not the horse.

Cows. Had MONTHS when F came back into work and I had to get off to lead him past field after field of horse-eating cows. Not convenient when surrounded by several dairy farms!
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Think we safely conquered it in a kill or cure situation when following a dead-end bridlepath, couldn't get any further and turned around... only to realise the previously "empty" field not contained approx. 50 cows, all in a line staring at us in amazement!
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We escaped unscathed with a lot of shoo-ing from me, and he's not worried too much since then!
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Cows....my friend and i went for a lovely hack, well it was until the farmer moved his cows from one field to another across the bridle path. Ralph had seen them from a distance before, but not so up close and personal
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We had climbed a steep hill to reach the point we were at and was now on a narrow BP. A cow stopped on the other side of the fence and just looked, gently mooing as if to say 'HI'.... I could feel Ralphs heart beating beneath me, sweat started to pour from him and he was clearly agitated
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I suggested we turn around as I was not going forward anymore, just backwards and I didn't fancy going up n over. As I turned Ralph just legged it....100mph in the direction we had come from.....ooop's the hill
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Hickstead here we come, we went down it in 10secs flat........
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Can grin and laugh now but at the time it was really scary and I wouldn't really recommend it
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Bumped into a big parade of people and banners and a marching band going to a banner parade for all the local ex mines.

Also got stuck in the middle of a high speed car chase, car when flying past followed by police car with sirens and flashers blasting.
 
My New Forest was scared on sunny days when we went down the lanes and the trees would throw their shadows on the roads, lots of snorting and dancing went on then.

Tonto is quite good he can walk past scary sofas dumped and can cope with coyotes suddenly poking their heads out the long grass at him and then chased off by Jazz my dog who always insists on being my body guard out on the ride
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But he has a phobia about big stones!! More fool me one day while out riding I decided that I would desensitize him with one, so I made him walk up to it and around it, at which point he jumped and spun causing me to twist and fall. I landed on my feet but the damage had been done. My foot hadn't gone with me when I twisted (I was riding in my western saddle and the stirrups are really rigid) Came away with torn ligaments in my foot and still had to ride home. Learnt my lesson ride English as I have always done and steer clear of big stones!!
 
A coloured cob galloping full pelt towards me and my friend who was riding her just backed 3 year old!!! Rider on board obviously out of control yelling 'get outa my way!!' ended up with 3 bolting horses towards a road!!! very scarey. Luckily mine and my friends horse pulled up easily. We got round the corner to find cob minus rider grazing in someones garden!!!
 
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