Scary horse eating monsters

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Last night I managed to hack out after work for the first time this year. It was 5.40pm by the time i was setting off, and just starting to get dark, so I decided to do the road stretch first (about a mile), and then onto the bridleway which comes back round to the back of the farm. As we came off the road and down the lane at the start of the bridleway i suddenly found myself galloping in the opposite direction. Managed to stop her, so we did hopping from foot to foot, eyes on stalks, snorting, sideways along the ditch on the other side of the lane all the way down - and why? SNOWDROPS - they weren't there on Saturday!!!
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Lol dont you just love them for that lol. One day last summer we were hacking out down the road and a load of motor bikes came past fine, went past road works fine a lorry came past from the road works fine and then Omg out of no where a carrier back with the potential to eat us alive! lol they make you wonder
 
Daisy went past a large bus and a lorry on Saturday but tried to spin and bolt for home when I asked her to go within 20m of a half melted snowman.
 
A blade of grass that is a different shade of green to the rest or a brown leaf amongst a load of green ones....very scary business!
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Tyres, now there ok if there lined up like a XC jump but turn them on their sides and stack them up or random ones thrown into hedge bottoms and they are horse eating monsters!
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In the school the other afternoon fine with tractors , big fertilizer bags etc but when a couple of pieces of poo rolled down from the top of muck heap next to the school , spooking and bucking...... stooopid boy.
 
Blaze is utterly bombproof, does fire engines with blues n twos, trains, helicopters over her head, fireworks...............but she does NOT do purple flowers!!!
 
My horse is usually fairly bombproof although not adverse to throwing the odd mock spook (frog leap in the air and to the side) if I make him walk when he really wants to gallop.

One day out hacking however, I couldn't understand why my normally forward going lad was reluctant to keep moving- I then realised that the sun had come out behind us and his shadow was leading the way in front of him- not a happy boy!!!
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OH's horse is normally bombproof but is terrified of flour splashed on trees marking out a sponsored ride! His other horse scratched itself on barbed wire escaping the horror of a pile of melting snow at the end of a bridleway! My cob is only scared of an empty food bowl
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Mine is terified of cows, especially bullocks who rush up to the fence.

Did a 2 day event where the roads and tracks went through a field of cows. We did that bit quite fast.

When I was 'baby walking him' before he was backed, we met a kid on roller blades. He couldn't work out how he moved without moving his feet and had a fit. Was glad I had him in a bridle that day!
 
The horse i ride ran in to some trees last Spring as a daffadile had appeared in the middle of the track we canter up!!! And the other week her shadow was the biggist monster ever that she was sure was going to eat her, we cantered up the road sideways!!!
 
A fantastic cob that I used to hunt was terrified of daffodils, very embarrassing when she would cope with massive tractors and trailers passing her in a single track lane and once pinned a youngster into the hedge to protect him from a combine harvester that was coming down the road
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my mare has plodded happily past a combine harvester at work while the police helicopter landed within our sight, yet, try to get her past a plastic bag, or roadsign, or generally anything small that wasnt there before, no chance!!!!!
 
Mine...An old tree trunk in an otherwise green hedge.......its a monster in disguise !! though she'll happily walk past a MASSIVE fallen tree trunk a few hundred yards later
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My friends horse used to hate the stop signs painted on the road too...

Bizarre creatures horses....
 
Dont worry we have those monsters up here in Scotland. They just seem to spring up over night and cause chaos. My young mare got quite a fright when we were walking along a road that had a coke can on it. Well - a very gentle breeze came along and blew the can along the road towards us > It was honestly going to eat her, she just couldnt understand why this thing was moving towards her
 
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Mine is terified of cows, especially bullocks who rush up to the fence.

Did a 2 day event where the roads and tracks went through a field of cows. We did that bit quite fast.

When I was 'baby walking him' before he was backed, we met a kid on roller blades. He couldn't work out how he moved without moving his feet and had a fit. Was glad I had him in a bridle that day!

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Yep We know that one very well a couple years back I was moving my man to a new yard but in order to get to the track which led to that yard we had to ride past a field of cows we got up to that field which btw was fenced off from us and allof a sudden he started bouncing on his feet ears pricked, blowing head thrown in the air it look an hour (no joke) to get past them lol and we went past in a shoulder in canter lol and it didnt help that we got half way past then when they started coming to the fence barrier mooing lol but to be fair if you look a cow in the eyes they can be scary
 
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