Silliest thing your horse has spooked at?

[PeanutButterDragon]

The welsh sec C mare I had through my teens spooked at the weirdest things - farm traffic, cows, motorbikes, buses and trucks were all fine. But try to ride her over a manhole cover and her eyes would pop out on stalks and she'd become a snorting statue. Tree stumps were horse-eating props of Satan himself and we'd have to dance in a particular fashion past these so she could eyeball the threat until we were clear and old ladies with shopping trollies clearly had some sort of sinister agenda that only she knew about

What are your silliest spooks?

 

[251libby]

A tree......but in her defence it wasn't there the day before!

 

[BackInBlack]

he always spooks at a little wooden stool every time we go past a neighbours house, you know the SAME stool every time. But the funniest time was when this lady, who cycles down our road every day rode past and made my lad jump when he was grazing in his field and he fell over

- poor woman looked really shocked and apologetic, she always slows right down every time she sees us now!

 

[4leggedfurries]

Any form of road markings
Drain/manhole covers
Bridges going over or under
Leaves
flappy plastic
dried up puddles (you know where there is just the water mark left behind)
water
henry hoover boxes
any form of rubbish in the hedgerows
traffic signs
birds
his own shadow
people on mobility scooters
Errmm think you get my drift, he spooks at pretty much everything!

 

[picolenicole]

My old Arab used to spook at tactiles (blind crossings) but only the yellow ones.

My cob I have now spooked at next doors....... shetland pony!! Yes at their little chestnut shetland, at came galloping across the field to say hi and my lad ran away from him snorting!! After me leading him to the gate to say hi he's now not spooked by the small fuzzy chestnut!

 

[LauraWinter]

Her own fart- I fell off!!

 

[catdragon]

Tree stump in the middle of a hedge...of course its really a horse eating dragon... and the wierdest, a pile of old bricks, they'd dried out in summer so had changed colour....so she ran way !!! Yet we've had tractors/combines and all manner of properly scary things and she doesnt bat an eyelid.... strange creature !!!

 

[Kenzo]

Not my own horse but ones I've ridden sometimes tend to spook at a suspicous looking leaf or two, you know those ones that are a different colour to the rest, rest of them are green but this one is brown

or just one on its own hiding in the grass.

Very scary things leaves you know.

 

[251libby]

Laura - that did make me laugh!

 

[Kat]

Dumb horse I ride has been known to spook at the instructor! I mean there is always one standing in the school, she'd been there for half an hour - what is so scary about that???

When he arrived he was scared of coloured horses too - he's over that now though as he's the minority!

 

[Faithkat]

I used to ride past a house that had a row of old tyres on the grass verge outside to stop people parking on it. One day they removed them all and my Arab spooked because they weren't there! Doh!!!!

 

[3Beasties]

Grass!!

 

[Selkie]

Her own poo, which she had done on the way out.

 

[popsicle]

I have enjoyed reading all your spooky stories. I know just what you mean too.

My mare spooked at her fart too. lol

It's usually when something new has appeared on our usual route - such as- Road signs, white lines, wheely bins, dumped rubbish etc.

Funny creatures

 

[ester]

OP its a welsh thing

his own shadow
pink flowers
white flowers
blades of grass
leaves turned over the wrong way
the cat
I could go on.......

apparently mirrors in arenas are fine until you need to turn the lights on.... he doesnt like himself spotlighted!

 

[katherine1975]

My husbands horse is frightened of chickens and birds! My old horse had a major spook at a miniature shetland, he was black with a big forelock that covered his eyes- think she thought he was the beast of Bodmin and even spun round in the road! New cob has so far not been frightened of anything.

 

[vhf]

Mine tends to have an "alien of the week", so it'll be stones for a while, then dock leaves... currently, it is mud piles!

However, she always checks that it's safe to spook before doing so, especially on the road, so by the time she's decided it's safe, I'm normally prepared, and quite often got her shoulder-in-ing so she can't stare at it any more. I do feel a bit guilty spoiling her fun though.

 

[Morgan123]

i'll second the welsh thing - mine freaked at a butterfly!!!

also grass that is slightly different colour from other grass (whihc he only spots just as it gets under his feet, meaning a drastic sideways jump....)!!!

 

[ester]

oh BIRDS are a big big thing..... he has watched too many movies

 

[Vikki89]

My mum sniffing - mum was sat in the corner of the school watching my lesson like usual, sniffed as i came to the corner, pony spooked and nearly ended up in the middle of the school

 

[Geraldine]

Dried Bird Poo
A rut in the grass by the farm gate
Always snorts at a bench on the bridleway - it was there years before I bought Bob
Mahoosive spook on Sunday - someone got out of a van to open a gate.

My beast has issues!!!!

Never spooked at his own fart though - that is just classic!!

 

[Morgan123]

oh oh - i think i can win this - his shadow! he freaks out if i get on him next to a wall when the light makes the shadow move against it, if you see what i mean! And also when we are schooling and his shadow catches his eye,....

 

[Holly831]

Friend had an unexpected foal that she kept, she is now 10 and has been in the same stable since birth - when you bring her in she spooks at the stable floor that hasn't got shavings on........

 

[*hic*]

My chestnut welsh spooked at a phone box that wasn't there. It had been there the last time he went that way and I can only assume he though that whatever it was that ate phoneboxes must also eat small chestnut nut welshies as well.

 

[Kayfm]

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It's usually when something new has appeared on our usual route - such as- Road signs, white lines, wheely bins, dumped rubbish etc.
Funny creatures

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Ditto

 

[katie_and_toto]

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Her own fart- I fell off!!

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Sorry but that made me laugh

 

[PeanutButterDragon]

These are all classics you lot!

 

[Hutchie]

A horse I was riding used to spook at everything, mainly sheep absolutely hated them, funny enough her owner had a pet sheep who would wander freely around the yard and I got thrown off because horsie saw her in the shadows one night while I was riding in the school and she freaked! also out hacking she'd spook at people washing their cars and at a scarecrow in someone's front garden (she absolutely hated it) lol! and many various things (prob her own shadow too)

 

[Worried1]

Children - Finn hates them!

 

[RuthnMeg]

Patches of earth and mud, shadows and the show jump poles when they are piled up at the side of the arena. plus all the usual drains and odd coloured leaves!