Silliest thing your horse has spooked at?

The farting spook bought back memories.... Was riding at a RS and the palomino I was on was very green and as we cantered at the corner, he farted and bolted away, I lost a stirrup and nearly "T-boned" my friend who was mounted and waiting at the opposite end of the school.... I was just pleased I could stay on despite laughing hysterically, felt for the poor pony who looked terrified !! Maybe he thought it would stink!

My own mare also spooks when bits of rubber ping off the surface and hit her when we're cantering.

The whole lot of them spooked and did a mass charge when a seagull landed in one of the fields... Crows land there all day, and buzzards which are HUGE swoop in as well,but apparently one large white bird is to be feared !!!
 
Another horse!!!

My horse will happily trot past a working hay baler/tractors/combines ect...... BUT god help you if she sees a pony under 13hh.

She wont go into a school if ones schooling, she sees them from a mile off and just starts shaking and has a complete panic!!

whats that all about?
 
PLEASE don't laugh ... he once neighed loudly and spooked at the noise he had made!
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I always knew he was special.
 
All the horses at a yard I worked out completely freaked out at a shetland. Busy lengthening my stirrups as we left the stables, and next thing I know I'm being shoved against a fence and the horse im riding is dancing around refusing to go anywhere near the small horse
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Finally got past it with lots of persuasion and a huge leap across the road in the general vicinity of said shetland
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Mine is ok normally but on silly days he'll spook at cones, his shadow..at things hiding (and they must be hiding bloody well because i can never see what he's spooking at) along the arena fence..and generally anything he can find to spook at and give him an excuse to be naughty
 
my own horse spooked at me sniffing as i was riding her, she just launched herself in the air.
Tyres are ok to jump just not to walk past, she spun round so quick she nearly climbed over the horse behind us head.
The xmas trees left on the side of the road and any cut down tree were going to eat her.
The horse im riding at the moment spooks at drains, dark coloured road, trees/leaves not the same colour as the rest and people walking there dogs, especially little ones.
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His bedding
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I kid you not, this is what happened when he had a new kind of bedding and saw it for the first time
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oh dear
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horses eh, they're bananas sometimes
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Kelts used to jump speed bumps if you were trotting - but couldnt care less if you were walking... that made for some interesting 'hurdles'.... she gave me such a sore neck once! Peds... he's pretty much fine with anything, but chases sheep whether you're on him or not... grrr
 
More of comedy spooking episode, but still funny nevertheless!!...riding off a golf course into a bridlepath, horse spooks at golfer (understandable!)...shoots into bridleapath, spooks at tree stump, spins, whacks his head on the 'danger you are entering a golf course' sign, now facing golfer, spins again....spooks at tree stump....so on and so forth. Not sure how many rotations I did but was v funny, the sign made a big twannnngggg sound as his head hit it!!!
 
Oh god this has made me laugh!

My old loan horse once spooked at a Readers Wives mag that had been discarded, mind you I'd have papped myself at those bazookas too!

K spooks mainly at:
those green recycling bottle things
bins both black and blue
old people
tree stumps - regardless of whether they have been there 100 years already
jumps in the school
OH popping his chewing gum
trampolines
invisible things

funny creatures aren't they!
 
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Her own fart- I fell off!!

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LOL!!!

We had a complete nosebleed at the teensiest, tiniest, cutest baby rabbit that joined us in the arena one evening
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Her own fart- I fell off!!

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That made me laugh...the other people in my office are all staring at me now!

My friends horse hates prams, buggies, wheel chairs and people pushing bikes...hes fine if there is a person on it but not pushing it!
 
My fart.
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In my defense, we were alone in the woods. He tore off. I nearly fell off laughing.

Branches, road markings, things-that-were-there-but-aren't-now, things-that-weren't-there-but-are-now (there was the famous folding-bed-in-the-forest incident; got dumped that time), a ponyvorous porta-potty, a baby bird, squirrels, riding instructors, ferns...

What he doesn't spook at: big bonfires, crazy blue tractory things with huge pincers on the front, honking cars, dogs, a poorly fox behaving oddly, flapping cloaks/giant costume wings, a swinging sword, small children waving bright lanterns.
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Hanging baskets outside the pub but ONLY when they have purple and yellow flowers in them. Other colour combinations he is fine with (at least he has taste).
 
Tiger REFUSES to walk through ANY puddles on the road ha ha but he's fine like xc water combos LMAO!!!

My instructors mare HATES pigs and when you hack her you can't go any where without going past this small field with this tiny pig in and she snorts and trots past it side ways even when it's not in the field LMAO!!!
OMG but once it was by the fence :O omg she proper hissy fitted HA HA!!!

Tiger also has a thing like if the road changes colour HA HA!!! he has to do a big step haha and look down in amazement ha ha

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hahaha Loving this thread!

My old lad who is now retired had a real major cow phobia- if we ever saw one out riding he grew to about 18 hands, snort, spook, buck, fart and generally be a complete dipstick, one day we were out hunting and a lovely little piebald hogged cob came cantering along with the hunt towards him - his reaction was to bolt in the opposite direction - he was literally running for his life bless him LOL, i think he thought a seriosuly scary cow was after him - I could not get him anywhere near a coloured horse out of the yard for a long while after that incident!

His other most amusing spook, as at a frog - which happened to hop onto the road as we were wandering along. This resulting in the huge snort, spook, spin round, shying left and right in absolute terror - everytime he got near it it hopped again - took me a good 20 mins to get past that little beastie!

My new mare who is only young, is the total opposite and is really non spooky which makes a lovely change!

Gem
 
my horsey (cobby type) hates his treat ball, first attempt I rolled it into his stable he backed up so fast and launched himself over it!

He hates it!

Oh, and the first time he saw his haybar he nearly had kittens, I'm sure he thought the big black thing was eating all his hay lol
 
All sorts including daffodils and butterflys. I think my horse actually likes spooking at things he thinks its great to snort at dog walkers and scare them to death!
 
Bondi-A tree stump that he has hacked past about 19 times, his feed bowl....yes he actually spooked at it a couple of weeks ago and stood blowing at it, legs akimbo like it was going to attack any second....it was outside his stable ready to go in that night-moron.

Larry-feed sack, cat sitting on the wall watching the world go by and a bin. Again, a bin that he walks past on every hack-on this particular day it must have given him some lip!
 
sheep and golden retrievers cos shes a Haffie and she thinks they are her alien babies, she sort of freaks and croons at them at the same time.....:-O She even got weird about a cream blanket......

Water because it is evil liquid and tippy toes must not put her feet in it, unfortunately our hacks often involve mountain streams and she wont go thru them even if I get off..
 
The funniest was spooking at his own 'wee' patch in the school every time we went past it...

Also freaked at miniature shetland the first time he saw it.

And as he's welsh, the usual suspects i.e. waving buttercups, blade of grass that's a 'slightly' different shade of green from all the other blades of grass, signs on the road and would always spook at the mounting block that was outside his stable every single day even though it had been there longer than he had...
 
Andy has spooked at my boyf who was watching me ride, and regularly spooks at birds! The wind is also very scary.
Before I had him, I was out on a riding school horse who spooked at a couple of pensioners walking on the opposite side of the road.
 
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