Silliest thing your horse has spooked at?

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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!

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^^ all that stuff!! today on a hack it was a the shadow of a speed limit sign and a pile of ice at the side of the road (that he has walked past at least 10 times?).

he is a big fan of spooking at things that aren't scary but weren't in that place yesterday such as a mounting block in an arena or people stood at a bus stop. he also spooked at an upturned dock leaf once, it was a different shade of green to the rest of the plant!!
 
Sheep with black faces. My horse is a racist
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A lame sheep - my horse hasn't noticed that 50% of the sheep round here might as well have three legs for all the good the fourth one does ... this particular sheep was having trouble keeping up with its mates and my horse didn't so much spook as freeze, staring fixedly at this sheep and shaking - I could feel his heart beating through the saddle. Eventually I had to get off and lead him past sideways.
 
baby bunny rabbit. It hopped ito the road way ahead of us and stayed there. It wasnt moving at all, but would my old shre horse go past it. Not on your life. Apparently, it wanted to eat his hooves.
 
Everything!! Not in a nasty way though it's just him, he has been known to poo in the school and then spook at it next time round!! Funnily enough he NEVER spooks at showjumps which is just aswell as that's his job!! Has nearly had me off at the timing equipment tho!!
 
Purple or white flowers
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A massive tractor with a fork lift on the front and a bowser on the back passing two metres from us, not a problem. But flowers.....ooo now they're scary
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Crazy isnt it the stupid things they look at??
 
Jack Absolutly everything and anything even a person if was not there before.

Prince Nothing yet,but he is only 5,he has even had a helicopter land in the next field to him whilst we were riding round the farm.He had only been backed 2 weeks before.
 
Daffodils..this was my first hunter, and was made all the funnier by the fact that five minutes earlier she had stood like an angel as a HUGE tractor and bale trailer squeezed past us in a single track lane!

And my previous quarter horse hated road markings and once ran backwards about 200yds with my friend when she tried to take her over some new traffic calming marks outside our yard!
 
Everything, but most recently (today!):

Her daughters footstep behind her, 20 mins into a 30 min road work session,
A 2 inch wide shadow

and me, telling her she was good and brave!!!! Doh!!!!!
 
Hehe the 2 fart ones made me laugh very much (cud do with it so thank you!)

The 100% bombproof welsh D we have just sold spooked (well his version of a spook, more his whole body jumped but didnt go anywhere) .............. from me sneezing

My old show hunter (IDxWB, 17.2hh) used to absolutaly cack his pants if a shetland came in the warm up arena at the same time as us!!!
OOO and when we won a championship at xmas, as we left from the lap of honour the fancy dress class was coming in........ first one in..... a donkey covered in head to toe with tinsel and bells!! with a matching dog next to it and a child sat on top ringing a hand bell!!
So BB and I decided to do another lap of honour which was slightly less elegant and controlled!! (luckily the pro photographer had just left! phew!
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Most things we just get a sideways look at. That I can live with. However, footballs and people on trampolines = much snorting, paddying and cantering on the spot.
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My mare also hates puddles. She had a pee out hacking one day. Road on slight slope. Pee ran between front legs. You get the picture.
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Shot backwards down the road running from a horse seeking puddle of pee!
 
piles of grit at the side of the road no matter how many times we walk over them...
this fly tipped duvet that i have moved off the side of the road...
and the best one...a black sheep in a field of white sheep. WTF??
 
Her own widdle. She got 'took short' out on a hack and she had a wee. We were on a slight downward slope and the wee ran down past her. One minute I was standing up in the stirrups in the time honoured way and the next we shot off like a bullet out of a gun

Obviously there are many, many more examples, but that has to be her daftest
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This post makes me realise I am not alone in owning the worlds spookiest horse. Mine spooks at virtually everything but the things that really get her are:

Tinsel
Purple flowers
Weigh tape
leaves/branches in the wind
crazy dogs
screaming/running children
go karts
flat bed trailers
tractors turned on or off

I could go on!
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Scooby spooked at a haynet the other day... normally he would dash towards it and start stuffing his face, but this particular one was apparently terrifying...
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He's a good boy though, his version of a spook is just a bit of snorting and eye-bulging (I'll wait until I've taken him out on the road more to find out what a REAL spook is like!)
 
Orange peel is the worst nemesis of my friend's horse, until I led him over to it and he ate it?

(He has been given the very occasional segment of orage when she has been eating them on the yard and clearly they smelled the same!)
 
The funniest ever was when we had two mares known as the pink pair (my old Appy and sisters bay roan TBxWelsh D) On a crisp winter morning, we had been out about half an hour, my mare snorted, sisters horse spooked, my horse spooked at her horse spooking, cue her horse spooking at my horse spooking at her horse and so on. We were laughing so much we both nearly fell off
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A ford focus! Seriously, we were hacking, walked past it on the way out, came back through the car park, saw it again parked, and the horse I was riding jumped out of his skin! No one was in the car, and it was exactly the same as when we had walked out! Another time I was having a lesson and the horse spooked as we went round the corner, because my instructor was sitting on one of the jump stands!
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Cows
Then he went racist and it was only brown cows
He saunteres casually past a collie and an alsation loudly defending their property... then spooked at a black and white cat which was sat still (minature cow in disguise?)
Him shaking a full body one and spooking at the noise my bum made against the saddle
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The same bit of concretre he had walked over 50 plus times. Apparently the devil had visited in the night and made it into a trapdoor to hell.

Another speshial welshie
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And then there was the time Pearl (Clydie) spooked as we were walking up the road from the yard, when I adjusted the velcro fastening of my glove and she jumped in the air at the noise it made!
 
bl@@dy daffodils spring is a terrible time you hack out one day and there are a few on the verge hack out day after and there is twice as many and they all have teeth and they eat horses you know!!!!!!!!Argh I love my spooky boy
 
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