Strange Question - have you ever ridden drunk?

We have a local tradition of fancy dress rides round the local pubs at christmas, and the most sober there are those who have difficulty getting back on tall horses, as they daren't drink too much because of loo breaks :D The funniest was at a friends daughters 18th birthday ride, when the birthday girl couldn't get back on, slid down the horse, and sat on the floor, giggling. The horse (17.1 ID) stood looking down at the girl with an air of deep concern. :) There wasn't anyone there who was strictly sober, eight riders including the birthday girls granny :D
 
Have I ever ridden drunk? Of course. In fact, you might have asked "Have you ever ridden sober?" It does take a bit of getting used to, but with practice, etc. etc...

In my youth I had some heavy falls, when I was sober, and some when I wasn't. It was the ones whilst sober which hurt the most, and did the most damage too!!

I'd be interested to hear why you asked the question!!

Alec.
 
Want to be really disgusted? Twice a year best mate and I take our black cobs away to the cotswolds for a long weekend of hacking, horses, shopping, eating and DRINKING, there are no kids, no work, no husbands, its paradise, we have found a cottage with turnout and stables not far from Broadway and am not telling where it is cos you will all want to go there.

Well, I have lost track of the times we have hacked to the local, consumed vast quanties of wine, have got totally pissed and have gone out for a hack. I would add that both horses are 100% bombproof and are really good boys. We have even ended up hacking down the A44 (or is it A46) between Broadway and Evesham totally ratfaced and waving at the drivers in their juggernauts, with both horses trotting obediently along as though they were down a country lane. My funniest memory is falling off down Shenberrow Hill after a long drunken lunchtime session, after a bottle of cava, plus several g and ts each. I cant for the life of me remember falling off, but I remember the look on my horses face as I lay on the ground underneath him, it was priceless. My friend continue to ride down the hill as if nothing had happened. I couldnt get back on and had to wait till I could find a wall to clamber onto, and promptly fell over the other side!!!!!!!!!! Happy days and we are off again in September. Yay!!!!!

I know that I will shock and offend some forum members, but I know my horse and trust him, I dont drink and drive my car, and we were on holiday for gods sake!!!!!!!

Havent any of you been out hunting? Most of them are pissed (apart from the kids) - it the only way to hunt. In fact when I went out with a hunt who will be nameless and is not our normal hunt, I sat in the middle of the field with a few members who were discussing how to drive from pub to pub whilst drunk without encountering the police. BAD!!!!
 
Sedgemoor Chaos said:
I'm sure thats what people have said to police officers after a breath-test when driving their car...

"Yes I have driven, and still do drive, after having a drink or two although I cant say that it makes any difference to my driving as I am not in the slightest nervous to drive my car..."

Makes the statement look a bit different just by changing the word "horse" for "car"???
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Sorry I dont follow your point *at all*.
 
rangerover said:
Well, I'm sure you'll all be disgusted, but I hacked to the pub one summer's evening with a friend and hacked back to her house, we thought it would be fun to turn both horses out together in her paddock, stayed and had a bbq and loads of wine, then apparently rode home in the dark with OH walking in road with torch, left tack on gate all night, could remember nothing in the morning! Those were the days!
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Hope you wore your hi viz bahahahahahahaha!

We are having a bbq at my field soon and I fully intend to be sleeping in the caravan in my field lol. I have done so before when getting chucked out of a taxi at 3am and the horses was closer than home hehe.
 
as put on yard pet hates my old yard there was a alcoholic there she fell off her horse and done her pelvis in turning to speak to someone 1 glass is fine (used to stop off at pub for 1) but i wouldn't do more than that as yes it gives you courage but it will also clouds your judgement
 
Agree, change this too- "Have you ever ridden sober?"
I ride better pissed, yes it sounds silly but I'm way more relaxed and a couple of glasses of wine before I go SJ and I never miss! And don't get me started on going hunting or team chasing...
Saying that, There's only been two times in the past couple of years I've managed to get legless while on a horse, once in the last day of the season out hunting (thank god I didn't have to drive the lorry home as had passed out in the horse section when I untacked and was finally woken 4 hours later finding all horses had been put to bed) and last xmas eve where I went to the pub, drank way to much and came back and though jumping my 4 yr old was a good idea. Safe to say it wasn't, and I ended up with a sore and wet bottom from being promptly deposited into the water tray.
 
I have to say I ride alot better when drunk!!!!!! My best ever novice placing on my mare at BE came after an all nighter (we were still drinking in the lorry on the way to the event)! Threw up in my dressage warm up (managed to aim quite well into a handily placed hedge!), got my best ever dressage score for that mare, only had 1 down SJ (there were no clear rounds), then a fast Xc clear in the time. Came 4th in a section full of pros!!!!! The best lesson I ever had I was also on the drunk side of merry!!!! That is what happens when you are a working pupil on a yard where the yard owners are alcoholics, and it becomes the norm (the owner needed a bottle of wine before they could function in the morning!!!)

Having said that we did once have a midnight drunken bareback SJ competition. Ended up with one of the girls going off to hospital with a smashed leg......................
 
I must stay far away from any horse when I've had a few drinks, for I always get this uncontrollable urge to jump the biggest XC course which I shudder at while sober.
 
No, but I have ridden a drunk horse (took me a while to realise). It was much less thrilling than riding a horse while drunk. He just wanted to lie down and go to sleep, bless him. I took him home and he just stood in the middle of the field of three legs, his coat dull and his bottom lip hanging.

We think he'd eaten a bunch of windfall apples which fermented the wrong way. Hangover lasted a few days, and he wouldn't touch an apple after that.
 
SusannaF said:
and he wouldn't touch an apple after that.
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LOL - sorry that really made me laugh - poor neddy, thinking to himself, I am never touching an apple again, they are evil! :D

Have I ever ridden drunk - of course! Out hunting obviously. I do remember my Dad getting pissed once and thinking it would be a good idea to ride his horse - he fell off quite quickly, thought it was hilarious!

I would consider having a 'dutch courage' drink if I need it - have definitely considered it in the past to help my nerves.
 
Can we all say, "Stirrup cup?" Nothing like a stiff shot of brandy on a crisp fall day just before barreling off for a day of hunting.

One of my family traditions was to take a ride after Thanksgiving dinner. I usually had several drinks in me by that time. And of course my friends and I used to ride out on our horses with booze we'd purloined from our parents and get happily hammered riding the back roads.

Can't say that I've ever competed drunk. Maybe I would have done better.
 
Serephin said:
LOL - sorry that really made me laugh - poor neddy, thinking to himself, I am never touching an apple again, they are evil! :D.
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Yes! And he was a typical greedy M&M so they really must have made an impression! Poor soul though. He just wanted to lie down in his field and sleep it off, but I thought he might colick so everytime his knees began to buckle I would run out of the stables (where I'd been watching) and push him back up again. :p
 
hahaha, Yes, i've ridden drunk and hungover, gotta admit I hate riding with a hangover, but used to go hunting/jumping ect after a few drinks for dutch courage/to keep me warm/whatever excuse i could come up with
 
My best showjumping result cam after I had got hammered at a Young Farmers do - Mom drove me, but I was sick in warm up. Rode like a demon and won the class. Also must be well over the limit when out hunting - it was necessary in Heythrop country!
I rode the other weekend after having had a few cheeky ciders in the pub and jumped my boy far better than normally at home - TBh I think it took the edge of my nerves so I relaxed and he could do his job. The next day we went to a show, I had a can of pimms before I got on and we went really well. Sad but in my old age my nerves can get me down.
 
Yes, out hunting last season i was barely able to stay on and cannot remember the whole day. Luckily, having ridden for donkey's yrs and having a nice old hunter, i was lucky and didn;t fall off and even jumped. But i would not do it on my new horse, he is far too sharp! So i am afraid to admit being plastered and riding. But i did not drive home, so at least i broke no laws. Is it illegal to be drunk on a horse on private land?
 
Never actually drunk as such...once had an XC lesson with the world's second-worst hangover, and that's an experience I don't really care to repeat. I did get a little tipsy while on a ride though: was our New Year's ride, which consisted of hacking aroud the various yards in the area, collecting a wee dram and some shortbread at each...and the RI had a hipflask, too...At the beginning, some of us were a little nervous about how insane this was going to be, and were told, "Well, contrary to rumours, nobody's actually died on one of my hacks yet!"...by the end, I didn't really care how] fast we were going. I remember one particular moment when we were walking along, and the RI said pensively, "You know, he might have an easier time going in a straight line if your left rein weren't a lot shorter than your right rein!" (or something similar), and for some reason, that struck me as the funniest remark ever... :o
 
I used to team chase a few years ago and was told of a story of a lady that had a drink or two before starting as she was nervous, rode like a muppet to a small fence, horse tripped over it and now she will never walk again, in a wheelchair with carers, might not even still be with us as this was a few years ago, so I would say reach for the rescue remedy!!
 
I lost my nerve jumping after two nasty falls in as many weeks - I knew if I didn't get back out there asap, I'd lose it totally - so my YO took me to our local indoor SJ venue and we did the 1st class of the day (Cross poles!!) - I was so nervous that by 9.30am I'd drunk a whole hip flask of brandy! It certainly did take the nerves away - but I wouldn't advise doing that for a larger course of jumps!

I've also done XC after two very large glasses of red wine - again, not recommended but probably the only way I would have got round (we are only talking 2'3 XC - not proper big jumps!!)

I'd also say that on my onw expereince of hunting - the whole bloomin lot of the field seemed to be drunk!

As long as you don't have to drive, and just have one glass, it might help you relax. Getting totally drunk probably won't inspire a great dressage performance however!
 
what do you mean apart from the kids..... even when i hunted when i was little, i would drink so much i'd get home & have to sleep on the sofa ... these days..... i have to drive my lorry home.... so just end up having to stay out longer to sober up!!
 
I haven't drunk before riding, but still been drunk from the night before!! It was a farm jumping competition, and my new boyfriends parents were coming to watch - and boy did I feel rough, and by God Kelly knew it!! She played up to the max - wouldn't let me bridle her, then as I clambered on feeling very sick refused or threw herself higgledypiggledy over every jump!! Boyfriend had to do jobs after his parents had left, as I lay in a corner moaning!! :p
 
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