Stupid Mistakes and Confessions!

This is funny!!!

I took my friends extremly quiet cob out for a hack when i was 'between horses'. Had a lovely relaxing hack gassing away to another friend. On the home straight we were walking, horse tripped once, tripped again badly, i went straight over his head. I landed on my head and onto my back (luckily in very long grass).

I was so ashamed id fallen off the worlds quietest horse (i hadnt fallen off for at least 18months!), i jumped up and rode back. Ended up having a week off work to recover!!! Got a serious P%ss taking from yard girlies coz 'he's impossible to fall off of'.


Secondly, about 2 months later my friend was having probs with her horse and asked me to get on. I wasnt completly recovered from my earlier accident but agreed because her horse is very quiet. Put my foot in her stirrup to mount, stirrup a bit to narrow and just about to swing my leg over when horse turned around and i fell off the otherside. Yep straight onto my back again!!!!!!

SHould of learnt my lesson on my friends quiet horses lol!:)
 
A couple of years ago I was lunging our boy after he'd been out of work for a while. Stupidly I wrapped the lunge line round my hand, DJ bronked and galloped round and round. The lunge got tighter and tighter round my hand and DJ got faster and faster. It ended with him pulling me over and me being dragged round the school by him. Eventually I managed to undo the lunge and caught him. I did at one point think this is it, he will kill me. Luckily the only damage was a friction burn on my coat! :o
 
I turned up to an even with hat but no hat silk:o luckily I borrowed one off a kindly stranger:p

YO turned my mare out in her brand new stable rug... it went from blue to brown in a day!

Sister bought another liveries mare in and had my farrier shoe it, they were on the third shoe by the time the farrier pointed out that pickles had a dingle dangle and this horse didn't:eek:

put a running martingale on horse, noticed before the jumping comp that it was on the wrong side of the stops, unfortunately by then I had already taken a photo... one of my favourites ever, but I always see the mistake now when I look at it:o:(

put 3 scoops of baileys outshine in a bucket and added water to soak thinking it was sugar beet and put unsoaked into a feed bucket and mixed it in before realising what a tit I was just before feeding it to horses!!



the list is endless:rolleyes:
 
When I was in my teens I used to work for rides at the local riding school, this particular day I had to tack up a lovely anglo arab gelding called Tammy. Everything was fine and on the ride we were going on first half an hour road work, second half an hour going across fields, we stopped at the working hunter course so a few people could have a go round the jumps, Tammy wasn't one of those jumping and was standing quietly with his rider, when suddenly he shook his head and his bridle fell off!!!!

Luckily he was a very calm pony and just stood there but his rider was a bit freaked out and I was very embarrassed!!!!


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Queenbee said:
put a running martingale on horse, noticed before the jumping comp that it was on the wrong side of the stops, unfortunately by then I had already taken a photo... one of my favourites ever, but I always see the mistake now when I look at it:o:(

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Can you get someone to photoshop it?
 
Was bringing the horse up from the paddock on a cold wet day. Got my TB and sisters warm blood x in, managed to catch both shetlands and got them in their box. Went back for the two old steady as a rock ponies. Tried to shut the gate and couldn't as one of the hinges broke. Didn't have anything to tie the ponies to, so tied them together so I could do the gate with one hand. Ancient pony decided to bomb off across the big field dragging old pony in tow. Stupid, stupid idea :)

Have a picture of my Mum legging it back down the bending poles leading a shetland at a gymkhana. Shame she'd forgotten to put my sister back on board before she set off!

Am also guilty of wetting coarse mix and putting dry speedibeet in a bucket.
 
I've turned out in a stable rug before. Also gone on a mass yard outing to a sponsored ride. We took an 8 horse truck and a trailer so it was all a bit chaotic getting ready and we forgot to load one of the horses! I've also gone xc schooling without a girth and had to borrow one from a random stranger. Oh and also left my old horses stable door open all night. he was a very polite boy and luckily stayed put - he didn't even touch his breakfast which was just outside his door!
 
I was at horse camp a couple of weeks ago, and was busy telling everyone I knew there that my horse was really well behaved now. Unloaded him, and he took off up the mini hickstead bank surrounding the school with me in tow and my wee legs pumping to keep up! Told him off and tried to get him to walk down, but the baggage decided that leaping 4 feet down and almost landing on me was more fun. Of course, everyone saw it happen and wet themselves laughing! I'm sure he listens to me and then works out ways to make me look stupid!
 
Many things.

When I was about 8, like a good little pony clubber I'd cleaned all of my tack ready for the rally the following day. Packed the car on the morning, loaded the pony and off we went. Got there, opened the car and there was no bridle. I had to beg one off a fellow member with a well stocked lorry. They even had one with the same bit for me! :D

Last year, I turned up for a dressage competition at a posh yard without my dressage girth, had to go and ask the yard owner for one. She took me into her very posh tackroom and asked which one I wanted to borrow. I chose the one with white hair on it already! ;) And then thanked her profusely.

Loaded up my four year old and older horse up to go for a hack with mum. Realised I only had one girth once we got there, threw mum on the youngster with the saddle, stole the neckstrap and rode mine bareback for the afternoon. We still cantered and jumped - but did get some rather shocked looks off dog walkers... :D

We'd spent a good half hour loding my stubborn little mare when I was about 12yrs old. We eventually got her in, at down in the car and drove off. Only to have people running along the side of the car banging on the windows. We'd not put the back ramp up! :o

Oh dear, maybe I shouldn't be let out without a warning on my forehead!!!
 
First ever event with my youngster, a first for both of us - she did beautifully, so so well mannered.

Got back to the trailer, pulled bridle over her head - totally forgot to attach her to a headcollar! She walked backwards, realised she was free, then went for a run around the lorry park! Eventually (after the tannoy calling for someone to catch the loose horse *awkward*) I caught up with her, eating a haynet with two very pretty, very white arab ponies!

SO embarrassed...never done it again though!!
 
I once dyed a horse light blue the day before it went to hickstead.
It was a grey and I gave it a finally rinse with a blue bag in the water. (the things we used for bluesy whiteness before Daz) anyway he didn't seem much sparklier so I rinsed him again. I left him for five mins under the heat lamps and when I got back he was blue!!!
I tried washing it out but he was still a cute baby blue colour. Fortunately his owner thought it was really funny!
I also had to clip a horse, again before , he was sweating up badly when worked, despite his little tb coat and the usual British summer. I did the usual turn the clippers on, run them over the horse without clipping and he was fine, just ignored it. I did one sweep up his shoulder and he went nuts!! Couldn't get within a mile of him even with a twitch and couldn't sedate him because of the competition! Unfortunately he was that bay colour that goes a silvery colour when clipped so it really stood out.
Lots of horses very relieved when I stopped grooming!
 
fallenangel123 said:
I once dyed a horse light blue the day before it went to hickstead.
It was a grey and I gave it a finally rinse with a blue bag in the water. (the things we used for bluesy whiteness before Daz) anyway he didn't seem much sparklier so I rinsed him again. I left him for five mins under the heat lamps and when I got back he was blue!!!
I tried washing it out but he was still a cute baby blue colour. Fortunately his owner thought it was really funny!
I also had to clip a horse, again before , he was sweating up badly when worked, despite his little tb coat and the usual British summer. I did the usual turn the clippers on, run them over the horse without clipping and he was fine, just ignored it. I did one sweep up his shoulder and he went nuts!! Couldn't get within a mile of him even with a twitch and couldn't sedate him because of the competition! Unfortunately he was that bay colour that goes a silvery colour when clipped so it really stood out.
Lots of horses very relieved when I stopped grooming!
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I've coloured my shetland blue a few times by mistake, and purple and pink ...
 
As a young student on a very smart dressage yard I had been taught how to long rein with reins through the rings on the roller.
One day I was long reining a very expensive dressage horse when he bucked and kicked the outside rope straight out of my hand and then miked off. I instinctively pulled on the inside rope which pulled his head towards the roller and he turned several small circles in walk until he was tied up like a cotton reel and all 4 legs were together like an elephant on a drum. I had to run several circles around him to untangle him whilst he stood like an angel with an astounded expression obviously wondering why I was running in circles not him. Bearing in mind this was 50k's worth of horse a good few years ago I was too scared to tell the rather fiery boss!.
 
My worst ever one that I will never forgive myself for was leaving my horse tied up in the stable overnight! I had brought him in, groomed him and done the stable for the night but forgot to untie him before I left. Luckly he had an automatic water drinker and two big haynets within reach but it wan't until the morning when one of the grooms did the breakfast round that I found out how stupid I had been!!!

Never ever made that mistake again but it the worst feeling knowing how stupid I had been! The horse was completly fine though and seemed quite bemused by all the fussing and extra treats he recived for the following few months! lol

I have also managed to bring in the wrong horse when doing grooms work and just this weekend had to beg to lend a pair of spurs and gloves for dressage!
 
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Went to push my hat up a bit as it was uncomfy and then realised that it was my fleece headband and providing no protection whatsoever. As I was half way I just had to carry on and felt very naughty :D
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Ha ha! I did this too last winter - was on the way back from my hack that I realised it was my fluffy headband and not my hat I was wearing. I was wondering why people were giving my funny looks, no one told me though!
 
took my step daughter for a ride on her 16.2hh TB while i rode my dopey 17.2hh ID x. we were riding along and i told her that if she wanted to go for a canter then she could and i would calmly trot up behind her so not scare the horse.

she set off cantering and all i could hear in the distance was donk, donk, ouch, donk, donk, ouch, donk, donk, thud, arghhhh!!! she had managed to hit her head on every low twig and then finally a branch which took her off the back of her horse! i managed to ride down the same path with no problems so not quite sure what happened! lol
 
Decided to call it a day out hunting when I was a lazy arsed teenager and once back at trailer jumped off in my usual slap dash fashion i.e. not holding on to pony while I ran up stirrups. Pony decided he'd not finished for the day and tanked off after the hunt which were a good 3-4 fields away by now. Never been so grateful for my older and considerably fitter brother who sprinted off over about 6 ploughed fields and somehow caught up with him while I trotted pathetically behind.

Also, to my shame sent a good friend in the wrong direction during her first Elementary dressage test. She was nervous enough without my idiocy. I turned the sheet over instead of looking for the next column - mortified!
 
I once let a few stallions in with some mares at work experience...thankfully they just thundered about together for about 10mins and didn't get up to anything!

I didn't shut a gate properly (I thought it was shut, but apparently not) and some horses got out into the hay. Ate it ALL!

Me and my friend rode Archie and Viking (fresh off the tracks) out on a hack. We decided to swap as she wanted to try Viking. We had forgotten that unless at the mounting block, he was used to having people flung on his back, ready to race. It took us about 30mins to get her up and in the process bashed his leg. We thought he had gone horribly lame, but it was just shock and he was fine, thank goodness!

Let some horses over an electric (not on) tape that I was holding. Wild horses. Thankfully YO was there and rounded them up in no time!

I'm sure that's much more, but that's all I can think of!
 
I love this thread!

So many of these posts are making me laugh, but this one really cracked me up:


fallenangel123 said:
I once dyed a horse light blue the day before it went to hickstead.
It was a grey and I gave it a finally rinse with a blue bag in the water. (the things we used for bluesy whiteness before Daz) anyway he didn't seem much sparklier so I rinsed him again. I left him for five mins under the heat lamps and when I got back he was blue!!!
I tried washing it out but he was still a cute baby blue colour.
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Also love the one about the cheeky little pony that used to let itself out of the field by going through the electric fence strands!

Turned someone else's pony out once and, as it was a cold day, left his underrug on. It didn't really occur to me that this beautiful underrug was cream, and I was about to put pony into a bog of a field... Rug came back with murky brown edges. :(

I also brought in the wrong horse from the field - like someone else said - "get the bay mare" sounds fine until you get to the field and realise there are three!).

When I'm distracted, I also do daft things - there are many examples but can only think of a couple right now - I've forgotten my boots at a show because I'd taken them home to clean (cue detouring with big horsebox to my block of flats!) and put a bit back on a bridle upside down, although luckily I noticed when I went to tack up the next day!
 
These are great! Was on a hack with my friend, we were near the end and I wanted one last canter. Friend didn't so went on ahead and I held G back. The canter was down a wee dip then uphill and round a corner which is the bit we usually stop at. However, because I'd made G wait behind, when I let him go he took off like a shot and as we rounded the corner on what felt like two legs I felt my saddle pad slipping. My friend turned round to see pony on two legs and me flying super-man style out the side door!! I landed in the mud (it was a very wet , winters day) my poor horse looked mortified as he stared down at me! That'll teach me for wanting one last canter!!
 
What great replies :) It's very comforting to know that other people make stupid mistakes too!

I've remembered another stupid thing I did! I'd just started as a WP at a riding school, I got very muddled up with the horses and put the wrong tack on the wrong horse - all the horses either had a snaffle or a pelham and unfortunately I put a snaffle on a horse used to a pelham, nobody noticed and the horse bogged off with the poor client on a hack. Luckily no harm done and the client swapped with the escort to get back, but I got a bit of a b*****ing! :D
 
I managed another one today :D Trailered up to go for a hack today with mum, got there and we were missing her saddle. She got the saddle and I wound up riding bareback again. Luckily, I'm getting quite good at it now, due to my far too common forgetting of vital pieces of equipment ;)

My mother was most unsympathetic and still had us cantering ang jumping...

The worst bit was I even checked the items into the car with her and had everything for the saddle, but no saddle...
 
I ride regulary in a large local estate that is owned by a very wealthy Arab, it's a lovely place to ride with well marked bridle paths.
One of the paths I use, seems to only be used by me as I've never met anybody there, seen poo or hoof prints, so I often stop in the wood for a quiet pee.
Unfortunately I found out this weekend that the park is covered in hidden cameras, so the security guys can track you as you enter & all the way through until you leave.
I've seen several cameras but it clearly I haven't seen them all, so my private peeing place isn't so private after all!!
I won't be peeing in that wood again.
 
Was out hacking when we picked up some gorse in the bridle (and mouth, big idiot). Thought I could see blood on his lips so hopped off to take a look.

B*gger took the opportunity and legged it, galloping and bucking across some beautifully ploughed fields only stopping to roll about before getting up and galloping off when I got close.

Had to traipse after the fool home with his destroyed tack in my arms, watching him take all the right bridleway routes without any direction from me. Wily git :mad:
 
turkana said:
I ride regulary in a large local estate that is owned by a very wealthy Arab, it's a lovely place to ride with well marked bridle paths.
One of the paths I use, seems to only be used by me as I've never met anybody there, seen poo or hoof prints, so I often stop in the wood for a quiet pee.
Unfortunately I found out this weekend that the park is covered in hidden cameras, so the security guys can track you as you enter & all the way through until you leave.
I've seen several cameras but it clearly I haven't seen them all, so my private peeing place isn't so private after all!!
I won't be peeing in that wood again.
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I'm sorry, but that is hilarious! :D

Not particularly interesting, but When visiting my dad's friends in Newmarket, I was given plastic buckets of feed to give to each of the horses, with instructions to either put the feed on the floor or in a manger at the back of the stable.. Instead of tipping the feed out on the floor, I assumed that I was supposed to leave the buckets in there too. Returning to the feed room minus three buckets was slightly embarrassing :o
 
Jackson said:
I'm sorry, but that is hilarious! :D

Not particularly interesting, but When visiting my dad's friends in Newmarket, I was given plastic buckets of feed to give to each of the horses, with instructions to either put the feed on the floor or in a manger at the back of the stable.. Instead of tipping the feed out on the floor, I assumed that I was supposed to leave the buckets in there too. Returning to the feed room minus three buckets was slightly embarrassing :o
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Fortunately I found it funny as well, I only found out by chance, when I was l talking to a friend who's boyfriend used to work there, she was saying that she'd been in the wood with him & she told him she was going to have a pee behind a tree. He told her not to as she'd be seen by security as they can track everybody in the park until they leave, so I confessed what I'd be doing.
She thought it was funny as well, I can only hope that my quiet place is in a blind spot!
 
6am and I was leading my two through the pony field to the first gelding's field (which was shut for the winter) and then through to the second gelding's field to turn them out for the day.

In the pony field, near the gate, The Tank accidently touched the electrified wire fence and ran off.

He was running round the pony field and I needed to catch him so we could carry on the long trek to the right field.

But I needed to keep Obi still while I went to catch The Tank.

So I tied him to the fence :o

The ELECTRIFIED fence :eek:

Cue TWO unhappy horses running around the pony field :p.
 
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