The nastiest fall you have ever had

[custard]

I feel humbled reading these, mine seem pale by comparison but the worst was being bolted with along a busy B road with my previous 5 year old. Having dumped me, very hard on a tarmaced drive she just stood looking at me like she'd got one over on me. Sent her straight back to the dealer!

With hindsight it wasn't her fault, she was green, so was I and had no facilities to bring on a young horse but it took me ages to get my nerve back.

 

[soph21]

trotting my 11.2 welsh A up a lane bare back 2 years ago, when he spooked and swerved, i spun off him, landed funny on my right foot and tore ligaments, but i carried on riding him up to my mums to bath him and rode him back to the field, it was when i tried taking my welly off my OH had to cut it off!!!

and end of last year i was out on a hack with bear and he spooked at a big bag in the hedge, as we were walking past it blew in the wind so he thought he'd leap in the air and buck! i went up in the air but stayed on but unfortunately my feet stayed in the stirrups and my Left foot took all my body weight on landing back in the saddle and i tore all the ligaments in that foot!! he'd only been broken in for about 2 months and i had to ride about 3 miles home with 1 working foot and the other 1 dangling!!

and then when i got home i had to get off to do the gates so i put my arm over his neck and he carried me!!!!!

 

[SouthWestWhippet]

backing a youngster... couldn't vote as I hadnt even got to the flat work stage! Hadnt even got my right foot in the stirrups when it took off - looking back we think it had a bit of a screw lose or had been seriously messed about by someone because despite being started very slowly and carefully by me the first time I mounted him in the arena he went nuts, bolted and threw me into the floor.

Ended up doing the whole ambulance siren thing which was exciting, only time I;ve ever been seriously injured though.

 

[Enfys]

Reading these it makes you wonder why we ride doesn't it?

I suppose the most unpleasant one of mine would be the time I was riding work on a point to pointer, two of us were going up a line and my horse dropped dead in mid air, crashed onto the fence and took the other horse and rider down as well. Nobody hurt, but some very, very upset people around that day. Awful, I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone.

 

[Gucci_b]

I read your post "ann-jen" and so sorry for you to loose your horse in that way. The same thing happend down a road a know of, and the driver also said that it was the sun that blinded her while driving, the horse lived (just) and the rider stayed in hospital for a few month. I hate hacking out near roads, but you have to now days...

 

[Discovery]

well mine is nowhere near as bad as some of these.

Worst was showjumping at church farm. I was on a 12.2, known for her dirty stops. Came to a spread, she stoped dead in her tracks, dropped her shoulder and off I came. I landed right in the middle of the spread and the pole came down on top of me, landing on my eye somehow. My eye ended up the size of a tennis ball lol. Turned purple and black.
I've never had any really serious injuries though. I was dragged for a few hundred yards when I was little (foot got stuck in a safety stirrup) only sprained my leg.
I've been pretty lucky, touch wood.

 

[ann-jen]

I have to say I don't hack out much any more and I really miss it. Not really so much because of the accident but more because Jenny (my current horse) isn't bomb-proof like Amber (my horse that died). I did hack out quite a bit after the accident which a lot of people were surprised about - I wasn't scared or worried about it - I wonder if its because my mind actually blacked out the moments of the accident as if it never happened???? I do hack around the farm and do venture onto the roads in company but would never go out alone anymore. I can't risk Jenny spooking at something and being in front of a car. I never want to lose another horse in the way I lost Amber.