The things horses do!

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Today Ben and I took a hack, we came across a tractor with a trailer and a bleeding great big static caravan on the back. Ben snorted a bit, had a look but slowly crept past quite calmly (cue incredibly proud mum). We then get on the bridle way, have a jolly good canter come back to trot then walk, round the corner and up in the distance there is a woman with a dog... Cue huge amount of snorting and refusal to go any closer!!! Ben would only walk forward when she turned her back and walked away from him, it was like a pantomime! In the end we got to a wider section of path and I stopped him and she walked back with her dog who was very well behaved and past Ben. But it made me chuckle big time, Ben can deal with the huge scary static caravan, but not the dog he sees everyday on this hack (normally at the owners house) being on the bridleway.

Twonk! Good job I love him! :D
 
Ha ha ... I know what you mean. Hacking the other day, my boy walked calmly past some guys clearing roadside ditches ... Big digger type machine scooping out mud and debris dumping huge chunks of said gunk etc into an adjacent tractor and trailer. Then nearly had me off when he spooked at a patch of dead grass a bit further up the lane. Gotta love 'em ....
 
Not as exciting as your guys' but my boy always worries about the horse and rider on the ground following us on hacks i.e. shadow! but only when it's on his near side!! Doh!
 
WelshRuby said:
Not as exciting as your guys' but my boy always worries about the horse and rider on the ground following us on hacks i.e. shadow! but only when it's on his near side!! Doh!
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Ha ha, don't worry, the beast does this too! It's so funny, although not so much when a car drives past!
 
Pie does this too! Bravely marched past a fella chainsawing a fallen tree then did a comedy spook with eyes out on stalks and nostrils like bin lids because there was a crisp packet in the hedge. He also leaped in the air when I was brushing him earlier.... Because a clump of his hair floated past on the breeze and landed just in front of him.
 
I am genuinely ambarassed to say that my girl spooked at her own feet a month ago.

Today we only spooked at stones most people around here at the edge of their drive way no bigger than a foot high..today was a good day ;)
 
You could be describing my rising 7yo Connie here!

Trailers are a little bit scary, sheep are very scary (especially when they make a noise). Hacking the other day and we come across a trailer with very very noisy sheep inside. Cue me expecting a song and dance....

Little sod didn't bat an eyelid!
 
My Welsh D didn't bat an eyelid at the bin lorry with smashing bottles etc, then a skip full of stuff, however he would NOT walk past a tiny (pony eating) plant pot that someone dared to put at the end of their drive. I had to get off and lead him past it as him doing a Michael Flatley impression down the road into oncoming traffic was enough to convince me he was actually scared. Weird.
 
Noticed I'm getting off to lead a lot more recently! Must be the spring setting her off. She's had timber lorries and dumpster trucks go past without so much as blinking, even when the truck's brakes hissed at her. But a sheep with a bell on its neck nearly sent her into orbit and then the sheep made it worse by following after! I can't blame my mare though, I have an innate distrust of sheep too :D
 
Knobberpony was like this today.Rattley trailer speeding past-not a problem.However,people in their own garden,behind a fence having a conversation-eyes out on stalks and neck like a giraffe time.
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one with an eejit for a horse. Although Ben excelled himself today, our first lesson in 18 months, and actually our first really lesson together ever, he did some absolutely fabulous work, really forward and active, softening nicely. I got huge praise for his walk and told I'd get a really good stressage mark for it. We had him walking, trotting and cantering through the puddles. Jumping wise he was an oaf, he's ok in canter, so Aunty G made us do most of it in trot.... Since his trick in trot is to just plough through jumps and not go over them. He ploughed through a x pole, a bigger x pole, a straight bar, a bigger straight bar, a straight bar with a wide v, a straight bar with a narrow v, and crawled over a straight bar with a narrow v and two ruddy great big jumping blocks underneath... Then he jumped the latter in trot, and was allowed to jump it twice again from canter. We ended there with huge praise and pats.


I'm exhausted!
 
Him and breeze are so opposite , the jumps we left up we did at trot she will nt canter up to them...... It gives her less time t look at Laura in the field if she canters ;)
 
I was riding my connie out last week, he hacked past haulage lorries, buses, roadworks and scary warning triangles, then got on the bridlepath, he farted and shot forwards as he spooked at it :o :D
 
This one time me and Bobby were out for a hack and 3 huge articulated lorries in a convoy sounded their air horns, he never batted an eyelid. 2 minutes later on the bridleway a vagrant flashed at us and he went absolutely crazy, flighty as a flywhopper, honestly, you'd think he'd never seen a penis in his life!! Silly old sausage head!!
 
Bob the nota cob got caught short on a hack and took a leak and then spooked and went mental at the sight of the ensueing flood down the path. SPESHULL!
 
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