wench
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Lorries... the bigger the worse they are. Unless its one of those small skip wagons with the rattley chains and flappy net on top of the skip, they are fine.
Things you would rather NOT meet when hacking...
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Buggy
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Hacking's the thing I love most - but sometimes, as I'm peeling the horse off the ceiling and attempting not to have a heart attack myself after being rudely awoken from whatever it was I was pondering, I do wonder why
Buggy, if you are going to hack around the London Marathon you only have yourself to blame
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Lol! Unfortunately was just a country lane... not what I was expecting at all and like others it doesn't take much to scare my boy.... scared the poor bloke in the hat too when we were going back the other way at a 100 miles per hour!
Hacking's the thing I love most - but sometimes, as I'm peeling the horse off the ceiling and attempting not to have a heart attack myself after being rudely awoken from whatever it was I was pondering, I do wonder why
Buggy, if you are going to hack around the London Marathon you only have yourself to blame
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Lol! Unfortunately was just a country lane... not what I was expecting at all and like others it doesn't take much to scare my boy.... scared the poor bloke in the hat too when we were going back the other way at a 100 miles per hour!
LittleBluebell
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Loose dogs with owners who have no control whatsoever. and think everyone should be as enamoured of their little bundle of fluff as they are...especially the man with two american bulldogs who like to attack horses
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I'm with you on this one, am fed up of my horse being chased and attacked, it's the same bl@@dy people everytime, he now reacts so violently to a dog bark that i can no longer take him to our nearest common
Fine with most other things!
Loose dogs with owners who have no control whatsoever. and think everyone should be as enamoured of their little bundle of fluff as they are...especially the man with two american bulldogs who like to attack horses
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I'm with you on this one, am fed up of my horse being chased and attacked, it's the same bl@@dy people everytime, he now reacts so violently to a dog bark that i can no longer take him to our nearest common
Spudlet
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The more you tell me about this, the more I laugh, sadist that I am
Poor bloke, he must have thought he'd killed you
Poor bloke, he must have thought he'd killed you
StickyToffee
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The Bin Lorry which takes up the entire width of the road makes us both quiver!!
criso
Coming over here & taking your jobs since 1900
Where I used to livery we had to cross a council estate which was alway a bit hairy with feral children all running around the hooves screaming "horsey".
Anyway I came round the corner and coming over the hill towards us was a woman in a Burka all a flutter in the breeze. Poor boy tried to turn tail and run for home.
Didn't help that she promptly started screaming at the sight 16.2 of TB performing airs above the ground.
Anyway I came round the corner and coming over the hill towards us was a woman in a Burka all a flutter in the breeze. Poor boy tried to turn tail and run for home.
Didn't help that she promptly started screaming at the sight 16.2 of TB performing airs above the ground.
Spudlet
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Not that my dog has EVER chased a horse, but I do live in fear of meeting an unexpected horse in the woods round a blind corner! Another reason to wear high-viz out hacking.... gives those of us that are responsible a chance to lassoe our mutts
I have to say he is excellent with horses in paddocks, he is great with the babies because he loves to have a soppy nose touch over the fence, gives them a good experience of dogs as he is so gentle with them
I have to say he is excellent with horses in paddocks, he is great with the babies because he loves to have a soppy nose touch over the fence, gives them a good experience of dogs as he is so gentle with them
Vikki89
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pushchairs/buggies and the bicycles which are low to the ground and pedalled (sp) by hand (dont know what they are called)
DW Team
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Loose piglets horses eyes out on storks and grew another hand already 18.2hh tried to run away. Farmer arrived and put them back in field but ever since then we have fun trying to get past that field.
White van man who thinks it is good fun to drive at 60mph on all small country roads and forgets what might be around the corner has to jump on breaks when finding his path blocked with horse being followed by tractor his face was a picture!
Small yappy dog who thought he would today try and scare my horse away by yapping around under his hooves. Horse had another idea lets chase it. It was very surprised as I think normally most horses jump. Don't think it expected to get chased home. B****y owner going to get dog squashed soon as it is always on the road. When in the car it is running yapping back to the front.
White van man who thinks it is good fun to drive at 60mph on all small country roads and forgets what might be around the corner has to jump on breaks when finding his path blocked with horse being followed by tractor his face was a picture!
Small yappy dog who thought he would today try and scare my horse away by yapping around under his hooves. Horse had another idea lets chase it. It was very surprised as I think normally most horses jump. Don't think it expected to get chased home. B****y owner going to get dog squashed soon as it is always on the road. When in the car it is running yapping back to the front.
DellaMoon
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I agree with the white lines of doom and the horse-eating man hole covers! Giant leaves also hide gremlins, wet patches have been left by the horse eating monsters that hide under man-hole covers so must be avoided! But if there's nothing to be scared of, and my horse has a good look to find something to be scared of, then nothing will do!!
legaldancer
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! (Ok, it wasn't the real one, but you get the idea).
He spun round & headed in the opposite direction fast, taking my son's unphased pony with him. Eeek!
Other thing was a tandem pair of Hackneys being driven at a fast trot, which really did phase the pony out.
He spun round & headed in the opposite direction fast, taking my son's unphased pony with him. Eeek!
Other thing was a tandem pair of Hackneys being driven at a fast trot, which really did phase the pony out.
Ludi-doodi
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One sunny sunday afternoon about 2pm I was out hacking and I met 2 motorbikers waiting by opposite junction I wanted to turn down. They said, "oh be careful mfhafadfljfdj (mubbled words) are coming". "How many" I asked thinking they were waiting for more biking friends "not sure". OK I think we'll be fine
, they we'll move to the edge of the road they'll stop their engines etc etc...
Gets about 30 metres down the road and see the first 'mfhafadfljfdj' no not bikes, but tractors
!! OK I thinks, Ludo is still fine with these, will just stand at the end of this track and wait for it to go by. I lost count at about 30 every shape, size, age and colour! At the 50-ish mark
I decided to stop one, get in front of it at fast trot and go back the way I came - fortunately in the opposite direction to them at the junction.
Have to say was very proud of my boy
. Whilst he is good with all traffic even I thought he might throw a wobbly at so many, but no he just stood watching them coming up the hill and going past like someone watching a tennis match
Edited to say - just remembered another one - tin cans tied behind an old beetle all trussed up wedding stylie. He didn't like that one at all!!
Gets about 30 metres down the road and see the first 'mfhafadfljfdj' no not bikes, but tractors
Have to say was very proud of my boy
Edited to say - just remembered another one - tin cans tied behind an old beetle all trussed up wedding stylie. He didn't like that one at all!!
Dovorian
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The Air Ambulance landed right next to me in a field - I thought it was a bit of a cheek, were they trying to get some practice in??? Good horse only stopped and shook until I felt sick so I had to get off & lead him past!
4leggedfurries
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Depends on the day of the week and what mood he's in as some days he'll wig out at absolutly everything and others wont bat an eyelid. Best ever though has to be the henry hoover box that someone dumped down our lane on christmas day, it was facing him all the way down the road staring him out, cue superfast reversing back up the road for about half a mile till he couldnt see it. Had to get off and walk him past and as we got back to horrid henry the horse started dancing, snorting, then flew past with me hanging on to the reins. Bad henry scaring ponies!!
Storminateacup
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Large tractor tyres left at the side of the road, -oh my what a fuss, prancing, blowing snorting, running backwards, sideways trot into ditch!
JosieSmith
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Double yellow lines down an alleyway (big enough for cars), first one side, then she calmed down about them, then noticed the other side! We cantered along a bridlepath on sunday and she stopped dead twice and spooked at those big gremlin hiding leaves. Shiny cars cos you can see horses in them as you go past, pretty much everything else when we're out on our own.
Ooo, mainly - sheep, cows and goats!
Ooo, mainly - sheep, cows and goats!
turkana
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The most frigtening things I've ever come across have been;-
Guinea pigs in a run on the grass outside somebody's house, very, very, very dangerous apparently!
A peacock showing off his huge tail in the middle of the road.
An alpaca who walked across the field to say hello, which my horse was convinced was going to leap the fence & rip her throat out!
A very savage horse killing donkey.
A leaf which was a slightly different colour to the other leafs, that leaf was obviously up to something!
My pet hate is pheasants, why do they wait until you're just about to stand on them to fly away and why walk out in front of me when I'm driving along & then try to out run the car!! Stupid, stupid creatures.
Guinea pigs in a run on the grass outside somebody's house, very, very, very dangerous apparently!
A peacock showing off his huge tail in the middle of the road.
An alpaca who walked across the field to say hello, which my horse was convinced was going to leap the fence & rip her throat out!
A very savage horse killing donkey.
A leaf which was a slightly different colour to the other leafs, that leaf was obviously up to something!
My pet hate is pheasants, why do they wait until you're just about to stand on them to fly away and why walk out in front of me when I'm driving along & then try to out run the car!! Stupid, stupid creatures.
Dirtymare
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We laugh at hot air baloons that try and land in the field next to us. We also laugh at big tractors, big lorries and anything big.
White lines in the road are ok too. Pheasants that want to chuck themselves in front of us are fair game to try and tread on if we are in the mood.
Pigeons that are at least 200yrds away and fly away from us can be a little unsettling.
Dear that run over the track we are cantering along are fine also.
But what is REALLY REALLY scary is than man and his wife (usually a long way behind) who regularly jog around our tracks are the spawn of the devil and are to be avoided at all costs!!!!!!
White lines in the road are ok too. Pheasants that want to chuck themselves in front of us are fair game to try and tread on if we are in the mood.
Pigeons that are at least 200yrds away and fly away from us can be a little unsettling.
Dear that run over the track we are cantering along are fine also.
But what is REALLY REALLY scary is than man and his wife (usually a long way behind) who regularly jog around our tracks are the spawn of the devil and are to be avoided at all costs!!!!!!
3BayGeldings
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A leaf which was a slightly different colour to the other leafs, that leaf was obviously up to something!
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LOL! My horse always knew those leaves were up to something too
A leaf which was a slightly different colour to the other leafs, that leaf was obviously up to something!
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LOL! My horse always knew those leaves were up to something too
Spudlet
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Oh yes donkeys and shetlands!
I did a Freerein holiday a couple of years back (for those that don't know, you basically go to the Radnors, they give you a horse and a map, take your luggage to the B&B and say off you go - it's brilliant!) and we were having a little moment with a gate that would not open for love or money, in a narrow passage with a wall and a drop on one side, and an electric fenced paddock with a donkey and a shettie on the other... and everyone's (horses, donkey and shettie) eyes were on stalks - it was a matter of who broke first, and would we have got the gate open by then?
As you can tell by the fact that I am alive to type this - we did
. Phew!
Later that day my friend was felled by a ninja sheep - we were having a canter as we thought all the sheep were on the far side of the field - which they were apart from a stealth sheep hiding in a ditch which dived out right in front of her horse
Seem to recall she had lamb for tea that night in vengeance
I did a Freerein holiday a couple of years back (for those that don't know, you basically go to the Radnors, they give you a horse and a map, take your luggage to the B&B and say off you go - it's brilliant!) and we were having a little moment with a gate that would not open for love or money, in a narrow passage with a wall and a drop on one side, and an electric fenced paddock with a donkey and a shettie on the other... and everyone's (horses, donkey and shettie) eyes were on stalks - it was a matter of who broke first, and would we have got the gate open by then?
As you can tell by the fact that I am alive to type this - we did
Later that day my friend was felled by a ninja sheep - we were having a canter as we thought all the sheep were on the far side of the field - which they were apart from a stealth sheep hiding in a ditch which dived out right in front of her horse
Seem to recall she had lamb for tea that night in vengeance
Chico Mio
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Umbrellas. Anyone with an umbrella up is guaranteed to freak the unfreakable FB
He cannot be doing with coloured mobile mushrooms that usually then rotate and reveal a person underneath as said person looks to see the 'nice horsey' who is now having a nervous, nostril flaring, snorting, eye boggling tap dance down the road; eyes fixed on umbrella as backside tries to run away on it's own.
As I now live in the wettest part of Spain, this could become interesting
School playgrounds too - used to have to ride past the school to get onto the track for hacking. The playground was about six feet higher than the lane and if the kids were out they would run to the fence en masse and bang on the six foot chain link, shouting the Spanish equivalent of 'giddy up!!!' and 'run, run!' as we tried to walk past. We did some pretty impressive looking manouvres down that lane
He cannot be doing with coloured mobile mushrooms that usually then rotate and reveal a person underneath as said person looks to see the 'nice horsey' who is now having a nervous, nostril flaring, snorting, eye boggling tap dance down the road; eyes fixed on umbrella as backside tries to run away on it's own.
As I now live in the wettest part of Spain, this could become interesting
School playgrounds too - used to have to ride past the school to get onto the track for hacking. The playground was about six feet higher than the lane and if the kids were out they would run to the fence en masse and bang on the six foot chain link, shouting the Spanish equivalent of 'giddy up!!!' and 'run, run!' as we tried to walk past. We did some pretty impressive looking manouvres down that lane
wildpoppywild
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1. dead things (poppys like one and only fear lol!!!)
2. frogs (my worst fear along with dentists)
3. tractors (abby's not a fan)
4. kiddies on bike speeding about like fannies!!
5. 20 signs painted on the roads
2. frogs (my worst fear along with dentists)
3. tractors (abby's not a fan)
4. kiddies on bike speeding about like fannies!!
5. 20 signs painted on the roads
Pedantic
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Any of you who have watched my Saturday morning ride on youtube will know his lordship is very good with traffic, he is also fine with cyclists and dogs, howeverrrrrrrrrrrr, rollerskates, skateboards, can be a problem and very noisy trial bikes, and I have since found out that he is teriffied of pony and traps, he threw a right wobbly on Derwent Street bridge in Derby City Center, 180 spin and rear, short leg it towards assembly rooms, then another 180 spin to look at evil pony and trap, eyes on stalks bambi type leg posture, nearly hit a car, took us both by suprise as he is sooooo good with things normally, anyone got any thoughts why a pony and trap is so scary
kirstyhen
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Mini Ponies - they travel in gangs and video their vicious attacks
Cement Mixers - he obviously had a run-in with the Mafia (possibly run by Mini Ponies!) at some point in his life and now lives in fear of Cement Shoes!
Abandoned Pallets - They have been rejected by their own for a reason and are probably now in the employment of Mini Ponies!
Rolls of Sheep Wire - Probably in league with the Abadoned Pallets.
Squirrels - everyone knows they are Ninja Assassins of this world.
And if he is in the right mood, pretty much anything he lays eyes on. We have Jets go over head all the time and he never flinches, but if he is in the process of pratting around and one goes overhead - Dear God
However Lorries, Farm Machinery, Logging Machinery, Rogue Pheasants, Rad Markings, Cyclists Etc don't even register in his tiny brain!
Hovis_and_SidsMum
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As my hubby found out the other day - fly tippers with a sense of humour. Omar apparently doesn't like full bathroom suites laid out as if they were still in a bathroom dumped on a farm track!
Hovis dislikes tractors and HATES daffodils - i do not like hacking in spring time!!
Oh and neither of them like those bikes where the man is laid down peddling with his legs - apparently these contraptions eat horses!!
Hovis dislikes tractors and HATES daffodils - i do not like hacking in spring time!!
Oh and neither of them like those bikes where the man is laid down peddling with his legs - apparently these contraptions eat horses!!
Hippona
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Crisp packets......VERY dangerous.
Those small motorbikes with a top speed of 25pmh but sound like an aeroplane taking off.
Wheelie bins....especially the ones with enlarged pictures/photos on them.....
They grey chicken that lives down the lane and who is somehow more scary than all the brown farm chickens put together
Those small motorbikes with a top speed of 25pmh but sound like an aeroplane taking off.
Wheelie bins....especially the ones with enlarged pictures/photos on them.....
They grey chicken that lives down the lane and who is somehow more scary than all the brown farm chickens put together
millyspaniel
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Haha! these are all very familiar and very funny!
My mares biggest fears are:
The little narrow bridge we have to go across - dont you know there are trolls underneath?
Salt bins
SLOW signs painted on the road
Donkeys
Horse-eating dogs
Little birds in hedges
Lorries,tractors anything big and noisy is fine!
My mares biggest fears are:
The little narrow bridge we have to go across - dont you know there are trolls underneath?
Salt bins
SLOW signs painted on the road
Donkeys
Horse-eating dogs
Little birds in hedges
Lorries,tractors anything big and noisy is fine!
dieseldog
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Remote controlled golf bags - they just trundle around the greens all by them self
Tharg
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Donkeys!
Unfortunately the mare has got the donkey fear, thankfully she is grand with everything else.
Unfortunately the mare has got the donkey fear, thankfully she is grand with everything else.
karenjj
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For my boy: Motorbikes definately a big no no especially when they don't slow down! Also there seem to be a lot of horses behind hedges on our lane, and they are very scary! Miniture shetlands, wheelie bins and any sort of "vegetables for sale" signs!