what are you most scared of, when riding??

I am fine when in front of a group will gallop with the rest but dont like it when I am at the back. Had an accident years ago when the friends I was with cantered off, my horse spooked and I was hanging on and calling for them to pull up they didnt and I got dragged for a while untill they realised. Its always in the back of my mind and is the reason I ride out on my own most of the time unless its with friends that are happy for me to be up front.
 
Rearing over...Loops did this once 2 yrs ago doing XC and came down on top of me and it scared the crap out of me...nothing really bothered me up to then and since then if he starts getting wound up out XC I get worried but not enough to stop me doing it
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I am just much more wary now.

Louis also has an occasional habit of bolting when we go for "canters", it doesn't bother me too much if we are in an open space as as soon as I turn a circle he normally slows down...I am just careful on tracks and narrow paths where there is not much turning space!
 
A horse spooking out in front of a car/lorry when hacking on the road. I got clipped by a 4X4 a couple of years ago when this happened with my old pony - we were all fine but I still have it in the back of my mind.
 
I'be been scared of hacking out for years and haven't really gone further than up and down the little lane for ages. My fear started when I was bolted with and I fully thought that my horse was going to jump a hedge at the top of the field and kept thinking we were going to land right in front of a car. I actually managed to pull him up just before the hedge but I have never felt safe hacking since.
 
mine would have to be rearing and coming over backwards - had this happen to me a few years back - not nice at all, especially as it was on a road ... ouch. A horse only has to so much as think about lifting it's front legs now and I'm off, and then connected to this would be falling and being fallen on!!

Other than that I'm happy to say (after many years of battling with my confidence) I'm confident enough to have a go at anything with my girlie now
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Mine has to be bolting on the road!


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Done that! It's actually more scarey after the event when you think of what could have happened!


Ditto!
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a couple of years ago i was riding my pony bareback down the road. When i turned for home i noticed a nice inviting bit of verge i could have a canter down. We started to canter when he spotted a horse-eating cow behind a hedge and was like aaarrggggg!! help! its gonna eat me!!, leapt off the verge and started galloping full pelt back towards home. I was sh*tting myself trying to stay on and coz i didnt have a saddle on i had nothing to brace against so ended up hanging on to his mane and hoping a car wouldnt come in the other dircetion! After about 1/4mile hurtling down this road i managed to yank him into a layby, sending me flying into a fence.
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Worse thing was a car had been following, i was soooo embarassed!
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With hindsight it probs wasnt the brightest idea ive ever had as pony was a known bolter, it was towards home plus i didnt have a saddle on! Needless to say i havnt ridden out without a saddle again!
 
4 main fears in order
1) falling or being bucked off I've reached that age where I just don't bounce !
2)being watched I have a fear of people saying what does she look like/ what is she doing
3)not being able to stop my mare is great in a menage but I don't think she had done a lot of hacking prior to me having her and can get very strong in company
4)jumping downhill/drops I am just starting to build my confidence with fences on the flat/uphill but having to face going down scares me to death

despite all this I do enjoy my riding and am glad to see many others with similar fears
 
Im not scared of anything.
2 things I dont like:
Bolting - Only ever happened to me once, and I generally think that most people tend to use the term too loosely(when it happened to me the horse ended up dead/on top of me). It is absolutely horrid and is a veryr are occurance.
Rearing over backwards on me - Although I am now experienced enough to know when its going to happen, and abandon ship.
 
Falling off full stop on the road...done it and it hurts and it scares me rigid in case my horse bolted off or something. And jumping...I don't do jumping and would die if I came across something on a hack that had to be jumped over!
 
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mine would have to be rearing and coming over backwards - had this happen to me a few years back - not nice at all, especially as it was on a road ... ouch. A horse only has to so much as think about lifting it's front legs now and I'm off, and then connected to this would be falling and being fallen on!!



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This is what happened to me only it was on the concrete yard, much the same effect i should imagine!!!
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Bolting - Only ever happened to me once, and I generally think that most people tend to use the term too loosely(when it happened to me the horse ended up dead/on top of me).

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What happened there?!
 
Im scared of hacking too nowadays. I mean, I occassionally hack out my old safe pony and have no problem with it at all. But I couldn't possibly hack out my grey horse. He bolted with me THROUGH a barbed wire fence (still has the scars) when some cows scared him. After that, he was petrified of cows so he bolted with me again one day, and on another occassion as I was getting off (I knew he was about to go) he got away from me and bolted flat out down the road on his own. That was the final straw! Too dangerous even to work through it so he's never been hacked again. Had a few other incidents on the road like one of my very sensible hackers spooking sideways and falling off a huge drop onto a rusty barbed wire fence..... that was horrible. And Ive also been bolted with (on a just-gelded 13hh!) up the field and through an open gate way onto the road (lucky as hell a car wasnt coming) where he instantly slipped over and Im not kidding, we slid sideways down the road a little way because he'd been going so bloody fast. No wonder I hate hacking nowadays!

I'll merrily gallop round a Novice BE course and BSJA but going on a hack gives me chills!
 
Was walking the horse back after work, it took off down the gallop. I couldnt steer round the end of the fence at the end (had 3m to go either side). Went into fence post flat out, chucked me 10ft in the air and somersaulted on top of me. Gashed from wither, across its front, to top of other leg, to the bone. They shot it 2 weeks later.
 
Since breaking my back I would say I am most scared of falling off and doing it again, with potentially worse consequences. I am not the jockey I used to be
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I am scared stiff of my horse hurting herself on a car when we are out hacking. She is quite green and can play up/spook easily. It doesn't bother me when we are down a lane/in a field but on the main road (of which there are a lot round here) I get all tense in case she damages a car or herself. It is a bit of a vicious circle tbh and one I am trying to work through.
 
Traffic bigger than a car - bert is terribly traffic shy and reverses into bushes and spins and runs at bigger vehicles. It is also random so a bus might go past without a flinch and then a van might go past and you would think it wak the devil after him.

Slipping and falling - rabbit holes, uneven ground, down hill..... Bert is very clumsy and often slips a little if we are mooching and he is not paying attention.

Bolting used to be a fear of mine but TBH bert has done this quite often in the spring and I am grateful that he is unfit from the winter and runs out of puff!
 
right this very minute I can honestly say - nothing
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Its sounds silly but i trust Hemir with my life and im no where near the state i was in last year - last year i was scared of everything.....but now my confidence has slipped to the othe end f the scale....and when i was walking around the course at Saumur and just wishing i was one of the riders
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H has fallen on me 2/3 times and thats really the worst hing thet happens to us- that doesn't even scare me
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Right now i know that if i let him go, when i ask him to come back to me he will and we are jsut becoming more and more in tune together
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ETS: the scariest thing i see over here are BIG tractors and they are normally in the fields...i suppose im not scared to ahck Hemir out, bcaus ethe hacing here is so good, from the field where they are at the moment i ncan get into the woods almost straight away , get lost and spend 2 hours in the woods
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1) Jumping anything larger than about 1 1/2 feet.
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Any bigger, and I just worry about coming off!
2) Riding nutty horses which I don't think will look after me. A bit silly, I know!
 
Not having control - I must be able to stop or I panic and stop riding completely
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whether this is in the arena or out hacking.

And I also seem to freeze when jumping coloured poles especially as uprights/straights. But will happily jump x-poles or logs out hacking.
 
Hacking out when my horse decided to double barrell a double decker bus and canter down a tarmac road set at 45 deg angle, and then stop two inches from a waiting motorist! He hates noises?? Motorbikes, busses, lorries air brakes etc... thought of hacking him with coton wool in ears?
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BUT he is a babe in the school, and also on bridle ways, canters, gallops etc IF no noise.
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I hate riding on the roads or on concrete, for fear that the horse may slip and fall. I used to be fine, but for some reason I suddenly developed this fear
 
i have afear of spooks when cantering - i have always had this fear - and i dont know what started it - Also i am petrified of jumping - cant/wont jump any thing even a puddle - how sad is that!!!!!
 
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