What do you dread meeting when your out hacking??

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For me...motorbikes, because 9 times out of 10 they slow right down then the minute theyre past they zoom off and pony hates it :(
Shes fine with any types of cars, vans etc, but if its a real noisy bike shel try and spin or get away from it.
Today though she stood still for 2 when they came past :) good pony :)
What do you dread meeting?
 
people progressing slowly down the bridleway - breaking up good canters and freaking out if you walk past them too quickly :D
 
On Rose I don't think there was anything I dreaded meeting as she's so good.

On my old loan Spyder, umm pretty much everything! hehe. The one thing that I really really dreaded meeting, and thank goodness we never did, was a pony & trap as the gypsies up the road used to drive their ponies down the bridlepath occasionally. It was so narrow though there'd have been no way we'd have got past - complete nightmare. In winter we used to do the "xmas hack of doom" round the local housing estate with all the terrifying decorations - a giant inflatable santa I think was Spyder's limit!
 
two out of three of my horses HATE tractors and I can't persuade either of them that a tractor will not eat them. They both seem to have completely irrational responses to them...utter panic if i cann't get them into a wide gateway. In fact, Doll is really bad and physically shakes when they come past! Poor girl!

Ironically, my other (Doll's daughter) is 100% with them and doesn't even give them a glance!
 
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Actually, out hacking other Rose I used to dread meeting the racehorses on the gallops in the morning (our hacking is round Brighton racecourse annd in the morning there are teams of TB's galloping round! The last time I took her out I completely forgot it was before 11 so they could be out, and low and behold "what's that coming over the hill, is it a pack of racehorses?" There's me thinking oh **** I have no idea how she's going to react to this, so I jumped off, took her as far away from the gallops as I could and stood by her head. She was a little angel and just looked at them as they thundered past. Jumped back on, continued to head on my way, turned round at the bottom to find the same racehorses trotting back down the hill "Umm you aren't by any chance about to turn round and gallop back up again are you?" "Yes, do you want to join us?" hehe I declined seeing as she's not my pony, turned her back in the other direction whilst they shot off, then put her back towards home and she didn't even quicken a step :D Managedd to have a very controlled canter not so far behind the racehorses too!
 
On the old geezer - umbrellas!!! He is terrified of them, and can spot them from an incredible distance! I've had to ask people if they wouldn't mind folding them down for a minute just so I can get past. If it's raining, I hack where there are less likely to be people witgh umbrellas cos he is such a wuss :o
 
The woman with the greyhounds. She doesn't bother to call them back and one of the horses jumped through a hedge, threw her rider...all millimeters away from barbed wire. She didn't care in the slightest.
 
I have to do a lot of roadwork to get anywhere and i am DREADING the day I am seen my someone driving who I know but isnt horsey and will beep to get my attention - my worst nightmare that just has to happen one day :eek:
 
Horse and cart - he went loopy when we passed one out hacking,

As mad as it sounds - Other horses - may sound stupid but he turns into a right plonker when we meet other horses that aren't out with us (not sure if anyone else's horse does this or mine is just odd),

Oh and the nutter that owns a quad bike somewhere round my area and insists on ragging it around the country roads!!
 
darkhorse123 said:
I have to do a lot of roadwork to get anywhere and i am DREADING the day I am seen my someone driving who I know but isnt horsey and will beep to get my attention - my worst nightmare that just has to happen one day :eek:
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We get this all the time- farm is by the dual carriageway. Regularly get beeped at while schooling. Not fun on any new horses/breakers but they do get used to it. Sure I've provided drive-by entertainment for many a car!
 
Freshly painted white lines or pot holes with paint around them....

Give me a bus, motorbike, tractor, herd of cows, umbrellas, row of scarecrows at village scarecrow competition any day, just not bright white lines!!!
 
More than three sticks/pieces if wood in a pile :rolleyes:
Literally nothing else is an issue; buses, motorbikes, skips, dogs, tractors, diggers, cyclists, arctics (even when they pass too close and fast >:<), balloons, tyres, flappy plastic. Just sticks :o
 
The hunt!!! Oh my god, I would actually cr@p myself if we came across the hunt while we were out, the horses would gi skits, gypsy goes mad enough in the field, jumping 4ft leccy fences in excitement, I only hack him in a snaffle, we wouldn't have a hope in hell!
 
Anything that moves :D Seriously, the only thing that worries me is scramble bikes being on tracks they shouldn't be although, the majority of them usually slow down when they see horses
 
Ethe'ls generally very good with everything, it's just things that hide round corners that require running away from :p Oh, big umbrellas that the silly owners of still don't put down despite lots of spinning and half rears with me clinging on after loosing both stirrups and dropping a rein :p They eventually did put it down but by then Eth was so traumatised by the whole thing that she cantered sideways away from it and then pelted forward until she thought it was safe enough to stop, snort and carry on walking :D
 
Not a lot really. BH is very sensible and will pass pretty much anything without overly worrying. A car transporter pulled up next to him at the traffic lights a couple of weeks ago. He was, by all accounts, not unduly bothered. Even by this!
 
A horse and cart. L's brain just cannot cope with them :p
We met the hunt a few years ago and ended up surrounded by hounds but she took it amazingly well, even with the hunt horn thingies going and a zillion horses galloping towards us (don't ask!). We did once get "chased" down the road by a donkey - as in, she saw the donkey, then turned and ran in the opposite direction - but she's been living on a yard with loads of donkeys for 4 years now so she's not scared of them anymore.
 
iamSanta said:
The hunt!!! Oh my god, I would actually cr@p myself if we came across the hunt while we were out, the horses would gi skits, gypsy goes mad enough in the field, jumping 4ft leccy fences in excitement, I only hack him in a snaffle, we wouldn't have a hope in hell!
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I'd love that - ours usually asks if we want to join in, free day out! Plus I have to hack in our hunting bridle now as he has got all whizzy now it's got colder so breaks aren't an issue :D


On Olly - anything larger than a transit van! On Millie - haven't met anything she is scared of yet but she is a TB so I'm sure she'll find something to spook at :rolleyes:
 
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