What have you met hacking recently?

I was riding my old loan horse when we came across a donkey in a field.

He actually fell over in the middle of the road :eek:

Legs ended up everywhere, and my poor boy was completely terrified :rolleyes:
 
Quite ironic really but my tb will generally hack past most things, except combines!! One day we had a horse and cart coming towards us, I prepared myself to be tanked off with, however he just carried on past as if they weren't there!!!
 
At the end of carnival season, I went out with one of the other liveries, Markie is 19, her mare is 25. We met;
The entire travelling fair heading back to the ferry
2 horses and traps
3 huge super tractor thingies with flashing lights
Blues and twos ambulance, closely followed by a police bike
A posse of cyclists

And had a ride past a beautiful palamino sec D stallion who always tries to climb out of his field.

Neither horse turned a hair......................until a cow got up just inside the gateway of a field! Markie and I disappeared at speed!
 
The worlds most terrifying things at the moment on our hack are DONKEYS, a field full of them.

The girls cannot cope with them at all, dancing in the road, cant go forwards, snorting like loons, tails up, bless them. My sister has to get off our tb.

And big horse is also scared of horse and cart, she met her first on at Equifest and was terrified of it x
 
A gaggle of D of E kids! I was hacking a lovely horse, who can usually walk past anything, no trouble! But he could not cope with a bunch of kids in raincoats! We took off very quickly! XD haha
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
Interesting that several here have mentioned that meeting a horse and carriage was the thing that their horses have found the most spookey.

My old boy was 200% bombproof, you could put a kiddie on him and he'd go anywhere, do anything, and they'd be as safe as houses on him. You could literally have dropped a bomb in his field, and as long as it didn't do a direct hit on his feed-bin he'd totally ignore it, BUT we used to get a donkey towing a cart around here - and I've never ever seen the poor old lad so scared as he was that day! He was absolutely trembling, bless him, and its the only time in his entire life that he ever spooked at anything.

I've a friend who drives, and she says that this is a very common thing. For some reason horses are terrified of seeing another horse with something trundling behind them.
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Yep my beast is frit to death of pony and trap stuff :(
 
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