Mounting up at the beginning of a group lesson of mixed abilities. Me: fairly advanced. Some others: absolute novices. "Watch how Lady Sam gets on," says the instructor, thinking I would be a sterling example. I absent-mindedly placed my right foot in the stirrup instead of the left, swung up and found myself facing the horse's rump.
"Okay, maybe don't watch how Lady Sam gets on," says the instructor.
One of the first showing classes I did was on a friend's pony in a family pony class, judge made us all swap horses I was paired with a woman on a huge palomino I was only about 1, she basically squashed my pony and I looked like a pea on a drum.
I remember it just getting faster and faster and it was heading towards the ring ropes which it proceeded to jump and I fell off.
They must have felt sorry for me as I got rosette anyway but the woman and her horses got placed which my friend's mum was furious about and complained embarrassing ?