What vice worries you most

[piggyinablanket]

As above really, ridden or on the ground.
Is there any vices that scare you ie bolting, rearing, bucking and why? Is it related to an incident/accident?
Just a random pondering really

Personally, I am terrified of bolters, due to a bad incident when I was 17 after a dog (loose GSD) chased my pony across a ploughed field. I fell off and dislocated my elbow. I have had it happen twice since, on a mare I was loaning and a pony I borrowed. Both those times I managed to pull up without incident by circling etc. Even so, even now years later, I hate to feel a horse going too fast/strong while out hacking. If I feel out of control I panic, hence possibly causing a bolt! Pony I have now is really helping though, I cant wait to get out on faster hacks with him as hes a star and I trust him <3
Funny that bucking, bronks and general carrying on dont bother me much as long as its in the confines of school/field. I fall off a LOT!

So, anyone?

 

[Charem]

True bolting-running blind I think is the worst. Though i'm also not overly keen on rearers having had one go up and over with me earlier this year. Same as you in that broncing, bucking and general leaping about doesn't worry me to much either.

 

[JoanneLangford]

Think we all agree on this one! Bolting scares me too so just get a bit worried when my boy accelerates and thinks whey hey and you know there are still more gears to go!Bought a terrible rearer last year so that was bad too (he went back to the dealer) very dangerous!
Bucking & bronching are fine.

 

[jumpthemoon]

Another vote for bolting! Anything else I can cope with but true bolting is so dangerous

 

[doris2008]

Rearing scares the pants off me, buts that due to one going over backwards on me and doing me significant damage.
My ned does rear occasionally but now I have learnt the triggers we can avoid it generally. He threatens alot first with silly bunny hops.
I havent ever been truly bolted with, but I can imagine it is terrifying.

 

[hessy12]

Rearing, for reason that it is downright dangerous. Bucking, beyond a little playful one, I will not tolerate. Kicking or biting or barging me on the ground I would definitely not stand for either.

 

[bj_cardiff]

I think I must of been lucky to of never been bolted with.. it sounds terrifying, I couldn't ever get on with a rearer either I don't think, napping and throwing all your toys out of the pram in traffic is another worry..

 

[piggyinablanket]

Glad Im not alone then! In the summer I was on Side Hill in Newmarket watching the work riders. Saw the most scary bolt ever .. poor rider could do nothing but hang on and let it burn out. The speed of a pure panic bolting tb was something else Even the other riders in a different string were like *&%@*(* hel*! Easy to see how serious falls happen

 

[samxmckeek]

im another one for true bolting had it happen to me and got trampled over trying to hold on to the reins once i fell off but horse kept going right over the top of me. rearing due to the fact they can come right over the top of you. On the ground i dont like barging ecspecially cause im tiny lol or kicking

 

[Steorra]

First and foremost, I would never have a horse (or even knowingly get on one) that has no self preservation. Ie, one that bolts, throws itself over backwards, leaps in front of cars etc.

I'd also be very cautious about a horse that was genuinely 'out to get me'. I know there is usually a reason, but I'd have to be very confident I could solve the problem before taking on a horse that actively tried to dump me on a regular basis.

I'd also prefer a horse that was pleasant on the ground. I don't mind doing groundwork and spending time instilling manners, but don't much care for being kicked or having my ears boxed.

 

[Theresa_F]

Bolting - only had it happen once and it was not a nice experience. I don't mind horses that do small rears in excitement and have had a horse that would go vertical but she was fairly controlled about it. What I wouldn't ride is one that just went up and over without any warning.

I can live with bucking, napping, going backwards etc but honestly now prefer not to as I am not so young as I was, hence the type of horses I now own.

For handling, I won't put up with biting or kicking, again anything else I can live with.

 

[Vindaloo]

For me it's definitely rearing. I've just given up the lease on a super talented but very naughty rearer. I don't think my spine will take another fall and this chap goes bolt upright. I had one come over on me years back and i've never quite lost that image of shoulders coming at you. I was just lucky that I rolled right and he went left.

 

[Happyhuntress]

I am very confident, like to think I'm competent, happy to ride anything and don't mind spookiness or sharpness BUT I wouldn't ride a horse that rears habitually. Especially as I have children and family of my own and I owe it to them to look after myself. It's so damn dangerous

 

[MissMincePie&Brandy]

For me the most intolerable vice is rearing. Most of the other vices can be ridden through and controlled to a degree, but I think rearing is different. If a horse goes bolt upright, your life is completely at the mercy of the horse. I have seen too many horses fall backwards onto their riders. In each incident I have witnessed the riders receive terrible injuries, and we have a family friend who is paralysed from a rearing horse who fell onto her.

My TB went bolt upright at a show, and I got straight off him, and came home. He only ever did that time, and shortly after I had the vet out to check his back, but I told myself at the time that if he started a habit of it I would PTS without hesitation.

 

[pinktiger]

i think a vice is something that isnt life threating but is a repetit ve condition that at most will annoy us but isnt goin to kill the horse or the rider!!! With that in mind i would never knowingly buy a windsucker!!

To the people who have horses that rear or bolt that to me is a different world all together, you may consider buying a horse that cribbs but you would have to really really consider summut that bolts surely!!

Bolters or rearers have reasons for doin either not just out of habit imo i dont class them as a vice,, i class them as a serious issue with the horse that needs serious evalution!!

 

[fburton]

Self-mutilation - indicative of a severely troubled horse. At least bucking, rearing and bolting, while unpleasant for the rider, are natural behaviours (and as such don't strictly speaking qualify as vices in the sense of stereotypic behaviour).