What's the funniest thing your horse has spooked at???

My arab boy stopped and snorted very loudly and did his best high in the air trot past a couple who where having a bonk on the other side of the hedge :D:D
 
Well the other day she spooked at a bird, and today there was a lamb on top of a 4ft hedge - no idea how it got there but she had a bit of a special moment haha. Oh and she has been known to go past tractors and combine harvesters fine, but spools at silly things like the other day when she spooked at a cow, now I would be fine with that but she lives on a farm with hundreds of them! She's a bit special bless her :D
 
My cob Teddy is about as bomb proof as they come. He is kept on a working farm and no traffic phases him. Last year I was riding on the road through the village and all the houses has christmas decorations up, he didnt bat an eyelid at anything except one house that had a dummy father christmas hanging on a rope on the side of the wall so it looked like it was climbing up, he went absolutely mad, sideways prancing across the road, snorting, cantering on the spot!
 
Well my horse - spooked at a midget man and would not go passed, then the wee man got on the bank and my stupid horse went passed to problem, the man then said, your horse not seen a vertically challenge person before then, I said no!! Was very awkward but we both were laughing! B
 
My mare spooks at everything!! Most weirdest ones are; horse poop, flowers falling from a tree and wet/dry patches on the road. It had been raining and she kept walking around and snorting at the dry patches on the road, it was very funny :p
 
on another note...my horse once spooked a group of hikers. He used to be kept in a field that had a footpath running through it (with stiles) but was only used by hikers. He is the kindest horse going, wouldnt hurt a fly, but he chased them and stole thier sandwiches, but did serve them right for trying to eat thier lunch in his field, we found out they had stopped there for a picnic. Ever since this happened he now associates people with big back packs with sandwiches, so had to move him into a new field as he kept terrorising people for thier lunch!
 
His shadow appearing on the road in front of him as the sun came out from behind a cloud :D

White diagonal lines on a speed bump.... manhole cover that he has walked past several times...water under the bridge he was crossing (tiny trickle of a burn).... upturned boat on the beach that had been painted from blue (ok) to red (def not ok!)

would be the rosette winners :D :D :D
 
OH came with me to the horses tonight. He stood in the gateway with an umbrella up :D Horses came bowling round the corner ready for their tea, saw him and all hell broke out. Wish I had my camera to hand :)
 
My horse wont spook at the typically scary things, like bags hiding in bushes and big scary tractors.. but patches of grass that is darker than the rest oh we can't go near them! or stinging nettles...he's a bit special bless him :p
Oh and hose pipes, you may have a 16hh ex racer land on your head if you take it near him!
 
Mr B is pretty good when we are out and brilliant with all sorts of traffic/animals/plants/buildings etc..... except the postman and his van who we see quite often as he drives the route we take down the lanes, obviously deliberately sopping at places ahead of us to scare Mr B.

Other one is road workers white writing on the road, but only the white ones.
 
A wrapped up xmas tree in that white stocking stuff - walked him up road and everytime he saw this (it got moved up and down road probably by kids but just at side of lane) he would snort and prance around - really funny
 
A couple 'at it' in a cornfield. With a massive cornfield of many, many acres in size, they decided on a spot, just a few feet from the bridlepath, causing my horse to nearly have a coronary when he saw them!
 
The most humiliating one was when we were riding up a very narrow bridle path and i could see a bald head bobbing away half way up. When we got there the bobbing had stopped but the couple did not see fit to disengage from their activities, right on the path. The ginger arab thought this double person joined together thing was the scariest thing ever, and it took several minutes to get him past. They still didn't disengage though :o (literally a foot away from us! I'm scarred for life!)

I am sporting a very purple swolen foot as the mare i'm working with had been sniffing around a stationary mini digger for a good 15 min whilst i spoke to the driver. But then she sniffed a different bit, poohed herself and jumped directly on top of me.

And a previous horse reared up and snapped his leadrope (about the 100th one) when i pulled some hair off the body brush and it blew under his feet.

Sneezing has spooked numerous, it always makes me laugh :D
 
oliver a little shetland has a fit if he drops a mint or carrot from his mouth but is fine with people in tractors or chopping down trees!!:rolleyes:
but my cob15hh cob is afraid of nothing!!..... except his blue water bucket that thing is going to kill him one day!:D
 
Lol at these. In a riding school with horses working for RDA. 6 horses in lesson - 1 farted and the other 5 spooked, in turn making the one that farted spook.

Arab stud I worked on - every time one of us sneezed all 6 horses rushed to their stable doors. Can imagine this when one of us had a cold,and they didn't get used to it either.

Til was okay with dogs loose, but she had major spooks at the first few she saw in the village that were on leads. That was confusing for her!
Or fences with slats in, and the sun cast their shadows on the ground - equals my horse jumping over the shadow.
 
Tractors, lorries and anything can go past her. Even in fields, any machinery working = great. A piece of machinery by itself and not turned on is the scariest thing ever.
 
Lancelot had a right old spook at a council recycling lorry,with all the sound of glass etc. A worker in high viz vest stopped everyone and went and got lance an apple from his lunchbox....... and thereby created a 17hh monster who made a bee line for rubbish trucks and blokes in high viz.:eek::eek::eek:He was definately a fast learner was Lance.
 
OneInAMillion said:
I was out hacking on D and he is quite inquisitive. There was something pale coloured in the verge he yanked his head down to look at it and shot backwards at 100mph. Friend got off her horse to have a look as D was going crazy, turned out it was a vibrator!!!!! It was vibrating and he had touched his nose on it!!! SO SO embarrasing :o :o
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LOL, now that's a good one!!
Oz :)
 
a cigarette packet lyin at the edge of the road, took on a whole new meaning that 'smoking kills'
spooked into the road, was scary and then very funny lol x
 
Once snorted at his new haynet as it was red!
tried to run away from his vetwrapped foot as it had turned blue!!
Spooks at grass-different coloured or different heights
dock leaves are very scary
purple flowers
he did spook the other day and then made himself spook again because a bit of white glob flew out of his mouth
 
My previous horse was pretty predictable in what spooked him, and generally he was very sensible.

New horse however is liable to spook at pretty much anything - drain covers in the road, road markings, cyclists, cars that rattle, birds rustling in the bushes (which is fair enough I suppose), squirrels, and we've also spooked at clumps of dock leaves, but the best was a clump of very pretty flowers in the hedge which gave him the complete heeby jeebies.

However, on the same ride he walked past balloons on a string and a marquee full of wedding guests in the field next to the road without batting an eyelid. He also walked past a telescopic loader putting muck in to a spreader with no problem, but then leapt in the air when a sheep moved in the field. It's got to the point that I spook before he does, then he spooks because I did and then we both think "hang on a minute, what were we spooking at".

It is getting very frustrating though, trying to anticipate what might set him off!
 
Havnt read them all but these posts are really making me laugh!! My boy also has spooked at his own wind...... but funniest was when he had more gel than normal put in his shoe and it touched the ground so made a funny noise. Whilst out hacking he was fine until we got onto a stoney bit which made an odd noise and he was jumping every time he took a step for about the first 10 steps!
 
Saturdays hack was spooks-ville!! Okay dog running out and barking was warrented a little spook..not the head long snorting gallop down the lane!! BUT then near the end of the ride after spinning and snorting and spooking at everything the funniest spook ever..he trod on a leaf, and it crunched!!!!! :rolleyes: OMG I thought we were heading for the Irish Sea...he literally leapt all 4 hooves off the road and bogged off at a flat out gallop!! My friend riding with me was hysterical laughing!!! Stupid little cob!!! :rolleyes:
 
Had a mare that would happily hack past anything & everything. One day we even rode right past a fire (that someone was having on the grass verge?!), huge tractors pulling wagons filled with potatoes could go past and she wouldn't bat an eyelid.
However, when I got her, for a long while she couldn't deal with changes in the level of the road :o Speed bumps were very strange, and once we tried to step onto the edge of someones drive out of the way of a vehicle on a narrow road - the drive way was risen by a few inches for some reason, and she refused to step onto it! Would happily jump anything though, including steps.... :confused:
Dante spooks at flowers :D And occasionally cows (only ones with horns though really, is that actually quite sensible maybe? :p). Pigs are fine. Window cleaners are utterly terrifying :D Cake & quavers are also poisoned though... but not ice lollies (:
 
This morning down the track to the field Ellie spooked momentarily at a bird in a bush. Funny thing was the bird was then spooked by Ellie spooking, lost its footing and rolled down the hill at the side of the track, landed in front of us flapping wildly and looking totally bewildered. Stood up and flew off!
 
i have just spent the last goodness knows how long wetting myself laughing at these!! horses are so so special! by boy will happily hack out past all manor of cars, bikes, tractors etc but god forbid anyone bangs a gate or dares to cough as they walk past him, thats just too much! he is another one who spooks when he kicks a pebble.

However his biggest fear is little ponios. he hates my friends grey welsh sec D and on a 'quiet' hack round the fields a minature coloured had the audacity to stand up. how dare it, the fire breathing loonatic minature was obviously too much for peabrain who squatted on all fours, then sprung in the air and b*****ed off at full pelt with me laughing my head off! :rolleyes:
 
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