Whats the strangest thing your horse has done on a hack?!

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This is going back a few months; but when i was out hacking with my horse on a new route, we first jumped some mini speed bumps (whooppps) and then when we were coming up, along the outside of a field, we same other horses hacking in the distance.
This was the first time he'd seen other horses when hes been out hacking in a long time and he was so surprised...we went backwards and then sat in a bush! and sat there for 5 minutes watching them, and i could not get him out for love nor money. We waited until the other horses had gone and thats when we got back up and carried on as if nothing had happened....


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My mare is absolutely gobsmacked by seeing cars travelling on roads in the distance. I have no idea why. She has to stare at them as if they are aliens.

The other thing that she did which really made me laugh was when we went for a hack to the sea and rode along the beach for about 3 miles. When we got down onto the beach the sea was making quite a noise and she had to stand for about ten minutes taking it in. She almost had her mouth open. If she could talk she would have said "What the hell is that?! (She had never seen the sea before as far as I know). We managed to get on our way in the end and had a fab hack!
 
Horses quite often have a strange reaction to the sea don't they. I think that it can make them very disorientated the first couple of times they see waves. A bit dizzy perhaps.
 
Riding down The Mall in Central London on my trusted skewbald one Sunday, when the mounted army musicians being led by their large skewbald drum horse came round the corner towards Buckingham Palace. My skewbald called at the arm drum horse and chaos ensued for a while. (We where escorted off the road in to the adjoining park by some policeman who did not appear to be too amused). Then got disorientated and ended up at Victoria station and had to ask a black cab driver for directions to Hyde Park!
 
mine freaks at horses trotting towards her - quick spin and off at speed. Never worked out why? Also if we have to cross a road we tend to jump over any white lines?
 
Previous mare ran straight backwards into the yard with a friend when we were away on holiday. She spooked at some new traffic calming markings on the road and my friend reckons she's never gone backwards that quickly!
 
Hack started badly when she reared and napped the whole way down the drive. Finally got onto the road and she reared vertical and then bronced up the road, then repeated the routine twice more. There were cars in front and behind and I was terrified.

I bailed out on the fourth go and refused to get back on, I then attempted to swap with my OH but Hils was piaffng by the side of me and I wouldn't get on him either.

I led Hils home, passaging the whole way sobbing my heart out. OH and sister carried on and the last view I had of Diva was he standing on her back legs waving at my sister.

A motorist even stopped to ask me if I was OK. TBH I'm suprised I wasn't sectioned!
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I got home and the YO tok Hils off me and attempted to and understand wat had happened. I was hysterical and tried to get the lorry out to take her back
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OH eventually returned home with a perfectly behaved Diva. I was still crying, he toldme she was fine now and they had had a discussion and she had seen the error of her ways!

She has never again repeated that behaviour and is now a well-mannered hack
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My Mums horse decided to throw herself down a 8ft dyke (by Holkham beach) with mum still on board!!! was very scary at the time but luckily they both got out unhurt.
 
bombed off after a horse he thought was his stable mate and then trotted past it rather embarrassed when the gelding didnt fancy being nuzzled on the bum!!
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also, a couple of weeks ago, it decided that churning up the golf course was a much easier way to get past the scary horse eating tree stump with a teeny tiny arrow on it!!

honestly, I didnt know I could sit a rearing horse?
 
My 17 hand strapping great big warmblood dressage horse is scared of rocks when we are out hacking... after all, there might be a troll hiding behind one! He is so scared of them that if he sees a brick on the side of the road he will jump 8 foot side ways and buck to make sure it isn't going to bite him
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This is the same horse who first time he saw a coloured pony couldn't decide if it was horse or cow & stood completely still for 5 minutes with his eyes out on stalks snorting at it while the pony grazed peacefully in the field next to us!

By the way, if you are trotting along the road and see a puddle it is dangerous to get your feet wet so you must jump it without giving your rider any warning and make sure all four feet give the killer puddle a good 4 foot clearance or you might drown in 2cm of water....
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not stange just sensible my forest mare will jump on the verge. stands still within seconds a car will come round the corner, she can hear a push bike 1/4 of a mile away
 
Out on a hack up near guisborough woods, when whatwould you find laid on the floor, but a carrot and a bl**dy banana!! Bizarre or what. I could understand a banana could have fallen from a lunch pack, BUT n unpeeled carrot????????

Even more bizarre, my boys favourite snack!! So just had to grab them for a spot of lunch on the go==========

Really weird in the middle of nowhere!!!!
 
My old usually well behaved TB once would not go into the field from the road. It was a hack we had been on about a million times and I couldn't figure it out. He was broncing in the middle of the road and caused a traffic jam in both directions. Then my friend noticed a scrap of pink paper in the bush, put it in her pocket and he physically sighed and walked straight in! Who ever said horses were colour blind
 
Mine are mostly related to my greedy cob's efforts to get food when he was on box rest and missing grass..

He once dived sideways for a mouthfull of hedge not realising that there was a 3 ft deep ditch (full of plants so invisible to him) inbetween, he ended up falling right down into the ditch and I ended up standing on the edge looking down at him
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Another day he managed to grab a huge branch ( maybe about 15ft long) and dragged it right down the road having to splay all his legs sideways as it was dragging under him as he tried to eat it
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He has also spun round and galloped up the road when a lamb baa'd at him...
 
a pony i used to ride was fine with white lines, but the speed limit in a circle painted on the road- whole new ball game!!

and, when cantering up some steps next to a friend, both horses came to a halt half up a step and then turned and looked at each other. we couldn't stop laughing! they must have been planning that for a while and it was executed to perfection!
 
Actually, last Friday Norm and I met a MASSIVE tractor out on a hack with a big ploughing contraption on the back which he looked at but stood still and let it go past - very pleased me giving him lots of pats and praise for being so good and then he spooks at the tracks the tractor has left behind on the road, much more scary of course!
 
stroppy coblet of mine decided he wasnt going hacking one day and refused to go forward....I said Ok charlie chops we will do it backwards!! All 2 miles of it! Thatll teach the little bugger!
 
That reminds me, we used to hack out with a very polite ex racehorese who would never dream of doing something as rude as getting food from the hedge. We were convinced however that he an my cob plotted together...

TB would go loopy on the road, while I was momentarily distracted my little cob would try to grab some of the nearest hedge, TB would then go back to well behaved and my little cob would walk back alongside and share the spoils....
 
Once on a hack with a friend we were just walking along a sand track chatting when her horse just got down to roll with her still on top
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! She couldn't get off in time and her mare rolled with her breaking her wrist, luckily that was all! The mare acted completely normal about the whole thing!
 
With my previous mare...we rode in Windsor Great Park...and we would always have to go and stand at the Copper Horse and look at the view (she would purposely walk to the front of it)...she would breathe in and just stare at Windsor Castle in the distance...she thought she should live there!!
She would also try to roll in the lake...not so good!!!

The tb I have now went past a fete that had the procession with the big lorries - kids screaming and loads of flapping material waving about, and music blaring out...without batting an eyelid but a flower pot of pink flowers deserves wide eyes and a lot of snorting!!!
 
Out hacking with a friend, someone came up a drive carrying a Christmas tree - you could not see the person - my normally laid back sensible mare, and the other horse completely lost it - trees don't move they told us
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Also once, and only once out hacking instead of whinnying - Donkey lived up to her name and started braying like a donkey - there were tears coming down my face, she has never done it again.
 
My youngster went straight past a pneumatic drill and a jcb both on and digging up the road on her first ever hack out leaving her nanny behind as he was too much of a wimp to go past - she'd only been broken a week!!! As I went past I got the workers attention and within a few minutes had realised that my nanny was still having a full blown tantrum and so turned the machinery off to let him past.

I think, given her age and experience that going straight past without a care in the world was a pretty odd thing for her to do!
 
My little grey arab used to be a nightmare to get past the village shop. He was so convinced he should be allowed in to check out the veg racks, and once very nearly stole the ice-cream from a small child in the doorway!
 
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