What's the worst behaviour your horse has ever displayed?

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As title. I was wondering what is the worst behaviour your horse has thrown at you while you have owned him/her.

For example my late mare, the absolute worst thing she ever did was once when startled she reared bolt upright and ran backwards the entire length of the school on 2 legs almost flipping backwards over the school fence. The other bad things she did was to sometimes get narky on hacks and jog and chuck her head around. She sometimes had the very occassional one buck. She could rear and kick when being shod or if she didn't want to load. That was the worst of it though, she was actually pretty good and I didn't fall off her in the 5 years I had her.

Current youngster has gone through the bucking in canter transition phase, spinning out hacking phase and leaping/half rearing when spooked or upset phase. General young TB learning what's right and what's wrong stuff.

What about yours? Am interested to fine out what others have to deal with :)
 
Mystis naughty because shes soo stubborn, once shes decided shes not doing anything you can push her as much as you like and she just fights it, shes not ridden but i tryed to longrein her lunge her ect! The worst shes done is rear and go over backwards, the funniest has to be when she decided if i wasnt going to give up she was and she lay down and wouldnt get up until i took her saddle off :p :rolleyes:

Honey does little rears and bolts when shes scared but again shes not ridden so its not dangerous just annoying! :o
 
I'm very lucky with Micah the worst he has done is reared (small) when he wasn't allowed to follow another horse straight out of the arena

or he does this giraffe thing where he puts his head high but looks behind him, swings his head around, then carries on as though nothing happened :rolleyes:
 
Current pony rearing fully up in the line up at a show for no reason and nearly went over then just went back to standing normally till our go :rolleyes: He did go through a phase of rearing and spinning a lot out hacking but never at shows or anything so was very random.

Old horse full on charging and trying to attack my instructor on the lunge, is the only time she has ever been scared of a horse!
 
Oh, take your pick, I own a nutter!

- He boxes out the windows of horseboxes unless he is tied down when he travels

- He will rear and attempt to break out through the concrete block wall of my indoor school with his front feet while you are on him.

- he will break through the electric fence to avoid continuing to work in my outdoor arena.

- he will spend anything up to an hour and a half refusing to go past something which has changed (like a daffodil growing on a verge where there was no daffodil last week) when out on a hack.

- when competing, he will leave the dressage ring and return to the warm-up, however far away it is, if ridden in anything but a double bridle.

- he savages, and I mean leaves them dripping blood from head to foot wounds, every new horse I bring into the yard if not segregated from them for several days first. (He picked my shetland clean up off the floor, and threw him into a wall.)

- he pees in the hay so that no-one else can eat it.

Anyone want an extremely talented dressage horse????? He's currently on another round of ulcer meds and if they don't knock the edge off his neurotic behaviour he's going to have to go!
 
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Cor Blimey Cptrayes! He does sound a bit of a nuscience!

I do have to say horses I've had, although they can have their horrid moments, they have not done anything to make me fall off. If I had a horse that made me fall off regularly it wouldn't last 5 seconds!
 
Unfortunately we know already that it's not all the ulcers because we have cured them once before. Some of it is genetic, if not all, because he has a full brother who I have never seen who has similar issues. He is a very strange horse, very, very emotional. He cries like a small child (I mean he actually sounds like a small child!). He's far, far too intelligent and he uses his intelligence to "look after himself". Unfortunately for him "looking after himself" often means doing incredibly stupid things, like climbing out of strange stables over the door (or breaking the door down if he can't climb over).

I have been asked a number of times "why do you keep him" to which my reply is always "who in their right minds would take him off me?".

On the plus side, he is only 8 and, believe it or not, has improved immensely. Dressage judges actually lean out of their booth to ask how difficult he is to ride and to tell me what wonderful scores (70+) they would have been able to give him if only he would submit. At home, his work can be sublime and we are approaching passage and tempi changes. When he is loose and flowing it's an honour to be on his back, he is an incredible athlete.

I think my favourite story about him is the one that also shows how extreme his "self protective" behaviour is. We were out on a drag hunt (I took him in desperation as a "kill or cure" measure) and we were half way across a field, with a lovely tiger trap about fifty yards in front of us. The horse at the tiger trap ran out to the left, and, in the middle of the field, and nowhere near the jump, Jazz ran out too. Then he would not approach the fence until he had seen another horse jump it to prove it was safe. I should perhaps add that his father is a Grand Prix showjumper.

This is the kind of thing he is capable of out hunting :) I call it "the only two legged horse hunting Cheshire :

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IaGqwoQln.../xgkz-m9Vtcs/s1600-h/CFDH+26TH+DEC+08+116.jpg
 
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worst thing mine has done was tank off with me on bridle paths...only thing that eventually stopped him was running into a 10ft fence...literally striaght into it. i did have a moment of panic that he may attempt to jump it. He also did it again on a road when he thought he had been overtaken by another horse...he does like to be lead horse and tends to hack better on his own!! Needless to say he went from an eggbutt snaffle into a pelham very quickly which did help quite alot when ridden with 2 reins!
 
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This is the kind of thing he is capable of out hunting :) I call it "the only two legged horse hunting Cheshire :

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IaGqwoQln.../xgkz-m9Vtcs/s1600-h/CFDH+26TH+DEC+08+116.jpg
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:D:D:D:D:D

What a brilliant picture!!!!! He sounds like a real......uh-hum.....character.

My horse has many, many examples mainly down to his silliness (he's a lot better now and most of it was down to inexperience and youth)

I think his best one was leaping in the air when I was leading him and booting me fairly and squarely on the ass (unintentional - I think :o). I had the perfect hoofprint bruise for a few days.

Just recently he bronked in the middle of his jumping round and dumped OH on the floor - not sure that's such a bad thing though, good for OH's ego :D
 
My mare rarely does anything bad when I'm on her, but she is an opportunist and inventive with it. She 'liberates' feed bins or sacks whenever possible, tears open bags of shavings while you are looking for your penknife, and busily hoovers up the wild bird seed off the concrete track almost as fast as I put it down. Today she liberated a roll of black plastic from a haylage bale and played with it in the snow - and mud. When you say "WHAT are you doing?" she tosses her head and snorts. But I love her....
 
I'm quite lucky, all of ours are very well behaved, however, Oshk does have one party trick up his sleeve for the hunting days where we have to queue for fences. He will plant himself perfectly still for 3 or 4 seconds, plunge forwards, take off on all fours or similar, take the reins and go. It doesn't happen so often, but is very scary, once resulted in us jumping a wire fence in a mad rush to get to what he thought was a gap- he had locked onto it, so I just had to ride it, luckily it was ok, he also once jumped a wall sideways in his haste.
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It doesn't look quite so scary there as you can't see the wall a few strides off!
 
Genie's a pig to catch, at least at the moment. Today she was charging the other horses, turning to kick them, then stopping and rearing bolt upright today.
 
my little welsh b found a lovely party trick at shows last year.......she does a fly buck towards the judge whilst being run up!! Luckily, she has never actually connected with a judge as yet, but has been grounded until she learns to behave :)
 
my horse has done a few things and ive only owned her since may :p

- dirty stop at a just

-out on a hack, reversing, then when i asked her to move forward she went straight up in the air, all four legs and then bombed as fast as she could. i had some steering and i stayed on but there were no breaks at all and i certainly couldnt spin her in a circle to stop. -also she kept repeating this till i stopped her long enough to get of and cross the bypass with her in hand as there was no way i was riding over it like i normally did, with other horses. we did stop this after about a month with some serious work

- breaking the string shes tied to and running throw a yard of machinary to the field i dont use, with all her tack on. clever enough to be unharmed but i had a heart attack. i learnt alot from that one.

-while i was holding her she put in a small rear quickly and booted my leg with her front leg. i couldnt walk for a week and had to resort to riding witout stirrups so i didnt have to stand on my leg.

-rearing up once in the trailer. she put a small cut on her lip that i put wound powder on and you couldnt tell she had done anything after a week.

she has a nack for scareing me stupied but not actually hurting herself. and btw im not a novice ive been riding 18 years and got numerous qualifications along with haveing had 5 or 6 horses on loan over those years. she is my first horse thats actually mine but i know what she was like when i brought her and was ready for the long hard fight but shes settled now and it was worth every second of hard work to give this misunderstood moody mare a decent life

oo dear it made me cry writing that. i think i need to take a can of manup
 
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Nitty is very good and hasn't done anything bad. I have had a playful nip before she worked out people don't play like horses do but that's it.

Brown Horse has kicked me properly once. He really meant it and the bruise is still there six weeks later. Apart from that he is annoying rather than bad. He repeatedly pulls away when led and thinks nothing of snapping the lead rope when tied up and then running off up the field. He didn't get the right ground work when young sadly *sigh*

He'll fly buck occasionally when ridden but nothing awful. I am lucky I think.

I've had some interesting moments over the years but this pair are quite good thankfully :)

O and gone to earth. That looks scary enough to me frankly!!
 
Snorted in my friends face when they were introduced.

Poor friend - a faceful of snot and... she was scared of horses too!!! I don't think she's been near another since.... naughty boy!
 
Some years ago on a pleasure(not!) ride, my previously chilled out arab got the hump because his mare girlfriend was being ridden alongside of a stranger gelding. He backed up onto a bank on the side of the lane, waited until the gelding was being ridden past, launched himself practically on top of the gelding and proceeded to try and kill him. And yes I was riding him at the time and there wasn't a damn thing I could do to stop him. I managed eventually to wrench him off and spent the next 2 hours apologising to everybody.....I was mortified.....
 
My Mare currently HATES the school, last week - heaven forbid I asked for Canter - She stoped dead and tried to bite my toes!!! :rolleyes:
(Spurs today resulted in a Fantastic Canter circle!!!) - might stick with those for the winter!)

Mums mare once eating her dinner (very very teritorial over chaff) - turned around and pinned me in a corner threatening to kick! - She is a Lamb ususally!!! :eek:
 
RunToEarth said:
I'm quite lucky, all of ours are very well behaved, however, Oshk does have one party trick up his sleeve for the hunting days where we have to queue for fences. He will plant himself perfectly still for 3 or 4 seconds, plunge forwards, take off on all fours or similar, take the reins and go. It doesn't happen so often, but is very scary, once resulted in us jumping a wire fence in a mad rush to get to what he thought was a gap- he had locked onto it, so I just had to ride it, luckily it was ok, he also once jumped a wall sideways in his haste.
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It doesn't look quite so scary there as you can't see the wall a few strides off!
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what a great position you have. good seat leg position, would love to be as good. He sounds lovely though!!!!
 
My horse refused to go into the field, spun round, bronced, booted me in my arm and bolted. Also the first time I took him to a distance ride he bolted at the end and also made me fall onto concrete.

Apart from that nothing too bad really. He is quite well behaved.
 
It's hard to decide which the worst behaviour my first loan pony displayed was. I shared him with a friend, and he ran through the school fence when she was having a lesson. Some silly girls cantered up behind us out hacking (i was on another horse) and he boted flat out with her, then reared upright when i blocked his way with the other horse and the only thing that stopped him going over was a lampost. Said friend was between him + lamp post. He also used to rear at you and come for you with both front legs flying when bringing him in from the field, if you could catch him and hold on whilst he carted up the field. He also broke free if you tied him up and ran round the yard. If he couldn't break free he would rear at anyone who went near him. He also reared and got his leg stuck over a fence when tied up. Therefore you couldn't tie him outside, but mucking around him/ brushing in the stable he would swing his arse at you with all his might and crush you against the wall and then kick at you whilst you were trapped. It took 2 of us 4 hours per night between us to get him done.

Current share horsey is a good boy really, he's just a bit neurotic and spooky and daft. He recently tried to kick a cobs head in with both back legs whilst out on a hack. He meant serious business. But he has never done anything like that before so i think said cob bit him bum.
 
This will probably sound pathetic but in the 4 months I've had my beanbag:

He went through a phase, after he was a good weight and had a bit of life in him, where he'd throw himself about, leap, run up the curb and generally be an absolute douche out hacking.
Not sure what happened, we went on a different route, then returned to the old route and now he's fine. He get's excited coming home and jogs but nothing dangerous.

When the new XC jumps where stuck on a trailer in the field, he sniffed from a distance then exploded jumping backwards and bolting in a circle around me.
I held the rope with one hand and had the "=_=" look, I think if that had've been the situation a few months ago when I had no confidence, I'd have screamed and let go.

I adore his quirky days though, makes me happy to see him so confident compared to what he used to be like.
 
Worst thing my boy did was on being turned out by (then yard owner) he got over excited and kicked out on being relaeased and kicked her on her arm. Luckily only needed stitches, no bones broken.

The other day, he for the first time ever pushed me aside in the stable door and barged out squashing me against the door jamb. Turned him round and led him back in, much to his digust and made him wait until I was ready to leave.

Have had him almost 10 years so not bad really.

Jane
 
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