whats your worst horsey blonde moment?

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Im sure everybody has had at least one blonde moment to do with horses. my latest one as some of you may know is calling the vet out to view my horrses sarcoid only then a vets bill later to be told its her belly button! Oops. anybody else been as blonde as me?
 
Trying to take a rug off without undoing leg straps as I had in my head it was a fillet string. Horse ran off and looked like she was being attached until rug fell off. Felt very bad!
 
My mare has an outie which I didn't notice until after I'd bought her and I did spend some considerable time having a nervous breakdown that it was a sarcoid (but no vets bill :p)

I saw a better title for this today at tho "I'm having a palomino moment" :D
 
Rolling on the floor laughing....as a novice too many too count .... but I did think a horses hoof was going to come off (!)the first time I felt a coronet band after horse had come in after very rainy day..asked YM to check the horse who had soft white stuff above hoof. ....
 
Coming back from a long ride I meant to leave my boy in front of the stables to graze. I always take the bridle off, unlock the tack room and come back for the saddle... Then I pop the horse in the stable. Not this time. I merrily took off the saddle and left the horse to graze. Luckily I came back to broken reins not a broken leg! I don't know what came over me that day. Not paying enough attention I guess.
 
not my worst but most recent! today.....

horse has chain in stable door way...... put chain down and went to close door.....mum spoke to me i answered back...then i looked round thinking 'why am i closing the door, the stable chains on'...went off dealt with other horse (feed/pick out poo) and did a few other things on yard..... walked back and HER CHAIN WAS DOWN........ however horse was still in stable eatting!!!! very very relieved.....closed door quickly

so remember to check that there is something always containing your horse in its stable!!!!!
 
Mine is very cringeworthy!!! I'd not been back riding long as an adult and had bought my 1st pony, he was on working livery at riding school. Off I went down to the inoor with him inhand as was worried about opening the gate. Then I've no idea what I was thinking but shut door, stood my bemused pony in middle of the school and then proceeded to walk over to far side of school and fetch a mounting block (which was heavy)
Yes I walked and carried (dragged) the heavy mounting block over to pony!
Lordy, it never even occurred to me until that night when I was telling hubby about my ride, had fits of laughter about it for weeks after!
Yes I am THAT blonde!!
 
I am always away with the fairies but the latest one was forgetting to do throat lash up. Luckily I realised At the start of the hack when my mare was bobbing her head up and down like she was trying to tell me! X
 
Years ago I did (and passed) my pony club B test with my reins on different bit rings! More recently took two horses to rural ride with only one saddle... That was quite a leg workout!
 
I will win at this as I take a drug stronger than morphine and am constantly away with the fairies. I am known for forgetting to shut my stable doors whilst horses are in, going out to get them in but forgetting to take head collars, I forget to turn the hose off and last winter managed to flood the field shelter after leaving the hose on for 5 hours and many many more. The most embarrassing was when I had a blue heated gel pack that you microwave and forgot I had already heated it twice for two mins each time before so turned the microwave on again and caused it to explode blue gel all over the tea room and everyone there.
At the last yard I was at I overheard the YM telling new staff to keep an eye on me and my horses as I was a bit dopey! She didn't explain the the drugs were the cause so the new staff thought and treated me like I was a half wit!! I did also have to drive back to the yard one day as I couldn't remember if I had taken my horses off the walker and was too embarrassed to ring and check. Don't worry, I hadn't ;0)
I probably have done worse but currently can't remember them atm
 
Stood facing towards my colt's head instead of towards his tail, and wondering why he wasn't lifting his hoof to be picked out...that horse has the patience of a saint! Or thinking my instructor wanted me to literally turn the horse 180' right where I was, as opposed to changing the rein like a normal person, lol! I blame sleep deprivation for that one.
 
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Dropping my contact lens and searching under the electric fence - coming round with my face in the mud. I wear glasses now ...
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Love this one.
My favourite moment is preparing for a fun ride, after drinking a bit much due to having company the night before, my OH and his friend, were leaning on the bonnet of the car, as they do, ignoring me hanging onto my lad's tail as he tried to head for the field, luckily the gate was shut, after undoing his lead rope, for some unknown reason, I was determined to finish brushing his tail
 
My boy couldn't be ridden for a while so my YO let me hack out one of her lovely ponies. I tacked him up and set off on my own. Got about 1 min in and I thought this pony walks funny, I know he's different to kenny but still!
Anyway turns out his martingale was swinging between his front legs - kenny doesn't normally have one so I just forgot to do it up! Poor pony was a saint at the roadside with me trying to sort it out without anyone seeing!
 
Forgot to do my boy's girth up in the excitement of riding him for the first time at a new yard. I ended up on the floor looking up at a very good but surprised boy staring down at idiot mother!
 
Going out for a ride with a friend. Half an hour in, my friend turned to me and said 'should his bit be in his mouth?' Luckily she'd noticed as 5 minutes later we passed two JCBs on the road - not his favourite things!!
 
Major Palomino moment! It was my first time using Western tack and I forgot to attach the crupper. About 10 minutes into the ride I noticed. I bent backwards and tried to fasten it but I couldn't. So I had the genius idea of turning in the saddle to face the tail. Turns out that even a half-asleep Appy can move at the speed of light if it sees a gap. I arrived back at the yard in about 3 minutes, sitting backwards and very embarrassed.
 
Well i am a tad blondemost of the time but best one was riding through the woods on my girl thinking she is walking strange? got off to investigate to find i hadnt done velcro properly on her bandage which had come undone and attached itself to her other bandaged leg! apparently its hard to walk with your legs tied together lol :)
 
I still think the original post is the winner, he he! I think the most stupid things I've done are hacked with the reins crossed under the neck (he didn't put a foot wrong!) and I've also gone out with the girth on the first hole, so hanging rather loosely under the belly. That's when I decided I must be a balanced rider. ;) My others are quite normal (I think!). Turning out, then realising hoof boots/brushing boots are still on and at my last yard I kept taking off the bridle OUTSIDE the field or stable. Not that stupid, when you think I'd spent the previous 13 years untacking in the field, so that's what I always did after a ride, rather than attach a headcollar round the neck and have them tied up.
 
Tying to cut an electric fence with metal handled scissors and being slung backwards!!!! Yooooowzers!!!! (I was only 12ish when I did that.....never done it again)
 
Some of the ones i have just read are pure gold!
I dont have anything that big ( or if i did i cant remember) but my most common one is turning the electric fence battery on when there is no electric fence attached :P
 
I used to have a horrible habit of calling Alfie (my old appaloosa) Bluey (a pony I had for 19yrs, same colour, but has had a new mum for several yrs now). As such a new livery said once, "Bluey's been ever so naughty this morning he kept nipping as we walked past his stable".
"Bluey?" Confused.com
"You have a grey pony called Bluey, dont you".
"Yes but how do you know him?"
"Oh we see him every day".
"You do?"
"Yes, he's normally very sweet but today he isnt happy at all".
I'm thinking oh no, he's getting older, must go visit him, what a coincidence. So I call the girl who has him and ask her is everything ok as our liveries know him and they say he's been acting up. She says he's fine, we're away competing for the weekend... in Chepstow. So I'm wondering how the liveries could be in Chepstow first thing and at the farm for 9am (warwickshire). In the evening i went to get Alfie in, and he nipped at the new livery as she walked past with her feeds. "See, told you he's grumpy today".... I'd had alfie for 3yrs at that point, donut!
 
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Hmm worst blonde moment loading the wrong horse ready to go a show.
I was half asleep haha my poor old guy nearly had a heart attack when i put him in the lorry only 20mins into the journey i went to check him and came face to face with a very confused pony quick turn around to the yard and came face to face with a confused friend who was supposed to be putting my old guy out quickly put my other lad in my dad couldnt stop laughing the whole way and its a thing he brings up often X_X

Since im naturaly blonde i suffer many of these moments ... my horses deserve a medal!
 
It was about a year ago now, I was tacking up for a hack.
I always undo my girth from both sides when putting it away, out of habit.
I was about to attach the girth to the saddle when I noticed it was a bit grubby so went to switch it for a clean one. Well.... en route i must have somehow got distracted, put my hat and hi-viz on, wandered over to the mounting block, foot in stirrup ... and whoshhhh! I hit the ground like a sack of the preverbial. Luckily saddle was fine. Horse side stepped ad turned and look at me as if to say 'God, who let this clown own a horse'.
 
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I was very confused when I arrived at the yard one day to find my old boy in his stable and all the other horses out as there was only 3 of us on the yard and the other two were away for the day. I was starting to think I had some nutty stalker playing with my mind when it dawned on me that I'd put him in there to eat his tea in peace the day before (it was just field and stables, no yard) got distracted and forgotten he was in there! As it was summer and they were out 24/7 there was no hay, water or bedding in there. I felt awful and was petrified he was dehydrated, but all he was interested in was the grass! No harm done thankfully!

I also jumped the wrong course at the Riding Club show - 10 minutes after I had built it and put all the numbers on it!
 
Lolita said:
I think my best palomino moment was when i loaded up the lorry, tack, water, food etc got half way down the road to realise that i forgot the horse!
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A friend turned up to a lesson with no horse once. To be fair she had loaded him, then a girl at her yard fell off so she went to help her. Then somebody else came along, thought she had just got back so helpfully unloaded the horse while she was otherwise engaged. Having dealt with the girl who was ok, she was running late so legged it to the car jumped in and drove off. The look on her face when she got to riding club (luckily only 5 minutes drive) to find an empty trailer was hilarious. Poor horse was in his stable all booted up and looking very confused when she got back and even more confused when he was chucked back on the trailer and carted back to the lesson!
 
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TandD said:
not my worst but most recent! today.....

horse has chain in stable door way...... put chain down and went to close door.....mum spoke to me i answered back...then i looked round thinking 'why am i closing the door, the stable chains on'...went off dealt with other horse (feed/pick out poo) and did a few other things on yard..... walked back and HER CHAIN WAS DOWN........ however horse was still in stable eatting!!!! very very relieved.....closed door quickly

so remember to check that there is something always containing your horse in its stable!!!!!
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I've done exactly the same, although I was sitting on the yard loo at the time and suddenly remembered oh ****** I didn't put the stable guard across (I always do it up). Tried to hurry nature along, rushed back and found her standing at the door looking at me as if to say 'I know what you've done mum but this is not normal so I daren't move an inch!'
 
I once did a noseband up on top of one of the cheek pieces and one under! that will teach me for tacking up in a rush!

Someone I know quite didnt know what over reach boots were meant for, so put one on the front leg and one on the back!! to be fair it was the same side of the horse! haha!
 
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