Why is it that? (I ponder about hacking)

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That your horse doesn't flinch when a car is coming towards it at 50mph but freaks out at a manhole cover off death!!!!!

Explain.....
 
Because otherwise life would be very dull! ha ha

My horse is still very suspcious of parked cars - I do not know why he is 20 yo now! They just like to pick their 'thing' I guess.
 
I also wonder why my pony can cart me past tractors and lorries without batting an eyelid but swerves violently should any sort of flower/leaf move in his direction!!!
I have no explanations for his behaviour but I find it rather amusing.
 
Can't help with that one, but maybe you can tell me why my mare doesn't seem to notice double decker buses, particularly while jumping a mile high at the blue paint on the road! :D
 
Have to add how scary people are as well when they are being ridden, terrifying in fact, even though with no rider on they are fine - the more of them the scarier they are!!
 
I often wonder what goes through their tiny minds when they spook at silly things like that! Mine has a thing with bikes!! its perfectly acceptable for a bike to come behind us, fast or slow....its also fine for a bike to ride along side us! But bloody hell, if ones coming towards us, it warrants a rear, and a spin lol!!
 
I hack my horse past water cannons and sprinklers splashing on polytunnels, but a big scary dock leaf in the path, oh no, we must shy and leap away from it, then trot off. SMOOTH.
 
Oh I'm with you. My horse happily passed a farmer knocking in fencing with the bucket of his digger today but very nearly decked me when he spotted a crushed beer can in the verge. He's special, bless him. :rolleyes:
 
laura7981 said:
I often wonder what goes through their tiny minds when they spook at silly things like that! Mine has a thing with bikes!! its perfectly acceptable for a bike to come behind us, fast or slow....its also fine for a bike to ride along side us! But bloody hell, if ones coming towards us, it warrants a rear, and a spin lol!!
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That is my mare exactly, glad she's not the only one :D
 
I hacked my then 19 year old to a gallops (two years ago now). Milk tankers - no problem. Tractors - no problem. In fact anything bigger and noisier than him - no problem.
Get on the gallops and a blade of grass moved a millimetre and before I knew it I was a sand angel and he was half way home down the road!
 
My horse doesn't fear lorries, tractors, buses, speeding cars, caravans, screaming kids on bikes, scaffolding, flags, boats, surfboards, people chucking bottles in the bottle bank, tents, hikers, sheep... But those transparent bags of garden waste are FROM HELL!!!!!!!
 
We've come across a helicopter taking off right in front of us and none of the horses batted an eyelid....we've also passed the Dyson insulating vans pumping stuff into houses, bin wagons, etc!
however, if someone is painting a fence and one panel has changed colour - that's OBVIOUSLY dangerous, and we don't do sports cars either!
My mum's old horse used to walk out into the middle of the road to avoid drains - if he came across two, he'd sort of attempt to cat leap them (he wasn't a natural jumper bless him!) rather than walk through!
K x
 
My horse lived on farms for at least the last 13 years of his life, possibly more. Til the day he died, if he saw a farmer in the cab of a tractor, they would have to get out and lead him past. Didn't matter if the tractor was the other side of the hedge with the engine off, he would have to be lead past. This fear was only about when I was riding him on my own. When my mum or sister hacked him, he didn't bat an eyelid. It's a bit humiliating to be lead past with someone saying "All the young ones have to learn", and making the decision not to say the horse in question was 26! His ears were always pricked, and you could tell he was laughing at me...
 
Yip, a mare I had years ago was so quiet that my 2 yr old sister used to trot her up and down the road with my dad and I at either end, but i got the worst fall i ever had off her, as she spooked from a milk carton in the ditch. Same mare was ridden up through the town, sandwiched between buses and trucks!!! No problem, maybe just goes to show no such thing as BOMBPROOF", well maybe bombproof, but not milk carton proof, or drain proof!!!!
 
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