Your funniest fall...

[armchair_rider]

Group lesson at a riding school. Was riding with my stirrups too long (no I don't know why I didn't adjust them). We were cantering round the school and I was gradually losing my balance (yes I should probably have asked to stop). On about the fifth circuit I just slid gently out of the side door to the bemusement (and amusement) of everyone else.

 

[Marydoll]

Waiting for a friend to go out a hack, i leaned down to check my girth and horse took a step forward, tripped and stumbled as i fell out the side door, from a standstill

 

[Twiggy14]

I can remember laughing at some but not the actual fall xD
So here's two I remember -

Me and my best friend at the time decided to ride her ponies to the woods. Well she has about 60 Shetlands, and only 1 14.2hh rideable one. So she rode Cassie (14.2hh) and I rode Blue, a Shetland.
Anyway, we were at the woods, having a nice canter through, jumping stuff, when she decided to jump a 2ft6 log. The height was fine for Blue, he's a beast of a jumper, I've jumped him 3ft before, but there was a bit of mud in front of it. For Cassie it was barely anything, but for Blue it was quite a bit of mud!
Anyway, he tripped a little before the jump, so he had to stop...I obviously went forward a bit, but then he decided to jump it. He has the most downhill jump ever, so it ended up me hanging on to his neck, dangling, whilst he was cantering along. I was getting dragged along the floor. Whilst this was happening, I was laughing to much so I let go and just lay there laughing for ages with a bunch of campers looking at me like I was mad!
XD
Then the day after, I rode the 14.2hh in her garden, but we put a cub saddle on her. I got on, the girth was to big but Scarlett was like 'ride her without' so I did. It was fine, but she was so fat, and decided to turn early. Cue saddle slip and me hanging in upside down around her belly, and then just letting to and laughing xD

 

[HashRouge]

When I was about 9, I sailed over the head of my friend's pony and landed on my bottom in front of him. When I tried to get up, I found I couldn't, because the little sod was standing on the back of my t shirt and wouldn't move. I was shrieking with laughter and ended up having to tear my t shirt to get free.

 

[Merrymoles]

I was holding a hunting gate for friends to go through and as I came through it last my boy spooked at some ramblers on the other side who were waiting patiently for us to pass. I caught my stirrup on the latch and his general silliness dragged my leg across his hindquarters, complete with stirrup which had by then come off the saddle, and I somersaulted and landed on my feet - round of applause from ramblers!
My other best one wasn't quite a fall but I was wearing a long wax and dismounted to open a stuck gate. Somehow my right leg strap got caught and I ended up doing the splits vertically - one leg behind the saddle and the other on the floor. My friend was laughing so hard she couldn't help at all but my spooky boy, bless him, stood like a rock until I managed to unhitch myself. We were crying with laughter by the time I got the gate open.

 

[Jenni_]

While showing a horse off to potential purchaser I was demonstrating how easy the horse was to jump. Trotted in to tiny X pole on loose rein and this happened. The person viewing the horse took the pic and sent it to me.
We both laughed for quite a while over this......

Week before horse was doing this....

Nice...er...horse by the way.

 

[paschasmum]

Cantering along the beach approaching an outlet from the sea. Horse goes to jump and changes his mind just before and spins, I land face first in the sea. On seeing that if the water was safe for me to go in he trotted in beside me splashing me. And it was all on video

 

[rhino]

Rhino, your landing on the jump one made me LOL! had the funniest image in my head!!

What was worse is that I'd put my body protector on ('cos obviously that was going to help protect my shoulder ) so I was like a turtle floundering around on its back

PaddyMonty I will never get bored of that photo

 

[Willeeckers]

Out hacking one summer along the banks of the river Severn, gates were never my strong point and along this stretch there were lots.....

I tried to lean down and open said gate (from the dizzy heights of 17.2hh) unfortunately the gate opened towards us, managed to get Mr Dumblood himself to back up so I could open the gate whilst hanging off his neck to reach it. He then proceeded to panic and tried to run through said gate before it had been fully opened, changed his mind and then ran backwards again. Unfortunately for me he'd gone far enough forwards that my leg was now on the opposite side of the gate, I'd lost my grip on the gate during these antics so it had now shut on my leg and as he ran backwards my leg stayed on the other side of the gate and pulled the rest of me with it

I think I must have hit just about every part of my anatomy on both sides of the gate posts as I went down before landing flat on my back on the rock hard summer ground - I have never before or since had a bruise that size on my bottom!!

Mr giant Dumblood decided to add insult to injury by casually cantering off back across the huge field we'd just come across