Your funniest/most embarrassing falls?

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We were having a giggle the other day about some of the falls we've had between us all...these are mine!

- At every show, we used to hack home between classes (only about 10 mins away) and it was over an open field. My old pony, Rebel, without fail (I don't know how I didn't get used to it!) at EVERY show, once we were heading back to the showground, used to tank off at the top of this field, and just as the showground began and the field stopped, he'd dig in and buck and I'd just sail over his head into the mud :o usually before our class!!!
- One day walking back from a hack with Kelly, her owner walking with us, just chatting away to her and the next thing out of nowhere, I was just sat in this massive muddy sloshy sticky puddle :eek: I burst out laughing, Kel's owner was nearly wetting herself laughing and Kelly stood there going "What the hell just happened?!" Worst of all, the bus driver wouldn't let me on the bus!!

And not me, but Kelly's owner...
- we went out hacking, and swapped horses outside the indoor school for a bit I got on Kelly went into the indoor, and G got on Rebel - put her foot in the stirrup, went to jump up and somehow lost her balance, wobbled and just fell bum first into the mud!!

Tell me yours!
God knows I need a laugh, with all the exams about!
K x
 
not a fall but almost....

when i was about 12 at having lessons at the local RS I was riding a new pony who was nicknamed 'Fury'!
As we were trotting around the school we passed the RI just as he sneezed. My pony went NUTS and bolted off around the school bucking, bronking and rearing. I held on for grim death and after a few minutes he finally calmed down. As i got my breath back i looked up to see all the watching parents clapping and cheering me! :o:D
 
Shamefully, I was so excited to use a new mounting frame at my new yard that I forgot to check the boy's girth, stepped into the stirrup and ended up on the floor looking at my horse's belly. Utterly shameful. :o
 
Many moons ago when I still rode at a local RS I was among the most experienced riders there. I quite often got 'volunteered' to demonstrate something for others who hadn't done it before. I got called out to show some beginners 'around the world.' I got three quarters of the way through then, as I started to pivot for the last time, the horse I was on (17.2hh) stepped smartly to the left. I was left sitting in mid-air and plummeted the best part of 6 feet to land squarely on my bum. They joked for months afterwards that they could still see the imprint of my bum cheeks on the surface of the school. :D
 
Doing XC, my horse was a bit sticky going up to a really easy jump, so I gave her a massive flappy legs kick in the guts, she did a vertical take off, really heavy landing and I landed on her neck, but hanging off the side, attached by an elbow and an ankle. I wriggled back up into the saddle, got a small round of applause and carried on riding, so that was funny.

Found out later I'd actually dislocated my shoulder. Less funny.
 
Had a lovely girl from this forum come to visit me and my Snowy and he had some time off work, we were going to go for a hack, I went to get on and saddle slipped, fall 1..... he was very good and i didnt really fall but then went to get back on and he reared right up and bronked me off into a fence......... Was possibly the most upset/embarrased of him I have ever been!! Especially as I had been saying how good he was etc - of course he had a reason for it and is a little angel now (most of the time) ;)!! To top it all off there was a lesson going on in the school at the time and I terrified the kids on the ponies so was banned from riding whilst lessons were going on from then onwards :p, no longer on that yard now and as I say hes an angel now!
 
A friend and I decided to re-live our youth one day by jumping gorse bushes we'd jumped numerous times as kids out on the common.

Cantered up to first one on my cob who put in a stop and I went flying over his head and landed on my bottom in the middle of the bush. I didn't know how to get up as there were prickles everywhere. I lay there, cob in hand, friend wetting herself laughing, dog walkers trying not to laugh as I felt like a pin cushion. Wasn't half painful riding back home!!!
 
Lol ouucchhh!!
Always the way, Snowy, you spend ages telling people how beautifully behaved they are and they completely turn inside out and prove everything wrong!
K x
 
I once fell off an Eriskay pony when he threw the anchors down and lept to the left. I carried on forwards and sort of slid down his shoulder and landed square on my right knee still in an (almost ;)) perfect riding position with my face in the dirt.

Another memorable fall was in a gymkhana years ago: we'd all swapped ponies for a bending race and I was enthusiastically rounding the top pole when the saddle slipped round the pony's belly and I ended up dangling off the side in a rather undignified fashion. Don't think I've ever not checked a girth since!
 
Where shall I start...

I did the splits once when pone thought I'd mounted and walked off so I had one leg on the saddle and one on a gate.

At PC when learning to canter pone found a blade of grass and his head dissappeared pulling me with it so I was basically doing a handstand down pony's neck with my arse in the air and my legs waving at everyone else as I slowly went over. I laid on the floor, directly in front of pony's head, reins still in hand looking at the sky.

Bareback cantering through a field, no headcollar no nothing - horse buckaroo'd - I sailed into the sky flapping my arms as if I could fly and landed on my feet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That HAS to be my favourite fall EVER! I got a round of applause and everything.

Hacking, chatting to friends, horse jumps puddle - totally unprepared - I slide like a wet jelly around neck and ended up backwards on my bottom looking through his legs. Had to ride home with muddy bottom and saddle. If I wasn't crimson with rage I think I would have frozen to it.

Oh almost forgot... saddle slipped as we turned a corner out on a fun ride... you can imagine the rest... I bailed. Quickly!
 
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A few years ago now, bank holiday sunday, beautifull hot sunny day, packed beach full of tourists, take horse down for a cooling swim after ride with mum and mums friend. I didnt want to get my feet wet so hiked my legs up to keep them as much out the water as i could. Horse stumbled on a rock in the water and i went STRAIGHT over her head into the water head first. We were in about a metre deep so i went totally under and when i came up i scared the horse who ran backwards away from this water monster looming out of the sea. I still had the reins so i got dragged through the water with her! Calmed her down fairly quickly only to look up at a beach full of people watching (and videoing!!! :eek:) and mum and fiend holding on to each other so thay didnt fall off themselves they were laughing so hard! Still waiting for it to come up on youve been framed or something.....
 
Me and pony are the official gate openers of the yard, and can easily open any gate while mounted, so after returning from a hack where the mare has been a spoilt little brat and stropped at everything and after sitting to all the bucks and cow kicks she chucked in, i made it home in one peice! Casually opened the gate to let me and the rider behind in through, pony decided today enough was enough and squeezed through the gate barely open, I catch my leg on the gate, as pony carries on walking, head hits the floor, open my eyes to find my leg above my head still attatched to the gate and pony off across the yard.
Friend finally stops laughing enough to unhitch my leg from the gate and let me stumble across the yard to catch the pony!
 
I bought my 14 yo daughter a very green 13.2 Section B to bring on as a step on to a more sensible animal from her 13.3 Section D who is a nutter. She couldn't get on with the rather well-behaved Section B so we swapped. After I'd been riding him a few weeks we were schooling in our big field and he decided that now would be a good time to try out doing a handstand. I was fired off and daughter looked round to see pony vertical in the air, back legs up, "hands" on floor with mother in the air also vertical with legs up and hands reaching towards floor. The really embarrassing thing though was that my ex-boyfriend from when I was 16 had chosen that day to turn up out of the blue after not having seen him for donkey's years and the builders at my house had told him where the field was and where we were. The incident happened as he reached the field gate and so he was treated to the spectacle of the synchronised handstands.
 
Gymkhana 2 years ago...in an equitation class infront of a judge whose opinion of me + pony wasn't too high to begin with, pony suddenly tanked off and then dumped me smartly in the deep mud directly infront of judge---I'm told I did a very stylish full somersault with straight legs, to land on my back! :o
 
I also did a landing on feet one....had been riding with my uncle, he decided to turn around, I decided to go on a bit further, so mare was pretending to be scared of stuff as an excuse to go back to her mate. She done a jump and sharp spin and I don't know how but I was stood in one stirrup for a bit trying to keep balance and somehow flipped over to land on feet with my hands still in a normal riding position!!!
Wish it had been on camera!!

Others I've had is galloping up a hill and same mare buck me off over her head....was terrified of more than walking up that hill for ages after!
At riding school horse fell over trotting poles and rolled on me to get up.
Fell off numerous times on a sec A doing upright rears.
A sharp stop and twist before a jump and flung into the wing.

My first pony used to run off when I put foot in stirrup to get on him, naughty boy!!
 
Out hacking, trotting up a fairly steep hill.

Next thing I know, I'm roly-polying backwards down the hill again all the way to the bottom! :eek:

To this day I have no idea what happened, and neither does my friend who was behind me at the time! :confused:
 
I have 2! One of them was on my first pony. All of the kids at the yard (about 8 of us) used to play hide and seek on the ponies in the woods. I had a grey and so did my friend so we were paired up and off we went for a hiding place. We chose to go deep into closed in tree area with hanging branches everywhere, my friend shouted duck from ahead of me, but i was too busy making sure we werent being watched and a long hook like branch reached round my neck and stopped me, but my pony carried on walking, i obviously fell off her bottom as she carried walking on and i fell on a painful treestump! Lol.

The funniest one was on Friday when my friend was holding my stirrup and i had just literately put my foot in the other stirrup lifted myself up, and then there was no horse! He had bolted, my friend was stood there shocked and the fact there was no horse now, and I hit the gravel. I was fine though lol, a few scratches but no pain, then there were shouts at the sandschool full with 3 people: "LOSE HORSE!", he never made his way up there, stopped at some grass and started eating until he was caught lol!
 
Previous mare to the one i now own, was brought as a very green / barely broken "project" spent months working on her and on a hack 6 months later, with a new livery, VERY proudly recalling how awful she used to be, how amazing she is now and even my novice OH who'd never ridden before has walked and trotted her etc....we decided to canter up long flat straight track.....cue mare deciding SHE had to be in front...

And being 13.2 and new girls horse being 15.3 best way to do this was to gallop flat out, road rage style sideways barge other pony and generally act like she was on drugs, until i roly polied backwards off, did a full 360 backwards flip in the air, hit the floor, bounce back up, stumble side way, fall through a bush and into a muddy ditch the other side..................
 
andraste said:
Many moons ago when I still rode at a local RS I was among the most experienced riders there. I quite often got 'volunteered' to demonstrate something for others who hadn't done it before. I got called out to show some beginners 'around the world.' I got three quarters of the way through then, as I started to pivot for the last time, the horse I was on (17.2hh) stepped smartly to the left. I was left sitting in mid-air and plummeted the best part of 6 feet to land squarely on my bum. They joked for months afterwards that they could still see the imprint of my bum cheeks on the surface of the school. :D
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HAHA can imagine it!
 
pricklyflower said:
A friend and I decided to re-live our youth one day by jumping gorse bushes we'd jumped numerous times as kids out on the common.

Cantered up to first one on my cob who put in a stop and I went flying over his head and landed on my bottom in the middle of the bush. I didn't know how to get up as there were prickles everywhere. I lay there, cob in hand, friend wetting herself laughing, dog walkers trying not to laugh as I felt like a pin cushion. Wasn't half painful riding back home!!!
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hehe is this why you are called prickly flower?
 
These are hilarious... keep 'em coming. I'm having quite a laugh folks, sorry it's at your expense... :D
 
ohh...too many...even more too many with photographic evidence!
A good one was at PC camp when I was about 13...Riding back to the stables with my group and my best mate dared me to ride back in side-saddle. Me finding it impossible to say no to dares, especially from said mate as we were completely over-competitive with each other, swung my leg over the front and wandered along side saddle :rolleyes: The lad in our group decided to canter past me to wind my pony up, but nope, he was walking. The rest of the group follow, but nope, he was walking. UNTIL...evil best mate whistled and called my pony and off he cantered while I slid off the side!! :o Worst thing was, same thing happened the next day!! I've now learnt not to take on so many dares...or teach my ponies to come when they're whistled/called.
 
Not funny at the time, but I was galloping alongside my now husband and he just disappeared off the nearside, was rolling around the floor holding his shin, I couldn't work out how he had fallen off in a straight line, and also at such a high speed (on a national hunt racehorse).. I then discovered the horse he was riding threw a shoe and it hit him in the shin


OUCHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
 
Well the other week I for the first time on new mare decided to open the school gate mounted to let us in to see how she would stand. On closing the gate, I had to let go of the gate as the mare started to walk forwards. My foot got stuck in the gate and as I went to rescue my foot the mare walked forward and tried to walk out the gate. My foot got totally wedged in the gate and the mare paniced and started trying to rear. I then fell off and she stood still looking at me like why you down there mum. But my leg was still attached to the gate. My friend came over to try and help and I can still hear him going I cant get your foot out. (I did scream as it was getting sore) and told him to take the saddle off the mare. It fell to the ground narrowly missing me and I was attached to the gate for a further few mins until I eventually got free. I laugh about it now but it took til I got free and knew my foot wasnt broken before I could laugh. lol.
 
Fell off at standstill, was leaning to open gate - next minute sitting on floor - saddle slipped. My horse just looked at me sitting on floor and sighed... :D
 
My 12.2 was the master of throwing me just before the tack and turnout class,I dont think there is a single photo of us at a show where I dont have grass stains on my jods! I think the funniest fall I ever had was probably when the cheekpiece snapped in a jump off,causing the pony to stumble and fire me over the shoulder.Luckily for me just before the finish line,so I landed on the other side of it,and still got my clear round!
 
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