Your most embarassing horse-handling injuries!

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Bored, and have nothing to do so thought id start a post to cheer me up :)

Ill start :p

Moving day for my pony, have 10 mins to get him in, legs hosed, traveling gear on so was obv in a bit of a rush. Get to the field, pony wont be caught but eveeeentually i caught him. He then decided that he was going to charge through the gate, leaving my wellies in the knee deep mud and me about 2 metres away flat on my face, covered from head to toe in mud :| :p :D

So i get up, pony standing there as if butter wouldnt melt. Riding school hack passes the field, never been so embarassed .. but it gets worse!

Take pony onto the yard, to hose legs and he spins round double barrels me riiiiiight in the bum :p :p :p So ive got 2 muddy hoofprints on my bum now as well.

Get to new yard, pony walks off the trailer prancing, and poncy. Me covered from head to toe in mud and 2 muddy hoofprints on my bum and EVERYONE on the yard is there.

Never get a second chance at a first impression do you :D :D :p:p

So come on lets here yours and fox's bisqwits all round :);)
 
Nothing really compared to yours lol, but i was leading a 14.2 riding school pony who is known to be bargy, on one occasion he dragged me out of the riding school and almost threw me in the water trough, i managed to catch myself but it was rather embaressing, and another time he ran me into a bail of hay outside another horses stable and i went flying. it was very embaressing!
 
not a handling incident.....but i had been trying to convince new horse to hack alone.... after lots of ground work and schooling etc we had been for our first proper hack alone with no napps/spins/bucks and i was feeling mega proud of myself. Car comes along the road and its my parents next door neighbour so she stops to talk....at which ponio decided to poo on the bonnet of her brand new car. Then prance the whole way back to the yard looking mega pleased with himself.
I could have died of embarrasment. And she didnt see the funny side!!!!
 
Oh hell where do I start.

I managed to get knocked out at college putting a head collar on....[LOL.Do.not.ask.how.]

I split my suede jods halfway round my XC assessment, horse put a spectacular stag leap from nowhere and I managed to stick it ok...but alas, my jods didn't!!! Ripped at the seam right from the front to the back and I was then named the creator of 'crotchless jods'. Haha. Embarrassing. I still finished the course though and passed!


But I think my BEST one had to be falling off a little pony we used to have. 14hh and was **** scared of poles and jumping...like truly terrified. Pony FREAKED out of nowhere halfway to taking off, spun 180, and bolted flat out round the arena in blind panic, spun 180 again at the other end of the arena and I lost one stirrup, carried on bolting the opposite direction and then ducked his shoulder again and spun 180....however this time, with no stirrup on the side I could have counter balanced, I carried on going out the side door. However, we'd been doing that much speed, I carried on going up and through the air head first, and promptly landed in the gap between the school kick boards and outer wall.
Head first, with my feet sticking out over the top, wedged doing a head stand almost in the gap.


I got laughed at .Alot!!!!
 
I was on placement at a large equestrain centre as part of my vet course. Well, they asked me about my experience - told them the truth (difficult horses, backing, eventing etc). They said fine, and all was good. On day 3 the other vet student (who had had no horse experience and was quite windy) I was with and I were asked to go and get a pair of horses in from a field. Okay.

Went to get them and there were two - one 15hh ish and one shetland. I asked him which he would prefer - said shetland. So, we caught them and began to walk in. The 15hh was perfect but the shetland was pi**ing about all over the place. Boy asked to switch. Okay. Managed to calm sheltand down a bit and proceeded to walk in. Untill we got to about 100yards from the centre and shetland started to fart around, it pulls me towards a ditch (full of thorns - owch!) I fall in, shetland gallops off into the distance. I remain in a ditch with boy student laughing at me - the 'experienced' horse person!!!! Very embarassing!
 
The most embarasing for me would be, working on a riding school one summer doing work x, quite a busy day too, a bee got down my back in the middle of the yard and stung me!!!! i was screaming and trying to get it out, so quickly yanked my top off totally forgetting there was loads of people around!!! After i chucked it i soon relised there was a few customers looking at me so ran behind a stable door till someone came and passed me my top back lol
The sting didnt half hurt tho!!! ;)
 
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I'm still not certain what happened. My little Welsh had been injured and I wanted to lunge him to give him some exercise without him being ridden. He is very unpredictable and he doesn't like the lunge. One moment he was lunging sensibly and the next I woke up in a heap by the gatepost with him grazing quietly a few yards away. Like an idiot I wasn't wearing a hat. I don't know how long I'd been out for - definitely more than 20 minutes - but long enough for me to have wet myself :eek:

Anyway I staggered to my feet, took the lunge kit off the pony although the ground was moving under me in a most disturbing way and made my way back into the house. I managed to get upstairs - it was like being on a boat in a very rough sea - and into the study where my husband was working. I managed to get my voice to work and said "Umm I think I need some help" or something similar and he replied "Not just yet I'm busy". At this point I went to my bedroom and lay down. it was all far too much effort. He was horrified when he came to find me. The swelling was far greater than in the pic.

I have no idea what happened. I don't think he can have kicked me - but why else would I have been way out of the middle of the circle? It's more likely that I banged my head on the gatepost - but what I was doing near the gatepost when lunging I have no idea. Certainly I was lunging him when whatever it was happened because he still had the cavesson and lunge rein attached.

I wear a hat nowadays!

Following this one of the local business men came round and saw my eye (it went some very exciting colours) and was appalled, he thought my husband had done it to me and was all for going into the house and sorting him out!
 
Thankfully personally i havent had too many accidents, the worst probably being the horse wacking me under the chin with her head (im not sure quit how that happened either) or the time she almost walked me into a gate.
My mum however is another story :p the pony has almost pushed her into the water trough which she was cleaning it out. She stole her cap and then yanked the lead rope out of her hand and ran off.
 
Loading a 4 week old foal, the ramp was metal and foaly didn't want to play! Covered the ramp in a huge rug thing, but no, still no play.

Am hauling foaly's head end, my sister up her bum, when foally stands on my foot. My foot was on the ramp, so this is a good thing! Reward foally, she steps off my foot, so I move up the ramp and she stands on my foot again. Wince, reward again, foal moves, move my foot, foal moves and - you guessed it - stands on my foot again.

Loaded her via my feet and then I had to stand with them (the partitions unhitched themselves and I couldn't put them back on my own!. Foaly backed onto my lap an sat on my the whole way - you guessed it - standing on my feet.

My poor feet were black by the time I got home. But, as I pointed out, by standing on my feet she forgot her fear of the ramp and loaded within 10 minutes!
Just need to make sure she learns to load WITHOUT my feet!

(she has stood on my feet when the vet's been too, it's a fear thing! "Grandma! I'm scared! I'm gonna stomp on your feet!"!)
 
Landsking regularaly with a 17hh ish youngster who would lead beautifully up to the entrance to the arena then spin and run off with all 5ft1 of me hanging onto the end of the reins, he got so good he could angle it so I always hit the pile of shavings bales and hence ended up being dragged along on my tummy.
Thankfully a chifney put paid to that in the end. But the instructors comments of oh hears Alibear oh no actually she gone again still ring in my ears :p
 
Funny stories - just what I needed!!

I was getting my two in from the field and was in the gateway - another horse in field went to bite one of their bottoms - and panicked him and he hit the electric fence gateway which arced beautifully at my other horse, who panicked even more and they both barrelled me over into a very stinky puddle - in front of yard owners wife and took off in her general direction - while she protected her kids from rampaging horses. She caught them and I gratefully took them off her looking like swamp thing. Thought all was well. Got home, and my leg was swelling dramatically so OH dragged me to hospital - stinking of bog with pre-summer legs! Nice look!!
 
I broke my collar bone whilst leading my 11 hh 2yr old colt across the field when he reared at a mare and got my arm stuck in his front legs and snap there it went. When i went to the hospital my 11hh 2yr colt turned into a stallion horse cause i was too embarrassed to tell them it was a likkle pikkle pony !!
 
Age 14 and a bit, local boys were chatting me up, I was grazing 14.2 pony on verge with long line on her... then HGV went past blew his v v loud horn, pony reacted, I never noticed line was between my legs and it tightened, gave me horrid roap burns left me in a heap on the dirt track, one of the lads did catch pony for me, but I was laughed at for weeks after. He never asked me out!!!!! That pony had seen thousands of lorries and herd hooters, horns ect many times, she just thought she would bring me down to earth...
 
When I was 15 out hacking with my loan horse he refused to cross a tiny stream. After trying for ages to get him over I got off to lead him instead. in the end he decides the only safe place to stand is EXACTLY where I am so next thing I know I am on my back with hooves either side of my head and legs :eek: So lucky! i've never done that since.
 
Fab stories :D

Mine is when I got asked to help a friend on the yard to take 2 horses to the winter turn out fields.
We reached the field without any sort of incidents or pratting about and the mud was, no exaggeration, almost knee high the sort of mud that takes you about 40 years to walk through cause you can't bend your legs in it its that thick!
My friend unclipped his horse before I'd got through the gate, so of course it had gone, galloping across the field and the horse I had started messing about, half reared and bolted just as I'd managed to unclip him. Of course I lost my balance, couldn't move my legs and fell face and arms first into all this mud...

Worst of it was I hadn't even started my jobs or ridden my horse yet had to do it all covered in mud!!!! :p

Are we all mad??? :rolleyes:
 
OH. And on my very first day of work, I stabbed myself through my foot with a pitchfork.

Just another one to add!
 
Well Mine Has To Be When I Was Hacking With Binky01 And On Her Horse When We Got Attacked By A Flying Deer.....
Quoted From The Post 'And To Top Our Hack Yesterday...We Upped It One More'
Yes. After yesterdays shonanigans [see 'not so quiet hack!' post lol] we went to do the original ride we planned yesterday [before we accidently bumped into the hunt].

So today, off we twaddle merrily up the hill to go through the gulley again and over yander....I'm on the youngster again and my first-time-hunts-in-pink-wellied-friend came on my horse [ex-racer,not the one she had yesterday lol...he's only field fit so a bit knackered today after his expedition lol!].
So off we go.
Get to the same bit as we went head first into the huntmaster y/d...

And there we meet a flying deer.
Yes. A FLYING DEER.
A.Frigging.Flying.Deer.

Up the vertical cliff of the gulley to the left of us, a deer was in the middle of running down it, saw us and froze in midrun but gravity took over going down the cliff and instead of stopping it carried on going! Well. Froze in mid air then gravity took over again, like a flipping cartoon sketch where they're running in midair before they drop down the cliff lol!!!
So yes. A flying deer...or 'Britannia Airways' as I renamed it. LOL.

Anyway. Britannia now, dropping out the blue like that right on top of us practically...needless to say made the horses spook a little bit.
And by a little bit I mean my one my friend was on spinning a rather mounted-games like 180 and tearing off flat out back down the field [which is erm, rather steep!]. Friend was wrapped round his neck galloping [think thelwell picture...arms AND legs wrapped roung neck and head by ears!!!] and unfortunately parted company with him halfway down the hill......

I'm at this point having a hoot on youngster who's now not only bothered by Britannia but now has my lad broncing off flat out on his own down the field to contemplate too....interesting! We had a whizzy 5-minutes at the top of the hill [70acres btw!!!!!!!] but bless his bloody cottons he pulled himself together by means of just pleading with him 'please please please just be good for me'....very BHS I know. LOL. (No wonder I didn't pass my stage 3 riding....'how do you deal in a situation like this?' ''Beg the horse!' LOL)
Hey ho anyway.

Got to friend [who was fine btw thank god!] and dealt with that and then went to find the temporary-Nijinksi, who'd gone back to yard.

Ten mins later [and a few paracetamol!] all back on board and off we went again.

Though, this time on a different route! We've now decided that the gulley track is cursed and some ancient burial ground or something, as it seems to be jinxed to ride up!!!!!!

Anyway, after all of that, we ended up having a really nice ride for the afternoon [With no more flying deer!]


Haha!! Not Very Injured - But Bruised :)
Well Done If You Read All Of That!! :D
xx
 
a friend had hacked over for the weekend to stay with her pony, and as the two knew each other well we turned them out together. All fine. we went and had tea and came back a bit later to check on them and give them a last check before bed time.
Both sitting on the fence watching them and Bobby (my pony) came over to see me. Dandy (friends pony) thought I was feeding Bobby and came trotting over and pushed in. Bobby turned round to boot him, by which time Dandy had moved and I got double barrelled square on the thighs. Limped for days, and Mum was furious with me for putting the ponies in together!

The day my second pony arrived... I was 8, my sister was 5. He was 13hh of orange naughtiness, full of himself, shod four square and fresh from prince philip games finals!! Mum led him off the trailer, and up to the stable yard. Buzz then decided he better assert his authority and refused to anywhere near it as he'd seen the other horses at the top gate. So he digs his heels in and mum tries using the end of the lead rope to smack him, but gets no response. So Dad goes up behind him and uses a spare lead rope to smack him. Que Buzz returning the favour and belting Dad back twice in quick succession. Dad still has the scars of two hoof prints on one thigh 20 years later!
 
The first time I took my boy out was to a XC schooling day at a local centre. He was still pretty new so was weary about how he would behave with all the excitement going on. After loading on to the trailer like a true gent I had no worries about getting him off. So I get his lead rope on & undo the bar & bang. I'm lying in a pile of ****! Bruised egos hurt! :cool:
Next time your out and about & you see a horse leap off a trailer with a woman on the end of a rope come say hi its just me! :D
 
At my Riding & Road Safety test in Pony Club about 4 years ago, my pony is notorious for being unable to cope in group situations (he was a hunter for all of his life before we got him, so he thinks groups = gallop) but he was like a donkey for the whole thing, so everyone thought I was just saying that he likes to run off. At the end, we all passed so someone shouted "let's all go for a gallop round the field!"

it went like

"erm I'll stay here, Toto'll run off"

"oh no don't worry he'll be fine, he looks ok to us"

"no really, I'll just sta-"

then before I knew it, everyone had galloped off, of course Toto bolts off down the field at about 100mph, lapped everyone, screeched round the corners, then bombed back up to where all the parents were standing, me clinging on for dear life, and in the end I had to point him at the fence to stop him. He stopped dead and I flung myself to the floor before he decided to go again :rolleyes: Picked myself up, and found everyone had gathered round, the first thing I said was "I told you so" and everyone said they had never seen a horse go so fast :D


Then at a xc rally about 4 years ago too, Toto was being fab and even cantered in a group without running off with me, and then a silly boy in my group decides to overtake Toto at a fast canter, his pony bucked at Toto, Toto bolts off up a hill, I was so proud I'd managed to stay on, when the little git dropped a shoulder, deposited me on the floor and then galloped back down the hill. I'd really hurt my back and was badly winded, so I was flailing round on the floor shrieking, had to be helped up by my instructor and heaved back onto Toto, I could only go over the smallest jumps becuase I was in so much pain, needless to say he behaved perfectly after that :rolleyes:

I love him really :)
 
We once had a very pompus girl on our yard who was teaching and loved the sound of her own voice. I was in the stable having a chat with E about something or other when the girl appeard at the stable door. Oo you have a curly tell me about him, which of course got me in full swing about how he is soo good and how he has fantastic manners. By this time e been his usual nosey self came to say hello. I had my mobile in my hand and e suddenly thought a treat was on the go. (we dont do treats) he opened his mouth and tried to eat my hand and said phone. My had was stuck in his mouth. In the mean time im smiling through gritted teath trying to pize my hand out trying to cönvince this girl i have the perfect pony. Lol.
 
When doing lead rein gymkhana my daughter's pony can buck when going into canter. She has a very good aim with her back feet and will either connect to my bottom, the backs of my knees to make me fall over or in the spot on the outside of my thigh that makes it go dead. Not big/twisty enough to dump the child but I know she aimed for me as she tried to catch me whichever side I led her from.
 
I used to work at a horse-pital! We had a yearling in with really bad colic. She would be stood up and then literally throw herself on the floor. I was attempting to hold the horse while she was laid on the floor they decided to take her through to surgery and that we would have one last try of getting her up and if she wouldnt get up we were going to carry her. So im thinking id better give this my best shot as i will have no hope of carrying her head!!! Im thinking get ready fo a big yank of her headcoller so i yank the headcoller and it snapped and i went flying out of the stable landed about 6ft away!!
I think through shock it made the horse get up and they managed to get her into the surgery box with me sat on the floor crying with laughter and the owners stood there crying about there poor yearling!!

I have loads more but they all end up looking like essays!
 
My last lesson at my yard was on a boiling hot day. I went to get on with a big bottle of made up squash and my stick, not quite sure how it happened but I somehow managed to put on foot in the stirrup and fall off the mounting block with the other, I came crashing down, landed flat on my back, legs a kimbo with my horse looking at me like I was bonkers!! YO came running round the corner and then proceeded to almost wet herself laughing, I did feel silly!!!
 
I've had so many!!!!!!

I nearly drowned whilst mucking out my horse!!!! I got a bit over excited tossing the muck into the wheelbarrow, slipped over backwards in the process, hitting my head against the wall of the stable and ending up with my head submerged in the water bucket. I had been knocked out when I hit my head, so was unaware my head was in the water bucket. I woke up in hospital several hours later with one hell of a headache. Apparently my horse had decided that as the door was open and mum was lying on the floor for some reason she would take herself on a jolly round the yard. Luckily somebody found my horse, and upon returning her to her stable found me.

I broke my back, and damaged my spinal cord leading a 13.2hh pony. Pony bolted, I stupidly kept hold of it, was pulled over, then in my infinate wisdom decided (whilst being pulled along on my belly) that if I hooked my foot round the gatepost it would stop the pony. Needless to say that didn't stop the pony, but my back snapped, making a hole in my spinal cord. I am the only known person in the world to have suffered this injury and NOT be paraplegic!!!!!!!

The funniest time I was going to fetch one of the horses in. The field was a bog, and needless to say, I got well and truely stuck. There was no one around to call, so I had to leave my boots in the bog and drag myself back through the mud to escape. Got back to the yard looking like the creature from the black lagoon, and no one was around, so I decided to strip off down to my knickers and bra, then run to the car, get my spare change of clothes out of the car, run to the tack room and get dressed. Unfortunatly my plan failed when I met my boss and her parents halfway to my car. The confusion on their faces was priceless, but I was very red faced!!!!!!!
 
I've had loads 3 spring to mind:
Dexter my rather naughty warmblood likes to get my attention however he can, this usually means picking something up in his mouth waving it about and throwing it at me. Some of the girls and I were chatting outside his stable and HE'S not getting HIS attention so first the hoof pick and headcollar on the hook outside his stable come in my direction, ignore him, so then a rug of his rug rail, ignore him (girls p***ing themselves by now) next he picks up grooming bag I've left in stable, oh no you don't I think NOT having that chucked at me, so duck under stable chain go to grab it and promptly slip over on backside, if horses could laugh he'd have been crying.
Without the horse this time, up the garage filling up with petrol, tight breeches on, long leather boots and spurs, top showing of best assests, long blond hair blowing in the summer breeze, being a single girl, I like a bit of eye candy, well 3 guys pull up in BMW convertible, god they were lush, one looked over and smiled so I think go on girl work it work it, stride of to pay for fuel, wiggling backside as I go, one of them calls out so I spin round, catch right spur in left spur strap and end up flat on previously wiggling backside.
Last on happened years ago, think I was about 18, had a very tight pair of breeches on showjumping, so tight I think I was poured into them, half way round a very tricky open course I was suddenly aware I had rather alot of 'air conditioning' down below, yep they'd split front to back. The worst of it was in those days I used to only ever wear G strings ! As I finished the course the commentators comments were priceless - still I got a round of aplause.:D
 
Er... i have an emabrassing one.

Im a body piercer, and have a particular piercing that can be very sore when whacked between you and you saddles pommel. :p

I usualy know how to avoid it happening, it doesnt happen often, but some clever little horses know just how to spook, up and back to make you land on it - very painful :p:o
 
not alot tbh but today i was doing up the girth and it was so hot my hands were sweaty my hands slipped off the leather and punched my straight into the eye :| no good when there was like 8 people all around me Lol x
 
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