Your most embarrassing fall...

I have MANY ridiculously embarrassing falls... but my top three are...

1) aged about 5, my pony stopped and put his head down to stuff his face during a mini PC showjumping round, my mother (who was leading me) caught me as I rolled off the front!

2) On the same pony, three years later, bombing round a handy pony course, I forgot to duck for the washing line, ended up with a shirt on my head, and tried to carry on, apparently I pointed my pony at the gate and kicked. So he bucked me off, to land in a heap at his feet tangled in a shirt!

3) Out hunting with my new man a couple of years ago (no he isn't still around farrier followers!!!), hadn't been with him very long and was trying to be the sexy horsewoman. He was on a youngster and asked me to give him a lead over a hedge on my lovely Roy boy... Roy jumped it beautifully, but lost his back end briefly in a hidden ditch on landing... and lost me in the scramble to get out. I have never seen anything quite so hilarious as my new man's face as he landed and saw Roy wandering off to graze, riderless, and me nowhere in sight!!!!! :D Bad times - I had red knickers on and the ditch was full of water... cue embarrassing bum flashing for the rest of the day.
 
Awesome!

My most stupid were probably the numerous times i fell off this one mare who had an extremely bouncy trot. RI had us jumping with no stirrups from trot and on numerous occasoins after jumping the jump (horse jumping it completely normally) i just bounced off the side! Non-horsey dad watching from the side just wondered how i could possibly fall off in a trot when the horse hadn't even done anything wrong and RI (ever the first to laugh at you one he knew you hadn't hurt yourself) just burst out laughing wondering the same. After about the third time i fell off we gave up with the no-stirrups jumping :o:rolleyes:
 
Oh, that would be in an equitation class last year, wanting very much to prove myself infront of a judge who I'm worried has a low opinion of me and pony...as the judge asks the class to canter, the Spooky Pony freaks out and tears off. As the judge shouts "Walk! Walk!", I try to pull up, and he comes to a sudden, head-down stop...cue somesault---apparently very high with straight legs!---and a spectacular swearing SPLAT flat on my back in the deep mud, right infront of the judge. :o

Did have a slight comeback later in the day, when we placed 4th and 3rd in our Prelim and Novice dressage, though. :)
 
brilliant thread!!!
mine has to be when i went out on a 25 mile training ride from the yard i used to stable Star at, should have known better than to hack out in cream johds.....
at the furthest point away on the ride eg 12 miles ride to get back we were going along a track in Bretby park with fencing each side, HUGE black peaty puddle stretching right the way accross, Star seemed confident she was going to go thru it then as she was about to put her foot in she noticed little track around the side - shot off up this tiny little path thinking she had found a way to keep her white feet white.... i didnt have time to see the low branch about to hit me in the chest..... i was pushed back onto her hindquarters and still in sitting position as i slid off the end SPLOSH!!!
Star just stopped and looked around at my scream - the expression made the whole situation hysterical, it was as though why on earth have you done that when i had found a clean path to stay out of the puddle!!
needless to say i was black, smelly and soaked, of course everyone was at the yard and saw me come in when we got back!!!
 
Aged 17, rather pleased with myself, lounging nonchalantly in saddle of my new horse on a grass verge at edge of our village, chatting to new glam boyfriend who'd just pulled up in his Jensen. Horse had head down, nibbling grass. Suddenly a car somehwere backfired. Gee gee went from 0 to 40 in about 2 seconds up the grass verge. His rocket-like start jolted me out of the saddle onto his rump, but it took me about 50 yards actually to fall off said rump. I never did regain the status I thought I deserved with the boyfriend - and he told EVERYBODY!
 
didt do the saddle up off the 12.2hh i re schooled tight enough and it slipped and i went round while my YO [whos such an amaizng rider] was watching :( and ripped my hand on a nail that was on the side :) gotta laugh thoo
 
A long time ago riding a riding school Welshie who knew everything, took her into the woods, popped over a few logs etc, and there was one where you needed to ride down into a corner to get a decent amount of strides in. G decided she knew better, cut round a corner and then realised she couldn't do it so stopped - I flew between her ears, and landed on my feet, on the log, staring her in the face, I still don't know who looked most shocked! Anyway, I got back on, and she took herself down into the corner for a run up while I was still getting my stirrups... everyone (when they had finished laughing) swore she was blushing!
 
During a lesson, one of the ladies riding decided the horse was very dangerous and she had a row with the instructor. I was waiting for my lesson and she shouted at me to get on the horse and show what it could do.

So slightly perplexed I walked over to Aero, put one foot in the stirrup, and swung my leg over - only for the saddle and me to completely dissappear over the other side of the horse. The woman had loosened the girth and I hadn't checked!

What was embarrasing, was that I had landed on the ground in front of 5 women, with my backside up in the air and my breetches had split right round the a** and down one leg - totally trashed. It basically ended the lesson, and they were helpless with laughter for 20 minutes.

Was never allowed to forget that one.
 
mine might be one of the most high-profile, unfortunately.
SJ of 3* 3-day event in Germany. Having had a fab clear xc but fallen on the flat (aaargh) and therefore gotten shedloads of time penalties, plus a dressage test to forget (mare beyond hysterical with excitement etc) we weren't in contention. Very fortunately.
Came to the third fence, which had an absolutely huge TV screen behind it, with us on it. She took her focus off the fence to stare at herself on the screen... and stopped dead at the fence. I, of course, sailed straight over her head...
Got on and continued, but our very very worst SJ round ever ever ever just had to be at the most important competition of our lives, didn't it.
WFP did say to me afterwards, very kindly, that at least it hadn't happened on a day when I was in contention...
Moral of story - if there's a TV screen somewhere around the arena, take it into account, and make sure your horse keeps looking at the flipping fence!
I still cringe even now to think about it. That's the only time I ever fell off her SJ. :( :( :(
 
my 2 favourites are -
hack escorting a client - we came round a blind bend on a bridleway - Ruby meets a couple of off-road bikers - her head shoots up - meets my nose & breaks it - I fell off but managed to bleed madly all over horse & myself - nice & very mortified man on bike takes off t-shirt to try & staunch the blood - meanwhile Ruby decides to take off for home - meets my rather posh farriers wife with her lead rein child & causes some mayhem [ i only ever bumped into my farrier & wife out hacking if my horse was doing something mental] - Ruby arrives back at yard covered in blood [ she is a very white coloured mare] - YO assumes that there has been terrible accident & mobilises the troops to find my battered corpse - meanwhile - clients' well behaved RS hoss - finally decides to join in the fun & dumps client in a large puddle - we meet the YO & various others are we walk up the lane - me covered in blood & leading clients' pony & client soaked to the skin:)
more recently - falling off a stationiary horse - hacking out the yard wunderkind - stopped to allow his quite anxious horse to see a bus close up - we are standing next to the bus [which is very full] when the air brakes do that noise thing - Ruby jumps a few inches & I just fell off - she is a big girl so my chance of vaulting on from the groud to try & re-claim soem street cred was nil - whole bus watched me stomp off to find fence to clamber bac on - wunderkind managed to hold in hysterical laugher until we were back o the yard:)
 
Ahhhh i have many emarrassing falls, come to mention it, I think all of my falls are embarrassing! lol :D
I think my most embarrassing fall was jumping Jetters, he decided he couldnt possibly jump the cross pole he had already jumped 5 times, so stopped and dumped me. He however had a history of buggering off and being a nightmare to catch again, so I thought it would be best to hold onto reins.
I ended up being dragged round school with my jodhpurs slowly filling up with wood chip......:( ;)
V V V V uncomfortable for the rest of the lesson, and I was picking pieces of wood chip out of my pants!!! :D:D:D

And I had to cycle the 4 miles home...:p
 
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