Your 'oops' moments

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That DON'T include you falling off :P

I was reminded of an oops moment which happened last year, where I had a terrible nosebleed mid-canter!

I don't know how or why it started, but it was gushing! I shouted to my friend, who stopped and luckily had tissues. Poor Ned XD It happened so quickly that I wasn't fast enough to catch it in my hand and it went all over his neck! He was horrified :P

ETA: We had a funny moment yesterday :P I was trying to jump Ned and I was succeeding, until he noticed my mum in the corner. Instead of spooking at this new person, he trotted over and said hello! I'm sure I could have stopped him and continued, but it was so adorable!

Anyone had anything similar?
 
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i tripped over yesterday at the yard, and to stop myself falling flat on my face i managed to stand in someones feed bucket which they had filled to the brim with ice cold hose water as she was soaking it.
obviously, this episode occured just AFTER i got changed out of my wellies and into my work shoes. brrrrrrrr!
 
Fell over whilst lunging and apparently appeared to run at the horse without warning before nose-diving to floor. Horse thought it was the best ever and did a whole circle of bunny hops to celebrate.

Tripped over a sawn off tree stump whilst long reining and fell onto a sharp pointed stump. Absolute agony and couldn't stand upright. Rude blimmin horse just carried on walking with me bent double. Rude.

Long reining again... :o walking along in own little world. Didn't realise horse had stopped and walked straight into her :o
 
RebelRebel said:
Fell over whilst lunging and apparently appeared to run at the horse without warning before nose-diving to floor. Horse thought it was the best ever and did a whole circle of bunny hops to celebrate.
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This just made me LOL at work......boss is giving me wierd looks now!! x
 


11hh welsh A who didn't want to canter. Sister is 10 or so...

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If you skip to 1.03, you get a fab moment from Al at the PC Champs... After the log, there's a massive (3'3) step down followed b another fence so if she'd come off it would have hurt like anything. It's amazing what a motivator for staying on it is, knowing your pony will continue without you!
 
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11hh welsh A who didn't want to canter. Sister is 10 or so...

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If you skip to 1.03, you get a fab moment from Al at the PC Champs... After the log, there's a massive (3'3) step down followed b another fence so if she'd come off it would have hurt like anything. It's amazing what a motivator for staying on it is, knowing your pony will continue without you!
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Loving that lot , what a lovely , willing horse and yes you nearly came a cropper but you lived to tell the tale , awesome x
 
Paddy Irish said:
Loving that lot , what a lovely , willing horse and yes you nearly came a cropper but you lived to tell the tale , awesome x
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Thanks- the jockey is my little sister, and she has superglue on her saddle I think! Pony had locked on, so it was a case of getting back in the plate ASAP!
 
Lolo said:
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If you skip to 1.03, you get a fab moment from Al at the PC Champs... After the log, there's a massive (3'3) step down followed b another fence so if she'd come off it would have hurt like anything. It's amazing what a motivator for staying on it is, knowing your pony will continue without you!
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she's a good wee rider, your sister...


ets, that sounds a lot more patronising than it's meant to :o
 
Although I'm sure there are a lot more, the only one I can think of at the moment happened last night.

I have to say though, I have really, really terrible eyesight! I'm as blind as a bat without my glasses on, and although I do have contact lenses, but I don't wear them very often as I'm as tight as a ducks backside and they're expensive! :o I find it quite impractical to wear my glasses round horses, and have heard stories about how it can be quite dangerous, so I just tend to go without and stumble around.

Anyway, at our yard we all have our own cubby bit in the tack room to store our tack and equipment. Our tack room is a large metal container and our cubby is right at the other end of where the door is, and the walkway down is quite narrow. Somebody else at the yard thought it would be a good idea to store their electric fence rods in one of the spare cubby holes, and they were poking out the ends. I managed to not see them and walk into them and stab myself in the chest with the top end :eek: thankfully it wasn't the bottom end with the spike on it, otherwise I would probably be in hospital now with a punctured lung! But instead I just have a nice little bruise on my boob :(

Moral of the story: wear glasses/contact lenses!! :rolleyes:
 
I was working at local riding stables, was filling up waters by dropping a bucket into a huge tub of water (oil drum size) one of the children that was there for the morning club was standing watching me, and I dunked the bucket in so hard that the water poured over the top and totally soaked the child.... whoops/
 
I put my usually calm horse in the outdoor school for a leg stretch whilst I mucked out. Went to bring her back, opened the school gate before putting her headcollar on and she barged straight past me and cantered around the yard. Luckily it just culminated in her ending up nose deep in her feed bin.

Not so much of an oops moment as an 'oh ****' moment :o
 
my sister has recently broken her arm (well cracked it... hair line fracture..), but was desperate to go for a ride the morning after a big night out. I VERY kindly suggested that she ride my Danny as he's much easier to control with one hand, and never takes a pull- I took her strong horse out.

Danny and my sister have never got on. He got one foot on the track and ran under a tree with low branches and started bucking like a pro! She had one hand on the reins, one hand on the pommel trying to stop herself from falling forwards and her eyes closed because of the branches!! It was hilarious!

He then charged off up the track at a rate of knots! We got to the end and walked the rest of the way home and we saw a crow had removed the intestines of a squirrel and it was 2.5m laid out next to the little body- my sister took one look at this and started vomiting! luckily she missed both the saddle and Danny- but he didn't look impressed! I laughed the whole way home!!
 
I have two ;D
The first occured when some idiot left a rake in the car park at the yard, I trod on it and it smacked me in the face a la Simpsons. I wasnt that badly hurt, facewise, but the rake went through my welly and must have nicked a small artery cos the blood filled boot was impressive!!
The second was at my old yard. We had a wooden ramp up to the muck truck and I slipped pushing a barrowload up, fell on my face, the barrow flipped and came down on top of me, showering me in ***** ;D My daughter, who was watching, said that she could just see my legs sticking out underneath, kicking wildly. She laughed til she cried ;D
 
I’m the idiot who will grab hold of the electric fencing to prove to an audience it’s not on… when it is. And then five minutes later, grab hold of the next field’s electric fencing to prove it’s also not on… and repeat :o

Miss Bean, cos she’ll be bringing the boys in right now and isn’t here to defend herself :D is the idiot who manages to 'fall into' her corner water bucket and become full-on dripping from literally head to toe. She’s 5’10, not exactly a blimming Borrower – I have yet to work out how she managed it :D
 
Struggling with a really awful gate out hacking and had to get off, somehow managed to let go of my horse while I was wrestling with the gate, ordinarily he would just stand there as he was a bit of a dobbin, but this day he fancied a bit of excitement and sprinted off leaving me horseless and my friend sat on her horse wondering what to do! We knew he couldn't get onto the road or anything but wondered how we'd get him back, when he suddenly realised he was by himself and turned round and cantered back literally right into my arms!! Bless. :D I miss him - he was always entertaining.
 
debsg said:
The second was at my old yard. We had a wooden ramp up to the muck truck and I slipped pushing a barrowload up, fell on my face, the barrow flipped and came down on top of me, showering me in ***** ;D My daughter, who was watching, said that she could just see my legs sticking out underneath, kicking wildly. She laughed til she cried ;D
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This is the best yet:D
 
The wet Summer of 2009 I think it was fed up with getting soaked out riding it looked like the heavens were about to open again so Smugly dressed for the Daily Deluge Aigle rubber riding boots Regatta Waterproof Over trousers (over the boots) these over trousers were rather generously cut Baggy and a short Berghause Waterproof Jacket. Bring on the RAIN.

Part way along a local By Way is a Ford not a motor Car but the River Avon and some of the wire from the stock fencing had got washed in with bank errosion just right to wrapped round a horses leg so I get my companion to hold the the Hairy Beast whilst I carefully wade into the water to pull out the wire and posts.

With the water perilously close to my boot tops only one small trickle down my boot "slightly damp spot on left leg" at this stage, I removed the Old fencing But what I failed to realise feeling elated with job well done that the water that had gone up between my boots and WP Trousers which had now slipped down and had virtualy sealed the water in between and with the hairy beast agitating to get on his way I went to remount first leg into the stirrup shot water up past my boot top up my leg and back down inside my boot and as i brought my second leg over the Beasts Back a deluge of water ran up my leg round the nether regions (giggling tackle)to where the water had reached up the other leg and then started draining back down into my boots.

I ended up with about 3/4 of a pint of water squelching in the foot of each Aigle Boot when I got back to the Yard and tipped them out. I was totally soaked from the waist down and yes you guessed it it Didnt even BLOO** Rain
 
I slipped in the muddy gateway and threw out my arm to try to keep my balance, and my thumb caught the electric fence which was on full whack (naturally). It must have hit a nerve, because my arm twitched violently, my hand flew up and I hit myself in the face with such force that it knocked me over backwards into a huge smelly puddle. I was laughing so hard I could barely get up again!
 
These are so funny! Maybe not at the time...
My best one was on a freezing wet hack I got off to open a sticking gate. I was wearing a long wax with leg straps and, as I swung my right leg over it caught on something (still not sure what) and I ended up doing the splits with one leg on the floor and the other up behind the saddle. I could barely free myself for laughing but thankfully my (spooky) boy stood like a lamb.
Another gate incident was where he spooked at some ramblers who opened the gate and waited for us. As we went through it, he jumped sideways, caught my stirrup on the latch and dragged my leg over his back before the stirrup came off the bar and I landed on both feet on the ground. We got a round of applause from the ramblers who obviously thought we were some sort of circus act!
 
Having just caught up with central locking, I have tried to open the safe at work with the keys, aimed them at the dogs, back door and anything else really. I sooooooooooo need locking up!
 
Laura-C said:
I slipped in the muddy gateway and threw out my arm to try to keep my balance, and my thumb caught the electric fence which was on full whack (naturally). It must have hit a nerve, because my arm twitched violently, my hand flew up and I hit myself in the face with such force that it knocked me over backwards into a huge smelly puddle. I was laughing so hard I could barely get up again!
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fantastic, that made me snort:D:D

one that still makes me chuckle was not my oops moment but a friends, we were in the cow barn cooing over a little calf, she didn't notice she was sinking in the muck heap she was stood on to get a better look, until she tried to move and couldn't, totally stuck!!! had to get her OH to come and dig her out while i leant helplessly giggling on the gate:D
 
My 'oops' moment was a couple of months ago, when I was bent over, making my mares feed, and she came up behind me and gave me a nuzzle/nudge on the bum, and it knocked me over, right into her bucket of feed! It would be ok if it was dry feed, but it wasnt....it was soaked sugarbeet :( and almost the whole yard was there.

IT WAS SO EMBARRASING!!!!!!!!!!!! lol :D
 
I had nipped to turn out my cob who was usually a complete saint in my work suit with just a pair of wellies on to protect me from the mud.
Horse starts mildly pratting about and as I'm rushed for time I lose my patience with him and crossly yank lead rope with a bit of shouting. The next thing I know horse is back to being a complete saint and I'm laid on the floor head to toe in mud halfway down the hill to field! Served me right.

The best thing was that my gone in my pocket had somehow gone on to Facebook and written a status of 'fjsjdjcjiejddddxc' or similar...and updated it! Lol
 
going back to think it was 2007....... my unhandled one year old, ventured in to the feild for the first time at our yard, having been in the stable for 6 weeks (she came to us wild), had the morning out there, went to catch her with a lunge line came to me quite happy to see me and the apples :P clipped lunge line on........ the very scary clippy noise that it makes upon attachement............ wooshhhhh off she whent spun round and ran as fast as she could round the feild...... my hand was wrapped in the lunge line (idiot) off my feet in splits of a second and round the feild i was dragged :P winded and bruised after that! :P silly people ha ha
 
my oops moment was when riding my friends ponies we rode in a small paddock, one day we were talking to the neighbours in the adjoining field to said paddock which was post and rail with a single strand of wire electric fence connected to the mains. Leant on the fence with my whole arm and cue me hitting the floor from the shock... have a small fear of touching electric fences now :D :p

I have also been known to 'pat' the back door after i have locked it :confused:
 
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