Overall worst experience involving a horse?

Mine's well, simple and short. I got kicked in the face last July 4th, and I needed thirteen stitches below my eye...

My "worst" was when we fist got our horses and ponies. I was riding Savannah, and my mom was on Zeph. We were trail riding and i as in the lead. But my step father was on the tractor (in the woods wtf?) and i gingerly walk 'Vannah around it, and then she started trotting, ears pinned. I leaned back, said "whoa" but she took off at a fast canter, then galloped, tuned left then, on a dime spinned right, and my saddle slid left. A tree was coming about to hit my face, so i let go, and hit the tree. Savannah galloped back to her field, stirrups pounding her sides. Mom cantered up and said "Manda did you fall?!" I was sitting on the ground laughing, horseless, so i said "Nope i just turned savannah invisable." lol. I got her back, hopped on and rode her again! it was funny lolz

My worst fall was last year.. I'd been riding my thouroughbred doing lateral work and trying to teach him passage (he LOVES to do it accidently but just doesn't get the idea normally =P) hes a bit dead in the sides so i wear spurs on him while doing lateral work to keep him awake and listening. I was asked by a good friend (who is an AWESOME dressage rider and won the national championships the previous year i think) to ride her percheron cross jumping, as she's only jumped a grand total of about 10 jumps in her whole life haha. I didnt expect her, but she came to our place that day with Rocky and asked if i could ride that day. I agreed eagarly, as i'd rode him on the flat previously and he was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!! As i unsaddled Barney and rugged him and the pony, she saddled up Rocky. Coming out of the stables she was in the arena with Rocky ready to go. I jumped on him and did a bit of flat work, and he was just as i remembered.. Fricking tear worthy!! haha.. He'd do everything perfect!! Rocky's owner asked if I'd like to jump him, and as i replied yes she warned me that he'd jumped less jumps than her, so i should be careful. I was well aware that horses that don't jump/do dressage or are introduced to something new can go flippo, but as i'd trained other successfully before, i didnt think there'd be an issue. It had started to drizzle, and it was so cold i had goosebumps under my jacket. I'd only planned to do maybe 4 jumps, but it turned out to be a lot less than that. The frst jump i pointed him to was a simple cross trail, only a foot high, which he cleared easily. I had to U-Turn for jump 2, and it was a 2 foot spread which Rocky didn't quite agree to. Rocky's owner called out that he was being lazy, and was never worried by spreads before so "give him a big kick!!".. who was i to argue with a champion rider and her own horse, so i did what i was told. Rocky soared high over the jump, and i thought we were going to make it...until his back feet scrambled and i knew it was going to end badly. It was then that i realised that i hadn't taken my spurs off. I remember a loud scream, and i was shocked to find out days later it came from my own mouth. Everything went black for a while, and i woke up with a broken pole still in a cup holding my back up, with two wings on top of my face, and a horse on top of my lower body. I kept hearing high pitched blood-curdling screams; half from me, half from Rocky. I blacked out again, and was woken by someone calling my name. The wings and horse had been removed, but i could smell the rusty stench of blood everywhere and i wasn't entirely sure whos it was. I felt pain in my right knee, and couldn't feel my right toes. I put my hand to my knee and it came back drenched in blood. I looked down, and my lower leg was twisted and at a 45 degree angle to where it should've been normally. It turns out I'd fractured a rib, dislocated and hyperextended my knee and as a result I'd snapped my inner ligament, stretched my centre ligament, and my outer ligament had healed funny (as in fused together shorter) and my cartilage had turned into poridge. I'd also suffered a concussion and a sprained wrist, plus my back was put out of place (again) when I'd landed funny on the broken pole. Rocky had a slash in his right shoulder from the broken pole, and a sliced fetlock from him thrashing on fallen jump cups. He got stitched up and recovered fully (with minimal scarring!!) and we went back to our training program after we were both ready. Now he's jumping 1* with his owners cousin at non-official events..and winning!!

I don't blame Rocky AT ALL for the accident, i blame myslef for not thinking clearly. He is a wonderful boy, and i wish him and his new owners all the best!!

sorry thats its so long!!!

My worst riding accident is when i was riding my old idiot standardbred gelding, went absoloutley nuts on me because he knew i was inexperienced and i asked him to do a 20m circle and then he did about 6 pigroots and bucks then he would just bolt forward and then on the last buck i came off then he kicked me in the back really hard. then he ran off and started grazing like he did nothing wrong LOL

Mine is a little different

I live my worst experiance every single day

This is Daisy
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She is a little welsh pony.

Dasiy has been living on my farm for four years, and I have handled Daisy a minimum of twice a day - now to explian what makes Daisy my worst experiance.

Daisy was so badly mistreated that she has completly lost all trust in people, Even though I have been handling her for 4 years now I still have difficulty in getting anywhere near her when she is loose in the field.
I have to concentrate 100% when I am around her - one worng step, one wrong tone of voice and she panicks blindly, I am totally convinced that she will never change - one other trainer told us to put her down because she was beyond all hope.

Daisy is a really sweet mare and never does anything wrong, so can you imagine how bad it is for us , who love her to bits , to have to live with a pony that is literally scared sh**less of us - even though we do her no harm, have never done her any harm, and never will do her any harm.

And I am going to have to keep living with Daisy for the rest of her days - she is only young so we have a lot of years ahead of us.

One of the worst experiences I've had was in December '04 I was waiting at the end of our Christmas Parade in my patrol car. I had my oldest daughter with me at the time she was 10. While we were waiting for the parade to start moving there was a group of people on horses mostly adults and a few older kids but there was this one little girl around 6 maybe and a little boy of about 3 riding doubles on this horse well over 14h tall in the parking lot not far from my patrol car. The horse was dancing around it showed clear signs of panic. I told my daughter disaster is fixing to happen and before I could get out of my car and make my way over to where they were to try to calm the horse it bolted into the crowd along the road, bucked, kicked and slid on the pavement throwing both the kids off. They flew up about 2 feet higher than crashed to the ground ( on the pavement) I took off at a dead run fighting the crowd to get to them another officer called for an ambulance and as the ambulance approached to get through all the people the driver hit it's siren well that freaked another horse out that had a rider of about 12 on it. It went to bucking and tossed the little girl as it came down one of it's back hooves caught her in the arm you could hear the bone crack.
The first little girl had a gash in the back of her head, bystanders were applying pressure to stop the bleeding & the little boy didn't have any visible signs of injury but you knew he was hurt. They got them loaded in the ambulance and took off for the hospital while another medic came to tend to the little girl with the broken arm. The horses took off for parts unknown. While the ambulance was enroute to the hospital I overheard them on my radio calling for lifeflight the little boy had suffered a major concussion and lost his vision he was going downhill quick, Children do not fair well with massive head trauma( mind you none of these kids were wearing protective helmets) They air flighted the kids to a larger hospital 40 miles away where they both were admitted the little boy was placed in ICU for quite some time.
All of this happened within a couple minutes, I had just told my daughter that I didn't know who those kids parents were but they obviously didn't know a thing about horses because that horse was totally freaked by all the people, noise etc and someone was going to get hurt.
After all was said and done I told her "Now THAT is what can go wrong with a horse, that horse had no business being in the parade let a lone with two very young riders"
The kids they all were eventually ok but that day stuck in our minds and still to this day seems like it was yesterday when it all happened.
Parents need to realize a horse is a powerful force, it is a flight animal and when threatened or scared it will do whatever it feels it needs to, to seperate itself from whatever is causing the fear. The horses did nothing wrong the parents however almost lost their kids because of their ignorance or stupidity whichever was the case.


Sorry it's so long!!

I have two. The first one was when my sister was 13. I had been taking lessons for years, but she had never taken any. I was leasing a horse that was usually well behaved, but could get spooky and didn't like nervous riders. I was riding him in front of my family, and my sister got jealous and demanded to ride him too. I tried to warn my parents that it wasn't safe, but they thought I was being selfish and made me get off. We were riding in an outdoor arena. She got on, and halfway through the first time around, the gelding freaked out and broke into a gallop. My sister had never even trotted...much less ran. She fell off and was dragged for two more laps around the arena before she finally came loose. Her hip was broken, and to this day, she still has pain and numbness.

My other experience involved a appy gelding that had a bad habit of rearing. I was working him in a round pen and I had a halter on him with a lead rope. As usual, as soon as he got tired of working, he reared. The first time it was no big deal and as soon as his feet hit the ground, I made him run. I tried to bring him in again, and as I did, he flew up into the air with so much force that I didn't even have time to drop the rope. My arm instantly dislocated and I felt it tear. I went to the ER and I've had to have three surgeries to help repair it. It will never be the same and it forced me to quit my job as a full time barn manager. I can only have horses as a hobby now.

Well.. I have two stories about bad experiences to share, one involving me, the other me being a witness to a shocking event..

Anyway, the first one is. When I was 9 years old. I had been riding for about 7 and a half years. I was doing cross country at pony club, but a horse had gotten free from the arena near the corse,

The horse that was free, ran out in front of my horse, my horse (Danny) did his best to keep me safe, but I came off, and the horse that had gotten free, started to buck, but as he did, he kicked me in the side of the face, just above my right ear.

I was air lifted to hospital, had to have a metal plate inserted into my skull, and was in a coma for 9 days,

My parents were told that they should expect the worst, as I might never wake up, but surely, 4 days after they were told, I woke up (:

Thank god that I am still alive today, and apart from shattering my skull, that I did not affect my brain in any shape or form. :) I am a lucky girl, and I thank the doctors and medical staff that saved my life :)

I in no way blame either horse for the accident, I blame the stupid girl who got so angry with her horse she got off and hit him, in result he took off before she could hit him again, and it was just bad timing that this poor horse got in the way. And I am greatful that neither horse was hurt when this happend :)

At least this accident had no long term effects and I was riding the next month, if anything I was brought closer to horses after this incident :)

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My second story, (I would not wish to go into much detail with) .. but my uncle was a jockey, and one day, when he was riding and we were at the races, he fell from a horse he was riding, and was trampeled to death :( ..

I miss him greatly! .. And it was not the horses faults because they could not stop in time to avoid him, and if they could have, they would have.

... oh and sorry for such a long post :P

woah. these are horrible!
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