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Embarassing Moments on Horseback!

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Share your most embarassing moments on horseback!

For me, I was in a show and the judge was in the middle of giving out ribbons and i was riding an older horse and i guess he was tired cause he coughed so hard some gas shot out the back end. he did it over and over again! and i mean he was loud! :lol: it was pretty funny
 
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I was at horse show but I wasn't showing just riding around and my mum was fixing my stirrup and she finished and said "ok go ride!" and I turned away and she slapped Champs butt super hard and he took off in a bucking fit. I was so mad! She's like "he almost stepped on my foot!" Did not!
 
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errrm....I was out hacking on my pony once and we were heading past this church which is up some really steep steps....for some unknown reason Solo decided that he wanted to go to church and proceeded to completely ignore me and start walking up the steps! So i'm getting really frustrated and moaning at him and kicking him on because I really didn't want him to start backing DOWN the steps. Anyway, I think I was being louder than I thought I was, and we got to the top of the steps and emerged into the churchyard...right into the middle of someone's funeral....oh dear god! I got out of there as quickly and quietly as possible! cringe....
 
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Haha funny

About the best I have (which isn't that good) was when I fell off Sam one afternoon and I had gotten back on and ridden a bit more afterwards. Then when I went to get off I was a bit sore and pooped. So I to just slide off and ended up collapsed on the ground at his feet like I couldnt hold myself up. Lucky for me he just turned around and looked at me as if to say what are you doing down there you dork. My mum was the only one who saw and she said I looked pretty funny.
 
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I tried to go under a low branch thinking a 4ft11 person on a 13hh pony could lean far enough back to slip under. Turns out I was wrong, the floor luckily was very soft. Trying to find the safety rubber from my stirrup was tons of fun in identically coloured leaves.
 
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one day my friends and i decided to do little jumps and the mare i was riding decided to do a sky high super man jump and the horn hooked my bra and snapped it in half sooo bri lauren and miranda huddled around me so nobody could see while i quickly pulled my bra outof my shirt and slipped on briannas sweater and stuffed my broken bra in my pocket haha lol
 
#8 ·
I was just about to post a thread like this... LOL

I remember in the begging of working with my green pony, she went from a lope to a dead stop- the back of my crappy synthetic saddle went up and tossed me out like a sling shot. I had quite a few people watching me eat dirt.

Heres another one, I used to check the mail regularly by horseback. Well one day my horses bridle caught the door of the mailbox and she tossed that thing over my head and into the road. I had a van coming up and I had to jump off and move it from the road. Till this day I haven't said a word to my grandparents about it. They thought someone had just knocked it off on purpose... oops
 
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BarrelracingArabian, I have a story similar to yours

I was loping on Gambit when I noticed the saddle was slipping to one side, I got of to fix it but as I did, my bra AND shirt go stuck on the saddle horn and both came off over my head, there were about ten people who saw :oops: I quickly pulled my bra and shirt back on and kept ridding, but you can bet I am more careful now.
 
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When I was about 10 years old I was at my second show. I entered in a Walk-Trot Western class. I was riding the snottiest meanest pony which was green broke (not mine! instructor thought I would be fine riding him) and the pony wouldn't stop trotting the whole class. It finally stopped when he noticed the others in the middle standing and he joined them. Nevertheless my parents were mad at that instructor for even letting me ride that evil thing. It was quite funny now looking back at it though :)

Oh and I got in last place haha.
 
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nworkman82, yeah I have laughed about that many times since it happened, when I first told my mom she laughed so hard she almost crashed the car
 
#14 ·
I've busted a bra or 2 riding over the years too, but the most embarassing moment....

Our new pastor was in the neighborhood and stopped by. My hubby brought him out to the barn to say hi to me...I was elbow deep cleaning one of our stallions! Our pastor learned all about cleaning a sheath...I was mortified!!!!
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#18 ·
My first show ever:
I was so nervous I didn't even notice we were on the wrong lead... I knew better so it was way embarassing! I was young and it was my first show, but I remember being embarassed the whole day! We still won the class, though ;)

Same show, different class. In the lineup the judge called for 3 steps backward... Well my horse would not stop backing up and almost ran into the judge. He was like "Thats enough. Thats enough! THATS ENOUGH!" Lol.
 
#19 ·
hmmm...lets see...

at my first show, I ran into a poor girl and her pony ( probably around 13hh; with me riding a 16.2hh elephant) while she was entering into the dressage ring. i think I managed a "sorry!"...

At a different show, I had my phone in my very shallow pants pocket while in the warm up ring. I entered the dressage ring, forgetting about my phone, and half way through it fell out of my pocket on a 20 m circle. The judge didn't notice, however, It did get stepped on, twice, and my coach was nice enough to run out into the ring and grab it before the next person came in ^-^"
 
#20 ·
lol my worst was about 2 months after i had been ridin the most quiet horse in the area i was walking with some buds around the square and he jumped at something aand i was in the dirt he took a flying gallop the rest of the way back to his yard
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#21 ·
Foundation.... I'm not sure which one made me laugh harder. You or SMC. Omg. Thank goodness I do not have a weak bladder. Or I'd be sharing my own "moment." I think I got the hiccups from all this.
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#22 ·
^^^LOL! Glad you didn't have to share a "moment" :) It was majorly embarassing! It didn't help that I was cleaning our oldest and he enjoys it, one would think he needs a cigarette when you're done...I skipped church that Sunday.

Can't wait to hear more stories, this is an entertaining thread!
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#25 ·
In my younger days I use to be an exercise jockey. One job I had was with a guy that had Arabian race horses. He rented a barn at a track that was nothing but thoroughbreds. This is many years ago before anyone really took Arabian racing seriously and in the heart of Virginia, where thoroughbreds rule. We were kind of the laughing stock, but I will say that Arabian racing is much kinder then Thoroughbred racing. One morning, we were working a couple of inexperienced horses on the track and a group of jockeys from the other barns were standing near the track making crude comments as we went by about the Arabians. We ignored them but when we finished our lap and came around the corner near the other jockeys again, my horse spooked at the crowd and I fell off right in front of them and my horse took off like an idiot and ran another lap around the track. Very humiliating.
 
#26 ·
Two years ago when the riding off the border boundaries were starting for the year i couldn't find my black jodhpurs so used a pair of black leggings...needless to say they weren't very sturdy and what was an unnoticeable hole in the bum turned in to a pretty damn good window as too what was underneath! I felt a slight breeze then i realized what had happened and ended up riding the rest of the ride out with my *** firmly attached to the saddle! (the ride-outs leading up to the big day usually consist of about 40 people)
 
#27 ·
A few summers ago, it was the last lesson of the night, so I went out and started warming up as the lesson kids were cooling out. There were still quite a few parents and such around watching.
While I was doing some transitions or something, a wasp flew down the front of my shirt! I freaked out and stopped, then dug around in my shirt trying to get it to fly out... and it stung me!
Everyone was like, what are you doing? It was awkward...

Also, I was at a show with my friend and her coach, who's horse she was riding. He was VERY lazy. It was the last show of the night, and just a fun class called carrot trail, where you lead a horse through a trail course with literally just a carrot. No tack, halter, or anything, they just follow you and the carrot. At the last second she chickened out and said, "you take him! I'll just loose! He'll run away or go to sleep or something." So I was like "SWEEET!", and competed in like, sweat-pants and sneakers... (fun class remember-no points deducted, though frowned on.)
Anyways, we did well, but I still didn't think we placed, so I didn't pay attention to the name callings as we were joking around and such.
Turns out I actually won, and they had called my name for about 10 minutes waiting for me to go collect my prize, and when I finally realized it, and went and got it, they had given it to second place instead. XD
 
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