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Post by Reef. on Oct 17, 2008 20:18:36 GMT
what were some of your most spectacular falls? we have so many to choose from!
my most memorable wasnt technically falling... but close! I was on holiday, going for a gallop on the beach with a group of other travellers and a guide and the horse i was on, a dappled grey mare called Pepper, skipped up and sideways just as we turned to set off on the gallop. pathetic, i know, but i ended up hanging down her neck watching the others disappear onto the horizon and i remember thinking "it would be so embaressing if my step-sisters knew i'd fallen!" no apparent care for the broken bones lol
so pepper set off anyway and somehow i got myself back in to the saddle, but couldnt get my stirrups so ended up kinda kneeling as she flew down the beach to catch up with her pals
it was fun!
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Post by ` z i p p o <3 5453399 on Oct 18, 2008 4:18:43 GMT
i was breaking a filly, and a got bucked off and slid down the lead line
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Post by mate on Oct 19, 2008 8:02:57 GMT
HAHA Zippo that awesome, did you hurt yourself? I did you have a good fall?
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Post by ` z i p p o <3 5453399 on Oct 19, 2008 15:10:09 GMT
I hurt myself.. I wacked my head against the metal water trough and then the horse stepped on me.. But I climbed back up in the saddle, lets just say that was 2 years ago. She is 6 years old. And she is one of BT's main Lesson horses.
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Post by Reef. on Oct 19, 2008 15:18:29 GMT
ouch! where did she step on you? glad you're still alive in not too many pieces lol
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Post by ` z i p p o <3 5453399 on Oct 19, 2008 17:00:49 GMT
She stepped on my arm.. Haha, that was quite a while ago.
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Post by Reef. on Oct 19, 2008 17:33:21 GMT
thats not too bad... my old instructor got stood on on the head, cracked open her hat but luckily not her skull!
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Post by norsu on Oct 19, 2008 20:42:11 GMT
Okay this fall was kind of fun in a way, I've only fallen off twice in my almost 10 years of riding!
I was riding this horse Adrianna over some cavaletties and a low jump that she could have walked over with out thinking about it if she wanted to, but we were trotting over the jump and she over jumped it by a MILE and I went flying onto her neck, she kept trotting and I was literally hanging from her neck, then I fell off and was standing in front of her. She is a HUGE horse and I was scared, but luckily she stopped and no one was hurt. I got right back up and didn't even cry! Ha.
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Post by |S|potted |C|olor on Oct 19, 2008 21:12:09 GMT
I my stirrup got got and my horse freaked out and started bucking when I was still caught in the stirrup. I ended up getting knocked out.lol and well had a crack in my arm.
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Post by Reef. on Oct 19, 2008 22:16:44 GMT
that must have been scary! i've never been dragged. got my foot cought in Millie's stirrup once, but she was so wonderful about it, she just stood there until i was free. that was my last day riding her, my last day at that stables and the last time i jumped. not a nice way to leave things lol i was so furious with myself, she wasnt even being evil, she was just pratting about before the jump like she always does, i should have been able to handle it so much better.... and it was in a lesson so everyone was watching
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Post by norsu on Oct 19, 2008 23:58:34 GMT
Oh that must have been sooo embarrassing. She must have stood like that as a way of saying good-bye. Maybe she was trying to be extra specially nice to you to convince you to stay!
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Post by Reef. on Oct 20, 2008 11:13:48 GMT
lol you never know!
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Post by mate on Oct 20, 2008 12:27:40 GMT
My worst fall would of had to of been when I was barrel racing. We were coming around the first barrel and there was a giant hole there and he fell forward and rolled on top of me. My foot got caught in the iron as the horse got up and continued to do the course. He went around the second barrel then saw something was hanging off of the saddle and freaked. Running around the outside of the arena he pushed me into the fence as he galloped around. I finally got the courage to get up off my dragging but and grab the reins. I got back on and the funny thing was as soon as I was about to walk the horse back into the starting yard I then past out. After all that, not when i fell off, not when I was getting dragged along the fence. Once I finally got back on, how stupid is that?
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Post by Reef. on Oct 20, 2008 17:27:25 GMT
wow... mate, i'm amazed you're still alive! did you even break a bone? that sounds so exciting, and cute how you're horse still wanted to carry on doing the course!
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Post by norsu on Oct 20, 2008 21:16:30 GMT
Wow mate, that must have been scarrry.
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