Post by Johnnie on Feb 18, 2003 17:26:13 GMT -5
Please everyone share your stories of equine embarassment. I'm just sort of rambling, so it may get long.
We had a very sweet girl come to try a very sweet horse that we have for sale. He promptly showed her how sweet he was by running away with her...twice...from a walk. I can't believe it. This horse has NEVER runaway, NEVER bucked, NEVER reared, NEVER spooked, nothing. Why did he suddently get a bee up his butt? Sadly this was all in the arena too! We've evented this horse and he doesn't even runaway on cross country.
This got me to thinking. He is not the first sale horse that we've had runaway with someone that has never runaway with anyone before. Why do they do this? Does anyone else have horses that do weird things like this?
Of course you guys know that the first time I saw Forest he ran away with his rider in the arena during a show, then he later ranaway with Mr. Homer and did some ..uuhhhh..damage. I think he just has Jumper flashbacks though because he always seems to do it after the last jump on course when the rider has been unseated a bit. He never runs away on the flat.
Then we had a gorgeous grey Appendix mare for sale. A personal friend of mine brought some clients to check her out. The 7 year old beginner daughter rode the mare, no problems. The mother who had been riding for years was runaway with twice, in the arena. They did buy the mare anyway though, and love her to death.
Geldings seem to be the ones that embarrass you the most. I hate it when you are standing next to your horse talking to someone, and they get a weird look on their face, so you turn around only to see your gelding with his noodle hung all the way out, whacking his stomach. It never fails that you are talking with a guy at that moment either. Just the other day at Equus America I was talking to a ISH breeder and we were looking at his stallion, when out comes the noodle and the thwacking begins. I figured, being a breeder, this man was used to this sort of behaviour from a stallion, so I kept talking and looking at his horse. I look up and the man is blood red and trying very hard to focus the attention away from the horse.
Let's not even get into sheath cleaning or "beaning". Why does everyone within a 5 state radius stop by the barn to visit when you are doing this?
We had a very sweet girl come to try a very sweet horse that we have for sale. He promptly showed her how sweet he was by running away with her...twice...from a walk. I can't believe it. This horse has NEVER runaway, NEVER bucked, NEVER reared, NEVER spooked, nothing. Why did he suddently get a bee up his butt? Sadly this was all in the arena too! We've evented this horse and he doesn't even runaway on cross country.
This got me to thinking. He is not the first sale horse that we've had runaway with someone that has never runaway with anyone before. Why do they do this? Does anyone else have horses that do weird things like this?
Of course you guys know that the first time I saw Forest he ran away with his rider in the arena during a show, then he later ranaway with Mr. Homer and did some ..uuhhhh..damage. I think he just has Jumper flashbacks though because he always seems to do it after the last jump on course when the rider has been unseated a bit. He never runs away on the flat.
Then we had a gorgeous grey Appendix mare for sale. A personal friend of mine brought some clients to check her out. The 7 year old beginner daughter rode the mare, no problems. The mother who had been riding for years was runaway with twice, in the arena. They did buy the mare anyway though, and love her to death.
Geldings seem to be the ones that embarrass you the most. I hate it when you are standing next to your horse talking to someone, and they get a weird look on their face, so you turn around only to see your gelding with his noodle hung all the way out, whacking his stomach. It never fails that you are talking with a guy at that moment either. Just the other day at Equus America I was talking to a ISH breeder and we were looking at his stallion, when out comes the noodle and the thwacking begins. I figured, being a breeder, this man was used to this sort of behaviour from a stallion, so I kept talking and looking at his horse. I look up and the man is blood red and trying very hard to focus the attention away from the horse.
Let's not even get into sheath cleaning or "beaning". Why does everyone within a 5 state radius stop by the barn to visit when you are doing this?
