WORST horse

[rocketman]

We all love horses here but: what's the worst horse you've ever ridden/owned and why?

I've been at this so long and had so many, it's hard to know where to start. There was the one who was always out of control. In a Take Your Own Line, he would, jumping backwards down a triple combination and thence out of the ring. Or one day at Hickstead, when I failed to make a turn and he jumped out of ring two and into ring three and across and into ring four and then into the countryside. Bells were ringing in all three rings simultaneously. Needless to say, I was eliminated in all three rings at once.

[Wally]

Years and years ago I used to ride a beautiful Palomino called Apollo. He was a stunner, except his backside and his front end didn't match! good front end, cow's bum!

He would work like a true gent for several days, then he's throw a wobbler and you could get no sense out of him. By this I mean he'd BUCK. Not just little boings, dirty great big BUCKS, nobody stayed on him, short of getting a professional rodeo rider in nobody stayed on him. I felt better, becuase better riders than I got chucked off.

He went through every vet, back man and the like and they never got to the bottom of it. If I had to deal with him now I'd approach him differently. He may have been the worst horse I rode but he was much loved and forgiven every time I bit the dirt.

LOL,LOL ,LOL I took him hunting once, except it was more like he took me hunting! I stayed on until the village green (all of 200 yards) then he bucked me off and disappeared into acres of woodland, we spent the next 3 hours hunting for him, I was promised a good days hunting, but hunting what , nobody said!!

[liz--y]

never had a worst horse, have like all mine for who they are.
i've had one really bad to catch, and had a good buck on her.
a bolter.
a rearer who was really mareish
one that wouldnt mix well with other horses, also crib bites.
ex PPC pony who is a complete nutter an jumps over the fence.
one bad in traffic.
pony jumping pony now that i cant run at the fence if i cant stop her in the jumping ring or she takes it at another fence
and my 4yo how bites, bad to lead, bad in traffic, bad feet, jumps gates, need i go on.

thinks that enough

but i havent had one i can call a worst horse. there no such thing as a worst horse they all have there problems thats what makes then them.
actually, me worst horse was the one that did basicly nothing wrong 148cm JA. me an him just didnt click, yeah i could jump him, but he wasnt for me.

[Wally]

Perhaps he wasn't he worst horse, just the one that stands out in my memory the most!

[rocketman]

You sound like a very forgiving rider, Liz--y! How many horses have you owned over the years? I lost count a while back. Hey, I don't even know how many I have right now. It's too scarey to count them.

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one word - suzie ;)

[Showjumper]

A while ago I helped bring on this 4 year old called Tilly - she was the worst! In 3 short weeks she had unseated every person who sat on her. She had no physical problems, and she was a total sweetheart - it just amused her to see her riders fall off.

I've got a velcro bum and could sit her rodeos, but she would always get me off (usually at the end of a brilliant session - after clearing a small confidence-building course of jumps with no-one watching [to my great disappointment] she would find some method of getting me off the second a few people appeared). Adds insult to injury, even if the only injuries I suffered at her hands (hooves?) were those to my pride :).

[liz--y]

was your tilly about 13.2hh

[Showjumper]

Yeah, about that - 13.1, 13.2...dunno - yeah, about that height - why?

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actually now i think about it all my horse are some one elses 'worst' horse - sucker or what?!?! ;)

[anzi]

my worst horse turned out my best!!! she taught me the most and in the end was a darling. but there was this one type that she rolled on me down a hill, and another where she bucked me off onto bitumen and i almost ripped my arm off. and several other incidents which mar her record.

anzi

[floppy]

one of the worst horses i rode use to clear a course of jumps and find the nearest puddle, lie down, wait for me to get off and then roll! he only did this on wet days. I rod ehim for about 3months and then refused to ride him again unless the arena as 100% dry!
and then there was this other horse that was supposidly a fantastic dressage horse and i was told she was 100% in everyway so i rode her and about 2seconds of getting on she starting bucking like a looney i fell off eventually because it was never ending big bucks...then i got back on and she did it again adn i feel off again and i got back on she did it again and i refuse outright to get back on. turned out she hadnt been ridden for a while and if she doesnt get ridden she is a pain to get back on and ride...but i thought that was terrible to put me on the hrose as i was only 12 at the time!mind you i dont know how the horse knew i was on her back because at the time i was as light as a fairy and had no weight on me at all i was a bunch of bones :D

[katyptaty]

had to think about this one, then it came to me... i have obviously blocked him out of my mind as he was such an aberration from the normal horse that he just couldn't possibly have been a horse!!!!

13.3hh grey stallion in Spain called Malfedor (or Little Devil - aptly named!). at the time i just thought him evil to the core . Now i realise it has been continued rough handling throughout his life!

He bit the tip of the Head Girl's thumb such that it was hanging off and she had to go to hospital. He once cornered me in the stable whilst i was grooming then had a bucking fit about 2cm away from me! The embarrassment - I had to be 'rescued'!

He lunged at another girl making the biggest bruise around her torso in the shape of teeth marks and tried plenty more times but just wasn't successful.

God knows what had happened to him in the past as he only got continued kind attention at our stables. Pity though as he managed to live up to what most people in England believe about stallions - on the wild side. The other 3 stallions on the yard were angels and were better behaved than some of the geldings and mares.

anyway, not one that i have ridden, but the only one i have come across which i have refused to deal with due to his unpredictability and viciousness

the rest have just had little naughty streaks in them which made them individual and rather adorable!

[Miriam]

Although I do not think of him as the worst Copper. The first time I met him he was lovely. Wonderful hack. The second hack I ended up on the floor as he was frightened by a pedal bike. I have ended up on the floor for no reason (he just took off) and hurt my coxycc. That was when I took up driving. He was not nasty just a nervous horse. The other horses I have rode after him were all confident or stubbon. Rhi has a mixture of all of them. One minute she can be wonderful the next she could be jumping about the place.

[SILENT-ONE200]

The worst horse I've ever ridden was a black 16.3hh Appendix Quarter Horse mare named appropriately enough,DAMNATION. She was owned by my parents. This mare was the epitome of EVIL. I grew up on "broncy" ranch horses, so I was able to stick with her for most of the, I hesitate to call it "ride" ,as she always managed to dump me in the end. She would rear up and tumble down on me. And her favorite trick was as I was leading her along, she'd drag me through a barbed wire fence!!! It took 150 stitches to put me back together. All she got were some scratches!! #&$*@!! She was sooo naughty that my father considered selling her. Well, dad figured that she'd make a great broodmare (Was he NUTS?!). Funnily enough, motherhood performed a miracle on her. Her foals luckily inherited their sire's gentle disposition. She settled down quite considerably. But she never was what we'd call " real gentle".

SILENT-ONE200

[TD]

when i was at a showjumping yard i rode and competed alot of showjumpers for other people at diffeent levels.

i had a grey mare who jumped newcomers with ease and had huge scope!!! we were approching the 2nd from last fence and she stopped dead and i went straight over!! we entered in the next class and she refused the same fence but i dint come off this time. for about 2 months i worked with her but she would jump a few jumps then start refusing then jump another and refuse again. she had me off loads which was a big shock because i hadnt fell off in about 10yrs and people thought i could stay on anything and ride it! in total she had me off about 4/5times and then refused to jump even a small cross when free schooling. the showjumpers who owned the yard couldnt even get her to jump and came off a few times each so shes nw been rerouted to a dressage career.

another horse i had certainly wasnt the worst becasue we won loads of titles and championships at most levels but when we first started out she went sooooooooooo fast round the course i used to be so busy trying to get her to slow down i used to forget which jumps i was supposed to be jumping- we still went clear all the time but with a few time faults. then something clicked and we were unbeatable! come to think of it she never refused the whole time i was competing her or knocked down a pole!
she was the whizzyest horse i ever rode. she thought and rode like a pony in a horses body.

Tina

[lamprellsarah]

my worst horse at the start ended up being the best horse!!!!
when i got her she would not let anyone touch her, she would not let anyone get on her, and if you did get on her she bucked until you flew off or she rolled on you.
so for 6 months i just visited her petted her, when i managed to catch her i would groom her and feed her. then in a period of a few weeks she started to change she would let me lunge her she would gallop to meet me. she then would let me get on her, jump her and hack her, we did have our problems but she turned out to be fantastic she could jump 4 ft never refuse and was great at gymkanas and a fantastic friend.

[larri]

I've ridden and Looked after a few b*****s in my time, some naughty others had that look....do not touch!

Hunter - Meg 17hh and sweet... until she saw a push bike, we galloped thru' 2 villages waving at the neighbours!, there was no point in even trying to stop her when she went, if you steered her at any kind of obstacle she either went over or through it. We tried to get her used to them by having them on the yard but she would rear up and spin you off your feet, then career off. She once kicked out at my head - I put my arm up and she smashed my watch off my arm! Crazy lady!!!!

My worst ride was probably on the horse that also gave me my best ride !!!? Brejeiro a Luso stallion, he was the first Lusitano I ever rode..I sat on him and couldn't even get him to walk - nothing!!
I had been taught BHS style up to this point and this finely tuned classical dressage master wasn't having any of it. I was so embarrassed and ended up in tears!
He was also the last Luso I rode and the difference this time....amazing!! - piaffe, passage, flying changes - I only had to think it and he did it. Bliss - I still get the video out now & then to relive it.

Larri

[Miriam]

Ok I take back what I said above. Dacia has to be the worst horse I have ever met. She will not let me get Rhi out of the field. So gald she is in foal and has been away for a while. It has been heaven. Unfortuntaely her owner is talking about bringing her back in a few days time and maybe putting her in the field with the others.

[Kittywan]

:D

[TD]

We had a horse like that at one yard i was at- everytime you went to grab the gate to open it the pony would try to bite your hand because it didnt want his friend to go out. then if you finally did get in he would gallop round chasing your horse so you couldnt catch it and everytime you got near your horse it would run either away so your horse would think its a game and follow or run towards it so it run the same way.

then if you finally managed to catch your horse after walking round and round the field in all directions just as you tried to get to the gate to take your horse out it would stand right in the way and refuse to move :( :(

and if you were luckily enough and strong enough to push it out the way and try to walk your horse out it would be so far up its ar** that it would come out to and run everywhere refusing to be caught. it did this everytime you went to the field to catch your horse so if you had only an hour to groom and ride then forget it coz it would take you that just to get it out the field :p

Tina

[Miriam]

Yep Dacia is very much like that. I remember before she went to the stud I went into the field to get Rhi out and at first she ignored her and me and then suddenly thre came a gallop of hooves and she stood inbetween me and Rhi. Rhi kept pulling back and in the end I had to let her go. I had my daughter with me at the time but she decided to stay up on the yard. When I got back upto the yard she had disappeared. I searched for her but could not find her. The gate was open and the next thing I knew some kind lady had found her outside the gate looking for me. As you can imagine we were both distressed and a couple of the girls came on the yard to find my daughter and myself in tears. I now will not let my horse run in another field with Dacia. Dreading her coming home.

[maddy_rider]

ok iam not being mean to you guyz, but i think you must be the biggest low lifes ever if you're making a board called 'worst horse'. Sure i've ridden horses that have made me go up the wall (literally) but still, that horse has its own way of dealing with stress. I sugguest you stop riding horses if you can't even deal with ones that don't like you. ::snarls at you all::

[jUmPingIsLifE]

i don't think...worce rides, worce memories... this was probley the most 'difficalt' horse i have ever ridden though

her name is candy she is BEAUTIFUL to look at TERRIBLE to ride. NOONE at the barn likes riding her! she cuts corners and become impossible to steer for little kids and even more impossible to canter on (she is bad about the trasition, and its the most bounciest canter ever!)! she tends to be lazy on the flat BUT the second even troting poles come into the picture her ears fly forward she gets prancy. she is than almost impossible to control jumping, she loves it so much, she is so amazingly athletic, jumps up to 4' with my instructer on her! i used to HATE this horse, the only one ever i hated! than one day we just went CLICK, and jumped 3'6 on her! now i love her, even when she is 'difficalt' i love her so much, and she does really well for me now (exept on those off days)! i love her to death and is now one of my fav horses.

there is also a horse named MaGee he is the only horse that i seriously cannot ride. i tried all summer and i guess its one of those personality clashes because he is picture perfect for other people...we just don't go lol :) i love him i groom him, he is sweet but the second it comes to riding him, we just don't go! lol

[Thinkerbell]

No, I don't have a "worst horse". I have never met a horse that doesn't behave the way it does for a reason. We'we got a horse at our stables that I prefer not to ride, or frankly, to handle as little as possible, but is he "my worst horse"? No. He behaves the way he does because he is an intelligent horse who's just "had it" with kids, teenagers and riding school people who just don't know when to call it a day. He is sick and tired of the riding scool, poor thing.

I don't have a "best horse either". To borrow the words of Leslie Desmond when she was asked on a clinic: "What's the best horse you've ever worked with?" "This one," she said, indicating the horse in the end of the lead rope, "the one I am working with right now. If I don't view the horse I am working with as the best horse, how can he give me the best?"

I always fall in love with the animules I work with, and I think that is my forte in working with animals.

[Sue&Tasha Green]

my worst horse was my old pony- Razz (Razzamata Waltz), he botled, wouldn't let you catch him, wouldn't jump, wouldn't load, made my mom's horse go mad, bossed about all the other horses, wouldn't come anywhere near him and for a 14hh pony he was very strong.
When we were selling him we locked him in a shetler with 2 bars across one side and a gate over the other, the person walked up to the fence, he jumped the bars ( about 3 foot) from a standstill with a roof over the top then jumped the fence and then ran into the field and wouldn't let us catch him again. When we finally caught him we put him back in the shelter ,with an extra bar, and we sold him to a horse whisperer, and we spent 3 and 1/2 hours trying to get him in the box.
Tasha

[FRED]

I wish horse could write and speak! so they could tell world about the sad state so many are kept in and by so called experienced folk!

[Miriam]

Well Dacia has now left the yard (dec 2001) after biting another horse as she was been taken out of the field. She just lunged over Rhis back. Apparently she has had her foal and is a different horse HA HA :rolleyes:

[*Horse*]

the worst Horse i've ever ridden is Furness.....i used to ride him ages ago and he was o.k...but now when i ride him he just won't move.....i can get him to walk,then when i try to get him into trot he just stops altogether...then if i smack him(with my crop)he starts walking backwards and kicks out with his back legs:mad: :mad: :eek: :( :o.....the last time i rode him he did that so i asked if me and this other person could swap ponies...so she got on Furness...and he just started trotting on....:mad: :o :eek: