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 Competition Winner - Most Funny Horsey Moment
Thank you to everyone who submitted their funny horse stories during May.
We can now announce the winner of our first competition. It is Claudia Nisbet from Auchencrow in Berwickshire whose hilarious account of her antics will surely strike a chord with everyone who has a horse!
Claudia wins a fun portrait of herself AND her horse which can grace the walls of her - laundry room - for many years to come.
Claudia tells us:
I have treated myself to a new horse this year - a 9 year old ex racehorse who seems to be such a kind and genuine gentleman that everyday I just cannot believe how lucky I am to have found him. The poor horse is probably despairing with his new owner - read on!
We went to the training at Hendersyde a few weeks back and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. I gave him the next day off as I felt he had worked quite hard, and set to tidying up the tack and washing the numnah etc. The next day I picked the numnah up from below the washing line and trotted off to take my lovely horse out for a relaxing hack. He felt pretty full of himself - prancing a little and side-stepping more than usual - I put it down to having had a good time at the cross country course and duly rode him on. About half an hour later I thought this really is not like him at all and got off to check the tack.
You can only begin to imagine my horror and shame when I peeled of the numnah?? to find two clothes pegs still attached to its inside!
I am now even more pleased with my horse - I definitely deserved to have been dumped as soon as I got aboard but he tried his best for me against the odds!
Yours in shame,
Claudia
Runner Up Rhona Mitchell tells us about her funny moment...
My 10 year old son has a five year old pony and he likes to think he has trained this pony. When out riding he will sometimes jump off and let the pony go, when he runs the pony trots along behind him, when he walks the pony walks etc. but one day my son went back to shut a gate and the pony, a quick thinking little Welsh, thought it was her turn to be the leader. If Steven ran behind her she trotted, if he walked she walked. As a mum in the middle of a big field it was very funny to watch. Steven did eventually catch the pony and it was the look on the pony's face which made it so funny. She was literally just playing him at his own game!
Meanwhile 11 year old Emily Priddy from Dumfriesshire had the last laugh when her dad took up the reins - or at least tried to?
I was out riding with my Dad last summer, he said that he could horse ride, but when the horse started to trot he couldn't rise trot so his bum was slapping off the saddle, he shouted to me "How do you stop this thing?" I told him to pull the reins gently, but instead of pulling them gently he pulled too hard, so the horse throws his head down to get more rein and then started to go faster and faster, so I shouted to my dad again "Pull the reins gently!", this time he did what I said and the horse stopped. My dad got off and walked like a penguin all the way home complaining that the horse didn't know what he was doing - my Mom says a bad workman always blames his tools!
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