I’ve been working with my green bean for almost 4 months now and its been a hilarious process. The latest is that the giant mare has discovered that it feels good to stretch her nose down to her ankles while trotting. The discovery happened while riding on Tuesday, cut to Saturday and her experimenting with it on the longe line.
Picture a 17 horse with its head going repeatedly from up to ankles, while trotting, like one of those drinking birds. :lol: She thought she was pretty smart.
One of mine swatted a butterfly out of the air with his front foot just trotting along, another leg yielded his off side legs right through the arena fence. The butterfly swatter was also found wearing his metal feeder as a bracelet.You can probably imagine the tense process of cutting it off, whilst trying to avoid him amputating either of our body parts.He also picked up a cast iron lawn seat with his bridle one time . What a sweet horse, never panicked about those things, but did loose his mind over a man standing in the bed of a pickup at a competition. THATS what worries you?!?:lol:
Mine used to be TERRIFIED of manhole covers. Children’s pop-up tents flying through the air on a windy day? Fine. Small pack of yorkies chasing us at canter? Ain’t no thang. But god forbid we walk within 15 feet of a manhole cover. She’d see it before you and you wouldn’t even know why you were on the ground and the horse was back in the barn.
That problem melted away at some point…probably around the same time she stopped jumping every puddle to avoid getting her feet wet.
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Mine used to be TERRIFIED of manhole covers.[/QUOTE]
:lol: Mine gives the side eye to double yellow lines, and he doesn’t even have the green bean excuse, he’s a 17 year old bombproof trail horse, and he’s done it for the past ten years. Dashed are fine, because he can step through the gaps. But ask him to walk over a double line and he puffs himself up and gets very dramatic about it. So ridiculous. We have babysat our fair share of greenbeans on the trails and I always have to have them go first over lines in the road, have to tell the owners that I don’t want my old trail pro giving their horses ridiculous fears of double yellow lines… :rolleyes:
You guys are cracking me up, esp the pack of yorkies visual
My greenbean really dislikes it when the ground changes colors - similar reaction to the solid yellow line. 
The first time she was ridden in the dressage arena (by my trainer) she didn’t quite steer yet, but she had been free jumped in the past, so every time she faced the side of the arena she would lock and load - and go very, very straight over the rail. She KNEW how to do that, so she was going to show it off! My trainer used to event advanced, so he just thought it was hilarious.
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:lol: Mine gives the side eye to double yellow lines, and he doesn’t even have the green bean excuse, he’s a 17 year old bombproof trail horse, and he’s done it for the past ten years. Dashed are fine, because he can step through the gaps. But ask him to walk over a double line and he puffs himself up and gets very dramatic about it. So ridiculous. We have babysat our fair share of greenbeans on the trails and I always have to have them go first over lines in the road, have to tell the owners that I don’t want my old trail pro giving their horses ridiculous fears of double yellow lines… :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Mine has an irrational fear of stepping over hoses. Doesn’t matter if it’s the same one I stretch across his paddock frequently or one in an unexpected place. They’re all scary and must be approached with utmost caution and then LEAPT over. He’s only 5, but still, he’s seen plenty of hoses in his lifetime.
My greenbean (gelding) has one of the most impressive squeals I’ve ever heard. He’s a quiet hunter most of the time, and a very good mover, so as a 3yo I took him to a show to do the hack division. He squealed during the first two classes so no ribbon, no squeal during the third class and he won. I thought it was hilarious, the judge stopped me after and gave him a compliment, she said she giggled at the squeals.
He’s also very mouthy and loves plastic water bottles. During a clinic this summer we were standing beside the golf cart and I was twisted around watching someone else so I didn’t notice him grab the clinicians water until I heard “crunch crunch”. Whoops lol
Lol- my young horse used to stick his nose in the dirt when he learned how to stretch down. We called it his “bulldozer move.”
He’s always been an “overachiever”. Every time he learns something new he has to do repeatedly and as dramatically as possible. Learned to trot, forgot how to walk for a week. Learned to canter, forgot hot to trot. Etc…
It amuses me
He really gets excited and wants to get things right
My greenbean (gelding) has one of the most impressive squeals I’ve ever heard. He’s a quiet hunter most of the time, and a very good mover, so as a 3yo I took him to a show to do the hack division. He squealed during the first two classes so no ribbon, no squeal during the third class and he won. I thought it was hilarious, the judge stopped me after and gave him a compliment, she said she giggled at the squeals.
ha. We won a greenie hack once because we were the only team in the class to not buck and take off when picking up the canter. A ring full of greenies in a March schooling show is quite a lot to handle.
When my other mustang Zephyr was a greenie I was ponying her on a large group trail ride. There was a tree trunk laying on the ground blocking the trail which we had to step over. Instead of just walking over like everyone else she jumps it in perfect hunter form, knees up and even, round from nose to tail. It was pretty cute.
On oaccasion we have to share the arena with other riders and if the horse is one that we have not ridden with my guy wants to stare at them the entire time. Leading him he can be the same way. Once he walked right into the mounting block because he was following me but turned his head around to watch the new pony on the lunge line. Reminds me of those people you see walking into poles becuase they are not paying attention.
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:lol: Mine gives the side eye to double yellow lines, and he doesn’t even have the green bean excuse, he’s a 17 year old bombproof trail horse, and he’s done it for the past ten years. Dashed are fine, because he can step through the gaps. But ask him to walk over a double line and he puffs himself up and gets very dramatic about it. So ridiculous. We have babysat our fair share of greenbeans on the trails and I always have to have them go first over lines in the road, have to tell the owners that I don’t want my old trail pro giving their horses ridiculous fears of double yellow lines… :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Mine has an irrational fear of stepping over hoses. Doesn’t matter if it’s the same one I stretch across his paddock frequently or one in an unexpected place. They’re all scary and must be approached with utmost caution and then LEAPT over. He’s only 5, but still, he’s seen plenty of hoses in his lifetime.
OK not quite a green bean but …
Always fed round bales outside til recently switched to square bales. My very clever Mare goes over & straddles the bale between her front & back legs then lowers herself til her belly rested on top. She then rocked back & forth itching her belly.
Lol. So Hilarious & Cute !!!
Now known as her signature move. That & face stuffing 
Wondering how many others green beans will learn this habit 
What, no one has a horse that lies down while you’re still astride?
I had a filly who pulled this move after we’d warmed up at a local schooling show and were waiting to go in the ring. She was <whine> tired and itchy</whine> and why wouldn’t she lie down and roll right there in the soft sand?!
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I’ve got an OTTB, ive had him for 3 months. When I got him he had never been “hacking”. The first 2 months were spent mainly in the air.
White lines were a no no… They had to be jumped.
Drain covers we had to pass on the other side of the road.
Road Signs were the same as drain covers.
All of these things we have now got over, but his big bug bear… The grit bin! To this day he stops and snorts at it! It doesn’t move, it doesn’t change and we have to pass it every day! It’s got to the point where he starts spooking at it 100 yards up the road! I’m pretty sure he thinks it is waiting to eat him!
One of my favorite things when introducing a new driving horse to working in town is the first time they notice their reflection in a plate glass window and whinny! It just makes me laugh and want to hug them! Little country bunchkin!
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One of my favorite things when introducing a new driving horse to working in town is the first time they notice their reflection in a plate glass window and whinny! It just makes me laugh and want to hug them! Little country bunchkin![/QUOTE]
This! Mine saw himself in a mirror for the first time 3 weeks ago. He couldn’t decide if he should spook or go check out that intruder with the quirky blaze. Still can’t 4 rides later.
My Four-year-old has lived with his “mirror friend” since I hauled him home as a weanling. I mounted two mirrors to the back doors of my trailer for the 11 hour ride.
His stall also has two mirrors in it. When he comes in at night he always checks in with his “friend” and if he has been away for a few days he will stand there with his mirror friend for quite awhile (telling stories of his adventure, I suppose).
I took one of the mirrors to horse shows and hung it in his stall. Last time I guess he got mad at himself overnight. I came in the morning to find he had torn the mirror down and pooped and stomped all over it. These are plexiglass mirrors, by the way.
Recently I started hauling him to a barn for lessons. Last time he kept pinning his ears at his reflection and had a hard time focusing on the lesson. When another horse came in the ring he got really mad and made a move to kick him. He really wanted to be the boss.
But when he got back home he stood nose to nose with the mirror buddy and told him all about it.
I’d really like to know who he thinks this horse IS.
My green-bean OTTB right now has what I call his “frustrated walk”. Whenever I start to ask what he considers a bit too much of him, or try to introduce something new, he does something kinda like a Zenyatta walk, lifting his front legs up high and then stomping them down like he’s a two year old kid stomping their feet during a temper tantrum. LOL, it’s kinda cute. He doesn’t do it as much now, but sometimes he still does.
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