Horsey Horror Stories

[arinaa]

Happy (late) Halloween! To celebrate, I thought it would be fun to share some horror stories you’ve heard or experienced. Most of us have had to deal with some difficult clients, have boarded at a strange barn or been stuck with an evil pony. I’ll start with my own…
When I was really young, I was one of those ‘weird horse girls’ at school so, obviously, really wanted a pony. I don’t know where that idea came from since no one in my family had had anything to do with any horses that aren’t of the rocking variety. Nonetheless, my parents eventually gave in and found me a safe, cheap pony from a friend of a friend and boarded her at a local livery. Tinkerbell was about 10 hands high and absolutely beautiful, she honestly looked like she wouldn’t hurt a fly. And she didn’t, for about a month. That pony was good as gold, until I was ready to go off the lead rein. Tinkerbell didn’t do anything - quite literally. As soon as you clipped off the lead rope she would stand glued in one spot and nothing could move her. We tried everything, from pushing to begging to sacrificing to bribing - nothing worked. While we were dancing around her, she would be drifting off to sleep and she could stay like that for up to an hour. The only way to get her to move was to get off and take her towards the barn. I remember somehow getting her to take a few steps forward and she began bucking and kicking like a maniac, or at least that’s what I remember, she could’ve just cantered faster than usual and I would’ve probably thought that was her trying to make me fall off!

if anyone who wasn’t a child rode her Tinkerbell would either try to squeeze them against a fence or attempt to rear and buck until they fell or ran in the opposite direction. I’m almost sure we eventually figured her out, but adults or older kids could still never ride her. To be fair, it couldn’t have been easy to put up with an over-enthusiastic mad pony girl. A few years ago I saw her again, a friend of ours moved in next to the people that bought her some time after us and when we visited, I immediately recognised her. She was for sale as the kid had the exact same problem as we did, unfortunately I wasn’t allowed to buy her but it was so nice seeing the pony that started it all and taught me how to hang on for dear life. After her, I never had a problem with riding school ponies not going forward, I was well used to that by then!

[ThatGirlTina]

No evil horses, but a person. We were barn rats at the same barn in middle and high school. She was obnoxious, loud, and heavy/jerky with her horses…

Had her feed my gelding when I went out of town for a few days, she was caught by another boarder smacking my horse in the face in the corner of his stall. Supposedly she verbalized her intent was to make him head shy. Didnt work and I tore into her, will never forget that.

another time She was trying to pick her oldest mares hooves, and the mare pulled her hoof away. That b!tch stood up, and kicked that 19 year old mare HARD in the ribs. I mean full swing full force, the horse grunted and flinched away. Same mare she was running full speed down the alley (barrel race) and the mare fell to her knees at the gallop.The girl got up, got back on, and made the mare run anyway. Didnt check over the mare or anything. ugh

now I see her posting crap on facebook about how you have to have a gentle hand with horses and go easy on their training or youll hurt/ruin them etc I shake my head and hope for her current horses sake that she has outgrown those hideous habits.

[grandprixer]

Wow TGT, that is terrible. I don’t have a person horror story, but a haunted horse. I was boarding at a big barn, 60 stalls, and there was maybe 7 lesson horses and 1 boarder, so many empty stalls. This barn was OLD. The stalls were hard to open, the indoor arena was smallish and the doors were hard to open, and the roof was leaky. (It was safe, just annoying). So one day me and the BO’s daughter are talking in the club room, listening to the radio, when it starts going staticy, and changes channels.It changed to a classical music station, not that weird but still creepy. The next week I was turning a horse out in the indoor to play while I did his stall, and normally the door is hard to open but I touched it, and both doors opened. That was weird. Fast forward a few months, we were at my first rated show, braiding my pony. I turn around for 10 seconds, and when I look back her water bucket was clipped to her halter. There was nobody around. I unclipped it and all at once, every horse on the aisle started FREAKING out. Neighing, rearing, and going nuts. What the weirdest part was is that the other horse we were showing with, was dead still. He just stood in his stall and shook, and sweated, and then just groaned, and was back to normal. That is the horse we decided was haunted, because he was the only horse consistently being present at these events. He was sold soon after and all weird things stopped.

[SlabSided]

Oh, I thought you meant Horror Stories FOR Horses…

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