You’re not kidding! I threw the old one out already. The whole impact was on it. Ouch!
3 Likes
When their body weight is also behind the fall, yeah it certainly DO hurt more.
Had my nice catty mare trip and fall once, and she was completely on top of herself… I had to use a toothbrush to get arena sand out of the nose band AND the brow band. I got super lucky she didn’t go over on me and just had some whiplash from getting essentially trebuchet’ed off.
Yes
And GOOD!
7 Likes
Tempted the gods. Perfect Pony tripped at the canter today, and down we went. My helmet is toast, pony skinned her nose and got an eye full of arena sand. Vet was coming anyway tomorrow but definitely getting her eye checked.
4 Likes
Oh my gosh, are you and pony ok?
What’s with our clutzy horses lately?
1 Like
Oh no! You ok?
2 Likes
I was riding my little appy mare bareback one time and when I asked for a jog, she tripped and whacked her head on the ground. I was fine, but she was seeing stars and walked around dazedly for a few minutes. I was on the brink of calling out the vet when she came to and was fine.
2 Likes
She was le tired because cantering is hard for a wee medium toting around a chonky adult and she just caught a toe, I think. I don’t have it on video because the *#@^!$%# Pivo lost us, so it’s audio only of her doing a total somersault and me doing my best to stay out of the way. I actually planted my feet on her booty and SHOVED. I still have a headache, but am otherwise not as sore I would have expected. She got bute last night and I’ve been staying up on the ibuprofen 
.
It was too fast to be scary, to tell the truth! And we seem fine. Got back on, w/t/c and popped over two little jumps at the end (total of maybe five minutes) just so she doesn’t get any ideas in her pony brain. I had a eek moment with blood on her leg but it was from her rubbing her nose, which was abraded and bleeding, on her leg and not an injury on her leg.
Thank you all!! Aside from a headache still and lighter $400+ for a new helmet ( 
) I am fine! The vet was already coming to pull blood on Miss Suspiciously Fatty so she got precautionary eye exams and flush because she had gobs of sand in her left eye that she got fed up with me trying to wash out with a hose yesterday.
19 Likes
Poor sweet Chonky mare. She’s lovely. Glad you’re both okay!
7 Likes
So glad everyone is ok!!
3 Likes
Do the ponies know Helmet Day is next month??? They’re celebrating a little early.
5 Likes
Pony is lovely. Glad you are both okay.
1 Like
I do loff her, she is supposed to be a flip buuuuut… She is so stinkin cute and just the smartest little ponykins 
19 Likes
Is it really?? Aw dammit all… Of course I think CO was always the exception and never discounted.
1 Like
She looks like a very good egg, what else do we want. 
Just take very good care there, please.
2 Likes
Hahahaha well, that would be hard seeing as I want to keep all 13.1 hands to my greedy self She is just the cutest tho right?? That’s my daily dumb, buying an adorable and pliable pony as a resale project like YEAH RIGHT 
I may eventually lease her to a kiddo to show in the big shows, but in the mean time she is my fun little pocket pony. A huge difference between her and my big Irish guy, he’s a Maserati comparatively.
11 Likes
This is probably bad but I’ve been lunging the one who tripped on me until the farrier comes out to take a look at her feet (he’s currently quarantining, will be a week or so). Any and every time she trips, I whoosh the whip at her (not snap, but the “string in the air” sound). I swear to god the tripping has improved, and she hardly does it at all, when before she’d catch her toes pretty regularly (but not fall of course).
Is it possible she’s just lazy and that’s where some of the clumsiness comes from?
1 Like
I don’t think it’s bad. There are always exceptions, but I frequently give a sharp aid (quick heel/spur, flat calf thump, or a rap-rap from the whip) if a horse I am riding trips or otherwise moves clumsily. They have 4 legs and assuming I haven’t done something up there to put them on the forehand or throw them off balance in some way, I figure it is primarily their responsibility to Not. Fall. Down. I can compromise and work through the rest of it but they need to at least stay upright. Now if tripping becomes a regular issue I definitely take a step back and try to work out the why.
1 Like
I feel like she understood was the whoosh was for, and maybe I’m nuts but I could see her articulating her joints more to “clear the ground” afterwards.
I think I’ll employ this (and your suggestions, too) under saddle, after the farrier takes a peek. She is naturally pretty chill, so I shouldn’t be surprised.
