What is the most reckless thing you have ever done with horses?

Question

Back when I was younger (and more reckless) I used to race my fastest mare against motorcycles. It was fun, she was game and I even won a little (very little) $.

How about you? Anything wild and crazy?

Answer 1

I never placed my self or my horse in jeopardy....even when I was growing up...saved myself a lot of grief...had too many friends killed in accidents with horses.....I learned from their mistakes.

Answer 2

Way too many to count...

I have fun, what can I say.

h**l, i'm probibly the Queen of reckless riding.

Ina good way...

Answer 3

Jumped my mare (who was 14.2) over a 3'6" jump with 3' spread halter and lead line bareback and for the reckless part no helmet. My guardian angel was very busy with me through those years.

To all those out there "Please don't try this - even though I made it it could've gotten ugly and I'm lucky to be here to ride another day.

Answer 4

When I was a budding youth,one of my friends and I used to hop on green horses in the pasture and compete to see who would stay on longer...we were dumped onto fences, run into trees, thrown into the creek, etc.  Not too smart, huh?  If you asked me back then, I'd have told you there was no greater fun.  We also did it with hogs once...and never again!

Answer 5

I once had monogamous s*x with a horse.

Answer 6

We had a silly do and decided to try jousting with schooling whips on a wide part of the trail - two very excited horses and we were both nearly falling off from laughing so much.

Answer 7

getting on my friends horse bareback in sneakers and jumping a 3 foot fence.. when i wasn't even supposed to be riding.

and then we did a 2' line double bareback XD

Answer 8

me and my friend got double on her huge zangershide and jumped 3'6".

it was so sick.

Answer 9

well me and my twin sister took our ponys(bareback) in the pen where the wiening calves were and we chased and roped the calves and our ponys arent even trained and my pony kept rearing and my sisters pony was running and biting at the calves butts. haha it was stupid but soooooooo fun!!!!!

Answer 10

Not very reckless but i jumped my 17hh Apendix double and bareback! ouch!! lol Imagine how high his withers were! lol

Answer 11

I would race for money. I'd bet the mexicans(no offense) that me & my horse would win.  The guy I worked for had a racing quarter & that boy flew!! We were clocked at 47 mph once. One horse that I actually  had to hold on to!!!!! But we go down & kick butt! Those men hated that a 15yr girl, in a bareback pad,  was kicking their butts!!!!!!  I lost 2 times. But I won a lot of money!!! They stoped racing us. I even won one time with my bareback pad buckel breaking in the middle of the race. I had a lot of fun!!!! LOL Great Memories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 12

My best friend and I would race our horses while riding bareback as fast as we could.. then to win we would try to pull the bridle off the other's person's horse.  I don't know how we managed to do that without killing ourselves!!!

Answer 13

Back when I worked as a Humane Investigator, I seized a horse that was an abuse/neglect case, by creeping into his pasture and riding off in the night with just a halter and lead on him.

Answer 14

its not very reckless but it was fun: I jumped a 3 foot bounce with three jumps (incase you dont jump: 3 jumps with no strides in the middle, one after the other) with my mare without reins or stirrups! Fun Fun Fun!

Answer 15

I was ridding my friends horse that i worked with alot cause she was pregnant, anyway in the field he would rear alot i couldnt take him out there with out him rearing but i knew how to handle them. Well one day she and her friend took there horses out in the field bare back so i wanted to take my crazy horse dodge out (bareback) well neadless to say if i got a pic of how high he reared with me on him bareback wicth i stayed on i would probally be famous. He got so high  i thought he was gonna flip and i was on bareback but i stayed on. I look back not and relize how stupid that was but man was it so much fun haha. And yes i know rearing is very bad.

Answer 16

A sports car can be faster than a fast horse. But the horse is faster than a motorcycle.

Answer 17

Nothing I am aware of.  I was always taught to respect animals & especially horses.  My dad & grandad would have beat us to a bloody pulp if we had ever done anything wreckless (stupid) & it ended up injuring an animal.

To this day we have taught the same thing to our 3 boys.  They know better than to put themselves or their horses or dogs in a stupid situation where they could get hurt.

Answer 18

For me I would have to say that it would be the time, my brother and I attempted to do i***n riding tricks. Things like going at a full run around the arena on the side of the horse, hugging its neck. I have no idea why our horses put up with us. Or doing the "cowboy pick up" at a full run.

The most reckless thing I saw my dad do. He got a horse in for training for a hunting horse. Not a hunter/jumper. A real shoot a deer of its back hunting horse. How do you do this you may ask? You go hunting a lot, too bad for us right. Well he finished the horse and it was ready for the owner to pick it up. We took him out and was showing him how to hunt off the horse(little things like  not firing between the ears of the horse). Well we where up in the Ruby's and we came accross a herd of deer. The owner asked how close we could get to a deer on horse back. Well only one way to find out. We edged up with in 50 yard of the herd with no problem. Then the owner asked if it was possible to rope a deer. To witch my pops replies ''Dunno, but there is only one way to find out.'' So my dad takes off and singles one out(the horse had been roped off of a few time). And off they went down the side of the mountian. That is when he noticed he was with in an easy cast to catch the buck(not one of his brightest ideas).

He shook out a loop and tossed it and caught the buck by both antlers. Then the buck turned. After about 2 min of a fight where the deer was over under and everwhere at the horse trying to fight back the antlers rubbed through my dads good 40' rope. It was quite cartoonish at the end. The rope tangled all over the horse and my dad still holding about 3 feet of it in his hand and the buck bounding away safe and sound. Luckly the horse never got hurt but was a bit sweaty form trying to survive the attack. The owner was so happy about out training, we wound up training 4 other hunting horse for him and his friends.

Answer 19

i through rocks at stuff!!

Answer 20

Well it's a toss up as to the playing chicken with a van down the horse trail in Half Moon Bay or putting my QH mare in the middle of 2 dirt bikes trying to scare horses.

The van kept speeding up and I was heading straight for it on my QH mare (She had a death wish.).  At the LAST second, I swerved!  With the 2 dirt bikes, they scattered as I went to land in the middle of 'em after I'd spun my mare around when they came up behind me and landed right in the middle of 'em.

Answer 21

i jumped my appendix 4'6 when no one was around and i like to ride my new horse backwards

Answer 22

i used to be a trail guide... and after we would close me and two of the other trail guides would go out and play. we would play tag, and race cars from stop light to stop light (we werent on the road we were on the feild next to the road), but the most reckless thing we ever did was play 3 way chicken... how does that work do you ask.. well ill tell you... we would go to opposite ends of a feild like a triangle. then we would give each other a ready signal then run as fast as our horses would go twards each other and whos ever horse broke first lost. it was fun we never crashed, the horses are smart they dont want to have a headon collision. but still i definetly dont do that kind of stuff now.

Answer 23

Well whenb I was 13 and had just gotten my first horse, i usd to ride him down main roads so that other people could "admire" him. lol i was very pround of that horse. It was dangerous

Answer 24

Once on a ride I threw some golf balls at a family of skunks.

Answer 25

My best friend/neighbor has a 3ft deep canal in her pasture so last summer she and I took our horses swimming in it.....

we were bareback no helmets and I was wearing a bikini and flip flops - not such a great idea. I hadn't ridden my horse in over a month so she was very hyper and for some reason there was a goose's nest right by were we were swimming and she got really mad at my horse. Then my horse decides to freak out and she is literally running through the water I tried to pull back on her but I only had a snaffle in so that didn't do much good. Well she jumps out of the canal and mind you it is at an angle (straight up and down) and I slide to her butt. Now she is running full blast around the pasture I am sitting on her rear with no control whatsoever (I have no idea how I stayed on) Then my dog starts chasing her and she goes around a sharp turn I fly off and land on my butt (You think that might be funny well I was hurt pretty bad and I couldn't even get up for about 10 minutes.) Turns out I had hurt my spine or tail bone pretty bad and because I was hardly wearing any clothes all of the burrs and cheat grass and weeds that were in the pasture scraped me up pretty badly

conclusion: don't ride in canals and if you do use a water proof cordura saddle and always wear a helmet and proper clothing! - haha

Hope you like that one

Oh and another time I raced my barrel horse against this one stupid guys really old van - I won! because the van was slow and we were only going to the end of the road - sad I know haha

Answer 26

When we were younger and braver, we would take green horses that have never seen cattle before to team pennings and give 'em a go.

Some where naturals and some had absolutely no interest.

That is when you find out what kind of rider you REALLY are ! lol!