took a bad fall off my horse

my moms ex boyfriend had 2 three year old horses,they were brother and sister. not sure what type honestly, but he never worked with them at all. when we moved in with him he made us keep our dog outside because his were outside dogs. anyway his horses were able to roam the yard and everytime my mother or i would go out back they would actually try to trample us. just to feed our dog we had to walk back to back her with the food and me with the whip. one day he decided to take april away from timothy to do her shoes, knowing that they didnt like to be apart he tied tim to the full hay wagon with the tongue in the ground. he took april into the driveway hooking the electric fence back up behind him. tim got extreamly upset and pulled the full hay wagon through the electric fence and to his sister. my moms ex boyfriend tossed me aprils lead to me while he tried to get tim under control. april turned and chased me up the hood of his truck. then bit me in the foot draging me off his truck and then head butted me back up against it.

Knock on wood but I haven't fallen off yet after 10 years. Even though I haven't fallen off, I've had horses try and buck me off, rear and do a 360 in the air, and one trail horse even fell over on me. I guess I'm lucky because when a horse starts acting up, I'm able to just stick to their back like a spider monkey lol. My horse is a good boy and won't do anything bad unless you smack his butt with your hand or your crop, and even then, all he does is pin his ears and give a wimpy buck. This isn't a bad story, but one of my horse and I's very first shows together we were in a sidesaddle class when his bridle completely fell off. One of the screws on his western bit fell off and the bit fell out of his mouth. All of a sudden I pulled up the reins a bit and noticed how light they were and I noticed the whole bridle was hanging by his chest. We were right in the middle of cantering sidesaddle and as soon as this happened my horse came to a stop and just stood there waiting for some help lol. He's such a saint. He even has little kids and babies that will ride him too. And people say Arabs are so crazy. I haven't had a fall or anything but I've had some pretty close calls lol. I was at a show one time with this new horse and we were in a class cantering and he got off balance and he got mad at himself so he let out a huge buck. It flung me forward onto his neck and I lost my stirrups but luckily he gave about a 5 second window before he bucked again. If I wasn't able to get myself back together, that second buck would've sent me over the rail and into people's laps lol. I don't think the judge ever saw it since she was so short..we ended up getting 3rd out of about 11 horses. Needless to say, I was shocked.

Hello Dear Cowgirl! First of all Warm Welcome to Mylot! I am a Vet serving for a Stud Farm in the capacity of the Senior Resident Veterinarian, where we breed Thoroughbreds and raise them till two years to ell them to various clients who take them for racing them at various centres under the suitable trainers available!I look after about 350 horses along with my team of another two junior Vets with me! Fro the whole incidence, I think it is very unlikely thing that has happened with you! It was your own horse and he knows you very well, in spite of that if he tarted bucking up while riding him, shows that there is some thing wrong some where! May be the horse is not fit for riding and you have taken him for riding! But under such circumstances also normally hires don't buck up! I think you need your horse to be get checked by some expert to see if there is anything wrong with him! Injuring a person deliberately is not a normal nature of a horse, especially if h is one's own horse as there is a bond of trust between the horse and rider! As far as such incidents are concerned I never had anything like this happened personally with me! Yes we see lot of accidents happening in the race course when the jockeys are falling from the backs of the horses! But then the story here is different! As they are competing with each other in a race and thy need to follow some rules and regulations and while abiding them the jockeys some times get trapped in the traffic so badly that they won't get chance to get out! So at that time out of desperation the jockey may give wrong signal to horse making the things worst! Yes, on the farm we do have few brood mares who are really ferocious and they won't hesitate you attack like a Dog, the practically bite with their teeth in a bad way! similarly we have horses which are expert in kicking the persons when approached from back sides! Since we know the nature of these horses we are careful and take care while handling them!Because this ['touch wood'] so far I never had any serious type of accidents! Now this accident has occured some time back and you are in a position now to participate in Mylot, I think you are alright now! Please take care of yourself and have sufficient rest and let your wounds heal completely before trying him again! Before that please don't forget him to get checked by some expert! Thanks for the discussion!

I've taken some bad falls off horses, but the only one I couldn't get back up on was the time I messed up my hands so bad I couldn't hold the reins... I had bad scrap (like road rash) across the heel of my left hand, not so I couldn't hold the reins at all, but the friction burns on my right hand: before the last joint on my index and middle finger, and across all the fingers just after the joint from the palm made holding the reins impossible. I also had road rash scrapes on my left elbow, left shoulder, and on my back from when I flipped and ended up on my back after diving off the lunatic horse - pony actually. In fact, I think the only HORSE I ever fell off of actually fell DOWN with me! Sundown, Mocha (what WAS that pony's name?), Sugar Baby and Goldilocks were all ponies. I went off Sundown 3 times, but once was equipment failure (girth straps broke), once was because she popped over a little jump after coming to a flat footed stop - I hit the saddle and then hit the ground, the first time was actually intent on her side, she LIKED to do unexpected stops and throw people over her head.

ouch. have you had his back checked out? always worth doing if they act unexpectedly like that.

I don't really have any kind of horse stories to share. But it does sound really scary what happened to you. I am glad you are feeling better now. I know if I was in your position I would be afraid to ever go riding on a horse again if I was thrown from the house. I hope you get back to riding your horse real soon.

Last year my stallion tripped over a root and went head over heal with me. I ended up trapped under him for a while until my husband and I were able to roll him up onto his back as my boot was caught in the stirrup. I broke my collar bone and twisted my right knee pretty bad. I did actually get back on him that day for a few minutes though. I think that helped me out a lot in the long run. It was quite a while before I could ride again though. And go figure, two weeks ago Monday we went to look at what was supposed to be a seasoned 1D barrel horse. He was registered quarter, and a 4 yr old gelding. Well when I got on him, he tried to buck me off and rear, would not even give one step forward. So the guy that owned him got on after giving me this story that he just did not understand as he and his wife had been riding him. Well the same thing again except that this time he did go forward for about 15 feet or so. Well I get back on, repeat the same thing again. Ok, my husband gets on....well, he did the same thing so he swatted him on the butt, gently, but apparently that was a mistake.....straight up and over like hi ho silver, landed on him with the swell of the saddle, and then jumped up and stomped him in the belly with both front feet....needless to say we did not buy the horse, heck he was no barrel horse, he wasn't even broke. My husband was in the hospital in ICU with a torn spleen and badly bruised liver until the following Thursday afternoon when they let him come home. He is doing much better now, but still can't do much for about another 4 weeks or so. Got a pretty good clean bill of health all things considered at his check up today. He just has to take it easy for a while and cannot ride yet, though he does actually still want to ride, so I guess that is good.

Oh, I am sorry to hear that. But perhaps it is a great experience for you. I prefer to riding horse very much and of course I have maintained the same experience like you. what's worse is that I have entered to hospital for near half a year for getting off from the horse. However, I like horse better now. Maybe it is a secret that horses can understand our words, which I have learned from a person who is a host of a horse field. And horses are considerate animals if you really get them across. After leaving the hospital, I had my second riding on my horse, but this time things seemed differently. And I found that my horse and I are just one, that is, seemed that we can communicate with each other, which is not the real word but just a feeling. so if you want to have another try, you had better have this kind of feeling before you getting on your horse.