Shouty horse rider!

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We live in quite a rural area, our boundary fence backs onto a large playing field. We have people parking up with horse boxes alongside the boundary fence quite regularly.
I was playing with DD (1) in our garden this morning, she was just pottering in her Wendy house, not making much noise at all just happily babbling and I was talking back to her.
I then hear a woman trying to get her horse into the horse box and the horse is having none of it, stamping its feet and rearing up.
Next thing I can hear a woman telling me to shut my daughter up, shes scaring her horse.
Was I unreasonable in thinking that a horse should be able to cope with a baby babbling especially if she is riding it along country lanes ! I refused to tell DD to be quiet or to go inside as surely we aren't being unreasonable playing in our own garden !
I have no clue about horses so second guessing whether I was rude, plus we are fairly new to the area and everyone knows each other.

However had I met the one that insisted the dogs in the back of the car stop barking I don't think that it would have been possible. Dog trying to guard its car and owner from big strange creatures is not going to be quiet because big strange creatures get nearer and make demands. Quite the opposite.

YANBU. You and your DD were a) on your property and b) not being noisy or disruptive in any way.

This lady was angry that her horse wasn't cooperating and she took it out on your daughter.

This has been very helpful, thanks a lot.

Majorly feeling we live next door 😂 If we do, they use the bridal paths around here, and I totally think its unfair for them to shout at your little girl. Im sure she hears far louder noises on their outings. She was probably very embarrassed! Still, no excuse really! Xx

I would have told her where to go. Bloody cheek.

When I was 3 I was playing in a holiday park and a rider came so close to me that the horse stood on my foot. I was screaming in pain and she lectured me for not moving quick enough.

I was there first and 3 ffs. Stupid bitch.

I'd have told her to fuck off.
I'm always very mindful of horses. Just yesterday I pissed off a queue of cars behind me because the horses I encountered on a junction were quite skittish, so I stayed put until they were gone.
If you are polite asking me to take down my brolly, or quiet my baby, fine. Any way rude? You can fuck right of too the far side of fuck.

I was out cycling last week. A horse was coming towards me. I slowed down and got off because I don't really like horses.

The horse still reared up in panic

The woman fucking YELLED at me, saying I didn't own the "fucking road" and that can't I see the horse was young and I should have moved onto the verge.

I felt really upset.

Well she was certainly an entitled tosser heron

It was wrong of her to shout, totally unnecessary. If there was a problem, then she could have politely asked for help- e.g. "I'm sorry but would you please be able to do x". I think it unlikely a toddler babbling would be setting the horse off. She was probably just stressed that the horse wasn't loading and took it out on you, which wasn't fair.

As to the rest of the posts re "horsey people are all entitled/rude/unpleasant"- what a lot of rubbish. As with all people, there will be some who are rude or unpleasant but the majority are perfectly ordinary people.

Horses can be funny beasts- even the mostly bombproof and saintly can suddenly spook at something they have been totally fine with 99.9% of the time! DDs first pony did this on the odd occasion- totally bombproof and she was very good in traffic. One day decided a plastic bag on the side of the road was a monster and took A LOT of persuasion to go past it. Saw the same thing a few days later, didn't bat an eyelid. Horses are not robots or automaton's, they can and will react unpredictably at times, even if they are normally very good and well trained. And younger horses need to be exposed to things to gain experience so that they become reliable.