Bugger I fell off

[nancydrewrocks]

I have been having riding lessons for a year or so - fairly competent in the school: reasonable control in canter, can do a few (small) jumps linked together etc. I thought I was doing ok.

Today was my last session at my stables as I am moving so decided a nice leisurely hack out would be good. Didn't ride my usual horse as he is lame.

All going fine nice little trot and canter then more trotting and then horse freaked at a pile of rubble (?) Don't really know what happened but my friend who was behind says horse shied from rubble and then kicked/bucked till I was off which admittedly didn't take long.

So I am now sitting here with a swollen finger and a cut up leg wondering how I will ever get back on a horse again

Can anyone convince me it is worth it or should I take up knitting?

haha, Murphy already preparing his look of injured innocence for you pandora!

was just thinking have not fallen off for AGES but obviously haven't ridden for ages either - it's the little ones I fall off most easily apart from stupid self-inflicted/suicidal act type falls

my group lesson tonight is £30 per person, is a bit subsidised as extension of BHS course (which is already nearly £600 ), think would normally be £39.50 for shared/group. Private ones are BAD now, cannot imagine how I used to afford them - oh yes, was before livery went up and before getting another pony

Bless him, Murphy lived in his own little bubble, and Windsor was only his second county standard worker course. He came round the corner flat out (his preferred speed ) gawped at the crowd, noticed the water tray at the last minute, I gave him a little kick so he went even faster still, and he decided to bottle out. It was a bit of a surprise for me too - although he was a bit green with his jumping his general approach to leaving the ground was to fling himself at it and hope he made it over. This was his first real refusal. Clearly I wasn't expecting it . Still, it was such a slam-dunk that there was no painful lingering up there, desperately hoping that I was manage to somehow cling on and not eat dirt. Unlike this fall from big horse. A very slo-mo ker-plunk, that one!

Not sure what happened with that link, but here is the link to a pic of me completely knocking myself out. Darling OH took it as the last in a series of slo-mo pics of me falling off. He had the good sense to take his finger of the shutter button before I was lying on my back in a puddle!

looks like a lovely squishy soft landing for you there

I must not chuckle too much, need to be tacking up and getting on . . . amusement at others' misfortunes might come before a fall of own?

Gosh - not only a squishy landing but a long way to fall! How big was that horse?!

When I used to compete I was always falling off, but thankfully these days it's a rarity - twice in about the last 20 years in fact - and one of those was when I was cantering along a track, the horse spooked and he fell over!

Silly thing - I don't know who was the more surprised as we picked ourselves up - him or me!