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SoftTouchTraining


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Share a funny story!
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If you've been around horses long you've had a funny or an embarrassing moment.  I was going through my old event videos last night and found one that always makes me smile I wish I could post it, but since I can't I'll just tell it.
I had a green eventer at his first event.  Everything was going great until we got to the water.  Now he's always been sticky about the water, but I thought I had him over it.  However my plan was to do just as I schooled it in the past.  Since we just had to go through the water, no jump in or out, all he had to do was get through the flags.  We came troting up to it and as we got into the water he slowed to a walk and asked to stretch down to see what we were going into, no problem he's done this before and had always kept going.  Except this time he stopped, for a drink, right in the middle of the flags.  I gave him an extra kick as he stopped, and what does he do?  He backs up, continueing to drink, then goes on through like nothing had happened.  I was laughing, the jump judges were laughing, and so were the spectators.  All I said was "Wrangler, don't drink now!"  Below is a pic of Wrangler later in the course at that very event.

If you have a funny story I'ld love to hear it!



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SoftTouchTraining


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umm, thanks but no thanks. no escort needed here.

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justice


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Eastern nightlights for sale? Nah. Have 100% Italian husband: all set : )

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Lol, I'm so glad our members have a sense of humor!

I just banned that person, and have set up a few more roadblocks to joining.

Let's see if we can hold off spammers. If not, I have a few more tricks up my sleeve. ;)

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justice


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Thank you : )












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SoftTouchTraining


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Thankyou!

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Roka


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biggrin People who didn't see the banned poster's post will be real confused when reading this thread! LOL

I have a funny story.. some years back my Icelandic mare accidentally shut herself in the barn. I was at work and the door was shut (today she has free access to the barn and a loose box but she didn't back then, and it was summer) and somehow she had rubbed herself against the door in a way that the doorhandle opened. She then must have wandered in and the strong wind shut the door so she couldn't get out. smile Imagine my distress when I came home and couldn't find her... I checked the paddock fencing several times and it was all fine but she just wasn't in the paddocks like she was supposed to be. I called out to her and she whinnied back to me but I was a bit slow so it took a couple of tries of that to understand that she was actually inside the barn. She was real happy to see me and I had some cleaning up to do cos she'd had a grand time in there, upsetting buckets, spreading tools around and getting her nose in all sorts of things. Luckily I didn't have any feed in there so she was fine but I couldn't stop laughing at that incident. AFTER my heart rate went back to normal, that is! biggrin

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Nikki Salo


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The first place where I boarded my favorite horse, he had a stall with dutch doors out into the sand ring, and from the sand ring it was to a 3 acre alley way (he loved it, because he was a runner and would go for a brisk gallop early afternoon down the alley way). The owner's husband had an old dodge truck with a really big ram emblem on the hood, he'd do work in the riding ring and leave the truck parked there while he went for lunch. I warned him not to leave it unattended because my boy liked to be a trouble maker (stealing the wheelbarrow while mucking, your gloves etc. etc.), for a while the most he ever did was stick his head in the truck window and mess up any papers on the seat. On one particle day, while the barn owner and I were standing in the barn having a chat, we were watching my boy nose around the truck, he processed to rip the ram off the front of the truck and go for a gallop with it! We found it hilarious, even if the barn owner's hubby didn't -- he never left his toys sitting around after! biggrin

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Julius


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when Julius is in the paddock or loose in the arena and wants to go somewhere, he takes his lead off my shoulder and walks off with it! I guess he caught on that he gets to go see things when I put the lead on him.

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