by amadeo » Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:38 pm
#ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#Cows. A horse I used to ride (though, thankfully, I wasn't riding her at the time) just hated cows. Then again, that one fateful day, she hadn't seen one before. So that could to it, too. But she went into the ditch at about ninety miles an hour... Liam went OVER the ditch at about a hundred-and-fifty. Thankfully, there were no serious injuries, and the horse came back. #ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl# #ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#Another horse is DEATHLY afraid of... ducks. Not geese, not cranes, not herons, no other birds.. Just.. ducks. He's 17.1hh, a Spanish-Norman, and he's terrified of them. How he can tell the difference between a duck and a goose, I don't know, but he manages, and he hates them.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl# #ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#And then Hannah is the absolute most bombproof pony I've ever ridden. She's only three, but she just doesn't spook. Unless you happen to say "Wow, I have never seen that pony even bat an eyelash at anything." Then, she decides she'd like to turn 180 degrees and go barreling off into the distance for absolutely no reason. That's the only time she ever spooked. There was nothing there, we had been there a thousand times, everything was the same as normal, but the second my riding partner finished saying that, we were off like a shot. Good old Hannah.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl#