My funniest? I have two that are just 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

1. So, I was maybe 4 and was riding this big, fat old black pony. She was going so damn slow and kicked her so hard my left stirrup detached from the saddle and I fell into the wall. It was incredibly pathetic. I even laughed at myself later that day.

2. I was probably 6 and riding this (normally) really nice tiny chestnut pony mare, she was somewhat lazy. So, it was a little windy out, and I was riding in a lesson with my friends, so the trainer was like 'okay, go canter and circle and the far end. I obviously cantered, went down the long side, got halfway through the circle and the pony was like, 'goodbye!' and bucked me off. I face planted. The trainer got on, rode her around for a few minutes, and told me to get back on. I trotted around a little and the trainer asked if I wanted to try the circle again. I said yes, cantered, and got halfway through the circle and got bucked off again. I didn't quite face plant though. The trainer got on, the Pony was an angel, then I got back on, trotted around a bit, and the trainer asked if I'd like to try the circle one more time. I said yes, and cantered down the long side, got halfway through the circle, and got bucked off HARD. Apparently I did a flip and faceplanted. I don't remember it very well. While I never got checked out, personally believe I got a concussion, because that's when my never ending headaches started. I'll edit with my most dangerous fall in a little bit.

My funniest fall was 4 years ago. I was riding bareback in a feild with my friend on my old pony Grey. My friend started slipping off, so she grabbed me thinking that because I had the reins I couldnt fall off ( This friend has no horse experince, She couldnt tell a mare from a stallion or a saddle from a bridle). Then pesky Grey decided he wanted to trot, so I am sitting on him, trying to slow him down while staying on well my friend is pulling me down because she is falling. My friend literally fell to the ground as he was trotting, got kicked in the head because she stayed under Grey once she was on the ground, then had the nerve to pull on my leg to try to get back on. (Grey was still trotting and trying to break into a canter at this point) My friend dragged my off then I was being dragged by a cantering Grey. I spent half an hour trying to catch Grey while being followed by my friend.

My scariest fall was 6 months ago. I was helping my riding instructor with her 3 year old gelding Hercules. I was riding him on a lunge line in the dressage arena when he decided to rear up. (I am pretty good at staying on a bucking horse by the way) Suddenly he let out a piercing whinny then flipped over, Literally flipped over. I am lucky to have jumped off while he was falling but I shattered my helmet in the process as I hit my head on the fence. I somehow escaped that without a bruise and the horse had mere gash on his shoulder from the fence.I must say both me nd the horse are lucky to be alive. PLEASE WEAR YOUR HELMETS PEOPLE, AND DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID AROUND HORSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I fall off often cause my mare is stubborn and likes to test anyone. My most recent was we were at the first show due to corona and coming out of winter. We were competing 2'9 - 3' and she was jumping great. (Derby so XC and SJ were together) The first XC jump you had to gallop out of the arena thru the dressage ring and into a 'forest'. Went thru and did the outside jumps before coming back in the ring and coming to a hanging log. Last minute she ducked out. When I say last minute, I mean LAST minute. She refused and her front feet slid under the log before she backed out. I flew under and got kicked, stepped on and passed out for a few seconds. Thought I got right back up but was down and still for a while. Got lucky and walked away with a major concussion.

scarest fall:

Was riding my Appaloosa/Quarter Horse Gelding along a creek bareback. Asked him to go up a embankment that at the time didnt seem that steep. He stumbled i fell off flipping backwards into the rocky creek only to have him also flip over and land on top of me. Both walked away with scratches never doing that again.

Another one was when i was riding a horse for a guy. She was like a barrel with legs, so i put a english saddle on her and went out for a ride. She spooked on the gravel road and bolted (being round) my saddle slid under her dragging me with it. My boot got stuck in the sturrip and ended up getting drug down the road a few yards before i got out of the sturrip. Luckily she stopped and nothing was seriously damaged, walked her home and took a few weeks off riding to heal. Sadly her owners moved and i havent seen her since.

Oof, here I am to share some funny/scary things about my falls.

Funniest:

I was riding a shetland, and we didn't have a small enough saddle so she wore this huuuge western saddle that covered almost her entire back (I was much smaller at the time, and we made sure she was well padded, so it didn't bother her) and I was on a trail ride with my mom and her friend. We were on the trail and it was rather mucky, including several spots where the horses had to walk through water. And at this one place, there was a small pond thing that was about a foot deep. She put her head down to drink, stepping down into the puddle. And the whole saddle followed her head down. I went down and in along with my saddle. She just stepped out of it and left it in the mud as if nothing ever happened, my mom laughing at me the whole time while the pony just stepped out of the way. I'm soaked through, dragging this huge saddle out of the water and pouring bucketfuls of water out of my boots and trying to catch the pony all at the same time. All the while my mom and her friend are just laughing at me the whole time lol

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Scariest:

A little insight first. My current horse has terrible eyesight and has a bolting problem, he's also clumsy and 16hh. So we were walking along the side of the road where ditches are really steep, enough that if my horse stood in it, his chest would be at ground level. We were coming to a straight stretch and he decided it was a great place to try and gallop. I managed to hold him back and he started side prancing across the road. I brought him back to the side and he tried bolting for real, but jumped sideways and landed in the ditch. Oof. We both go down into the ditch, luckily he's not on top of me though. I start getting ready to jump off as he tries climbing back out. Then he falls over again, tripping up as he tries climbing out. Topples over onto his side, almost crushing my leg had I not already been prepared from the first time. I'm jumping off as he crawls out finally. Luckily he didn't get hurt and all I got was some gravel in the palm of my hand from the fall.

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Some more funnies:

-Had a pony stop, lay down and start rolling right smack in the middle of a ride.

-Had a pony buck the salle clean off one time, like completely, managed to slip their legs out from the girth.

-Bareback jumping my shetland when she decides to run underneath another horse. She didn't fit, and neither did I.

-Barrel racing show involving my shetty again. Involved full on rearing, bucking, bolting, causing a huge chain reaction of panic with other horses and breaking another horses halter and also jumping up onto a friend a smacking her chest with hooves a couple times. Gotta love ponies.

Funniest:

I was around 11, and I was in a small(er) arena. I was riding a younger horse, so more energetic, and it was that fun time of the year, when Fall weather had just kicked in, and all the horses were... very hard to handle. My horse swerved right whenever I got out of my tack to go over a 2 foot jump, and sent me right OVER the jump. I thought I broke a rib XD

I actually just broke my wrist, but I had many bruises of my chest, and I had to rest the whole day lol Wasn't too fun, but I had a good laugh after I was better.

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Scariest:

This one was more recent- I was on a really moody teen, she was a biggish pony, and had a really long forelock; I have no clue why I didnt bother to move it from her eyes, but I didn't.

We were catering some 3 foots, getting ready to do a course, when she bucked right before a jumped, and slid the saddle onto her NECK! Somehow her girth had slipped in front of her front legs? I think the problem was that I let my little sis, who was around 9 at the time, tighten my girth, and I forgot to check it. I somehow stayed on over the jump, but she reared and I flew right into that jump. Luckily, I only hit my helmet on the pole, not my head, and I got out with only a sprained ankle and a head ache.

Later we realized she has a bunch of tiny forelock hairs tuck in her eye, and we think she got really agitated. I haven't riden her since then :/

This isn't funny but it's my first and only fall.

I was riding my pony bareback before I knew she had back issues. I decided hey I can trot but what about a canter. So I ask her to pick up the canter and she does. As we're cantering I'm thinking hmm why does it feel like shes bucking. I shrugged it off. Two seconds later she slides to a complete stop throws on last buck and off I go. My dad was working but he didn't notice luckly nothing hurt but it was scary.

Not funny, but really sweet.

My horse took a long spot over the jump. Started falling off over his neck, and he put his head up to try and get me back in the saddle. I still fell, but it was just so sweet.

Aww, some horses are really sweet. I suck at finding the distance but the horse I ride is really patient and will catch me. Some horses will just be like bye sucker, and be halfway to the the moon before you've sat up xD

Scariest: I was riding the tank that is my sister's QH, she is super sweet but she has some go. I was like 7 or 8. We were riding on the path that goes around our neighbors field and they had just chopped the corn that was planted, so their was little stubs of the corn stalks still in the ground. Well we decided to do a slow canter because we had a straight stretch in the path, we picked up a canter and my horse decided to be a race horse and took off at a fast gallop, I had ran a horse before so it wasn't a problem... Until she decided to be a bronc, she started bucking straight from the gallop and I got thrown. I landed on one of those stubs of corn, thankfully I didn't land with it on my spine or else it would have been awful..

Funniest:

#1: I was cantering a QH I used to have and she spooked. She ran straight to her pens gate an got like 8 feet away from the gate still running. She slid to a stop and I wasn't expecting it to happen so I went over her head and went straight into the gate.

#2. I was riding a rescue gelding I have and we were riding trough a field. This horse straight up laid down and started rolling XD

#3. I was jumping my rescue gelding and we had a one stride double jump. So we went towards it, but somehow I lost my stirrup in the stride right before the first jump, we were to close and my horse jumped anyway, then on the landing I lost my other stirrup and he still went over the second jump, but I was fine, it wasn't pretty but I stayed on. Until he got confused with my flopping around to stay on and he did a sharp turn the opposite way we were supposed to and I wasn't prepared, but again I stayed on until he tripped in the turn. I went over his head and was going to land head first, but I tucked my head and dive rolled out of it.

(In all these things the horse and rider were fine!)