Horses spooked by rider reving past them

[Jayy]

In my entire time riding? Seen it happen many times actually. Not always when riding either, seen it in cars too.

[gorillaonabik...]

Dick move by biker.

However, if a horse gets spooked by a car or motorbike on a road, then the owner shouldn't take the horse on the road.

All the filming horses I've encountered were perfectly fine around cars / bikes / lorries etc... In addition, the Met used to train horses in Hendon in the 70s and 80s (in my road) in heavy, London traffic and they were always fine.

Getting the animal under control means training it to a high enough standard that it can be taken on the road. Otherwise, don't take it on the road.
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[DieselASFC]

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[Lord Percy]

Me and my brother were walking down a country path on Saturday. Horse comes over the horizon at a good canter, straight towards us. Looked sort of Lord of The Rings-esque.

Horse slows down, rider shifts to the side through a gap in the hedge so they're on the small road that lines the path and waits for us. We we walk past.

Passing the horse, it gets spooked, does that 'horses raising its head and trampling its hooves' thing, owner laughs, says thanks, we walk on.

Scaredy horse. Not even a motorbike in sight.

Also... If we'd been the over-friendly curious types and approached to pet her horse, then it bucked and killed one of us, who would be to blame?

[andyscooter]

I blame the cyclists

I really do today as I was happily tootling along in the sunshine

saw a horse on other side of the road coming towards me down hill there is a bend so cant see whats coming down behind her so slowed and stopped cut engine (wasn't in a rush anyway )

about twenty foot in front of me woman is smiling at me

next thing a group of about ten cyclists come flying past her and scare the shit out of her and her horse doing about 40 miles per hour

she managed to control it but got off and I spoke to her for a bit until she had calmed down a bit
she thanked me and we both went separate ways

(sorry no phone number or pics or tits and gary)
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[Rogerborg]

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[Fiona84]

I got stuck behind two horses riding through the woods (on my mountain bike) they were ridden by a woman and a young girl. The woman saw me but made no attempt to alert the girl or move into single file. Ended up having to jump off and walk, especially because the girl's horse started crapping everywhere as it walked

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[Ste]

Horses... on bridleways?

Complaining about that is the type of rubbish I'd expect from ramblers, you know, the ones who also complain about bikes and 4x4s using byways.

Go mountain biking at a trail centre if you really are that bothered about horses.

[herulach]

We have horses come down our estate to get to their favoured trip way. fail to follow road directions, shit everywhere, and generally just a fucking nuisance. We've got those chicaney things on the main road through, never once had one actually give way at one.
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[Rogerborg]

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[gorillaonabik...]

[Ste]

You're an idiot.

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Different bikes can lead to people riding very differently.

So also a retest for any time you want to ride a different bike on the road .

[gorillaonabik...]

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