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The Scariest Moments

The First Time a Horse Tried to Buck Me Off

By M-JPublished 6 years ago 2 min read
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The scariest moments in our lives can be unexpected and come within a second. Personally, the scariest moment in my life was a couple of months ago when I was in a pen with a rescue horse named Porter. Porter is a ten-year-old Percheron and is one of the sweetest horses you could ever find. He was used as a school horse a couple of years ago, and my job was to get him trained to be ridden again. Now, I'm a pretty experienced rider, but I'd never ridden a horse that needed to be trained again. I spent weeks getting to know him and doing lots of ground work with him.

After about three weeks, we got to a point where I felt that he trusted me enough to get in the saddle. He was a little hesitant at first, but soon remembered his previous training. He rode well, and I made sure to be gentle on him to get him used to reining again. Then, within a second, it was like a switch had turned; Porter bucked three or four times, and somehow I managed to stay calm. I took one hand off of the saddle horn and pet him. I have no idea why I thought it would work, but it did. My touch calmed him enough that I got a chance to dismount. Once I was safely on the ground, Porter turned his head to look at me and I could see the regret in his eyes. I could feel in my heart that he felt bad about almost hurting me.

Then I heard a woman's voice yelling. I turned around and lead Porter over to the wooded fence that had the woman on the other side.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare him. Can I leave my duck here?" Her sentence confused me so much I thought that maybe I did fall off of him. But she repeated herself, and then explained that something had come to her house and eaten all of the ducks but one, so she wanted to leave her duck on the farm.

I told her that I only worked on the farm and that it wasn't mine, and she left without giving me a number, name, or anything I could give to my boss. I took Porter into the barn and took his tack off before letting him back out into the field with the other horses. I couldn't help but laugh at the situation; maybe it was nervous laughter, or maybe it was genuine. To this day I still don't know.

The moral of the story: if something eats all but one of your ducks, please don't go to a farm and yell at a girl on a horse about it.

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