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First thing that comes to mind wasn't so much the ponys fault, we had a little welsh mare (if memory serves she was about 12 hands high if that but it's been years and she wasn't mine) out at the barn named Bonnie and at one point while us kids were racing through the trails on the property there was a downed tree easily a good 3 ft diameter and about a foot and half off the ground. All the other horses of course cleared it. Bonnie bless her little heart refused to try to go around it with her rider but instead attempted to clear it. If you've never seen a high centered pony it is absolutely hilarious and not recommended. I've never seen it happen again in all my years riding but I'll also never forget it. XD She wasn't harmed and we did get her off the log eventually with some team effort.

Another was one of the trail horses we used at a summer job I had during highschool We believe he was a qh/appy cross. Initially when he came into our possession out of an auction he was just called the unoriginal name of Blue since he was a blue roan. Shortly after arriving at Trail Town (which was set up to mimic the old west including the pastures) we started coming out in the morning to find Blue wandering as he pleased and his gate wide open. This went on for weeks no matter how we tried to keep the gate closed. It was the damndest thing. He was quickly renamed Houdini. He ended up getting sold to a girl who did jr rodeo and last I heard that kept him busy enough to help reduce his urges to escape for nocturnal wanderings. :)

My gelding is an escape artist. He's gotten so bold that he'll start unlatching every gate within reach while we are watching him. If we aren't careful, he'll let the whole barn loose!

We used to have a haflinger that knew how to unlatch gates too, so we put on an extra carabiner clip to keep him in. Us kids kept getting in trouble for not latching the gate all the way so Jasper got out until he got out three times in a night. He had learned how to unlatch the carabiner.

And my senior recently got in a tangle with a bobcat... somehow even with his arthritis he escaped with only minor injuries. @-)

Omg my boy likes to cut himself.

I found him in May and the previous owner kept him a few weeks so that he could be gelded as they had an area to separate him and at my barn he’d be turned out with 2 mares and a gelding until he was old enough (big enough) to go out with the main herd.

I think I picked him up 7-10 days after being gelded. On the14th day I was at the barn and they turned his little herd out in the area beside the barn where everyone parks their cars and trailers but there’s a little bit of grass everyone was calm and quiet eating so I left to go home. It was 13 min door to door. I got the call as I pulled in that the vet had been called and I better come back. Apparently the gelding had stopped eating and looked in Riley’s direction and he had spooked and attempted to jump the gangway fence to the outdoor ring and got impaled on it. He needed stitches about 2 inches from his gelding incision.

As a 2 year old we had to have the vet out in Halloween for mysteriously swollen legs. The vet diagnosed him as having a lack of blood caused by parasites from the donkey that had been added to their field. We had been treating that herd for parasites and had finally gotten a clean check the month before but he must have been holding out

We went to a club show and to celebrate Canada day the theme was red and white. Loved pulling my black and white paint out of the trailer with blood dripping down his face and legs. Pretty sure the pony had kicked him in the legs under the divider and he bashed his head off the roof. Took most of the day for the bleeding to stop.

He didn’t really like trailers for a while after that so he ended up hitting his head quite a bit because he’d over think it and flip his head up as he was backing off. His forelock now grows crooked because he’s taken the same chunk out a few times.

I spent March break a few years ago treating him after he somehow cut his eyelid open in the field.

He’s finally started to mature and hasn’t injured himself in a while until last October I got a call to come to the barn and he had come in with a 2 inch cut on his leg that you could stick a finger all the way up under the skin.

My horses like to go to the saloon. We keep them at the set where we do photo shoots and film work. In the middle of their field is an “old west” town. Complete with general store, hotel, freight company, and a saloon. The swinging saloon doors are the easiest for them to come and go from so they climb on the boardwalk, walk across it to the saloon and head inside. Always interesting to see a bunch of horses bellied up to the bar. But we do get calls to ride horses into the bar shooting so I guess it helps with training! Lol

I had one running around the paddock, trip, fall on his side and slide under the fence...then get up completely unscathed like wow I learned a new trick!

My mare Gracie could probably win world's most clumsy horse trophy. This past year she managed to get Tangled in a fence and deglove her hind leg from the hock down. We get it looking decent, she Tangled up in a vine and busts it back open. Get it completely healed, she somehow gets cut, in the same exact place again.

@makeMeABird he needs the extra propulsion to get up that hill. :-))