I thought Chumpy was going to be fine, I had been riding him regularly (5-6 times a week)
I put my draw reins on him just in case.
I started riding and he was very highly strung... which was acceptable as he hadn't been ridden outside for a few weeks due to the weather.
He was a pretty good boy other then the fact that he kept getting scared from an invisible monster behind the horse trailers at the side of the arena.
I got trotting, obviously he was running around like a maniac as usual. It was okay because he never acutaly does anything bad he just runs around :D
Then it happened...
He jumped because of the monster and I as a reflex pulled the reins, and the draw reins kind of got stuck in the bit so his mouth was being pulled all the time. He reared once in which I fell forward, then after a few more buck/rears I smashed into his neck twice. The first one was okay, the second one consisted of me smacking my face into his neck, I blacked out for a second, and as soon as I came back from the grey zone I felt something coming out of my nose...
I quickly got off (Chumpy just stood there like a good boy) and checked, and yes it was blood. My mouth and nose were bleeding and I was dizzy.
Lovely...
My friend ran over took Chumpy as I went inside to get myself into presentable form.
In the end I got back on with my trainers help and did like 3 rounds of walking (in the indoor of course) 2 trot and like half an arena of canter just so neither me or the horse would be shaken from the 'incident'
I'll add a picture of my face... well... it wasn't pretty.
I went to the doctor who told me that I didn't have a concussion, thank goodness.
I am now known as 'the girl who smashed her face'
YAY for me (Y) :D
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