Photo Challenge: 4 Horses Facing Their Fears

…with varying degrees of success.

This week, we wanted to see our readers’ photos of their horses facing their worst fears — and as always, our nimble-fingered smartphone-bearing readers kindly obliged. Here are four horses staring down the thing they fear the most.

First world horse problems, she wants the feed, but she has to walk through the water to get it ??

A post shared by Bree and Rosie (@bree_and_rosie) on Jun 15, 2017 at 4:23am PDT

Good way to try and kill me? Move that box anywhere that my horse doesn't think it should be and much spooking and spinning will commence… ???☠️ #smalldragon #wuss #pocketsize #dutch #showjumper #horsenation #equestrian #kmf

A post shared by Maddie Davis (@m.a.davis90) on Jun 10, 2017 at 2:17pm PDT

Karen Callis: The terrifying log. Photo by Natalie Hyatt

My mare Cheyenne’s biggest fear is when the hay shed is empty! Photo by Hailey Longstreth.

Keep an eye out for next week’s 24-hour photo challenge! We announce challenge subjects on Monday afternoon on both Instagram and Facebook.

Go riding!