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| Goldenmane |
Posted - 11 Jun 2016 : 8:07:20 PM
My mum is still waiting for me to give up horses (I am now 62 and might have mentioned this before...I forget!!) Is there something in us, the real horsey people, who just cannot imagine life without a horse? |
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| Sharea |
Posted - 23 Aug 2016 : 7:01:03 PM
It's a really good topic! I'm the only horsey one in my family and they're all waiting for me to be sensible. I lifelong addiction I believe.  |
| Goldenmane |
Posted - 24 Jun 2016 : 12:18:54 PM
I was wandering around the field this morning pulling ragwort, listening to the radio,it was 5am! My 2 horses followed me and that makes it perfect (dogs still asleep on bed). My mum is 83, I'm an independant person with my own house and she still doesn't understand when I have to sort out fencing!
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| barbara.gregory |
Posted - 24 Jun 2016 : 09:37:18 AM
Ha, ha, not quite there yet T42!!! My mum wouldn't even have been 100 yet. Some days I do feel as if I am when I am very stiff and sore but having to get out and do the horses loosens things up a bit. |
| T42 |
Posted - 23 Jun 2016 : 10:52:08 PM
Barbara - deal! Should have added my mother is only 100, so plenty of time to change |
| garnet |
Posted - 23 Jun 2016 : 6:25:55 PM
Is the right answer! |
| FireLight |
Posted - 23 Jun 2016 : 10:11:59 AM
My mother-in-law asked my hubby when I was going to sell my horses (only had horses for 45 years) and settle down!! Hubby's reply 'more chance of selling me' |
| barbara.gregory |
Posted - 23 Jun 2016 : 09:03:20 AM
T42, that made me laugh. I have exactly the opposite problem. No one else in the family has the slightest interest in horses and they think I am mad. I got my first horse when my children were in their teens and I have been nagged to get rid of my "babies" ever since. You should have been my daughter and my kids should be your mum's and we would then all be blissfully happy enjoying what we have a passion for!!!
I have recently got a couple of Sphynx cats for the day when I do finally have to give up the horses and the nagging over them has started already, sigh! I didn't realise that once children were adult they decided for you what you should do; might appreciate it if I was senile (rather than just mad) but I guess if that happens they will not be so keen to interfere! |
| T42 |
Posted - 22 Jun 2016 : 10:45:36 PM
My mother is still hoping I'll grow out of it, I've only been riding for nearly 50 years! She still resents every minute I spend with them, which is quite trying. My boys have got me through some bad times. I couldn't be without them. Like Lulu, I'm sure lots of my bits would stop working if I didn't have a horse to ride and look after. |
| lulu |
Posted - 22 Jun 2016 : 10:49:35 AM
Can't imagine not being around horses OH never says anything but I'm sure he wonders when. Ridden since quite young my sister used to take me wherever she worked - stables near Rotten Row and then Wimbledon Village Stables - althoiugh they were known as Hilcote then if I stop bits of me will stop working. |
| sab2 |
Posted - 20 Jun 2016 : 7:02:38 PM
Not in donkey classes as he's a bit on the porky side at min, he may get to a short pleasure ride with my friends children, he did one last year with them and he loved it. We may get children to take him to a young handler class if we are allowed as not sure if others in class will be happy if donk goes in. They may not get the trot mind as he's a bit lazy if he can get away with it |
| garnet |
Posted - 20 Jun 2016 : 4:44:48 PM
Sab, I'd love to but don't think yard owner would approve! He's such a gorgeous Donk - is he going to any shows this summer? Well, I say summer... |
| sab2 |
Posted - 20 Jun 2016 : 12:05:55 PM
Garnet I can send you my Donkey down if you want to have a go, he loves feeling important and going to shows, nativity plays and pleasure rides, I am sure he would love carriage driving bless him |
| garnet |
Posted - 15 Jun 2016 : 7:55:25 PM
I love to see donkeys driving! It is certainly more complicated if things go wrong with the horse and carriage to deal with, which is why we have to have an able-bodied groom when competing, but the good points outweigh the bad! It's not for everybody though - we had a girl on the yard who was a lovely rider and would jump anything but no way would she get up on the carriage with me! I don't think it is that difficult for anyone who is used to horses - the hardest part is learning to hold the reins and whip correctly - and a common failing with people who have ridden is to lean forward and 'try to get on the horse's back'! |
| barbara.gregory |
Posted - 15 Jun 2016 : 2:42:25 PM
And I think it would be far more dangerous if anything went wrong.
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| FireLight |
Posted - 15 Jun 2016 : 2:22:17 PM
Love the pics Garnet. Driving always looks so elegant, love to watch it when we go to the Lincolnshire Show, one lady has a donkey and he loves showing off.
It looks far more difficult than riding! |
| barbara.gregory |
Posted - 15 Jun 2016 : 08:29:18 AM
Sounds more my size glo!!! I have never done ir; too late now but would have loved it. Prince Philip still drives, although O don't think competitively, now.
Garnet, your horses are lovely and I wish I had had the time and the money to do it when I was younger. I was just a "happy hacker"!
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| glo |
Posted - 15 Jun 2016 : 07:57:55 AM
Lovley photos, only driven a few times, I drove a 4 wheel, it's harder than it looks and it feels fast. Got a couple of Mini horses here at mo,very small, I think they would make a good driving team. |
| garnet |
Posted - 14 Jun 2016 : 10:43:49 PM
Thank you so much Goldenmane and Barbara - you are very kind! Jim the Cob we were told had been driven in Ireland and I was inspired to have a go when friends were breaking their daughter's outgrown Section A to drive. He was brilliant, bless him. Sam was bought as a 6yo ride and drive as I am no longer fit enough to start a youngster, but Red was my baby - we bought him as a 3yo and I broke him to ride and did showing and dressage. I decided to break him to drive after seeing a Hackney cross who looked very like him at Ashbourne show and that was when I made the bet that I would show him there the following year. By that time he had already qualified for the Osborne championships at Towerlands at his first driving show. He had already been longreined as a youngster and I just built on that, in spite of everyone telling me he wasn't suitable and it couldn't and shouldn't be done. Judges were always impressed and surprised to learn that he is 50% Arab so he did his bit to prove the versatility of the breed. |
| barbara.gregory |
Posted - 14 Jun 2016 : 10:21:46 PM
Awwwww Garnet, such lovely photos; feel proud to know you even if it is only on here. Did you train them to harness? |
| faymouse |
Posted - 14 Jun 2016 : 7:20:09 PM
At 68 I have two, one purebred and a Belgian warmblood, 21 and 27! Looking now for another happy hacker as I want to semi retire my oldest and my purebred throws himself inside out at the prospect of going out on his own!.
Sadly I too lost my 22 year old purebred to sudden severe colic a year ago last january.. he would go anywhere on his own and I miss him dreadfully.
I don't intend to give up till its forced upon me then I would rather have my boys pts at home rather than risk a pillar to post situation. |
| Goldenmane |
Posted - 14 Jun 2016 : 7:20:00 PM
WONDERFUL |
| garnet |
Posted - 14 Jun 2016 : 6:09:51 PM
Red at Ashbourne winning the bet I made a year earlier that I could break him to drive and have him at that show. They all said it couldn't be done... |
| garnet |
Posted - 14 Jun 2016 : 6:06:56 PM
Red at Towerlands after qualifying for a national championship at his very first driving show. |
| garnet |
Posted - 14 Jun 2016 : 6:04:23 PM
Sam's first Boxing Day parade - getting the hang of this now! |
| garnet |
Posted - 14 Jun 2016 : 6:01:42 PM
So far so good!
Sam the Man at Royal Three Counties last year - lap of honour to Queen 'We are the Champions' - what more could anyone ask? It meant such a lot to be back in that ring after all the years with Garnet at the National Arab Show - I was one happy bunny! |
