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Where Horse Lovers Unite<3! Aug 17, 2012 16:47:38 GMT -5

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Post by mcmarti99 on Aug 17, 2012 16:47:38 GMT -5

Hello!

From previously chatting on the Cbox, I have aqquired that a lot of people on this site have/ride/love horses. I am glad to say that I am one of them! I though that this could be a thread where we can share pictures and just chat about horses. So, I'll start!

I started riding when I was 6, but all I wanted to do is be with the horse, I had no interest whatsoever in learning how to ride, so my mom pulled me out. I was too young to notice that we kept skipping over lessons, but I always wondered when my next one was. I gave up on the idea that I had lessons.

Many years later.. when my mother's friend's daughter had a birthday party at the barn I took lessons at. The minute I stepped into that barn I knew I wanted to take lessons again. My mom kept putting it off in fear that I would repeat the same thing as I did when I was younger.

Then, my lesson teacher called me and asked if I wanted to come to her horse camp. I was so excited! I loved it! It was great. That was in late June. It took until October to convince my mom to let me start back up again, and it was all worth it! By then, the horse I rode before was gone, but there were new horses that I loved. They are the horses that are at the barn today! I have now been riding for a few years and I can ride English, Western, and I just recently started jumping, which I will talk about later. I can do all the gates, including walk, trot, canter, gallop and one of the horses is a Tennessee walker, so he raques>or how ever you spell it. I call my instructor(who has now become more of a riding buddy) Sissy btw.

This is Sundance. He is a Tennessee Walker. He is a six-year old Gelding. He is playful and very pretty. Sissy birthed him and has raised him ever since. He likes to nudge and rub on you and he is very fun to lunge and ride. I usually only ride him on bareback or lunge him because Sissy wants his raque to really set in good before he learns to trot. And since he is very young and playful, it takes a rider with years of experience with horses like him to canter him. He rears sometimes as well because he gets too excited and he will buck like crazy if there is a horse fly! I love Sundance because he really acts like the little baby, even though he is the biggest horse in the barn.

Playing in the snow<3

This is Rocky. He is a gelding, I am not sure how old he is, but I know he is older than Sundance. He is the alpha in the herd, even though he is the smallest horse in the barn. I usually ride him on trails, in the barn, everywhere really because you can do everything on him. We are just recently teaching him how to jump. Sometimes on the trails he jumps over ditches and logs in the road, so my hope is that we can make him a cross country horse. He is very stubborn and loves to test you. He is a gorgeous horse with a big attitude. When you tighten the saddle he throws his head and sometimes nips. His previous owners abused him and he has a nick in his ear from getting it stuck in a barbed wire fence. He is definitely the horse I spend most of my time with. I like him because he is a challenge and my best friend. I learned to trot, canter, and gallop on him. Also just a few days ago we lunged him over jumps (little ones) and when I got on him he did jump, but he did hops and reared once or twice. When he really doesn't want to do something he tries his hardest to get out of it, but that's why I love Rocky! He is probably my favorite horse.

This is Topsy. She is a great mare! Again, I don't know how old she is, but she is getting pretty old. You can do ANYTHING to her. I swear! This one time I was riding her in a storm and I got sawdust in my eye and couldn't see, and she just rode it out. She never spooks and you can like cling to her and she will let you. She is a great and calm horse and I rode her first. I love Topsy too, and she is the favorite of all the little kids and she is a fantastic horse. You can trot her and canter her, but not for very long when we are on her anyway. She is close to retiring from lessons and just be a barn horse. She loves anyone who takes the time to pet her. It's funny though, after everyone's lessons we give them treats. So Topsy, knowing she should get a treat, she will kick the stall door until she gets one. LOL it is loud, but that is the only thing that is bad that she does<3

Here are some more pics:

^^ Rock and Sundance running in the field.

^^Sundance with the barn in the background<3

Thank you for checking this out, and I can't wait to see other peoples horses and horse stories!<3

~And May The Odds Be EVER In Your Favor~

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Last Edit: Aug 17, 2012 16:48:05 GMT -5 by mcmarti99

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Where Horse Lovers Unite<3! Aug 17, 2012 17:05:23 GMT -5

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Post by meg. on Aug 17, 2012 17:05:23 GMT -5

Yay this thread! I could quite honestly talk about horses for hours- and I do. I've always wanted to ride a tennessee walker, their gaits look awesome!

Um, I started riding when I was 9 and living in New Zealand. I did lessons, but got really close to my riding instructor and started to spend a lot of time at her big farm, which was a couple hours north of where we lived at the time. She'd bring all of her riding school horses up there in the holidays and basically we'd just spend a lot of time hooning around the farm. I got my first horse through her, a little Palomino mare that was with her because she was a naughty little turd. I rode her at a show jumping comp and basically fell in love, and so was offered her to lease. Honey and I took to the hunter circuit like a duck to water, and we had done a couple national level competitions before dad told me that we were moving to Australia.

When I moved to Australia, I started leasing my Ava, who I still have now, three years on. When I first got her, things weren't easy- she was a green broken five year old who happened to like to buck. A lot. I had a lesson in which she bucked me off 7 times over the same jump. But we got it together, and started to be competitive. I now event her prelim and show jump her to about 110cms, training at 140cms. She's got to the stage that I can just do anything with her, hop on when she's in the paddock and jump her over the logs and stuff, ride her out with just a piece of string around her neck, and ride her into town to get McDonalds, as we proved this summer. She's great, my little wonderchild.

First comp of last season, graded down.

I've also had my two ratbags, Tabasco and Tarragon, half brother welshies that my instructor owned and I've worked on and ridden for Games. Tarragon I had two years ago and was the laziest little thing, and Tabasco was this year's and the complete opposite, a speedy little pony with a real trot in him. Tarragon's now been sold to a great home, and Tabasco is on the market.

Tabasco at his first show <3
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Last Edit: Aug 17, 2012 18:45:16 GMT -5 by meg.

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Where Horse Lovers Unite<3! Aug 17, 2012 17:43:35 GMT -5

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Post by Kire on Aug 17, 2012 17:43:35 GMT -5

I'm not one of those people who can say "oh I've been riding for a long time" and then slap down some huge number like eight, or nine, or ten years, or even longer. However, I am a decently accomplished rider, and have gone through most of the Pony Club levels.

Anyway, when I was younger I would take any opportunity to ride a horse that I could. But it wasn't until about seven years ago that I rode a horse by myself. I had gone on a cruise around South America with my parents, and at one point we stopped at a port in Monte Video. There, we went to a ranch and there was an opportunity to ride horses. It was not a led ride, so I actually "steered" the horse by myself. Truthfully, I just sat on it's back as it calmly walked around the large field of it's own accord.

After that I eventually convinced my parents to let me have riding lessons. So, we went to Unicorn Stables and I had my introductory lesson. After that, I began to have regular lessons. My starting horse was named Jerome, he's about twenty-seven, and a 16.1hh dark bay/brown, thoroughbred gelding. I rode him for a year, beginning to lease him after a few months of lessons.

Jerome was a race horse, not really all that impressive. What is impressive, however, was that he raced for nine years. He placed in most of his races, and only retired when he got too old for the sport. I'm not sure what happened with him before he came to Unicorn, but whatever it was made him the most sluggish and lazy horse around. He's brilliant, though, and had saved me on a couple occasions from making messy ~~and possibly fall-inducing~~ jumps.

The horse I moved onto the year after I started was named Oscar. I still ride Oscar, two years later, though I will be switching to another horse soon.

This is Oscar, a 16.2hh, eighteen year old (or there about) bay, thoroughbred gelding. He's my buddy and I've been leasing and riding him for two years. I'm about to move onto another horse, as he is getting old and I'm rising in skill level above what he can do.

When Oscar was younger, much younger, he was a trackie. He raced for the usual time (about a year or two), and then he was later trained to hopefully go into the Olympics. He would have made it, too, except that during training his front left knee blew out and as a result, his owner sold him as a trail horse. After being rehabilitated, he became a school horse and a great one at that. He has no cartilage in that knee, but he still manages to comfortably jump jumps up to about 2'9". Any higher than that is hard on him, which is why I have to switch.

I have moved onto a pony names Tia, who is about 14hh and very sweet. Her stride is surprisingly large and quite smooth, making her a pleasure to ride. She's 12, but pretty green after coming from Salt Spring Island. I really enjoy riding her, and will probably stay with her for a while.

Now, for a bit more information about me: ~~so self-centered~~
I can walk/trot/canter, and I've jumped as big as 3'3". I've completed Pony Club levels D through C1, but have decided not to continue with it.

Also; this is a video filmed at my barn