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I am still hoping to earn enough to afford a horse! or pony (pony would do nicely!)
I used to work with the race horses but gave it up this year mainly because I couldn't live on £3.10 per hour :/
That said I miss them greatly, never am I riding a racehorse again though! nutters that they are.
I ended up doing stud work, have done everything their from foaling mares, to shovelling ste! (don't we all)
So i'm still wishing and hoping that I can have a pony soon! being 5ft 1 a pony should be enough a nice welsh cob would be lovely!
I have been offered 2 stables and a field for free only drawback is its 25/30mins drive away so it wouldn't be easy to get their every morning before work =[
was thinking about loaning one in the summer any tips guys ?
Hannah xxx
I used to work with the race horses but gave it up this year mainly because I couldn't live on £3.10 per hour :/
That said I miss them greatly, never am I riding a racehorse again though! nutters that they are.
I ended up doing stud work, have done everything their from foaling mares, to shovelling ste! (don't we all)
So i'm still wishing and hoping that I can have a pony soon! being 5ft 1 a pony should be enough a nice welsh cob would be lovely!
I have been offered 2 stables and a field for free only drawback is its 25/30mins drive away so it wouldn't be easy to get their every morning before work =[
was thinking about loaning one in the summer any tips guys ?
Hannah xxx
Got an updated piccie of Archie now he's all grown up backed & being ridden!
Freddie328 said:
For my sins I've had horses all my life, do a lot of showing, mainly in hand now rather than ridden with my homebred babies!!
This is Winnie - 13 year old homebred Anglo Arab
Cody - 18 year old Part Bred Arab/Small Hack, now a broodmare
The next 3 are all Cody's babies.
Mildred - 6 year old small hack, I sold her as a 3 year old and she has been very successful including being 2nd at Horse of the Year Show last year.
Archie - 3 year old riding horse
And finally Mabel - yearling hack
This is Winnie - 13 year old homebred Anglo Arab
Cody - 18 year old Part Bred Arab/Small Hack, now a broodmare
The next 3 are all Cody's babies.
Mildred - 6 year old small hack, I sold her as a 3 year old and she has been very successful including being 2nd at Horse of the Year Show last year.
Archie - 3 year old riding horse
And finally Mabel - yearling hack
we have 4 at home:
gigs - 17.2 chaser - won a few times over fences - big engine - big fun over the hills and jumps for fun - got bucked off him in november - thought i was going to need to phone air traffic control
ted - won over hurdles - raced 38 times i think - 18 years young and know his own mind
looney - raced a few times - good turn of foot - spooky....
cobweb - does it all - and much tougher and brighter than the namby pamby thoroughbreds
just getting the horses back out hacking - get all 4 of them lined up at the bottom of a decent hill with gallop potential - and it's as much fun as a 500bhp/ton car or a bike on a trackday - bit more dangerous - also all make excellent pub transport
gigs - 17.2 chaser - won a few times over fences - big engine - big fun over the hills and jumps for fun - got bucked off him in november - thought i was going to need to phone air traffic control
ted - won over hurdles - raced 38 times i think - 18 years young and know his own mind
looney - raced a few times - good turn of foot - spooky....
cobweb - does it all - and much tougher and brighter than the namby pamby thoroughbreds
just getting the horses back out hacking - get all 4 of them lined up at the bottom of a decent hill with gallop potential - and it's as much fun as a 500bhp/ton car or a bike on a trackday - bit more dangerous - also all make excellent pub transport
rossb said:
we have 4 at home:
cobweb - does it all - and much tougher and brighter than the namby pamby thoroughbreds
just getting the horses back out hacking - get all 4 of them lined up at the bottom of a decent hill with gallop potential - and it's as much fun as a 500bhp/ton car or a bike on a trackday - bit more dangerous - also all make excellent pub transport
Why does Cobweb have a hood on?cobweb - does it all - and much tougher and brighter than the namby pamby thoroughbreds
just getting the horses back out hacking - get all 4 of them lined up at the bottom of a decent hill with gallop potential - and it's as much fun as a 500bhp/ton car or a bike on a trackday - bit more dangerous - also all make excellent pub transport
Nanctol Fantasy
My mother is/was (retired now, just judges) a fairly well known owner/producer, from ponies through to hacks, cobs, riding horses and hunters. Her cob, Kempley, was one of, if not the most successful at HOYS. IIRC he won it 6 years on the bounce and her hunter Dual Gold, won it about 5 times I'm harking back to the 80's/early 90s for those though.
Rode show ponies until I was 16 when I foundwomen girls and beer
My mother is/was (retired now, just judges) a fairly well known owner/producer, from ponies through to hacks, cobs, riding horses and hunters. Her cob, Kempley, was one of, if not the most successful at HOYS. IIRC he won it 6 years on the bounce and her hunter Dual Gold, won it about 5 times I'm harking back to the 80's/early 90s for those though.
Rode show ponies until I was 16 when I found
i once went out on a hack in Devon.....me and the Mrs and a load of pony club horrors (sorry, girls)
I got given a dainty arab called Coronel...prob only about 15 hands and slim...looked a bit silly under me.....turned out it was an ex race horse....one of the single most amazing experiences of my life in terms of raw power, just amazing
What i really want is an 18+ black stallion - but I imagine it wouldnt be as fun as id hope, and probably terminal!
I got given a dainty arab called Coronel...prob only about 15 hands and slim...looked a bit silly under me.....turned out it was an ex race horse....one of the single most amazing experiences of my life in terms of raw power, just amazing
What i really want is an 18+ black stallion - but I imagine it wouldnt be as fun as id hope, and probably terminal!
daphne said:
Hi all,
This is Sower Hill Cream Sherry, one of the ponies which I bred, out of a lovely old dun Connemara cross mare.
My partner has a couple of Shire mares and also a coloured cob which we drive in the summer.
Any more pictures of the Shires? I would love one of those, there is a chap just near where we keep our horses that breeds them.
rossb said:
we have 4 at home:
gigs - 17.2 chaser - won a few times over fences - big engine - big fun over the hills and jumps for fun - got bucked off him in november - thought i was going to need to phone air traffic control
ted - won over hurdles - raced 38 times i think - 18 years young and know his own mind
looney - raced a few times - good turn of foot - spooky....
cobweb - does it all - and much tougher and brighter than the namby pamby thoroughbreds
just getting the horses back out hacking - get all 4 of them lined up at the bottom of a decent hill with gallop potential - and it's as much fun as a 500bhp/ton car or a bike on a trackday - bit more dangerous - also all make excellent pub transport
They all look really nice horses gigs - 17.2 chaser - won a few times over fences - big engine - big fun over the hills and jumps for fun - got bucked off him in november - thought i was going to need to phone air traffic control
ted - won over hurdles - raced 38 times i think - 18 years young and know his own mind
looney - raced a few times - good turn of foot - spooky....
cobweb - does it all - and much tougher and brighter than the namby pamby thoroughbreds
just getting the horses back out hacking - get all 4 of them lined up at the bottom of a decent hill with gallop potential - and it's as much fun as a 500bhp/ton car or a bike on a trackday - bit more dangerous - also all make excellent pub transport
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