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Post by kunuma on Sept 22, 2011 16:07:53 GMT 1
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Post by sarah on Sept 22, 2011 19:32:25 GMT 1
Great photos - glad you enjoyed it. Looks like a lovely, if rather windy, place to ride.
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Post by foxglove on Sept 23, 2011 13:00:05 GMT 1
Is there a riding yard in the land that doesn't have at least one piebald cob?! It must be part of the BHS approval procedure!
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Post by garej on Sept 23, 2011 19:26:46 GMT 1
Is there a riding yard in the land that doesn't have at least one piebald cob?! It must be part of the BHS approval procedure! When I used to ride, they didnt have any piebald cobs there (or piebald ponies/horses). The nearest was a brown cob and a skewbald miniature Shetland.
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Post by cally on Sept 24, 2011 3:06:25 GMT 1
Happy B'day Claire- got the 'flu so a bit slow. When I had riding lessons again it felt SO different. Mind you, the last riding I had done was generally bareback, cantering about mustering sheep and cattle and so getting on a 16hh with a saddle= agony! I have flexible hips from gymnastics then yoga but I hurt for a week. I gave up the lessons when they kept going on about more and more contact: I could feel the horses' mouth... just 'cos his chin wasn't touching his chest...I ended up with blisters on my hands and the horse had to have a week off due to a NECK INJURY!!! Next ride was a few years later with a standardbred retrainer 2 and half hours from home who I told "can't go for too long as I have to get kids from school". We rode for 3 HOURS in 30c heat and in a stock saddle so when I slid off the horse gently, I forgot the thigh horn thing and caught my ribs on it then plopped to the ground. Had to get cranky husband to pick up offspring and zoom back to Canberra. Had the BIGGEST and most colourful bruise ever at bottom of rib cage and so put salts into warm bath, got in, screamed and jumped out: heat and friction had caused abrasions in my nether regions that ulcerated and weeped for 2 weeks.
So yes- in my case it was very much like getting back on a bike which is why I now drive my poor smashed up car (Phil had a kangaroo jump out straight in front of him in the dark last week and buckled the bonnet and one side of the front panel) and my husband has taken over my bike.
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Post by Claire on Sept 24, 2011 10:43:54 GMT 1
Poor you Callie, you do seem to get in the wars! I thought I had flexible hips too as I do a lot of stretches for my muscle probs but I was still walking around like John Wayne for the next few days!
Re. the cobs, I think coloured horses are much more popular now then when I was a kiddiwink. Then it was mainly Shetlands and little ponies, like in the stables garej went to. I think these riding places tend to have cobs as their larger horses as they can do double duty carrying heavy people as well as tall ones. Unfortunately your legs are a bit stretched! I have actually very long legs - but Wally tho not very tall a horse certainly took up a lot of leg!
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Post by trixiepony on Sept 25, 2011 11:50:45 GMT 1
Te He I'm green Claire he looks like the sort off hairy cob Id love to ride as well.
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Post by Claire on Sept 25, 2011 12:46:32 GMT 1
Yes I love hairy cobs too trixiepony, maybe due to hanging around with gypsies and their horses a lot when I was a kid!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 14:27:39 GMT 1
Funny you should say that Claire, the first ponies I had contact with belonged to a gypsy and they were piebald cobs. He used to tether them in a field near my house. I must say he did look after them well but he must have got fed up of me mooning around the field all the time! In the end he gave me a dandy brush so I could groom them but he wouldn't let me brush their mane and tales.
When I did my Horsemasters at a BHS yard in the 70s I remember they had two coloured cobs, a piebald and a skewbald.
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Post by Claire on Sept 26, 2011 20:46:01 GMT 1
Ooh i didnt know you had your Horsemasters rosie - did you used to teach?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2011 6:55:40 GMT 1
I never did the teaching part because I wasn't really confident enough at the time, I only wanted to be a groom I just had to get Don Stanfords the Horsemasters, it really reminded me of my time at the training yard. Happy days
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