11 signs you were a horsey child in the 90s

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Anybody other 90’s horsey children? I got 6 out of 11.

I loved Riding Star and had a poster of Mary King and Star Appeal on my bedroom wall. I never made it to Badminton in my childhood but recently found a vhs where i’d taped the 1999 event! Label written with my best school fountain pen 😂
 
Really? It can’t just be me! I didn’t have a real pony so maybe that’s why more are applicable 😂 I loved Riding Star, got bought Saddle Club books for Christmas and used to tape Badminton every year. I also remember the year Star Appeal won as I desperately wanted a bay horse of my own.

I also listened to 5ive but not on the way to pony club camp as I didn’t have the pony 🙁 I never wore Jodhpur clips either although I think I had a pair even though I mostly wore long boots.
 
I had Riding Star and later Equestriad 2000. And I listened to 5ive, but didn't have my own pony, then when I did, no transport, no PC, no camp. I did have Derby the Horse (both the original version and the later re-release), but none of the rest applies. It was all Jinny at Finmory, and the Far Distant Oxus series here - no Saddle Club in sight.
 
milliepops said:
Well we didn't have a computer or video recorder until I was much older so those were a non starter 😂
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I’d rather have had the pony 😂 actually I think the feature might be a bit misleading as I think I only got a computer after 2000
 
JFTD-WS said:
I had Riding Star and later Equestriad 2000. And I listened to 5ive, but didn't have my own pony, then when I did, no transport, no PC, no camp. I did have Derby the Horse (both the original version and the later re-release), but none of the rest applies. It was all Jinny at Finmory, and the Far Distant Oxus series here - no Saddle Club in sight.
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Yes! I loved Equestriad and the Jinny books.
 
I think it’s for the late 80s early 90s folk!

Loved Mary kings riding star. Can still remember the commentary going round lol

Equestriad 2000(?) was also my favourite. Something else came out too, Golden Horseshoe or something. I didn’t have my own horse until I was 14 so anytime was spent playing horse games or reading horsey books.

I remember feeling the bees knees when my parents finally decided that I was ‘keen’ at getting lessons. Got a lovely pair of Caldene jodhpurs, Stylo riding boots and a blue velvet champion hat. Most of the horses at riding school had rainbow coloured reins and ancient hard tack. When I finally got my own horse I remember buying a pair of Woof club boots (brushing boots) with light blue Velcro. Boy did I get a talking to from my instructor(now in her 70s) about how hideous they were and everything should be brown or black!
Haha.
 
I also didn't have my own pony

I had Mary Kings riding star, equestriad and also Mary Kate and Ashley winners circle and just about every horse game I could get my hands on. The riding star commentary used to make me lol as when the thing refused for about the 4th time the commentator still persisted that this was a "class horse"

Equestriad was great as apart from the Olympics one the xc tracks were exact replicas of the real life xc courses, I used to find the dressage dull though!

I only had a couple of saddle club books but did have half moon ranch and Sheltie books

My model horses used to go on every relative visiting trip I went on, I also used to write up riding school lists for them and run my "own" riding school!
 
So I'm 35 and the 90's were my pony era!

I remember it being a big toss up between stylo or caldene long boots. We all either had numerous pairs of Harry Hall jodhs or dublin tartan ones, and I remember feeling the bees knees the year I got a Musto coat!

We spent every single Saturday at the yard and every day during the holidays - there really was no better way to spend our time!

Colour coordinating everything to our two tone Polypad was everything. Summers smelt like canter coat shine and the luminous yellow fly gel that came in a big tub. Kochaline was our drug of choice when it came to tack cleaning and cornucrescine was my answer to every hair or horn growing ailment. My 8 year old self adored Carl Hester, Mary King and Ginny Elliot. Milton was the big superstar, and my wall was covered in Pony Magazine posters :) i read Jinny and Saddle Club till the books fell apart.
 
mossycup said:
So I'm 35 and the 90's were my pony era!

I remember it being a big toss up between stylo or caldene long boots. We all either had numerous pairs of Harry Hall jodhs or dublin tartan ones, and I remember feeling the bees knees the year I got a Musto coat!

We spent every single Saturday at the yard and every day during the holidays - there really was no better way to spend our time!

Colour coordinating everything to our two tone Polypad was everything. Summers smelt like canter coat shine and the luminous yellow fly gel that came in a big tub. Kochaline was our drug of choice when it came to tack cleaning and cornucrescine was my answer to every hair or horn growing ailment. My 8 year old self adored Carl Hester, Mary King and Ginny Elliot. Milton was the big superstar, and my wall was covered in Pony Magazine posters :) i read Jinny and Saddle Club till the books fell apart.
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I loved the saddle club books. I think I had them all. The other stuff on the list doesn't ring a bell with me though.
 
Well we didn't have a computer, but I used to play endlessly on riding star at my posh friend's house :D

Dandy brush polo necks? Yep, absolutely :oops:

I had both versions of Derby the horse (still do somewhere) - the original along with my original Labrador and original Fox were the pride and joy of my large beanie baby collection.

I didn't have a moody mare rugby shirt, but friends definitely did.

I didn't have a pony and go to pc camp though, and I'm pretty sure every generation has had a problem with jodhpur clips. I seem to remember that I considered myself too old to appreciate Five....Spice girls on the other hand....
 
Riding Star is the only one which applies to me, both that & Equestriad 2000 I loved! I remember the music now!! haha
Never owned a pair of jodhpurs boots - always long boots for me.
Never fussed with the Saddleclub but LOVED Heartland.
Does anyone else remember the gel chin straps (I had on my Charles & Owen) & those itchy bobbly magic gloves lol!
Most of my grooming kit had multicoloured straps & thought I'd made it when I had one of those cleaner style trays to put my kit in with a cover on with my name printed on it.
It was all about Horse & Pony & Pony magazines & I still have a plastic hoofpick that was free with one of them floating about now.
Loved my Polypad with the multicoloured edging :cool:
 
I'm a 90's kid and 9 out of 11 apply to me. Never had a dandybrush polo and never understood the beanie baby thing
 
I had no pony of my own but I had a stable full of Julips with all the stables and jumps and my bedroom was sectioned off into paddocks, Mary King's Riding Star and Equestriad and I remember riding hats with full rubber chin straps and velvet covers and doing Gymkhana games on Riding School ponies. I also used to create a showjumping course in the garden and 'canter' round it while smacking myself on the bum! I also loved beanie babies.
 
Oh my goodness, I forgot about the weekly copies of Pony Magazine!. I think before that it was My Beautiful Horses and that was when I was about 5. I had Julips too, used to make them rugs and things. We had a Border Collie at the time, I remember making 'jumsps' for her out of the garden furniture haha.
 
FinnBobs said:
I had no pony of my own but I had a stable full of Julips with all the stables and jumps and my bedroom was sectioned off into paddocks, Mary King's Riding Star and Equestriad and I remember riding hats with full rubber chin straps and velvet covers and doing Gymkhana games on Riding School ponies. I also used to create a showjumping course in the garden and 'canter' round it while smacking myself on the bum! I also loved beanie babies.
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Oh yes I would also showjump on foot round the course I'd built in the garden from flower pots and garden canes I'd go round and round it doing different rounds 😂
 
I loved Mary King Riding Star and Equstriad 2000, many happy memories stealing my brothers PS1 to play those!

TV programs - Chatter happy ponies, if wishes were horses (there was 4/5 VHS tapes for that one which I watched over and over!), home farm twins

Books -Sheltie the Shetland pony were my fave !

Had a fancy Breyer model once, ordered from the Robinsons magazine 🙈 it had a fancy bridle and saddle, think it was quite expensive!

Also remember a magazine where you used to get a little plastic horse model once a month? Think I’ve still got one of those mags around somewhere as my drawing got onto the back page once!

Also had 3 x hobby horses who I adored, there “stable” was the garage, used to ride them everywhere and make jumps in the garden.

Good times 😁
 
I'm pretty baffled by that list tbh, who on earth did they ask :p I had a few saddle club books but that's all from that as a 1983 baby.
 
I grew up always wanting a pony of my own so I would trawl through the robinsons catalog that would come with H&P magazine and highlight everything my pony would need, including a thorowgood saddle, a chill cheeta stable rug and a purple headcollar. - like the one the black pony had in Chatter happy ponies!

I would also go to my lessons glad in figment equestrian rugby shirts and stylo rubber boots! My room was covered in any poster from horse and pony.

When i did get my own pony he was clad in Westrop over reach boots, and cottage craft was the go to brand!
 
Never had a pony, but got lessons after years of begging at what I now know was a very dodgy riding school!

Ponies never turned out, all kept tacked and tied in long barns with no hay. The yard turned into an ice rink in winter, so we all crammed into the tiny tack room as it had a stove in it. My first helmet was inherited from my older cousin, and had a rubber ‘chin cup’!

So many hours spent on Riding Star and Mary Kate and Ashley Winners Enclosure.

I also saved up for a matching mini grooming kit to use on the riding school ponies and on my rocking horse. Bedroom was plastered in the posters from the centre of ‘Pony’ and ‘Your Horse’ magazine, and I got ‘My Beautiful Horses’ every week, and the models for every birthday and Christmas.

We could never have afforded a pony, but it didn’t stop me trawling the ‘under £500’ ads in the back of H&H and circling everything that included tack and rugs, appropriate or not, and waving them under Mum’s nose because they were ‘so cheap’!
 
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