A picture from the past

[Pinkvboots]

My sister found some old pictures and sent me this one of me with Arabi at a show 13 years ago so he was 4, he won the Arab in hand class then we got supreme champion and they put our picture in the Essex rider.

So let's see your pictures from the past.

 

[ArklePig]

Me aged about 7 after winning a lead rein competition with the lovely Gwen. He belonged to a friend of a friend who didn't have a jockey. He once reared me off cause some eejit opened a huge gold umbrella in his face, but a good boy none the less. A bit depressing looking back at how fearless I was as a child and now being an adult basically learning from scratch.

 

[LadyGascoyne]

Oh wow, he is just gorgeous Pinkvboots!

This is me being a princess, with ancient and stubborn old Lightning. In the days where a small child riding bareback without a hat wasn’t all that unusual ? I survived, clearly but still!

 

[Pinkvboots]

Me aged about 7 after winning a lead rein competition with the lovely Gwen. He belonged to a friend of a friend who didn't have a jockey. He once reared me off cause some eejit opened a huge gold umbrella in his face, but a good boy none the less. A bit depressing looking back at how fearless I was as a child and now being an adult basically learning from scratch.

Lovely picture

 

[Pinkvboots]

Oh wow, he is just gorgeous Pinkvboots!

This is me being a princess, with ancient and stubborn old Lightning. In the days where a small child riding bareback without a hat wasn’t all that unusual ? I survived, clearly but still!

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You actually look like a princess with that lovely blonde hair

 

[shamrock2021]

Me at riding lessons when I was younger.

 

[Pippity]

My first riding lesson off the lead rein, riding Major at Bowfield Country Club near Paisley, in the early 1980s. I'm pretty sure I'm wearing a hat, even though it's lost in my bowl cut! It would have been a black velvet one, maybe with some elastic under the chin, that I picked myself from a wall of similarly battered ones.

 

[scats]

1993, and nine year old Scats takes a warmblood to the beach...

 

[cauda equina]

You were a brave wee soul Scats!
Lovely horse

 

[Baywonder]

1993, and nine year old Scats takes a warmblood to the beach...

Lovely photo @scats!

When I was about the same age, I went on holiday to Devon with my parents and I pleaded with them to book me on a beach ride at the local stables. The day arrived, and my parents waited in the car outside the stables for the ride to leave the yard. My poor (non-horsey) mum nearly had a heart attack when I emerged, grinning from ear to ear, on this HUGE grey horse! Dad wasn't fazed at all, and I had a whale of a time! I still remember it like it was yesterday!

 

[Meredith]

My first pony, purchased at weaning, as a 3 year old in 1969. Both my children rode him at Pony Club. 1/4 Arab, 3/4 Welsh, his Grandsire was Shifari. He was PTS in 1992.

 

[Chinchilla]

My sister found some old pictures and sent me this one of me with Arabi at a show 13 years ago so he was 4, he won the Arab in hand class then we got supreme champion and they put our picture in the Essex rider.

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Lovely pic. What an exquisite horse.

 

[oldie48]

No photos of me as a child but 6 year old daughter hacking on the Quantocks. Joey was the perfect first pony for her as she didn't do lead rein. Second pic is her doing a HT at Stockland Lovell, she had the biggest grin on her face when she came home clear if only we could have cloned him.

 

[criso]

Love Arabs.

Didn't have a pure one but this is my 14.2 jumping pony who was PBA. Sire was arab but the Dam was mainly Anglo Arab, a little quarter horse in there she was part of palomino breeding and needed to get a cream gene.

 

[mini_b]

My first pony, purchased at weaning, as a 3 year old in 1969. Both my children rode him at Pony Club. 1/4 Arab, 3/4 Welsh, his Grandsire was Shifari. He was PTS in 1992.

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what a kind looking face. I love him

 

[JoannaC]

First show with my Section B Silver Jubilee in the early 80's. It was in Kensington Gardens I seem to remember and think we were actually trying her at the show and then she came home with us. Maybe she is why I keep ending up with grey arabs

 

[iknowmyvalue]

Twould have been one of my first few riding lessons aged 3/4 (so circa 2000), pony was called Tuppence (her mum Sixpence is the grey in the corner). Funnily enough she was also the pony who I did my first ever XC round on at age 8/9!


Then this is my first pony, Aero, about 10yrs ago. I would have been about 13/14 here, and I think it was one of my first 90cm SJ rounds on him. I sold him shortly after this was taken. Right decision at the time, but he’s a pony I’d love to have had a second chance with, with an instructor I didn’t meet until a few years later. He was a stubborn and nappy little monkey, but actually very talented and would have made a cracking hunter!

 

[Pinkvboots]

1993, and nine year old Scats takes a warmblood to the beach...

You look tiny

 

[Meredith]

what a kind looking face. I love him

Thank you. He looks angelic there but did have a quirky sense of humour.

 

[JoannaC]

You've got me looking at old pics now, this was late 80's at Watford Horse Show which is sadly no longer a thing. Those were the days when my waist was a thin as my thigh lol Oh and pony was Connemara x Anglo Arab

 

[J&S]

34 years ago and probably more than 2 stone lighter! NF mare bought as an unbroken 4 yr old and kept all her life. She was ridden by three generations of family riders. They have broken the mould for this one.

 

[Lexi_]

Me and Midge, most trustworthy, aged saint of a pony at the riding school I went to for years.

When I was a bit older I rode ponies for a lady who did a bit of dealing and it turned out she was Midge’s owner and he had been the most amazing 12.2 BSJA superstar in his youth! He was a lovely, lovely pony.

 

[Spotherisk]

Me aged two and then four, I expect the first picture was my first ever time on a pony, I do remember this and begging for another go. The second one is with my grandad on a rented pony from from Pigeon Post stables in early 1970’s.

 

[Archangel]

You've got me looking at old pics now, this was late 80's at Watford Horse Show which is sadly no longer a thing. Those were the days when my waist was a thin as my thigh lol Oh and pony was Connemara x Anglo Arab

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Look at al those normal cars in the background!

 

[ycbm]

1983, on a borrowed stallion belonging to a friend of mine, taken in a French village where I had hacked to from Geneva. I used to ride with my passport Everyone thought I was crazy to wear a hat!

 

[Surbie]

I don't have many pics but this is me in the early 80s with Colleen, the riding school pony who taught me to ride. I loved her to bits and still have an indent on my leg where the baggage kicked me...

 

[Pinkvboots]

These pictures are great I have really enjoyed looking at them

 

[Gloi]

My Fell stallion Sleddale Ben up Skiddaw In the Lakes about 1988

 

[Gloi]

My first pony Paddy when I'd just got him for xmas 1972.

 

[Pinkvboots]

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My Fell stallion Sleddale Ben up Skiddaw In the Lakes about 1988

Lovely shiny pony and what a view