A really depressing thought...

[welshponylover]

Sorry about this but it is a bit of a selfish, pointless post but felt like a pick-me-up
Was just looking through my pics over the years riding starting from Thelwell types when i was 6 to bigger monsters now. But then i realised - i have never had a permanent horse! I guess its cos of my dads job (R.A.F) and we're always moving but still
So just cos im gunna tell you about ALL the horses i have loved and left...
1. Riding school (horrid place)
2. Honey : Welsh B, taught me to ride properly (we looked after her one summer all to myself a few years after i said goodbye)
3. Ellie : Another welshie, little madam, taught me how to handle a horse, not just ride it
Then we moved
4.Millie : Ridiculus TB who had me off to many times, gave up
5. Riding stables
6. Kita : Loved this pony, she jumped amazingly even when i was a chicken, she was sold
7. Leo + Calma : long story but basics everything was ready to have them on a full loan and share and it all went pear shaped. Disapointed
8. Brom : LOVE HIM

And here is the worst : We are moving in the summer and, as Brom is only on loan, i have to leave him behind. He has been the longest term horse i have ever ridden

When we move i have a loan arrangement sorted but its depressing

Sorry about the rant - can someone make me laugh?

 

[gugglebum]

Ah I can't make you laugh but I can sympathise, I have a similar horse history. I just turned 35 and am buying my 1st horse this year - your time will come! And just think of all the horses you've been lucky enough to know, and all the experience you've gathered. The longer you wait the sweeter it will be, and the better you'll be (and, lets not forget there'll be people reading this who would give their right arm for a horse, any horse, no matter how long for and would consider us very lucky)

 

[WelshRuby]

So sorry you'll have to leave Brom. You obviously love him to bits (saw your previous post) There will be another pony to love out there and they all have brought you to were you are now

 

[welshponylover]

Thanks

I forgot one aswell!!
Scooby : 13.2hh welshie i loaned for just one month. Words cannot describe the character of the little man. He taught me so much.

 

[BBP]

Aw, I definitely feel your pain on this one! I am also and RAF brat (now grown up...ish!) and leaving horses every 6 months to 3 years broke my heart every time. I was in the USA for 3 years as a kid and rode a 14hh hunter pony every day, went from hating him (he could be a b*gger!) to loving him to bits, I was devastated to leave him, thought i'd never get over it.

Then one day, having ridden at a local saddle club for a while, a little palomino mare turned up. She would climb out over her stable door, buck kids off and generally be very hot, I was the only kid who really got on with her - I even had lessons with Yogi Breisner on her! But eventually they decided she wasn't earning her keep and they had to sell. Turns out she was about 15 years older than they had been told when they bought her, and only the meat man wanted to buy her. I cried for days until my parents caved and paid meat money for her. She came with us when we moved and basically turned our lives upside down - owning a naughty, cheeky, unsound 20 plus year old, little pony hadn't been in the plan at all! Since then I have had one other on loan, and now that they have both passed away i have my own 5 year old PRE x who means the world to me.

Be patient, even if it means waiting until you are earning your own wage, if you want it enough you will get your own horse. And by then you will have a much better idea than many people of the kind of horse you want and will have lots of experience in riding and looking after lots of different sorts of horses. Count yourself lucky - think how you would never have got to meet brom and the others if it hadn't been for your dads job!

 

[Bug2007]

I feel the pain, but i only got my first at 22.

Riding all these different horses and ponies will make you a better rider and owner in the long run. Always think of the positive in everything......makes life so much easier.