Adults who ride Ponies

I think its worse seeing kids on uncontrolable ponies than seeing an adult on them,but again long legged people riding tiny ponies that are small in stature aswell as height do look daft to me highlands and big built ponies i think people can get away with a bit more.
Most the time though you see these ponies jumping the moon with adult riders on and if they were truly too big for them then they wouldnt be able to do it.

See i had to come off ponies at a very early age as im very long legged and there are some days i wish i could still ride ponies as they are great fun.
 
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Try the "Adults who ride ponies" forum of The New Rider Board
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I'm another adult who rides ponies I'm afraid. Despite being 5' 5" I have short legs and still look fine on 12.2hhish upwards. My own mare is 13.2hh. I like native ponies and while I happily ride 'proper' horses when I have to I don't see why I should stop riding ponies just because I'm over 18
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nah well if you can get away with it do it i see the kids playing games and stuff on there ponies and it reminds me of all the fun we used to have when i was younger.
Maybe it just looks silly to me because i have seen myself on ponies and know how daft i look infact i have a pic somewhere of me on pippa when she had been rearing one day let me just have a look for it.
 
I'm 21 and I ride a 13.2hh (although she has no withers to speak of, if she did she'd probably measure about 14.1hh, if that makes sense).

She's quite a wide little lady so my legs don't really dangle and I love her, she's fantastic fun. It's not that I don't feel able to ride a horse, my own horse is a 16hh TB but he is at home and she is stabled where I am at uni and her owner wanted her to do more work. We go hacking on the Mendips, jumping lessons and are planning all sorts for the summer.

I don't care if anyone says I look stupid- I think she's brilliant!
 
Well, I'm 55, and love riding my Highland ponies, they are forward going and active and I do riding club activites with them, and I'm far too old to care two hoots who laughs at me.
 
I'm a 5'10 adult who rides a pony! Well, a welsh D - technically he's a pony, 100% pony in every way but his size (he's 15.2hh!!) My leg fills his girth but not too long for it in dressage saddle.

Because of his mealy muzzle and pony looks he is occasionally mistaken for an overgrown exmoor!! (the cheek! he does look like a welshie not an exmoor honestly!)

I have fallen in love with his pony personality and loved watching my instructor on him the other day - didn't realise how pony like he was to watch until I saw her on him. He's great!
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I'm a 5'10 adult who rides a pony! Well, a welsh D - technically he's a pony, 100% pony in every way but his size (he's 15.2hh!!) My leg fills his girth but not too long for it in dressage saddle.

Because of his mealy muzzle and pony looks he is occasionally mistaken for an overgrown exmoor!! (the cheek! he does look like a welshie not an exmoor honestly!)

I have fallen in love with his pony personality and loved watching my instructor on him the other day - didn't realise how pony like he was to watch until I saw her on him. He's great!
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well he is bigger than jacob then because he is 15.1hh and im only just about the right size for him i think im about as tall as you too.
 
Absolutely agree with you Baileyboo.

A lot of ponies can carry a lot more weight than some horses over 16hh. People are so hung up about the fact that their legs shouldn't come below the horses belly, and that once you turn 18yrs it's about time you sold your pony to a child and get a horse. Tosh!

It's all getting a bit ridiculous.

FinellaGlen - your pony looks fantastic and you do so on her.

If you look at your local Riding Clubs there are plenty of adults riding plenty of ponies.

In my Area there's a lady that does exceptionally well on her homebred Highlands. An adult who competes in everything and wins on her 23yr old Connemara. We have loads of people on New Forests, one or 2 on Dales, and some small Arabs and then the multitude or people with their smashing Heinz 57's. And they're not all 5ft riders weighing 8 stone!
 
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I have a 13.3hh and I am 25! She is a horse on pony legs though
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I am 5ft 4.
Here is the stumpy dumpy one
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omg that pony is awsome see what you mean about horse on pony legs.

Do you know what i have been spun im going to make it my lifes mission to find a pony i can ride.
 
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well I'm 21, 5ft 11 and ride ponies - I win the prize idiot award. Funnily enough it doesn't look that bad either.

If the ponies are capable of carrying your weight than I don't see the problem, especially for the native breeds. People don't give them the credit they deserve weight carrying and purpose wise IMHO

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Doh! I didn't see your post, I thought I'd win!!!
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This is a picture on me and my friend going hunting on our ponies. I'm on the 14hh dun, she is on the 14.2 welsh cob. I don't think we look too bad though we both have had paranoia about being too big for them, we are both about 5ft 4", I'm not stating my weight (I'm on a 'diet')
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Chum is my first pony and my initial reaction when trying him was 'too small' but after hacking him a couple of times and falling in love I bought him.

We both have a chuckle about being the 'adults on ponies', we are put together during RC training sessions and we have a great laugh on our hacks and I definitely think part of this is because we feel so confident on our ickle ponies
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I do sometimes wish he was slightly bigger (so I didn't have to worry about my weight) and younger but bar that he seems to have no problem carrying me and it seems I am frequently over-horsed by my 14hh pony
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and of course, it's alot of fun turning up to competitions and being laughed at for riding a pony to then go on to have to give the huge ones leads over fences
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Im 22, and have 2 ponies, a 14hh Welsh Cob and a 14.2-3 Anglo Arab. Im 9 stone and 5'7. I can vault on both my beasties, so useful for hacking
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I can ride any size, I just prefer to own ponies, I find they are easier to keep and manage, and more fun! Both of mine are shoeless as they have great feet, and are real go out and do anything sorts.

The day I backed the coblet
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and a dreadful picture of Harry, taken the day I went to try him
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I'm 5'9 and am thinking of loaning a 14.2 I might be trying him out at the weekend.

i'm heavy and I know I am but he is a cob and my instructor and YO think i'll be fine on him.
 
What on earth has age got to do with it?

I'm 45, 5'9", inside leg m'ment - 32". I ride a 14.2 coloured native who is totally unsuitable for a child to ride. Weren't Welsh 'c' used by farmers to get around the mountains?



Why should adults look 'silly' on a pony?
Personally, I think a short person looks silly on a tall horse.
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hellsdarkrose - you go try that 14.2 and have a wonderful time.
 
i am a short adult i CANNOT ride horses as i don't have long enough legs to get them going properly, therefore i ride one of our wonderful native breeds - a welsh section d, he is NOT a kids pony at all......so like it or lump it i don't give a toss, but i have to say you have a VERY narrowminded, silly, and dismissive attitude.
 
I'm 5'2" and ride a 14hh cob. I've ridden my friends 15.2hh cob and although he's lovely and I trust him completely I feel as though my legs are sticking out sideways and I love my little bloke he's fab.
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wow dear did you not read my first reply i did state adults who are short themselves can get away with it.

I was not trying to be rude or offensive as you have just been towards me.

I have said to lots of people how good they look on there ponies and how shocked i was at how big soem of them looked i actually said i will make it my lifes work to find a pony i can get away with riding.

So i would strongly suggest you take a breath go back to all of my replies see what i actually have said and i think you owe me a apology because that was just totally off the handle and quite rude to be honest.
 
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I'm 5'9 and am thinking of loaning a 14.2 I might be trying him out at the weekend.

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Go for it
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. I'm 5 foot 7 1/2 and my lad is a cobby 14,2 (Well, 14,1 1/2
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). I lunged him tonight and he had the wind up his backside and managed to literally drag me around on the end of the line like a rag doll! In the end I had to dig my heels right in and pull as hard as I could to get him back. Plus he certainly has no problem with me riding him, he manages to turn himself inside out then as well
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With one like him (and the one you are going to try by the sounds of it), someone that might technically be the right height for him would never be able to control him, not because I am a better rider than them but because I just have more weight on me than they do (not that I am huge but I'm going to weigh more than someone who's 5 foot 4!), I can use it in order to attempt to stop him pratting me about! Usually unsuccessfully though, when he decides he wants to buck there's not a lot I can do about it
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i am a short adult i CANNOT ride horses as i don't have long enough legs to get them going properly, therefore i ride one of our wonderful native breeds - a welsh section d, he is NOT a kids pony at all......so like it or lump it i don't give a toss, but i have to say you have a VERY narrowminded, silly, and dismissive attitude.

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Think you might have got the wrong end of the stick there, Yorksmummy looks like she was being lighthearted.
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... and a welshie isn't exactly a tall breed (even the giant 15.2 model I ride
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yep thats what i thought very erratic reaction there i have in no way been offensive infact i think i have fallen in love with a few of these ponios tonight.

But even if i was saying i dont think grown ups should ride ponies or whatever she thought i was saying im afraid in real life or forum life you will always have people with different opinions to your own and no ammount of name calling or shouting down will change that so why get worked up over it really?Its difference of opinions that make the world go round.
 
I own/ride my many Quarter Horses. The "horses" part of the quarter is fake though - most of them are ponies.
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i have not been rude to you at all.........in fact i feel you have been rude belittling people who happen to be adults riding ponies, if you think that my reply was rude, you don't live in the real world......
 
well you would be hard pushed to find me doing that i happened to metion one girl i know who rides ponies far too small for her baring in mind she is about 12 stone her backside hangs over the back of the saddles and it 12hh to 13hh ponies she insists on riding oh and she is near enough six foot so if me saying she looks silly is offensive than fair enough but its nothing i havent said to her face.
 
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