Another then and now thread

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NB Anyone know where I can get a chaff cutter!
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Scissors!!
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My old pony suffered all the above and a few more!! I love a good old fashioned jute rug really well used so its all floppy and when he was wet he would be thatched and the jute rug on inside out on top!! When he had a cough he would get a "cough bag" tied to his bit for him to suck!! He got wormed twice a year once when he went out in the field for summer and once when he came back in!!lol poor pony its a wonder he ever survived!! His tea was pony cubes bran and sugarbeet supplemented by potato and carrot peelings and any left over veg!! Id spend all day at the yard riding bareback messing about and jumping anything we could find! I remember when skull caps came out we called the egg heads!! and i vowed never to wear one lol (i wont wear anything else!)
Gosh i feel old now
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Bareback jumping lanes...
Jumping grids without reins.....
Complete hour lessons without stirrups....
Hunt Mornings....
REAL PC Camps.......the type where WINNING was EVERYTHING.......

and god help us if we fell of..or Fukced up...my DC was very scary..if we did fall off, she would always ask what WE did wrong....and DO NOT let it happen again...........
 
I wish I could remember the name of that cough stuff you scooped out of the tin and rolled it in a ball. I used to take the core out of an apple, stuff it in then put the core back - and the little bugger STILL managed to eat the apple and spit out the medicine!

I still use glycerine saddle soap and Hydrophane - EBay's still good for some things! And I love my folding hoof pick!

I remember thinking I'd made it when I got my first full panel saddle with suede knee bits. But the shame of riding around with brand new (tan) tack... a friend of mine, without telling her mum, dyed her brand new saddle dark brown. Luckily the saddle looked fine, but she ruined her best show jods and her mum went mental!

Remember Pony magazine? It was so up itself - I don't think it moved out of the fifties till quite recently.

*Is trying hard to remember where her Pony Club tie is...*
 
What about Stockholm Tar? my dad made me use it on my pony for any cuts etc!! Nothing could get through so never got infected - just took weeks to come off!!
Also i remember scraping grease off the underside of saddle, riding bareback to the field, aah those were the days!!!
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Bareback jumping lanes...
Jumping grids without reins.....
Complete hour lessons without stirrups....
Hunt Mornings....
REAL PC Camps.......the type where WINNING was EVERYTHING.......

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Nice kid on daughter's team at camp thisyear : 'Come on, A, do your best, it's taking part that counts'

Ride helper from seniors: 'Crap is it. It's winning that counts now kick like hell.'

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EVERY yard had benzo benzoate (sp) on hand for sweet itch.

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benzyl benzoate? You had benzyl benzoate? You were lucky! We 'ad sulphur and lard, and liked it'

with apologies to Monty Python, The Four Yorkshiremen .....
 
York G we used the back of a blunt knife and real skill was involved in not getting the saddle soap too wet!

JM07 ponies never go the blame always us and you never got rid of one....I had some nightmares that you would never let a child near these days....kicked, bitten, bucked off.....the phrase that rang in your ears...brush yourself down get back on and don't do it again!

No such thing as body protectors, remember when they first introduced back protectors a flimsy bit of thin sort of synthetic material that ripped if you pulled it hard enough!

Days making homemade fences and cavaletti - what happened to cavaletti?
 
Sulphur powder mixed with benzyl benzoate for sweet itch. Gentian violet for cuts (to both horses and people) and I remember those hour long lessons without irons, you spent 5 minutes getting your stirrups right and then didn't use them again for the rest of the lesson
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just reminded me of my old riding instructor! She would whip your hands if they were too high and your back if it wasn't straight!!!
 
My favourite jump was a spread made up of two oil drums upright with pole, two oil drums on their sides with pole and two oil cans with pole.

No fannying around with primary coloured plastic jumps for us!

Don't get me wrong though, I'm not totally against progress - cut up Pampers make great dressings because they don't stick, or you can use pantyliners if you're REALLY brave!

Back OT, did anyone else have one of those check cotton summer sheets?
 
I loved that jump as well - also dismantling straw bales at harvest time to make our own cross country course and then getting a right bollo*king after!

Yes I had a checked summer sheet and thought it was the hieght of cool - poor horse always went to shows in it during the summer, even if it was boiling!
 

I use rope halters still!!!

And I have a pair of the rubber over reach boots. Put them in boiling water to soften the rubber & HEAVE!
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I also have a string vest which I put straw under if pony is sweaty.

I'm going to joint the clique
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just reminded me of my old riding instructor! She would whip your hands if they were too high and your back if it wasn't straight!!!

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To this day I ride with a poker straight back!
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Not because I was whipped but because it was a mantra of a weekly lesson.

"Your head & heart keep up,
your hands & heels keep down,
your heels close to your horse's side,
elbows close to your own

That rhyme was a favourite & other one, when we were trying to remember the order in which the dressage markers went was;

All
King
Edwards
Horses
Carry
Many
Blundering
Fools

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You had a choice of Cottage Craft or....Cottage Craft in blue or......red LOL!

I miss rugging up with blankets and back folding them, the horses DID look very smart!

Spending hours washing CC string girths with a hard brush and fairy liquid on the yard ground.

Orange bit guards.



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LOL!

My first pair of long riding boots were Cottage Craft ones. I thought I was the bees knees
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Remember the Cottage Craft brand well
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Or soaping & oiling leather girths to ensure they didn't become too stiff
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"Your head & heart keep up,
your hands & heels keep down,
your heels close to your horse's side,
elbows close to your own

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That was out of the Jill books!
 
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"Your head & heart keep up,
your hands & heels keep down,
your heels close to your horse's side,
elbows close to your own

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That was out of the Jill books!

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It was a well known rhyme amongst all of us at the riding school & one our instructor used to remind us about.

I think it featured in a few PC manuals as well
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OMG this post has taken me back a very long way. Great memories when the Pony Club was all kick and gallop like hell. I still have a string vest and did have a Coolmasta for my boy. Riding hats were very unsafe as they only had cork inside and were always velvet. Some of the saddles I used had a serge lining that you had to brush with great vigour to get dust and dirt out and there were basically two bits, snaffle and pelham that we used. Hacking to all the shows with packed lunch hooked on the saddle and hopefully lots of rosettes displayed on the way home.
ets. you can still get gamgee in several different widths.
 
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I think it featured in a few PC manuals as well
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Thinking about this last night, I think the Jill one was...

Heels down, heart up
Hands down, head up,
Knees close to your pony's side
Elbows close to your own

I reckon the author had the same ilk of DC that you did, funny how these things pass down
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Already in the clique from last time. Still thatch our wet neddies, and have a string vest sweat rug. Just wish I still had my matching yellow plaited nylon reins and string girth, I'm sure Murph would look a picture in them
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In my opinion thatching is the best way to dry a horse out unfortunatly on a shavings only yard it dont work quite the same so I have ended up with Towels draped over the horses back and rug on inside out checking and swapping towels for dry and then finally putting a fresh dry rug on once I get Dizzy and horsy gets dry.!!
 
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In my opinion thatching is the best way to dry a horse out unfortunatly on a shavings only yard it dont work quite the same

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You want to try it with rubber matting!!!
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I still use gamgee.
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Nickel bits havent been mentioned !
 
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