Anyone else not actually ride?

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Is it just me or does anyone else keep horses and not actually ride? I love them on the ground and breeding my babies but although I tried riding I didn't enjoy it - I fell off and broke my arm + hip on my 3rd ever 'sit on' and have never wanted to get back on since!!
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I like riding but its not the bee all and end all it is for some people... I enjoy looking after them probably more than riding but riding is an added bonus
 
IMO it's the whole package, the caring for them, building up a relationship with them and just generally being with them, riding is of course my way of relaxing and having fun depending if i hack or compete (locally nothing serious) and i would be fed up, as i am now, if i had a horse and couldnt ride due to whatever reason (5 going on 6 weeks of frozen solidness!) each to their own, horses have alot to offer, i find them quite theraputic!
 
Not me. I keep a horse because I want to ride. I quite enjoy looking after him, but not enough to justify the hard work and cost involved. If I didn't ride I'd rather spend the money on holidays or another hobby. I haven't been able to ride since new years day and its driving me nuts now.
I admire people who keep horses without riding - but I find cats make much easier pets
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I think you'll find a few driving types and breeders on here who don't ride.

My mum loves horses in principle but has never enjoyed the idea of sittting on top of an animal. She has tried but finds the whole idea odd. She is very happy to be around them though. Espec. heavy 'working' horse types.. Pretty sure she'd love to plough!
 
Despite having 6 horses, 2 of which are perfectly rideable I rode mine maybe 6 times last year. I just went off riding, and horses in general a bit. I put this down to doing them every day and riding constantly for 12 years and getting a bit bored of it! Riding hasn't been a priority of mine for a couple of years now, more into ground work etc. However, I've now decided to do my BHSAI as I enjoy teaching so riding will be much more of a priority this year.
 
I love riding, and as said by others I think that it would be too oxpensive for me simply to keep a horse and not ride. I love the stable jobs and in this recent weather found myself happily grooming, plaiting, trimming, patting, hugging, talking and scratching my equine friends, but I am missing riding a lot.

However I do know a man who got himself into horses on his retirement to "keep me trim". In his quest to stay trim he buys weanling purebred arabs, keeps them and trains them until they have been broken (at great expense by someone else at about the age of 4 or 5) when he promptly sells them, claiming he doesn't want to get engrossed in the pink ponsy world of ponies...

He may be slightly warped in his thinking but he and his horses are always in grat form and he tells the best stories for miles around!
 
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My daughter is the jockey, i am just the dogsbody holding the purse! I do enjoy it though.

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Same here, although I used to ride, but less and less over recent years. Now I have been diagnosed with osteoporosis at 44 so I know I'll never get on a horse again. I'm still up the yard every day though doing the spadework.
 
I do love the general care and responsibility of a horse, but I don't think I could ever not ride
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love it too much.

I knew someone who fell and broke her arm the first time she ever sat on a horse and has not ridden since. But she does have a couple of miniature shetlands that she takes for walks with us when we go for a hack
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I don't like riding - bores me witless after about 10 minutes - which is why I only have youngsters. I really enjoy, and seem to be successful with the groundwork training. I keep them up until they are backed and then they can go to someone infinitely more capable than myself for schooling on. I'm a saddo who really likes the caring aspect . . . .
 
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