Are You From a Horsey Family?

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I was wondering how many people are from horsey families? And if so, in what capacity ie hunting, racing, eventing?

None of my family were into horses at all, but I wanted to ride from an early age. Our neighbour's daughter had a pony and used to take me riding and then she set up a riding school, so I rode there. I had to wait until I was an adult to buy my own horse and I tend to keep them for life. I wonder if I would be less sentimental about my horses if I had gone through the whole outgrown pony thing as a child?
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Nope, Mum hates them and is scared of them. Dad used to work on a farm but I dont know iff it involved horses etc. My nan likes them. My brother used to ride when he was younger.
 
Not immediate family,
My gran always had horses, hunting etc, but stopped when she had kids

my aunt however, got a pony and that put my mum off lol

aunt was always dealing horses from about 15
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and had her own riding school, which is how I got into them, she still does livery/dealing and most of my cousins ride
 
Nope. Became interested in horses through a friend that had one. My mum is sort of horsey now, but it doesn't go beyond occasionally coming to the yard!
 
Mum knows absoultly nothing about horses, Dad rode when he was very young!

My Grandma has a house on a yard and my auntie runs the yard, so I do have horsey family (and these 2 were the reason I got into it) but not immediate family
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The horsey-thing skipped a generation in my family. Grandparents all had horses, parents were not interested, I am.
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No-one in my family was horsey but they were very good and humoured me with riding lessons, although I didn't get my own horse til I was an adult.
My mother things horses are nasty dirty things and I should've grown out of them by now.
 
Not at all... I was born with a freak horsey gene and obsessed from an early age; I can't think of a single person in my large extended family who is at all interested!
 
my aunt rode rode when she was about 10 untill she left home...but never had horses. Mum went to one lesson and gave up :P, her great uncle rode in the 2nd world war, was very proud to see me riding as his grandson hate them. otherwise no-one hd a direct influence, though mum now has her eye on a lovely coloured cob-just need to convince dad..it is her birthday next month! I would have loved to have a hosey family though...maybe wouldnt have to be begging to get a trailer.
 
My mum's family were not into horses at all; she went to work at a local racing yard from the age of 11, and saved up all her pocket money to buy a pony - in secret - from stow fair when she was 14! My aunt went into racing too, and married a head lad from a yard in lambourn. Mum married a farrier, and we've had ponies ever since! I did the whole 'pony club thing,' though mum stopped riding herself once I was born. My brother doesnt ride, though likes to think he's an accomplished horseman, having been to PC camp once when he was 3!!!
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Not at all... I was born with a freak horsey gene and obsessed from an early age; I can't think of a single person in my large extended family who is at all interested!

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My mum rode from an early age, my grandad had heavy horses, my dad cannot stand horses (but can often be found sneaking carrots to the pony). I grew up being able to look out of my bedroom window onto the yard... spent many hours sitting watching the goings on and watching my mum going off exercising.
The YO used to let me walk round the yard on his big grey hunter after school, and we used to help the groom with mucking out etc.

Now I'm all grown up, my own children have use of a stable on that very same yard...(where my dad still works... he's been there for about 40 years lol )... 2 minutes walk away, the old groom (who taught me so much) is my next door neighbour, and TBH it's like living in a time warp
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My parents are not at all horsey. They aren't at all interested in seeing photos or hearing horsey tales.

Not even sure that my parents would even stroke any of mine. Don't even think they've been across to the stables or field to see them.

Mum is phobic of cows as well, so it doesn't help that I married a dairy farmer!

I've always loved horses though. A girl across the road from me had a pony and I used to go and feed her pony carrots with her at a weekend. Plagued my parents for a pony all my childhood but it never happened.

Only got into actually riding when Hannah, my then 6 year old, asked if she could start riding lessons. I jumped at taking her, remembering all those tormented years of dreaming about riding. Used to stand about getting chilled to the bone watching her in her lessons. One day I just decided I might as well have my own lessons, seeing as I was up there at the RS anyway.

The rest as they say is history!
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No. My grandad was a farmer & so there was a pony for me from a very young age. He used horses on farms & for milk rounds as a boy. I never had any encouragement at all to take it further & in fact my parents were (& remain to this day!) resolutely disinterested & discouraging.

They have never, & won't, come to watch me compete etc. Their loss.
 
Not one member of my family is horsey

One of my earliest sentences was "i wan't a horse" apparantly. We lived in London when i was very young, and the local pub used to have it's beer delivery once a week, it came by way of the dray, pulled by horses. Every week Mum would have to take me to see them.

Sadly i had to wait til the age of 30 to get my lifes dream and become a horse owner
 
Most of my family is very into them ( mothers side) although currently only three members have any atm.


My grandparents always had them and when my mother and her sisters grew up they all had horses. My grandparents raised Quarter horses mainly and they were shown in Western pleasure and halter classes. My mother an most of her sisters did not do a lot of showing nor did my cousins. The main people who were into the showing were my aunt Peggy to a big degree and me to a small degree when I was young.

My aunt Peggy, my grandparents and I are the most horsey people in the family and have always been I would say.
 
No altho my dad used to plough with shire horses and loved them. A couple of generations back members of my family were grooms and coachmen
 
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No altho my dad used to plough with shire horses and loved them. A couple of generations back members of my family were grooms and coachmen

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Funnily enough, we found farriers and horse dealers in our family tree a few generations ago! And my granny's maiden name was Stables, so I'm assuming that there have been horsey people in the family. Just not recently!
 
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No. My grandad was a farmer & so there was a pony for me from a very young age. He used horses on farms & for milk rounds as a boy. I never had any encouragement at all to take it further & in fact my parents were (& remain to this day!) resolutely disinterested & discouraging.

They have never, & won't, come to watch me compete etc. Their loss.

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snap! Hard isnt it well done for carrying on
 
my mum and auntys had horses since they were 14/15 and my dad has owned are livery yard for 45 + years and before that come from a farming family,i was born and bred with horses and still live here,its great looking out the window at the yard and the horses in the field,i wouldnt want to be anywhere else
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very horsey family-

my granma was a lady jockey,
her brothers (my great uncles) were a race horse trainer, her other brother was another trainer,who at 82 still rides everyday, and her youngest brother was a vet, who at 78 is still doing at bit of dealing (he got me my horse and pony, hes very reputable!) they were well into hunting too.

my mum used to ride show ponies and hunt, but she cant ride anymore as she has a bad back.

my dads family arent really horsey, but interested in the pottering about i do.

then theres moi, jack of all trades, master of none!
 
yes, mother is a vet, she had horses from a young age, i got my 1st ride when i was a few weeks old i think
 
My grandpa adored his horses - he worked them on the farm, but everybody else is very anti - horse, apart from one sister.
My mum hates them so much we haven't dared tell her how many we own!!!
 
My mums side is very horsey but my dads isn't, my aunts and my mum had ponies from about 10 they've all still got horses, the aunts evented their current horses when they were younger but the horses are both 24 ish now and retired. It's nice cos I get very helpful free lessons and advice when I want them
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my grandma and grandad both love coming to watch us at shows and used to help take us to pony club rallies/camps which is really nice! but my dad and his family hate horses which kinda evens it out. We got coco our first and current horse when I was 12 and my sister was 8, we never had ponies just our big fat 15hh hairy cob
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my children will be forced to ride before they can object, I get annoyed that I missed out on the whole pony thing because it made me so backwards for my age!
 
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