Breed/type to see you into your old age!

Flame_ said:
My heart desires an unhinged arab x section d but my head says stick to pure arabs. If my horse retires in the next few years but lives until he's into his 30s, I could have ten years plus of no riding at all then be starting again in my early sixties. 😬 Maybe I'll have come to my senses by then and just pack it in.
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Which is exactly what I have had to do - 10 years with no horse contact then at 66 starting over - but we are a long time dead 🤣 🙈
 
The last time I went horse-hunting I was 57 (in 2017). Like we all do, I had a fair idea of what I wanted: as in 14.2'ish, nice & narrow (comfy!), pref a gelding, cobby type but not a heavy cob, and deffo no coloureds. Welsh D type was really what I was after. And very deffo no hairy legs!

An old schoolchum had backed a little 13.2 traddie coblet at her yard and she'd gone back to the owners. Friend said she's worth a look, nice sort, why don't you. I'd already looked at around seventy horses prior to this, so what did I have to lose, I thought.

This little scrap of a pony (coloured) came shuffling up to me in the field. There was a tractor working in the field at the time, but she was oblivious. She somehow just puffed at me and sniffed at me, it was almost like she was saying "yep, you'll do nicely".

I ended up bringing her home. She was everything (and I mean everything) I'd said I didn't want. Pony, piebald, mare, hairy legs, the lot. Oh and not narrow; she was wide! But this little pony somehow had stolen my heart. And she still does. Bless her.

I'm 64 now; pony (profile pic) is 13. Gosh where did the years go. But if I had the chance to buy her again, I'd rush in. She's been such a super little girly, I'm not a confident rider, never have been, but this little one does very well for me. That said, she isn't a plod, she's actually a nice forward going little ride. Just perfect in every way.

When she goes, will I have another?? I'd like to think so..........
 
cornbrodolly said:
At 70, with OH at 75 , I suppose we do count as 'old age' , but there are no plans to stop riding ....we have just bought a 5 yr old 15 .1 warmblood . Not the type I was looking for [ for us both to share ] but sometimes you just have to take a chance....
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This is exactly what I needed to hear, I keep being reminded that my last young horse was supposed to be my last young horse!
 
Probably something cob or part Irish draught or maybe a really nice Connemara (if I can afford one with the price they are these days!) 🤣
 
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