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I will never forget the instructions of one external instructor. 'Hold on properly this time'
Ha ha. I get that. I get told I’m so lucky my horses are so well behave. Yes it just sort of happens by itself when you breed them, break them, train & compete them all by yourself on your own at home.I find it's very much linked to the..... "you're so lucky, your horse is so well schooled/polite/easy" crowd.
People have commented that way about the beast, they are surprised when I tell them that he gives my little nieces pony ridesBig horses mean you're a better rider?? Bring on my draft horses!!
Except I nearly got dumped by a 12.2 earlier so I'll creep back to my fairly useless corner ?
People say that to me sometimes.I always feel that that means that you are obviously a complete novice and don't need a bucker,broncer etc.I find it's very much linked to the..... "you're so lucky, your horse is so well schooled/polite/easy" crowd.
See I never got a chance to prove my stickability at the RS. Because I was quiet and polite I got plonked on the boring, can't do very much ponies while the gobby kids got to ride the more interesting horses. Having a big gob and a pushy mum obviously worked well in riding schools.In my time it came from you were the one sticky enough to sit on the shittier RS beasts.
But everyone grows out of that don't they?
See I never got a chance to prove my stickability at the RS. Because I was quiet and polite I got plonked on the boring, can't do very much ponies while the gobby kids got to ride the more interesting horses. Having a big gob and a pushy mum obviously worked well in riding schools.
I had that as a youngster, I only found out after we'd walked calmly past a tractor that the horse I was sat on was apparently terrified of tractors.I always wonder how much of it is down to some people's insecurity being felt by the horse.
I was told so many times that a horse I was sharing wouldn't go past whatever. Really? I just expected him to behave and he breathed a sigh of relief and walked on calmly.
Apart from the ninja ducks. No one warned me about them. He teleported!
I had that as a youngster, I only found out after we'd walked calmly past a tractor that the horse I was sat on was apparently terrified of tractors.
And at the other end of the spectrum, I sent my established, super-safe hacking pony out with a friend at the end of winter. She came back and said he'd spooked at some scaffolding, but had gone past eventually. I told her he walks past that scaffolding nearly every day of his life and has never looked twice at it before
Ponies
Primary reason I have never once in my life wished I was taller. I have never had so much fun as the days I was getting dumped 3 times in one lesson by a pony I could basically swing a leg over from the ground <3In mine it was you're a short arse you can ride the ponies, and as has been mentioned up thread, smaller is normally naughtier, I fell off a lot lol.
I had the opposite! Kids of the gobby mums had to be treated with kid gloves so they wouldn't cry and upset the horses. If me or my sister came off, mum would look up from her book to check we weren't bleeding and say nothing which was my instructors favourite kind of parent.See I never got a chance to prove my stickability at the RS. Because I was quiet and polite I got plonked on the boring, can't do very much ponies while the gobby kids got to ride the more interesting horses. Having a big gob and a pushy mum obviously worked well in riding schools.
Ponies like new humans to play with! It gives the excuse to do all the dickish things they really want to do but aren't allowed to normally!
In mine it was you're a short arse you can ride the ponies, and as has been mentioned up thread, smaller is normally naughtier, I fell off a lot lol.
I had jumping lessons in a riding school as we didn’t have jumps at home. It worked solely on the better you rode, the younger / more horrible ponies you rode, until eventually you got free rides as a test crash dummy on the four year old that had never cantered in a group before!