Competing dressage and over 40??!!

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Just out of interest to see how many of you are competing in dressage and have passed the age of 40!! I may have an idea but not telling yet until I find out how many of you there are out there and how much you want to get out of dressage!!
 
Yup!
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I'm 26 days off 60 and do both unafilliated and some BD, will go as far as I can. I still SJ as well.
 
Yup, im well into my 40s and only discovered dressage a few years ago after losing my nerve jumping.

I did some 'dream building' at Badminton and tried on a top hat n tails in the hope I can get to Adv Med before me lungs give out altogether
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Intend to go as far as I can with the hysterical one.
 
I am nearer 50 than 40 and have a young horse - just starting the dressage all over again. Love it - hope to affiliate by end of year. Inspiration comes from friend who is 70 and still doing BE and BD. I just don't look in the mirror too much and then i feel a lot younger......
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Thank you everyone who posted on here. I'm fast heading towards 40 & intend to bsja & bd for as long as I'm physically able, & it's nice to know that some of you are already blazing the trail for me to follow.
 
Rambo, sorry, anyone can join in but specified dressage because I think we should get BD to do something for the "over 40" brigade!! ie. training, like the BYRDS etc!!! Jemayni, I am young at heart!!! Te he!!
 
I'm well past 40 and still BE, BSJA & occasionally BD. Shall get more serious about BD when I'm too fragile to leave the ground - in about 20 yrs I should think!
 
I'm 41 this year and affiliated Will last Dec'. Am looking for a younger horse now that will take me further, ambition is to be wearing top hat and tails (ie advanced) by the time I turn 50!!
 
Yep count me in, currently do BD and hoping to get a youngster this year to start all over again with!!

*I will get my top hot and tails*
 
This is excellent.. there are soooooo many of us over 40 but not over the hill... I am sure many of you would like to have lessons/instruction like the BYRDS do, say for each region....then have a true MASTERS or MISTRESSES!!! event... or both if there are males out there too over 40!!! Thoughts?????
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I did some 'dream building' at Badminton and tried on a top hat n tails in the hope I can get to Adv Med before me lungs give out altogether
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Hate to tell u, tails is Advanced, not advanced medium.
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I think we should lobby BD, s'pose we'll have to let the fellas have a go too.

We could be called C.R.U.S.T.Y.S, I just haven't thought of what the letters would stand for yet, too p***d!
 
I realised that a while after I had posted. But GD, that is also the price of being over 40, the brain cells diminish. I can normally get away with it cos of my age
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Rambo, sorry, anyone can join in but specified dressage because I think we should get BD to do something for the "over 40" brigade!! ie. training, like the BYRDS etc!!! Jemayni, I am young at heart!!! Te he!!

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Actually, that's interesting point. The BSJA do run Veterans classes....i take it BD don't offer anything like that ?
 
I'm over 60 and still compete Aff Dress with an aged 'family' horse. I dont like to rely on my memory for the tests and need a caller - and moral support - and I am certainly about 30 years older than anyone I have competed against - but so what! I dont think they are laughing behind their hands - particularly when I am often placed above them! A veteran class would be really good fun - or maybe extra marks if we manage without a caller
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