Does anyone ride English and Western?

[asterid]

I used to ride western many years ago and my farrier has a QH and rides western under WES. We always chat about western stuff and it has inspired me to start training my youngster some western moves. She already will back the length of the school with no resistance, so has got me thinking.

I want to do English riding mainly, but wondered if anyone else rides both disciplines?

I only want to do pleasure, trail and versatility. I remember that western shows are an all day/ all weekend thing. Used to do 6 classes in a day! I dont want to do that again, but the bits I enjoyed were pleasure and trail.

Any fellow westerners??

 

[horsecrazy25]

i don't but my friend has a English horse and a western horse

 

[arizonahoney]

Me - look at the album on my profile page.

 

[MosMum]

I'm American and always rode Western, I'm intending to break Mo to the Western discipline, but I'm wondering if its possible to teach him both :S That might be too confusing, I'm not sure yet, but will go with the trainer's advice on that I think.

I find Western much more comfortable and I think Mo would look stunning in western gear

 

[JustMe22]

I don't..only ever tried it once, but a Canadian friend of ours does both, on the same horse. He's a little Boerperd, and does dressage, then she'll switch gear and do her western stuff too..he seems to understand the difference I think

 

[Kao]

Used too, I think my current pone would suit one or the other and, since I lean towards English a lot more (and get a lot of support for it from family/friends) he's my english horse
If I had the money though, I'd be keen on buying another to have for western.

 

[Vixen Van Debz]

Me - look at the album on my profile page.

Your cob is gorgeous - I want, I want! 80)

 

[Orangehorse]

I wonder this too. There are horses that do both, and I have heard it said that the riders find it more difficult than the horses.

 

[rosie55]

our horse is trained to do hunter under saddle and hunt seat equitation as well as western disciplines such as trail, western riding, horsemanship. we also used our previous horses for school dressage too but gave that up as being too stressful (for humans not horses!). when i go to a show now with my daughter's horse i only do trail and showmanship at the moment and will do one other discipline when i am ready. i really enjoy being there all day or weekend as its great to chat to everyone and watch them all too. thats the great thing about western, the cameraderie.

 

[bclaire5712]

I ride both, i have a quater horse and warmloods. Its much easier to ride a western trained horse English than ride and english trained horse western.