has anyone else noticed...

[hannah87]

that other people seem to have taken to calling their strapping great 16.2hs "pony"!? i swear its some new 'craze'. All day long today at the yard ive heard "my pony did this, my pony did that". "Stop that pony" "pony canter, come on canter pony"..... i seem to find it really annoying and had to stop myself turning round and screaming "its a frigging horse!!!!" .............. phew glad thats of my chest

 

[Bossanova]

I like calling mine pony, it's an affectionate term!

 

[Mid]

i never had a first pony, just rode at a riding school (Oscar is my first ever equine and he's a horse - never had a pony of my own until now!) i like calling him My Pony... but never to his face

 

[teapot]

I'm 5ft 11 - pretty much everything I ride is a pony to me

The fact that my current steed is 13.2 is beside the point

 

[arwenplusone]

oops - guilty as charged!

I have occasionally been known to call my 16.2 middleweight WB 'ponio'.

I quite like it

 

[Tia]

You see we have the complete opposite over here......everyone calls their little 14 handers "horses"! They're not blooming horses, they are PONIES!!

Ahhh see what you mean - I feel so much better now!

 

[RachelB]

I tend to call my equines the opposite of what they are. So Maiden is a skinny pony at the moment...! My 14.1hh was a skinny big horse. The 13.1hh was just a pain in the backside (and she actually was!)

 

[lexiedhb]

I have always called my horses pony's since I was 13... so 17 years... def not a new craze!!

 

[burtondog]

I never had a pony but I always wanted one so when I got my first horse I always referred to him as 'my pony' even though he was 15.3. Sometimes, I'd even refer to my second horse, a 16.2 warmblood as 'pony', but not so much.

 

[PurplePickle]

I call mine ponios or pones simply because annie is a pony and If i say horses some clever So* will tell me one is a pony lol

 

[Seahorse]

I always call Axey my pony, a scruffy grey pony at that!

Bar Hammond always called her GP horse her white pony too!

 

[Equibeau]

I am guilty too! Though my new HORSE has little pony ears!!

 

[mrgoop]

Mine is 18hh and most definately (sp) a PONY!!

I too had to wait till i was nearly 30 to get my first equine, i see a pattern forming here.
It is mental scarring causing us to call our biggies after the poies we never had

 

[hannah87]

ok, ok i forgive all you with your first horse (sorry "pony") as an adult lol
BUT, the worst offenders on my yard seem to be 16 year old girls who have had ponies and horses all their life and seem to have developed the immensely irritating habit of screeching at their massive horses "PONY dont do that PONY , oh PONY" gggrrrrrr it seems to really get on my wick

 

[clipclop]

I've been calling mine "ponies" for years.

It's fun.

My bug bear is people calling their one and only horses "It".

Although you are perfectly entitled to be irritated by it.

 

[rabatsa]

Mine is always pony, or little man or little girl. The donk on the other hand is called big chap.....

 

[Chex]

I call Chex a horse, he's only 14.1! Its pure laziness - horse has one syllable, pony has two

. Saying that, I do it when I type it too, so that logic goes out the window

 

[Eaglestone]

I have always called my old boy 'young man' when talking to him on my own... I say something like "come on then young man" when asking him to move on in hand, so I must be the odd one out!

Mind you I used to get annoyed by someone I knew who was barely 5' herself calling her 17.2hh horse a PONY!

 

[volatis]

Mine often get called worse nicknames than 'pony' Infact one of our homebreds was nicknamed ugly which unfortunatly stuck even though he matured into quite a handsome boy.

 

[jenbleep]

im afraid i call frankie 'pony'.......he is 16.3hh

i also call him hossie and donk.

if someone says 'what you doing today' i say 'going to brush/ride/look at my pony......im 22 as well

 

[Blackhawk]

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oops - guilty as charged!

I have occasionally been known to call my 16.2 middleweight WB 'ponio'.

I quite like it

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Yep mine is pony or 'the donkey'

 

[Donkeymad]

So why, if so many people look 'down' on ponies, why do they call their horse a pony????

(PS. calling a horse a donkey is a real insult - to donkeys

!!!)

 

[Ottinmeg]

my instructor said something about my pony (shes 15.1 ) then quickly added, i know shes a horse but i call all mine ponies! i just laughed and said dont worry i call her a pony to..

 

[trundle]

I called the Yak that bucked me off on Saturday "dog food" - pony was too polite a name for her.

The Share Mare is just a big over-grown pony. She's sweet and gentle and endlessly patient, and doesn't mind me b*ggering about for hours trying to put her bridle on or getting her rug on the wrong way round...

 

[Dogbetty141]

I call my horse mr sid or sweet pea so i guess im not in the new craze then! One on my own! Special! lol

 

[Smash]

Where did all this 'ponio' guff come from?

 

[Capriole]

i call everything pony, even the 17.1 beast.

and one 'pudding' to remind him what he;ll be if he doesnt behave

 

[tabithakat64]

Fudge is 14.3hh so he gets called both pony and horse or dog meat when he's been naughty. Friends 16hh TB behaves like a pony so he gets called pony too

 

[Santa_Claus]

Dan is my 'pony' or Donkey as appropriate and how well/nicely he is behaving! Always has been since I had him what 7 years ago. oh yeah and he is 17h2

 

[SouthWestWhippet]

Guilty of this also. I always call my 15.2 "Pony". It is an affectionate term. I always think of ponies as being loveable rogues whereas horses are more sophisticated. Polly is definitely NOT sophistacted... hence, "Pony"