Hate being poor... Anyone got any ways to help me still be horsey? :D

AprilBlossom said:
I'm not sure I can be sympathetic anymore - you've had a variety of horsey options open to you recently but seem to have deffed them all off as unsuitable...if you were that desperate you wouldn't have.
Annoys me as I had a friend who ha the same attitude as you, constantly moaning that there was nothing out there/life's so unfair etc etc but not doing a great deal about it (other than whining) and then finding fault with any solution offered within weeks.
If you really want it enough you'll go out there and find it.
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I'm not asking for sympathy! Definitly not!
I am going to get up, off my bum and get looking for horses and i'm opening my mind to learning!!
 
PinkCob said:
I'm not asking for sympathy! Definitly not!
I am going to get up, off my bum and get looking for horses and i'm opening my mind to learning!!
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OK Sammy, here's a starter for ten: Contact details for Skipton Horse Trials There will be hundreds of horses there, some local, some not. There are dozens of volunteering jobs that need doing. If you drop the organisers an email telling them that you would like to help out and let them know your age then I'm sure you will get something to do there, then you just have to organise transport. Whilst you are there if you are on your best and most helpful behaviour not only will you have a good day out but you have the opportunity to meet dozens of people who might either have something you can ride or at least help them with. If you take a couple of posters you may be able to put them up in the Secretary's "office" or take some flyers and hand them out.

If you don't get any joy from the organisers post in CR nearer the time asking if there are any solo riders who need a hand onsite. Be honest about what you can do but it is SO useful to have an extra body around to grab your headcollar, tie your number on, and a million and one other things.

Another thing you could do is contact your local pony club's secretary, explain that you haven't got a pony and can't join but ask if they could do with some help running their shows. It all helps to get your face out and about and known as a cheerful helpful person who's willing to muck in and those are the people that get remembered when there's spare ponies etc.

Good luck with it
 
Try contacting your local PC and offering help at rallies and comps as a pole picker-upper/ general dogsbody/ someone to help lead the little ones around. It sounds deadly dull, but you get a horsey fix, you might make some friends who are horsey and PC mums do look out for you. When I was 9, I had no pony and spent the spring half term doing all that (sister had a pony, so I followed them about!). Was given a ancient old mare on loan by a PC mum who had noticed I was doing all this and had nothing to ride...

Skipton Horse Trials is also a good bet for a way to get involved, and check out the PC website for any events coming up in your area and contact the organiser and offer your help. The more you get involved, the more people will notice how keen you are :)
 
Think the idea of helping out at pony club & horse trials is a good one. Try secretaries of local low key fun shows as well as the bigger ones too, they always need help. I let a small child I've never met before do lr gymkhana on my 14.2 once after I'd only seen her in another lr class earlier on. If I saw a teen regularly at a show with no horse I'd lend mine for a novelty class, whereas at a competition however often I saw someone I wouldn't just let them ride if that makes sense? (small upset tinies on the lr being the exception)
 
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