Have you ever given anyone a pony, and if yes, what was their reaction

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K's post made me think of this
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. Very festive me thinks.

We gave Daughter a pony three years ago today
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Took her to look at rocking horses...., only we said she had to have her riding gear as the owner of the rocking horse place had ponies she could ride
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. Told her that they were for sale so she might have to hop off if someone turned up to try them. She rode LC - he was young and very green (just backed!), but very sweet and calm. Daughter came off at least twice. I asked her what she thought to him and would a young girl be lucky to get him. She said he was lovely, but too green for her(!). Hubby said I'd have to tell her (the plan was the stable with ribbone and bows), so I told her that we were looking for a pony for her! The look on her face
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. Anyhoo, LC came home a week later
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Lovely story
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For years all I ever wanted for Christmas was a pony, never got one though.

I was bought my yearling for my birthday in February, was a lovely surprise but I already had her living with me and had always planned to buy her so not a huge shock. It made my day though when I found her passport in my Birthday card
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Yep I gave my son his pony for his 8th birthday - took him to a field of about 20 horses - i'd already bought the pony a week before and had been having to make excuses to go and do her for the week before the birthday - anyway when we got there I gave him a leadrein and said if you can find a pony with a headcollar to match you can have it - he ran round frantic looking for his pony and it was true love from the moment he found her - still brings tears to my eyes thinking about it - they were a coupling made in heaven that was 6 years ago now.
 
Yes, I got given one last christmas!

I had been riding him for about a year before, and i worked at the yard, and got to ride him in payment.
Then on christmas day last year, opened up 5 layers of wrapping paper with his passport inside, with my name in the owner list.

I cried all day, childhood dreams come true!! Was easily the best day of my life
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I've sort of been given one, although it took 11 months for her to arrive
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I was chatting with the YO of a yard I used to help out on for a few years when I was around 14/15, and with my mum and casualy said I'd love a foal one day. It just came out in conversation, to which she replied why don't I have a foal out of the mare I had on loan from her at the time. I was soooo happy! It all happened rather quickly and with 3 or 4 weeks she was pregnant. 11 months later out popped this lovely little filly, Prada, I was so happy I cried and all I could do was hug Rimini (the dam!) and stare at my lovely little fiily!

She turned 3 at the end of July 2009 and soon after I backed her with the help of my jumping teacher, she was amazing! She can be a bit bolshy and is quite picky as to who is allowed near her but I love her with all my heart and she is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I'm so excited about the future with her
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A little picture...
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When i was about 11 or so i had a pony on loan, loved him lots - the owner was always funny about him being out on loan and my mum was always having fall outs with her so was told not to get to attatched to him, had him for about 3 years on loan. On xmas morning i went down to the stables and there was tinsel around his door and he had a xmas hat on and a sign on the door saying happy xmas, i was over the moon!
Unfortunitly after we bought him, in the summer he kept going down with colic - turns out he had liver diesease and had to be PTS
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i was devestated, took me a long long time to get over it, and i still think about him to thisx day, little black fell pony
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RIP sonny xxxxx
 
i was given one just before i was 11... it was an early b-day pressie.
i had had him on trial for a while, but wasn't sure if dad would buy him as he was very naughty!
when dad called me from work i thought it was to say we would be taking him back as he had got me off a lot! but he told me he had bought him for me and happy birthday. i was over the moon. i ran out to the field and was giving him hugs and cuddles.. best day
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Never been given one and imagine it must be amazing for a child and it was something I longed for every Christmas as my birthday is just a few days before and I just assumed one year I'd pull back the curtains and out there in our garden would be my pony...sadly didn't happen but I got a Black Beauty nightdress case, endless Sindy horses, a Patch's Pony and a Bonanza horse which I was very happy with instead!
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Until I got to 41 years of age and self treated myself to a real one!
 
Ooh and MrsM, I did almost open up this thread expecting to hear you'd made some kind of exciting impulse buy, or given away a member of your herd
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Yes, i gave my daughter her pony for xmas some yrs back now, she was too young to understand the card i'd written thou, i'd had him for a couple of mths from my friend as i'd lost another one. Decided to buy him, novice young kid and novice young pony - great combination! It worked thou and had him 6 or 7 yrs now. Lovely feeling to be able to do that.
 
yes, my Mum gave me one - long story which I shall try to shorten
I had horse on loan and owner agreed for me to buy her. She pulled out of the sale and took the loan off me :-(
I was only 11, and gutted. Mum made me go to the yard on Christmas Eve to give YO and daughters their presents, I was crying, and saying I didn't want to because I would see the horse, anyway she made me
I got there and threw the presents at them, and Mum kept saying, just wait, just wait. I turned round, and there the horse was with a massive red bow on her head, and round her neck
I burst into tears, and didn't know what to do!!!
Turns out the owner had been to my Mum, and offered her again, Mum made her sign a piece of paper and gave her the money
 
Well it was more of a hulking great horse actually!

When I was living in Cyprus I bought Maios from the Army riding school, he was a nice horse but we never really hit it off, a few months later my OH at the time bought Martini for himself. When we split up I bought Martini from the OH and he became my Horse of a Lifetime.

Meanwhile I was paying the German Instructor at the yard to ride and train Maios for me with a view to selling him.

She put in a lot of work on him, getting him happy to go out on his own, starting dressage on him successfully and really loved him, Maios also bonded with Claudia (he used to attack everyone else). She would have loved ot have bought him but was only earning a small amount and could not have afforded the purchase price of 1000 euro.

When I left Cyprus I loaned out Martini to my friends daughter.

With Maios I got a legal document prepared giving 100% ownership of him to Claudia for the payment of 5 euro's and just handed it to Claudia. She burst into tears and told me she had been too scared to ask me what I was going to do and the best she had hoped for was I would consider keeping him loaned to her.

On my last visit I dropped into to see them both and she insisted on showing me (in the dusk!) just how far they had come on and were now regularly competing and getting good dressge scores.
 
Not strictly the answer to the question, but I have been "given" a horse, to keep as long as I like, and to do what I like with.
I thought I was the victim of an April Fools day joke, but, horse duly arrived and is settling in well, she is nearly 4, and a SF cross Spanish, very attractive, good mover and intelligent.
The only thing is that she can never be sold and is to be passed back to the breeder when I want.
so, I can tell you what it feels like to receive a horse, and sadly, also to give one away, albeit to an adoring former owner.
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My daughter, last June, took her to the yard to 'meet some friends' then 'Summer' popped her head over the stable door with a note attached to her headcollar, I told my daughter (aged 10) "You's better look at that, it may be important.."
She opened it and it took a few seconds for it to sink in.. "Please love me and look after me, Happy Birthday!"

My daughter started weeping hysterically, so did I.. Summer was totally bemused just gawping at us! I'll never forget it, started to get tears now, just thinking about it lol
 
I was given my superstar welshie for my 11th birthday
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I had a little 12.2 pony on loan at the time and my dad was working down south. On my birthday he flew home (it was a Friday so perfectly normal) and mum told me he was bringing my present back with him. We went to the airport to pick him up and my grandparents were there too, who made some excuse about stopping by on their way home. Dad came off the plane and handed me an envelope with a picture of a pony in it. Mum whisked us all off to the stables and there he was, a scrawny, hairy little 2.5 year old with ribbons in his mane looked thoroughly peeved! I was besotted though, and didnt eat for 2 days I was so excited
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Best present ever!
16years later he's still with me and that scrawny little welshie turned into a true superstar and friend. I wouldnt change him for the world and can never thank my parents (and grandparents as they helped out) enough for bringing my boy into my life.
 
I love the 'here's a leadrope find a matching pony' idea. Would love to do that for my son when he's old enough. Oh I do hope he likes ponies...
 
Just a perfect excuse to bore you all with my story!


Henry arrived at the Yard I worked on, a 15.2hh show cob with sweet itch who dished, and I was asked by YM to ride him to try him out for the riding school - nothing unusual there, I thought. I worked for her and often rode new RS ponies, and knew she was looking for a bigger horse or two.

Oddly I thought. mum insisited on coming up to watch me ride. Said mother almost had a heart attack when I got on him and he spun and started jiggling about! Turned out he had just spotted a coloured cob being led up the lane, and judging on future experiences we don't think he had met a coloured before!

Still, I rode him into the school and out for a short hack without further event, and by the time we were on our way back I turned to mum and told her I loved him and that I knew money was tight but if I could have him on loan from the RS it would be wonderful. She just said "we'll see what we can do" and smiled to herself. Still I had no idea, until we got into the tack room afterwards and both my parents and my YM were there, and told me he was mine if I wanted him. Cue instant tears of shock and awe, YM thought I was going to faint, so made me sit down with a mug of sweet tea!

He was my horse of a lifetime, my soul mate, and I smile and feel sad whenever I think of him and the short time we had together.

Awww. I'll never forget the feeling: it would be so glad to give that to someone else!
 
Not quite the same, but my mum bought me an ex-racer as a surprise when I was 13!
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I was up the yard one night and I heard a horse nicker to me in the dark from a stable on the other side of the block. When I went to say hello it turned out to be a horse I had never seen before. This horse then poked his tongue out at me, and it was love at first sight!! I spent the rest of the evening talking to the strange horse until Mum picked me up. I then proceeded to bore her stupid with talk of this horse for the next week or so!

It turned out that th YO had bought the horse at Doncaster sales with the intention of selling him on. I was heartbroken as a succession of people came to see the new horse. One day I say ginger hairs on my navy numnah, and one of the lads on the farm said that my sister had ridden the horse. I felt jealous, but thought no more of it.

One day, I was told that the horse had been sold, and that the vet would be arriving shortly to vet him. However, the new purchaser didn't turn up to ride him, so YO asked if I would ride him for the vet. I didn't hesitate, and as I galloped him around the field to check his lungs, I thought I would burst with longing. The vet pronounced him sound, and I felt desolate that I would never see this wonderful horse again. Then Mum said: "He's yours". Mum said afterwards that she had never seen me speechless before.
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I remember it so well, yet it was nearly 20 years ago
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He died in 2005, and I miss him so much
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