tessybear
Well-Known Member
Just wondering really, thinking about we have gone from one of the scale to the other !!
Prepare for photo overloads of the past 30+ years of my families horse owning life and how we have changed types of horses..
Please feel free to post your own and any photos you have, will be interesting to see
soooo... Let's start off at the beginning:
Mum worked at a riding school as YM and head instructress style thing, Cue a new horse coming in from the sales bought by YO, he was a plain, ignorant and in many ways doofy Dutch Warmblood useless to hack, lazy in the school but safe as a house. Mum decided to buy him, to this day she is unsure what lead her to do this but was he worth it ! This guy could blooming jump ! he would jump anything and i mean anything, if you messed up he would correct himself and jump it anyway, XC, SJ he didn't care and boy did he love it too ! She used to have jump offs with the others girls at the yard, rolling the bales together and narrowing them down seeing who’s horse could jump it without running out... Boots always won.
Boots was still a nightmare to hack but my superglue bummed mother took it all in her stride, they went through the ranks and got rather far at eventing but then she got pregnant with Moi ! so bye bye boots, sold onto a teenage girl wanting to do exactly what my mother did and needed a safe, steady been there done it horse.
here he is :
In between me being old enough to ride mum had many a loan horse and would ride a lot of the school ponies to keep them ticking over. Then she went and got little Oliver for me on loan i believe, a shitland that i mucked about in, never really serious riding but i loved him to bits
One of the loan horses Amber : a complete mar but a sweetie
To finally something totally different, our hunka chunka Cob, something safe and sane needed to restore my sisters confidence after Darcy took it out of her when hacking she couldn't deal with him so Tessy bear came along. She was brought as more of a project certainly not what we originally wanted but her big heart captured us all and she has restored my sisters confidence whilst bombing about with me... a photo for good measure so she doesn't feel left out
....Your turn
Prepare for photo overloads of the past 30+ years of my families horse owning life and how we have changed types of horses..
Please feel free to post your own and any photos you have, will be interesting to see
soooo... Let's start off at the beginning:
Mum worked at a riding school as YM and head instructress style thing, Cue a new horse coming in from the sales bought by YO, he was a plain, ignorant and in many ways doofy Dutch Warmblood useless to hack, lazy in the school but safe as a house. Mum decided to buy him, to this day she is unsure what lead her to do this
but was he worth it ! This guy could blooming jump ! he would jump anything and i mean anything, if you messed up he would correct himself and jump it anyway, XC, SJ he didn't care and boy did he love it too ! She used to have jump offs with the others girls at the yard, rolling the bales together and narrowing them down seeing who’s horse could jump it without running out... Boots always won. Boots was still a nightmare to hack but my superglue bummed mother took it all in her stride, they went through the ranks and got rather far at eventing but then she got pregnant with Moi ! so bye bye boots, sold onto a teenage girl wanting to do exactly what my mother did and needed a safe, steady been there done it horse.
here he is :
In between me being old enough to ride mum had many a loan horse and would ride a lot of the school ponies to keep them ticking over. Then she went and got little Oliver for me on loan i believe, a shitland that i mucked about in, never really serious riding but i loved him to bits
One of the loan horses Amber : a complete mar but a sweetie
To finally something totally different, our hunka chunka Cob, something safe and sane needed to restore my sisters confidence after Darcy took it out of her when hacking she couldn't deal with him so Tessy bear came along. She was brought as more of a project certainly not what we originally wanted but her big heart captured us all and she has restored my sisters confidence whilst bombing about with me
... a photo for good measure so she doesn't feel left out
....Your turn
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