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Hi everyone, I have finally decided to join up and try to be useful (and stop lurking like a lurking thing!).

So hello! I would love to hear of all your horsey histories.
Mine consists of being plopped on a donkey at 3 and it all went downhill from there :p

Sadly I have no ponio of my own, but am having lessons weekly, mostly on Evil Bonnie, who is a DREAM to jump (though I tend to keep re-aquainting myself with the ground) but likes to bite any pony bottoms that pass too close to her face...:D Then again she has taught me to canter like a human bean, not bouncing and squeeking like a mad thing!

thelwell_girl xx
 
Hello thelwell_girl,
I didn't start riding till i was 13. (I grew up in London and thought only the police where aloud horses. Well you don't see normal people driving police cars and i only ever saw police horses. lol it made sence to me when i was small) when i was 11 we moved out of London and i descovered horses. I went to help at a local riding school but my parents could not afford to pay for lessons so after i had been helping out for two years the riding school let me have free lessons as a thankyou for all the help (i spent every spare moment helping out)
When i was 14 my parents said they would buy me a pony (but on the cheap) So i ended up with Lucy at the time the most unsutable pony you could imagen. But now 12 years on she is my pony of a life time and has taught me so so much i owe everything to her.
 
Hehe, I'm a Londoner myself :) I'm so lucky to have found a GREAT riding school, with lovely instructors, but sadly my fave pony Gwen (18 years old and never before sick a day in her life!) died in December, so I have been riding all the other lovely cobs (who all have their, er, quirks) and am loving it, only except my Gwenny isn't here to teach it all to me :( Evil Bonnie is nicer than she sounds though, and Dawi With The Terrible Trot is quite good too!

Your pony sounds amazing! Are you still riding her/ how old is she now?

thelwell_girl xx
 
Thanks Lucy is now atleast 20 years old. She has been semi retired since Nov as she has a very rare illness called Amyloidosis which very little is known about and she is on steroids to try to control it (she is a laminitic so i now have to be so careful not to trigger that as well :() But Lucy being Lucy is fighting on and we even went to the beach for the first time ever a few weeks ago. It was something i had always wanted to do but always put it off till next summer and now there is a real chance there may not be a next summer :( :(.
Right up untill the day she fell ill we did a bit of everything Showing, jumping, endurance rides of up to and inclu 80km and in the winter we went hunting atleast once a week. When i first bought her she was going for meat as she would attack you as soon as look at you. I was told to have her shot but she was my one chance to have a pony so i slowly gained her trust it took a long time and a lot of falling off and being bitten/kicked but we got there in the end and i'm so glad i didn't give up her. She's the chestnut in my siggy. :D
 
She's gorgeous! You obviously love her very much, I'm sure she loved the beach, but mostly being with you! I wish I had extra time with my Gwen, she taught me to canter and jump teeeny cross poles, and I cannot thank her enough, but I miss her every time I ride :( Lucy will be fine, she's got a strong spirit in her, and she'll fight! :D I'm gonna go make a siggy with Gwen in it now

thelwell_girl xx
 
I sort of know how you feel since Lucy sort of retired nothing has been the same. I realy miss her out hunting but atleast she's there when i get home. Her illness has taught me each day i get to spend with her is important as she's not going to be here forever :( Although if she keeps beating the odds the vets gave her (a less than 50% chance) she'll be around a while yet :) and if anyone can do it Lucy can. :D
Gwen sounds like she was lovely and you had a lovely time with her can't wait to see some pics of her:D. It's so sad that they don't live as long as we do. :( I can't imagen life without Lucy.
 
thelwell_girl said:
So hello! I would love to hear of all your horsey histories.
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oh dear you've asked for it now!!

I've ridden all my life, my parents left london in their early 30's for work, and fulfilled their dreams of owning horses and riding, as a result my sister and I had the opportunity to ride when we were little. I started off on a 12hh welsh A mare who was great on a lead rein and a little monkey otherwise! then moved onto a 13hh welsh C who lived until he was 46! He was a great pony, just stayed one step ahead of the kid who was riding him, coming up with a new trick everytime you solved the last one, but I hunted him, did pony club, hacked out, and he even went to olympia with one rider! Then I was given my pony of a lifetime. Bobby. the lady who gave him to me paid £50 for him as nobody could get him into the auction ring. He was welsh D and had been really badly treated, took 3 years before my dad could catch him, and he'd try to kill the vet and the farrier. But he'd do anything for me. I taught him to jump when we were both 11, and he did PC champs with me and my sister. last year he was still hunting with the little girl he was on loan to. He died in october of mass tumours interrupting his gut.

I then had a very difficult warmblood who was really quite unsuitable, but talented and handsome. he's still eventing with the people who bought him from us when I went to uni.

when I came back from Uni i bought Ron. He's a superstar, unique and bizarre, but I love him. he's incredibly loyal without ever appearing to be attached to anyone! I could honestly trust him with my life. for all his quirks he's safe as houses, even my friend's 9yo daughter can jump him round a 3foot course of show jumps, and he taught my OH to ride!

welcome to the forum, and I hope you find it useful!
 
Ron sounds amazing! Gwen, my fave pony at the riding school, sadly died in december after never being ill a day in her 18-year life :( I miss her so much, I trusted her with my life! She was known as a kicker, but I could stand right behind her in a busy yard, plait her tail... I could even untie her completely, and she was so lazy she would just stay there, then happily trot back to her stable :D I rode bareback for the first time on her, and she taught me to tack up properly as I honestly think she had every piece of tack under the sun :rolleyes:
Now I'm riding all the different ponios, and I must say Evil Bonnie is quite the girl :p

I will post pics soon of my fave girls and gelding, Gwenny, Mandy, Bonnie and Spot.

xx
 
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