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Are there any items that you own that you have had for many years, and which you are reluctant to ever replace?

I have quite a few :eek:

Jumping whip - 10 years old, it's nothing fancy, but I've never found another one in a shop that 'fits' my hand so well. Love it to bits!

Stirrup leathers - 12 years old. Bought for my last horse, Mickey, whose tack was havanna; when I then got Ellie and wanted black tack, I loved my leathers so much I dyed them black instead of buying new ones! Now they've faded to a beautiful rich chocolate colour, and although it doesnt match my black saddle, they've become a bit of a trademark!

Brass swan necked stirrups - 10 years old. Mum bought them for me when I first got Ellie, and I love them. Never found another pair like them, and people often comment at shows as they're so unusual. They're quite heavy, but I intend to look after them and keep them forever as they're so comfortable!

Black gaiters - 9 years old. I have no idea what make they were, but I love them so much - never found another pair that looks as nice. I havent worn them for a couple of years as the zip became a bit too tight, but having just lost half a stone (and hopefully losing more!) I'm hoping I can wriggle back into them soon :D

Your turn! :D
 
Sounds really stupid, but I have a tie pin - a little gold one with a horse's head in the middle. I bought it before I ever had a horse and I used to imagine wearing it at shows and stuff. Now I actually DO get to wear it at shows!

Last weekend we went to a show and I dropped it in the grass - there was no way we were leaving without finding that pin! (We did find it in the end, thankfully!)

I've had it more than 20 years.

I've also got a pair of joddy boots that are probably about seven or eight years old. I spend most of my life in them and they've been repaired so often there probably isn't very much of the original boots left, but they've moulded to my feet and are SO comfortable!

Oh, and I've also got Kira's headcollar from when I first got her - she was 8 months old and I look at it now and can't believe her head was that small!
 
a poster of Henderson Milton and a copy of a catalogue from the great yorkshire show when he was jumping there and a photo story out of horse and pony mag that somebody i know was in and a nickel loose ring snaffle bit from an old pony i used to ride over the moors bareback on and some tail hair from another pony i used to jump and i could go on and on but i am a hoarder so it would take forever!
 
My youngsters first little headcollars. Like to keep them as find it hard to believe my dinosaurs ever fitted into them :)

Also have a lovely old double bridle which is such nice quality leather, they don't make em like that these days!

And like to keep my old old saddles from 20 odd years ago, so bloomin uncomfy but good for entertainment value.
 
I don't have a lot of tack because I have never owned a horse!

However when I lived in Bournemouth there was an amazing tack shop called Aivly (it was in Ringwood) and I bought a lovely long schooling whip. It is black (whip covered in a PVC type material) with the end of the whip plaited and red and black. It is so bendy and perfect!

When I moved to Cornwall I started riding Charisma, went to a show one day and ended up leaving it there! :( I was gutted because it came all the way from Ringwood and was so bendy! :)

I do go back to Bournemouth sometimes to visit my eldest brother, and I last year went up there with Mother and took her 'out for the day' to Aivly! Just to buy that whip again.

Turns out I didn't lose the whip at all and now I have two! :D
 
My lot all have matching black leather headcollars with brass name plates on for "posh occasions", so when the go to the big stable in the sky, or are sold on, I take off the name plates and put them on my tack room wall :)

Also my Cadbury bears tack and all his rugs....
 
I have a pair of chaps i've had for about 8 years, they've lots the elastic the goes under your foot and the popper on the side is broken but I refuse to part with them, they're the perfect faded brown :o

and i have them on in every picture in my signiture :D
 
It was my riding hat, I had that hat since I got my first pony as a 9yo and I wore it daily at home until I was 20 (heads dont grow do they?!). I was forced to replace it when my welsh cob decided to knock it off a shelf in the stable and kick it around, standing on it - you name it he did it. It was very very bashed by the end of it :(

I still have lots of things which are ancient, like my very tatty Mountain Horse joddy boots which I've had about 10 years - the sole is coming off so they let in water but I ride in them everyday (except in the winter).
 
I still have my first riding hat - a proper black velvet one - purchased with Christmas and birthday money when I was 6 which was 55 years ago! As far as current H & S regulations go, it is laughable but my son still wears it for in-hand showing as it is much smaller and neater than current hats, it doesn't make you look as though you have hydrocephalus
 
It's the fancy dress outfit my dad made for my pony and me. We went as a 'knight in shining armour' and we came first. It was my first ever rosette. I still have the costume and it's getting on for 30 years ago!
 
MagicMelon said:
I still have lots of things which are ancient, like my very tatty Mountain Horse joddy boots which I've had about 10 years - the sole is coming off so they let in water but I ride in them everyday (except in the winter).
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I have jodhpurs like this, if you walk around the arena you end up with a boot full of surface but I still ride in them every day (including winter :o)
 
i have a bit from my first loan horse in 2004..it was too small so i bought her a new one and i kept this one :) its my lucky bit, i took it to help me with luck for exams and stuff :)

my next item is quite sad so, dont read if you are easily upset..

I have my foals first rug, before he was stabbed to death...it still smells like him..he was born in april 2007 and killed in may 2007..he didnt like to wear the rug so i put it on the straw and he used to sleep on it :) at the moment its in the shed, a few people have said i should wash it but i cant bring myself to, it still smells like him and its the only connection i have left to him...sorry if i sound too soppy, lol.

xxx
 
My schooling whip - purple and black striped :p

My Dublin short boots, had a couple of other pairs, had these for 2 years and I always go back to them even though my mum has a pet hate for them because they're so tatty :D

My Mountain Horse jacket. Owned for nearly 4 years (far FAR too big when I bought it) a weeny bit short in the body now, but I love it so much :p xx
 
Ari's cherry blossom said:
I have my foals first rug, before he was stabbed to death...it still smells like him..he was born in april 2007 and killed in may 2007..he didnt like to wear the rug so i put it on the straw and he used to sleep on it :) at the moment its in the shed, a few people have said i should wash it but i cant bring myself to, it still smells like him and its the only connection i have left to him...sorry if i sound too soppy, lol.

xxx
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Awww, I think I would be the same, in fact I know I am the same, I still have all my now passed on horses and ponies items, including my boy who was pts in 2003's headcollar and rope which was hung in the corner of the tack room and hasn't been touched since, I can't bring myself to take it down or reuse it still. All his items, including his stable are still referred to as belonging to Walter, even though they have been used on other horses since!
 
Tucked away at my parents my first showing outfit - burgundy hat and jacket :o - it was 2nd hand when I got it and went on to do several other local kids until mum got it back, it's a minimum of 30 yrs old!
Somewhere I still have a 20odd yr old copy of the Pony Club mag where they did a photo story at camp, the advantage of riding a small pony became clear when they did a group shot as I'm front and centre :D
I'm also still using a pair of swan neck stirrups and leathers that I got for my 12th birthday - they're still in great condition and the stirrups are too small for my brother so he can't nick them :p
 
the leather boots my dad bought me for my 18th - though they haven't fitted me for years and my older daughter at 13 has already grown out of them before ever really growing into them, sadly.
 
arizonahoney - like this:
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The last rug Tiggy wore.

Dizzy's new rug and headcollar (I'll post a pic when they're up). Embriodered for my Birthday :D. Thought the first time she wore them would be at our first show. Ah well. They suit her :D
 
My racing exercise saddle.

Only used it a couple of times but its from such a huge part of my life. I loved my work experience in Newmarket. It was amazing, and I bought my saddle from one of the yard jockeys.
 
I still have the first bit that was bought for my first horse....a nickel loose ring snaffle....which would have been in 1972.
Still using a martingale that i bought from a stand at stow fair around 1975, its the best leather i have ever seen, bought from an old chap who hand made them.
 
i still have the head collar and lead rope, that my mare came with when she was 14 months old, she is 20 now, i also have her first numnah.
i will never ever get rid of them.
 
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