Horsey things you used to believe in as a kid...

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I used to think that when buying a horse, you would go to a pet shop for horses, and whatever colour you wanted, the horses and ponies would be lined up in stables, in order of size!!!

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What about you lot?
 
I used to think the chestnuts were sticking out bone and once nearly persuaded my parents to call the RSPCA on a horse with bone sticking out of its leg I saw in a field :o
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I had a friend when I was about 12 who was a bit spoilt, when I told her I might be getting a pony, she said 'yeah well, my dad's already ordered mine' like she thought they were from a catalogue or something!!
 
Seahorse said:
I had a friend when I was about 12 who was a bit spoilt, when I told her I might be getting a pony, she said 'yeah well, my dad's already ordered mine' like she thought they were from a catalogue or something!!
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I had a friend like that, she said hers was on it's way and she was keeing it in her garden!! and she'd walk it every day!!
Appently she was getting a shette from a charity and, and they said it was ok of her to keep it in the garden:rolleyes: yeah right:D
 
My kids have all thought that ponies are young (& therefore small) horses. So a horse would start off as a shetland, get bigger & turn into a large horse.
 
Dobby said:
I used to think the chestnuts were sticking out bone and once nearly persuaded my parents to call the RSPCA on a horse with bone sticking out of its leg I saw in a field :o
whoops!
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Ha - I thought the same too! I remember when I was about 7, I was on a riding holiday and we had tied the ponies up while we had lunch. I went to check on them and I went running back to my sister screaming that my pony had thick twigs stuck in his legs!

I also used to have an imaginary unicorn - although to me, it wasn't imaginary - I used to canter around the garden on it!
 
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Not really something I believed as such but I used to think it was OK to ride the local Welshie breeder's stallion bareback in the field without so much as a headcollar. I must have drove the owner insane lol. It was probably the most bombproof stallion in history!
 
I used to believe the riding school owner when he said the very old RS ponies had gone to devon!! He really ment heaven!!!! They still use that story now. One of the girls slightly younget than me said the other week when they visited, that field in devon must be huge, i was liker err yer its neverending with a never ending supply of grass and she fianlly clicked after 15 years of believing it!!!
 
If a horse was turned out in a field on a slope 2 of it's legs would grow longer than the other 2! Whenever I passed horses in sloping fields I used to beg my mum to take me to the owners to warn them. Luckily mother never took me, so I saved making a fool of myself!
 
zoelouisem said:
I used to believe the riding school owner when he said the very old RS ponies had gone to devon!! He really ment heaven!!!! They still use that story now. One of the girls slightly younget than me said the other week when they visited, that field in devon must be huge, i was liker err yer its neverending with a never ending supply of grass and she fianlly clicked after 15 years of believing it!!!
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Aww that's really nice! The RS i went to they would shoot the old ponies and leave them lying on the track under a tarpaulin for a few days :(

ETS: That's probably a bit harsh, it only happened once....
 
jumpthemoon said:
Aww that's really nice! The RS i went to they would shoot the old ponies and leave them lying on the track under a tarpaulin for a few days :(

ETS: That's probably a bit harsh, it only happened once....
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Yer they real good about it, he used to send us off out riding or somewhere and it would all be sorted by the time we got back. The only one i ever saw was when they had a colic and it had to be done it the riding school as an emergency and she was only there for an hour. I was 15 by then though so could understand alot more.
 
I can't remember anything really daft, I was *fairly* clued up early on as I was sad and read every book going.

That said, my knowledge of what to do with a collicking horse is STILL get some liquid pariffin down and it don't let it lie down, keep it walking! :o Too many pony stories I think! Need to look up what the modern day method is!
 
When I was 6, I told my best friend I jumped 12 foot on my 12.2hh exmoor pony!

And when I used to (dreaming of the perfect pony!) trawl through For Sale Ads, in my local horse magazine, I'd see 'Bucks' at the bottom by the phone number, and say to my Mum, "Why would you write that it bucks on the advert?"


I only realised a couple of years later, that it was Buckinghamshire......
 
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My friends, late 20s and non horsey, have asked me "do horses just eat grass?" and "does your horse keep its saddle on all the time?"
 
I always used to say 'when I grow up I won't need a car, I'll just ride my horse everywhere.'
..Didn't realise the impracticalities back then! :rolleyes:
 
I used to believe that if you bred a black horse with a white horse you would get a piebald

and that you bathed a horse in a giant bath hahaha

I also believed the pony being baby horse thing hahahah
 
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