How it used to be in the days of yore!!

During summer I only ever rode my ponies in shorts and trainers - My calf was permanently bruised from rubbing on stirrup leathers. I didn't give a stuff at the time but I have had permanent broken veins there ever since!
 
I too remember taking ponies on long explorations with friends, backpacks with sangers made by mum and a pound for a can half way round :) Were the horses hardier then, or did we make them harder by worrying less and REALLY riding more?
 
Putting salt in the bran mash, having the funny looking brown inner grease marks on your jods or jeans all the way down to the inner ankle from riding bareback, going home and using the OUTSIDE loo and trying to position yourself so that the crack in the seat didn't pinch you:D oh and spurs that had no effect on your dead to the leg cob, you rode in a kimblewick!
 
Boolavogue, I know what you mean, I think we were a lot less precious with our ponies in them days. And they certainly were hardier, and yes, we REALLY rode! I'm going back to the 60's here, thinking about it it wasn't too many years before that when horses were a much accepted mode of transport and actually had some respect on the roads. It was probably the last time when the roads were OK to ride on, we were quite lucky to sort of get in on the end of a lost era. We had such freedom then compared to now, it frustrates me hugely that we can't hack out without risking life and limb.
 
horses were kept in stalls/new zealand rugs/jute rugs/plaited reins/scamperdale pelhams/boiled barley/linseed mashes/mane hogging/hats with no chin straps/baggy jods/hacking to shows/cantering on grass verges/picnics................
 
This is a cool thread.
Cantering along the verges :D:D:D
Hacking to the smithy for shoes
No hat and trainers:p, nobody bothered
Strawberry tarts at the shop wi an apple for the pony
If you fell off you held on tighter the next time
Mock hunts and being the fox on a shetland with a whistle.
 
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