How long have you been riding???????

[tibby]

46 years and still useless.

 

[BackInBlack]

36 years

 

[camilla4]

40 years but with a gap in my thirties. Started age 5

 

[Gorgeous George]

I started riding when I was about 7 and I'm now 40, so 33 years - althouh you wouldn't think it to watch me!!

 

[Kat]

29 years this summer!

The really scary thing is that for 19 years of that I had weekly riding lessons, I dread to think of the money my parents and I have spent over the years..........

 

[spotty_pony]

7 years

 

[Theresa_F]

I am now 46. I was sat on a horse at 9 days old, and could ride (sort of) before I could walk. Won my first ribbon at 18 months in a gymkhana and was taken hunting when I was 4 as I could then gallop and hang on over small ditches and logs. I did have the most fantastic Dartmoor who really looked after me though.

My mum let me off the lead rein at 4 when hacking out but did put me one on the roads until I was 7 just in case.

Probably explains my bandy little fat legs.

 

[foo]

40 yrs this year

 

[hussar]

Sat on a horse (and I mean horse, not pony!) for the first time aged 2, started proper lessons aged 7, am now 53....

 

[flowerlady]

43 years

Now your making me feel old

 

[Echo Bravo]

over 40 years,sorry more like 50

 

[yeeharider]

40years+ OMG where did the time go still have loads of great memories and lots more to come I hope

 

[brighthair]

too bloody long!!
started at 5 so 21 years, but I had a 4-5 year break

 

[charlie55]

14 years

Feels like 50 years with my back though

Does anybody want to donate a good one??

 

[yeeharider]

21 years with a break you are a spring chicken and make me feel like a dinosaur maybe we should form a 40 year+ clique

 

[brighthair]

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21 years with a break you are a spring chicken and make me feel like a dinosaur maybe we should form a 40 year+ clique

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lol!!! well when I'm *counts on fingers*45 it will be 40 plus years.... parents still live in hope I'll give up

 

[yeeharider]

ha ha my parents keep telling me to hang my boots up too not a chance having too much fun!!!!!!!!! YEEHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[brighthair]

Mums quotes

"It's a passing phase..." - that was last week
"No, you're not having a riding hat, you'll give up soon" - after 5 years of riding
"How did you learn all this?!" watching me muck out/groom - well I've been doing it for 10 years now Mum!
"Are you ok Spud?" - after an unscheduled dismount resulting in whiplash

and the best was when I moved yards, and had paid for hay in advance - all 75 bales of it....

"WHY is there BALES OF HAY IN MY BLEEDING KITCHEN?!"

 

[yeeharider]

have done the passing phase bit 34 years ago when dad told me i could have my own horse once i had discovered boys HA HA