How old was you when you started to ride?? :)

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So yeah?! How old was you when you started riding??

I just got a text from my friend telling me she has just loaned a pony for her 6 year old daughter (lucky thing!!) so she can begin riding. Did anyone else start as early as this?

I started when I was 13 - a bit late, I know, but hey ho!!

Just a bit of fun :p
 
I was 5 :)

had my own ponies up till i was 17, then kind of stopped a few years apart from the odd time riding my mums cob every blue moon, had 2 children and restarted again about 3 years ago (am now 30) :D and have 3 of my own beasties :)) mum still has the cob and my nan & grandad have horses too, as do most of my family :DD fair to say it runs through the family :D
 
7!

I remember the lesson clearly...the instructor said we were going to trot, so I did me John Wayne impression and yelled 'Ye-ha!', flapped the reins and the pony promptly dumped me....

:D
 
i was 11 before i finally wore my parents down enough to allow me to have riding lessons- though my daughters much luckier- had her own pony at 6!
 
I always wanted to ride, I 'rode' on trecs on a couple of holidays (think I was around 12-14?)but didnt start learning to ride until I was 16. Very late :)
 
was interested/wanted lessons from about 6, but we lived in singapore so only one riding school and it was too expensive (would have been too hot anyway!)

Came back to england at 8 and started riding.
 
Sat on a pony from the age of 4. I'm sure the pony was a black shetland called thumper...

Parents divorced so didn't start lessons until 12/13, stopped at 16 and started again around 20. Bought my first horse for my 21st, followed by another two at 22! Phew!
 
Technically 5. I did rather well untill I had to give up my loan.
Then I went to stable after stable who ruined my confidence.
I didn't start riding properly again untill I was 9.
 
Lead rein hacking from age 6 (few riding schools in the 1970s had school areas!). Didn't have a 'lesson' until I was 9, changed riding schools to one that had a 'ring' (fenced off, flat area of a field).
First pony at 11. 2 year old NF mare............I had non-horsey parents and she was cute, we'd gone to look at her 8 yr old full brother! Turned out to be a superstar pony, even though it should, technically, have been a disaster!
 
Started at 2 photos of me sat on me aunts pony are amusing, legs could barely straddle it the saddle... it also took me till I was about 13 & my cousin getting a 16hh horse that the "horse" i'd 1st sat on was only 14.2!! haha. :o

Can't remember when I first had lessons, or when I started jumping.. can remember falling off a lot & was hunting by i was 7 (i think) :D
 
I was 4 when I started to ride, remember the pony too, bay shetland :D
never looked back :D

(and considering im only 24 ive been riding for 20 years!! how scary :0 )
 
I started riding when I was 6, but it took until I was 13 for my parents to realise that it wasn't just a phase and got me a horse on loan :)
I've now got my own horse and a couple of horses I compete and school :)
 
I remember my first memory of being on a horse when I was about three. My parents took me to a riding school to have a little look at horses and I was lucky enough to have a little ride. Back home, I have a little picture of me riding a palomino when I was about 4.
 
I was 8 and my sister was 5, and we were at our local riding school. My sister stopped because she was too scared, but started again when she was 7 and never looked back. When she was 8 she got her first pony, and shortly after so did I (I was 10, nearly 11). I'm now 19 and only ride occasionally because I'm at uni and I can't afford to ride unless I'm at home. Al (sister) is 17, and has her own horse (and has owned horses constantly since the age of 8 doing all PC activities- I've been slightly more hit and miss).

We've been exceptionally lucky to have free livery for a long time when we started with a very experienced eventer (our ponies were companions to her event horse!) to show us the ropes properly. We've only loaned, and so have had some very quirky and naughty ponies, and even now Al has an ex-racer she's retrained who'll hopefully be her superstar. It was a huge sacrifice for my parents to make as they weren't horsey, but now my mum is supergroom and my dad is so supportive!
 
I was about 2 when I started riding, very horsey grandad!! My daughter is 1 and sits on my two boys now bareback! Will get her a pony when she's 2, so long as she still loves them as much as she does now! As soon as she sees my boys, her legs flap and she squeals with excitement! The day I got her home from hospital, she was out with me mucking out! Got them at home, so horses to her are normal!! I don't have any help, so she's involved (from her buggy!!) in everything!!
 
Started when I was three got my first pony a Shetland called Jacko at 4. My sisters 11 month old already has her own pony and has even been to shows doing lead rein , using that Dinky saddle which holds the child in. The wee girl loves it, laughs her head of - extremely cute..!!!
 
Well, I beat you all so far I was almost 40 when I sat on a horse for the very first time :) parents couldn't afford lessons when I was young; I married and had three kids between 19 and 27;

It was one of my dreams to ride, i was just so nervous by the time I reached my 30's! I did pluck up courage to have lessons though, and the rest they say is history!

Feel lucky that I have two ponies now; the kids have left home so I have all day everyday to play with them :D
 
Had my first pony at 4 but was on horses way before then, on the front of family members' saddles! Wouldn't get away with that these days lol
 
My sister was horsey when she was younger and theres a big age gap between us, so was on her horses when i was two and pretty competant by 5 but didnt have any lessons till i was about 6 then had a few ponies on loan then got my first owned pony at 8:)
 
I started to learn at 25 but much preferred the caring for them so only stuck it out for a year!!

Daughter started at 5, was competing SJ at 6 & had her 1st national final at 9yrs. Now 15 & still as obsessed!!
 
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