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

I did riding trot on my bike for 2 years before my Dad was worn down! I'm not joking either :D

Mum is horsey but Dad is a father and was worried it would be another fad :o so on my 9th birthday had my 1st lesson and year later own pony!
 
I started when I was 4 years old, having lunge lessons!!! And had weekly/ fortnightly lessons at a riding school and helped ride my friends ponies.

I had a couple of ponies on working livery and didnt however get my own horses until I was in my mid teens when I had started working and saved every penny to get one!!!:)
 
I was 10 days old when i was first put on a horse (for photo's i assume!!), and haven't looked back since :).
I have vidoes of me being led around when i was tiny but i am not sure exactly how old i was.
 
I started when I was 5 :)

My family was always encouraging me to have dancing lessons (there are a lot of dancers in my family) but I was more interested in ponies, and after the first few dance lessons I refused to go again and my mum had no other option but to find me riding lessons.

I was a very determined child :P

I haven't looked back since, had several ponies on loan and ridden and brought on other people horses and I'm now working in the riding school I learnt to ride at. I'm at college studying a Level 3 Diploma in Horse Management and am looking to study an equine degree at uni. Lets just say my life is just VERY horsey :)
 
about four i think...mum bought us ponies and we weren't really interested never rode them.
So she sold the ponies and for the next seven years we begged for our own pony! Went to a riding school and finally when we were 11 our grandma bought us one as a gift and a year later my sis needed a bigger one so we had 2!...had mine 6 years now, think at one point we had four :o

At the mo we've still got the first one, my sister's first big horse who is retired and a welsh A on loan :)
 
I was 3 when i started lessons, my parents promised I could have a horse if i was still riding when i was 15 - so at aged 15 i bought Betty (chestnut in my sig),
 
First lesson was a week before I was 3, I learned to ride on an donkey called sylvia. Got my first pony on loan at 4 which I shared with my older brothers. I still remember seeing mum turn up with an old single trailer and seeing this pony come out. We spent all afternoon sitting on deck chairs out side his satbe ( dad made a wee pony door so he could look out he was only 11.1hh) He must have wondered what the hell these 5 people were doing just looking at him!! He turned out to be a wee *****e, very pretty but he didn't canter for the first 3 weeks, he bucked like stink and used to biff and occaisionally bite. The best first pony we could have got because we now have really good stickability and are pretty gutsy I would say. Better tahn a push button pony that yo never learn to "ride" on. I think it was Dads idea to put us off before it got too expensive-it didn't work, I'm 22 and somehow have managed to persuade them to keep financing it all including putting my mare in foal and keep the lorry going!!It is my mums hobby too but she doesnt ride she drives the pony. It works well so far we argue but that natural.
 
My family went on holiday every year to Weston Super Mare to visit relatives (we lived in Scotland) and the highlight was riding the beach donkeys every day!! I was probably about three when I started doing that. I then drove my parents mad spending all day at home "riding" the back of the sofa - and feeding, grooming it, putting on "rugs" and "tack" until they eventually gave in and bought me and my brother a pony to share. I was eight and never forget that Christmas morning when Dad took me out to the stable (we lived on a farm). She was called Duchess and was the prettiest little grey Welsh Mountain. We kept her on the farm until she had to be PTS at 25. Broke my heart. I am now 45 and got my lovely cob 2 years ago - he still feels like I'm riding the sofa!!
 
I was slung on horses and ponies as a toddler, couldn't really call it riding, though!

Hmm, think I might start a thread in PG encouraging everyone to post pics of themselves riding as kids, I love looking at old pony piccies!
 
I started lessons when I was about 4, we got a loan pony between my sister and I when we were 6 and 8, then when I was 7 we bought a pony with the money that our great grandma used to give us every Christmas and Birthday!! The pony (Copper, chestnut sec B) was £350 if I remember correctly and was a total superstar, we even hacked down the A47 between Kings Lynn and Wisbech before it was dualled much to my Mum and Dad's shock!!:eek::eek:

My daughter started earlier this year, actually on her 4th birthday, she's been going every fortnight, but since the beginning of this month has been going pretty much every Sunday. She's done a bit off the lead rein but is mainly on the lead rein and has jumped some cross poles, though she did keep telling me that the jumps were not very big!! LOL!!
 
11 - spent all my pocket money on riding lessons & all my spare time as a helper, which included riding the ponies in from the field bareback in just a rope halter. At 15 I paid £60 for a 3 year old NF pony who had been ill treated and was barely rideable. I took odd jobs to pay for his keep. I had him for 25 years until he had to be pts. After him a lovely little Arab mare for 17 years until I lost her. Now in my 60s still riding, training, competing and having regular lessons and lots of fun on my 3rd - and final - horse.
 
Where we lived when I was teeny tiny there were ponies, so I've pics of my sitting up on little 10.2hh ponies and me legs not even reaching the end of the saddle flaps :) I was 10 when I started lessons and joined pony club a year later. :)
 
started riding lessons at 11, by 13 parents found me a pony for full loan by 15 yrs had my own pony :) looking back i was very lucky my parents could afford a pony where as my friends couldn't.
 
I think in the earliest photo of me on a horse I am maybe 4 or 5...don't know exactly...think I was nagging before then so maybe younger...was not born into a horsey family but was certainly born horse-mad! :)
There's a series of photos of me on ponies and horses throughout my life then...they're also invariably the photos where I am beaming :D
I rode anything and everything...friend's horses, gypsies' horses, the odd trek or riding lesson (rare though) - til finally moved house right next door to a girl my age who had a small private showjumping yard and needed help YAY :D
had a long break from horses where i only rode occasionally, though, til starting again and riding everyone's problem horses, then finally achieving my life-long dream of actually owning my own horse :D:D:D
 
I was 13 when I wore my parents down enough to take me to the local riding school for lessons. I got a pony on loan when I was 15, and got my first horse when I was 16. Now 8 years later I have 6 horses, a miniture shetland and a donkey!
 
I first started riding donkeys age 8 as I used to walk them along the sea front for a free ride at the end of the day, I even raced in some donkey derby's!

Age 9 my parents bought a small holding and we loaned two ponies over winter from a local riding school, lots of riding in our field with no saddle for me, they returned next spring and the field was so empty.
Later that year (1991) we bought our very own horses, we purchased 2 registered welsh cobs and a lovely TB mare. The TB mare taught me a great deal, she was a very kind mare, not too sharp, but as a youngster you do not have the fear anyway.
Then the following summer of 1992 we purchased my beloved late Seren, most of my riding was done on her of course, she was the best
 
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