How old were you when you got your first youngster?

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Reading the post on youngsters below got me wondering how old you where when you bought your first youngster to bring on and how much experience you roughly had before this?
No real reason for asking really just being nosey
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I got my lad when i was 20!!Ridden from been 4yrs and worked in various yards(after going to college and gaining stages and diploma),assisted with backing youngsters on 1 yard!!
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age 11 - 4yr old pony (my first) who had been backed about 3 months

probably not the best idea, esp as coming from a non horsey background but turned out just fine!!
 
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age 11 - 4yr old pony (my first) who had been backed about 3 months

probably not the best idea, esp as coming from a non horsey background but turned out just fine!!

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Glad to hear it worked out ok.
 
I was 26 when I got a 4 yo TBxWB. Glad I wasn't any older or I wouldn't have been able to bounce so well from all the times I got bucked off...
 
14. She had been lightly backed and I did the rest with weekly help from an instructor. She was a difficult tb who sadly turned out to have a brain tumour but it taught me a lot!!
 
I got mine when I was 20 - she was 2 and I couldn't afford one that was broken in!
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No experience with youngsters but I had been around horses and riding regularly since the age of 5 and had loads of help available.
 
my parents bought me my mare when i was 11yrs old, she was two and was, and always has been an absolute darling, still got her 16yrs later, she had 6foals and we bred other youngsters from other mares we had, i trained and backed some of them over the years, but it all started when i was 11
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10 years old - got 5 year old just broken for a few months and who turned out to have some cancer of muscles
12 years old - got 5 year old pt connie who was very very green but kept him till i was 16 as he was brill!
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14 years- had to ride and bring on + sell a 4 year old just backed for instructor
15 years old - got a 5 year old gelding who had been broken and turned away for a year then i got him! and still have him
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luckily though had help from neighbour when i needed it!

i can see now why i find it hard to ride a schoolmaster
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even though my horses have gone on as schoolmasters!
 
At 16, bought a 2yr old arab, backed at 4yrs. He turned out to be my horse in lifetime and I was devasted when I lost him to colic after 15yrs together
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Come from a horsey family so always had experienced help on hand when needed.
 
I'm sixteen and just got my first youngster - shes rising 5 in july. Shes for the most part very mature for her age - although can be just a touch unpredictable :P
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11yrs old - got irish 4yr old connemara just broken

12yrs old- got 6yr old connemara x tb v green

13yrs old - got 4yr old irish cob cross that I still have he was just broken and an absoloute b*****d but he taught me alot.
 
At 14years, my dad brought me a 2yr colt! I learnt alot and he turned out to be a cracking lad. Now i am 28 and I have a 4year old who I have had since he was 11months. I will be keeping this one for life. I just love youngsters.
 
I was 15 and I loaned my first youngster, he was my first horse. 16.1 TB, been lightly backed. He was absolutely amazing, really chilled. We did trotting poles, hacked alone and in company, rode in fields etc, I regrett giving him back although he was hard work! He couldn't half put up a fight! I am now nearly 17 with 4y/o xracer. I just love the youngsters!
 
I was 14 when I had my first youngster, she is a 16hh IDxTB who came across from Ireland backed and ready to go as a rising 4 year old. Not what you would call your ideal first horse for a teenager, but she taught me such a lot. Unfortuanly she was diagnosed with navicular aged 6 or 7 but is now sound as a pund and am back out competing her.
 
I was 12 and my wonderful auntie had promised to give me a pony of my own (after riding her ponies for years) , I thought nice little PC pony, what I got was unbroken 13.1hh homebred half goat creature. Had no idea what I was doing in retrospect and thankfully she was really laid back, most of my riding time was trying (normally unsucessfully) to get to her go forwards and the rest was hacking out (which she loved and would do all day, just didn't like the school). I think the only time she ever really shifted in the school was when she saw my friend with a feed bucket walk past on the other side of the fence and wanted her nose in it! She taught me a lot and I now take ponies and horses in for breaking on a regular basis and I would like to think that this is partly due to the patience that she taught me to have with young horses!
 
14yrs old when i got a 3yr old 14.2 chestnut mare. She is the last pic on my sig with her head over the door.
I still have her now - she is 25 this year.
 
I was 34 when I got a rising 5 year old! Oldest one here!! Do I get a prize? (had a 12 year old, 8 year old, and 6 year old before (mature 6, he'd had a couple of years of work already)).
 
I was 34 or 35 when I got Adrian at the age of 4, but I forget that he's a youngster cos he's soooo laid back (when he isn't at comps).
 
I was 18 when I bought mine at 8 months old.

I was lucky though I didnt have a clue but my dad helped me and helped me break her in. (Its the only decent thing he's ever done for me though!!!)

Having said that she was probably the most easy going horse ever.
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About 16, if you ride well, can ride fit racehorses, and have delt with problem horses and are kind and sympathetic, then you should be fine, i have always had unbroken horses.
 
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