how old were you when you started riding?

I started at 8 and am now nearly 21 :)
Got my first part loan at 12.
My mum stopped riding for about 35 years and then took on a 5 y/o fruit loop cob to hack out with me and a friend - it can be done!! :) the only reason she stopped was because she is waiting knee replacements and obv it won't do them much good.
 
I was 22 when i was doing a programme on tv about my bad eating habits & they suggested starting a hobby that i wanted to do when i was young.

I had my first horse after a month of lessons (mad i know but worked out well), and ive never looked back! Im 26 now!!

Apart from some really low times - my 1st horse being retired and PTS ive loved every moment! My second horse is very testing at times, but we are getting there!
 
I was 6 months old when I got my first pony! He was also 6 months old and was a Shetland called Yogi. I rode him and competed in Gymkhanas aged 4-5I then stopped riding (apart from a few walk and trots around the paddock on some of my Grandads ponies) until I was 12 when I decided to have lessons at a riding school. Then got my ex BSJA pony Sonny age 14, Cherry when I was 16 and Jamin when I was 21.
 
potty_4_piebalds said:
My mum rode as a kid but she is now 48ish and hasnt ridden for years and would like to get a cob for us to share but is worried she is to old to learn to ride agian.

I started riding when i was 5.
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You are never too old!! Tell Mum to get a Coblet and get riding!!! Move back down here and keep Him/her at Ivy House and then I will be happy again lol!! :D:D:D
 
And at the other end of the scale, Mum rode several times a week until her pony died (aged 29) when she was 78. She still rode others occasionally and was still talking about getting another pony when she died herself, aged 80....
 
Rode at 4. Hunted at 5. Horses, horses, horses till I married. Then no horses for 20 years. Then someone wanted a horse exercised. Never looked back. Now very very old (bus pass generation) but still in the saddle (just) of a cheeky gorgeous cob. Tell your Mum to go for it - and have fun!
 
I was about 3 when I started having lessons. My mum had ridden for years so it was only natural for me to ride!

Got Mousey when I was 10 (he was 6 months), Blackjack when I was 14 (various loan horses and sister's horses in between) and Jazzy when I was 25 :)
 
I'm a basket saddle girl, I'm afraid... rode in a proper saddle at 2 and rode continually til I was 7. Had 2 years off thru lack of interest and then went to a riding school. Got my second pony (actually horse technically) at 13 and rode continually to 24 had 2 years off when I was a baby junior Dr and working silly hours then got back into it very quickly...(but still had an old horse to ride at Mum's if I ever wanted to sit on one...)

Basically I've always ridden can't imagine not riding / having ponies... My fave thing to do

Blitz
 
I started when i was about 6 but didnt get my own till i was 14. I wish i could have had a pony when i was younger though so that i could be a more confident rider! We managed to go from no horses to 4 in 1 year!!!!! xx
 
i was plonked on a pony at about 5, decided i didnt like it but would go for the odd plod on a lead rein. then the pony i rode died, and we only had one pony left - which i said was too big (12h2!) and fast and scary!
so i didnt ride it for about a year, changed my mind, and from about 10 pottered about on him.
then we got a horse and i started having lessons and competing etc at 13 and it snowballed ever since!
 
I started taking lessons the year I turned fifty. It seemed to be more fun then just sitting around watching my doughter's lessons.
Before that I had taken some tourist type trail-rides in the Rockies and way long before that I had spent some time on the backs of drafthorses. My grandparents lived in a small farming village in the Rheinland.
 
I was 21, didn't ride when i was younger other than afew times as a treat on holidays. As soon as i started so did the obssession, and now i'm the 12 year old horse mad girl i missed out on. I just wish I could go to pony club :-D
 
I was 31 when I sat on a horse for the first time.

Its great to hear of so many other people who took up riding later in life.

There is hope for me to event yet!!!
 
well i used to go on pony rides pretty much as soon as i could sit up then i rode a freinds pony when i was about 4 then had lessons when i was about 6/7
finally got my own pony at 14 asmy parentsdont know a thing about horses :(
 
I was 4 and had first pony at 9. Had a break of 6 yrs when children were born and got back on when daughter went to riding school. First lesson they had me jumping without stirrups - welcome back. Hack out daughters 16.3 now 47 yrs on from 1st ever lesson. Never too late to give it a go, I might ache and stiffen up through housework etc but never riding;)
 
Rode for about 8months when I was 4, started riding again when I was 8, went to a riding school for 4years, when it closed down I got one of the ponies on loan for a year, then he went back and I rode two other ponies for 18months and have had my own for nearly 16months :eek: Times flies, I've been riding about 8years so half my life :)
 
K - not that long ago then m'duck :D :D

I started aged ten. Rode all I could every holiday, weekend, etc.; didn't have my own but rode racehorses, Polo ponies, showjumpers, three legged donkeys :D

Gave it all up and took up motorbikes, rock climing, winter mountaineering, etc.

Bought D1 a pony nearly four years ago; bought D2 a pony about three and a half years ago; bought me a horse two and a half years ago :D. It's catching lol. I'll be forty-seven next Saturday :D
 
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