"If Wishes Were Horses"- Channel 4

Huge fan!! I would sit on the floor, a foot away from the TV absolutely glued to the screen!

"Everytime you need a friend you can always be sure they care"

"When you're cleaning tack, when you're moving muck, when you're doing all your chores"

Won't get the song out of my head all day now!!
 
Ali was much much less scary than my instructor! ha ha ha!

I do blame IWWH for me falling off weekly though...! I had watched the episode all about jumping, and mastered "jumping position" for when the pony I rode jumped off the hill over a ditch back onto the road on the way back from out ride out... shame I hadn't seen the x.c episode! Every week i came flying off and landed on my head on the road until I saw the x.c and realised I should be leaning back... not in Jumping position! ha ha ha ha!
 
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I'm stuck at my parents house at the moment following knee surgery and this thread has prompted me to dig through all my old horsey videos that were recorded off the tv!
Just watching if wishes were horses now!
The picture quality isn't great, and it looks a bit dated! Lol! :-)
 
Gosh, re-watching it as an adult I realise how nice Ali is compared to some of my old instructors LOL! I was a seriously wimpy kid!

Aw I remember the black and white clip of the high-diving horse at the fun fair, I cringed every time I saw this!! :(
 
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Watching his got me into horses followed by a birthday trip to Paddock Farm!
I was lucky enough to keep ponies with Ali and be taught by her. I learnt to ride on James!
She's no longer based at Paddock Farm but is still in the area. Last time I asked her about this is she has asked if they could be put onto DvD but the company wasn't really interested in doing it.
 
I used to love the programme when I was younger ! I have only just realised that Paddock Farm is fairly close to me and that I have actually met Ali at a show but never put the two together :)
 
I loved that program, used to watch it all the time but lent my vhs to someone and never got them back :(

The dun (or was it palomino?) pony that they bought was my favourite!!
 
I really enjoyed the program. If they cannot repeat it, maybe they could resurrect the format? It would be a nice change. I know the world is a difficult and challenging place, but just for an hour or so it is nice to be back in the pullein-thompson/pat smyth/ruby ferguson universe.
 
I have all the episodes recorded on VHS, and yesterday I sat a room full of pony club kids down to eat their lunch in front of one of these episodes and they loved it too - it didn't seem to date, even though none of them were born when it came out!!
 
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It's saying the videos are passworded?

I loved this show, much as I've fallen out of love with horses now, obviously at the time. I was obsessed, the gymkhana episode was my favourite. I also liked when they visited the rocking horse shop.

My favourite was the palomino, who looked really lazy! The theme song was great.

I loved Chatterhappy Ponies as well, one of the videos, with a compilation of about 6 episodes, is on You Tube. Strop was my favourite.
 
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I got really excited when this thread thinking it was back on!

I have a couple of the videos one that was taped off the tv in the loft and have actually been asking dad recently to get them down!

Would love to be able to get them/see them again!! :)
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Me too!!!! I used to LOVE this ❤
 
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