If you had the opportunity would you have your childhood pony back?

Absulutely, though did have the pleasure of growing up with him. I loaned him when I was 10 years old and went on to get my own horses at the same yard. I was incredibly lucky I still rode him very occastionally aged 16/17, was horrible to loose him but feel priviledged to have grown up with him :)
 
In a heartbeat...I'd say how sorry I was for letting her down, how much I loved her, how much she taught me, and how stupid I was for believing people I later realised I couldn't trust.

I'd tell her that 20 years later she is still in my thoughts...
 
I'd have my Sam back in a heartbeat. He was such a good pony. Came to me a bundle of nerves, headshy, life shy :rolleyes: and wouldn't jump coloured poles or fillers ( I had ambitions of being a showjumper:D) But I didn't give up and in time we just grew together in experience and in the end we were cmpeteing affiliated. I had a confidence that I just don't have when riding horses now. Nothing would have stopped me and Sam, it was us against the world :D
The same person on my yard that told me he was no good and I should sell him on, was the very one who wanted to buy him for her daughter. Don't suppose he is with us anymore. He was my life for a good few years and he meant the world to me. :):) Gutted I sold him really, he deserved to stay put. But boys came along and that was that :o
 
We kept Misty until she died, but I wish she was still alive today (not that I could ride her, she was dinky!). Best little pony a girl could wish for.

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I still have mine!! Got him when I was 12 years old and we have just had our 14th "anniversary". Wouldnt change him for the world and wouldnt sell him for any amount of money :) The best decision I ever made was to not "upgrade" to a horse and stay on my little 14.2 pony. Not only has he been a wonderful horse and friend for 14 years, he used to run rings round the big horses in the jump offs and was always very successful in the senior BSJA classes, we actually had more success in those than in the juniors lol.
 
I've still got mine - she is called Jenny & she's 38. I'm 40. My grandfather bought her as a 3 y o for £200 in 1976 from the farm next to his! She is Trev's travelling companion.

However, there is absolutely nothing I wouldn't do to have Catembi (in avatar) back alive & well. He died at the age of 11 in 2007 of protein losing enteropathy, and I would move heaven & earth to have him returned to me. Love you, Cat xx
 
Yes, he was a 15hh ex buckjumper in Australia called Torchy and I really loved him, over there he was kept on a long chain round his neck so he could graze and every 2-3 days the bloke that owned him would bring him water and move him on a little bit. That was over 40 years ago, when my parents broughts us back to the UK.
 
Aw, I'd give the whole world to have my dear little man back: he was every child's dream, dapple grey and gorgeous, and looked after me incredibly well when I was a nervous novice with no horsey parents to help out or anything.

He was the sort you could put a kiddie on and trust him to ride through a busy town, and come out safe at the other side.

A horse in a billion zillion; they don't make them like that any more .....
 
I'd have a few of mine back in a heartbeat. My very first was a 10hh dartmoor x called Poppy who really was a dope on a rope and is exactly what I am currently looking for atm for my 18 month old. Unfortunately it wont happen as she was 25 (ish) when I had her and that was 30 years ago.

There is an outside chance that my second pony is still with us - he'd be 33 now (we were the same age - I got him when we were both 4 - should never have worked but definitely did). I kept track of him until about 10 years ago and he had been sold to youngsters around the area without ever the need for an advertisement. Never a superstar competitor but as honest and gentle as the day was long. :D

I'd also love my 14.2 connie, Bella, back. She'd be about 25 now and was an absolute star XC. The only other horse I've ever had to match her is my current lad whose attitude to work is so similar.
 
My grandaughter who is 5 was with her Sec C today and he obviously loves her and I was thinking to myself how upsetting when children outgow their ponies and they have to be sold on. Hopefully he will last her his lifetime. she wont grow very tall and she has a baby brother and possibly more to come so he will have a job for many years. My daughter and myself can also ride him
 
Not the first 3 ponies I had who were all little devils but the last one I had which my parents sold whilst I was at uni was a saint. Irreplaceable and broke my heart when he was sold.

20 years later I tried to replace him but pony is not very saintly but much younger, hope one day he will be like my beloved.
 
I loved my pony, 13hh Palamino Section C, I could ride him absolutley anywhere even bareback, in a headcollar, whatever I wanted to do but ONLY IF I could catch him and sometimes it would be weeks before I could catch him and that's no exaggeration, but he was lovely to look at :D
 
My first pony was a 13hh grey Sec C gelding who could literally turn his hoof to anything.
He was perfect (at least he was to me)
That was 32 years ago.....I still miss him :)
 
Definitely, but sadly he died two years ago :(. We never had any plans of selling him seeing as he came from market and wasn't in good condition! he was the most amazing pony he taught me so much.
 
In a minute... They don't make them like that any more... Quirky in the field but i could trust him, he was started properly
 
even though i loved my first pony a 14 hh part arab, but a solid type (maybe part arab/part quarterhorse), I would not want her back except as a pasture ornament. (she is long gone). she was an excellent endurance horse and very fit as I rode 2-3 hours a day after school every day and on weekends.

at pony club she refused most jumps, refused to stop, and had to be in front on every hack or she jogged non stop. when out riding I had a hard time stopping her even to cross roads, esp if we were pointing for home, mostly we cantered as that was her favourite gait and I could not stop her. I was 12 years old. I remember a day in particular the only time she stopped on the way home was when she slipped on the tarmac after leaping onto the road, we both went down, I still had her reins, climbed back on and off she went again.

my mum and dad were not horsey people and had no idea how unsuitable she was for a 12 year old, and eventually we did establish a bit more control or she just slowed down an bit and we had some nice hacks, but that was all she was really good for, hacking and not pony club.

she did not buck or rear or shy though, just was unstoppable
 
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I still have my best kids pony :D He is a 42" grey shetland who can turn his hoof to anything - except gymkana games! He is 21 now but still acts like a 4yo. I ride him at home but someone else rides him in the show ring as I am too big on him to look right.

Of the rest of my childhood ponies - my fell pony is coming back to me to retire in a few years time. All of the others I wouldn't have back as they have gone on to be such fantastic ponies for other people they really have lived fantastic lives.
 
i've still got mine!

She was bought for me and my sis when I was 11, and sister moved onto horses a year later.

Am now 17 and she's 12 and I've no plans for her to go anywhere. If I have my own way she'll be with me for the rest of her days :)
 
I would without a doubt and I did! I got my first pony when he was about 2 1/2...had him till he was 11 after having years of pony club and local shows. He taught me and my two sisters to ride and he was a real thelwell pony in that he was hard work and a little geek! We finally got about 2 years of a good pony and doing well.

We sold him when he was 11 for three years but when he came back on the market the girl had lost interest and he hadn't really done anything for a year. We had luckily won some money on the lottery for the amount he was up for so you could say it was fate!! I haven't regretted it since and he will live out his days with us. He's now 19 and feeling his age so I'm glad he didn't end up getting passed around- it was the best thing I've ever done :)
 
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