itsme123
Well-Known Member
I'm afraid I'm on a bit of a tangent after browsing ads tonight.
What, to you, makes a lead rein pony?
I ask, because I am genuinley interested in what others think. I'm interested to see if the rest of the equestrian world think differently to me?
From where I'm sitting it seems like it goes like this:
Numpty goes to sales, numpty buys small shaggy pony.
Numpty takes pony home and volunteers another numpty to sit on shaggy pony whilst first numpty leads it round.
First numpty then rushes to make an advert for said 'lead rein pony'.
To me, when looking at a lead rein pony, it needs to have been broken properly. Lunged, longreined, to have been handled well, to be quiet, and for a child to be able to safely hang off it's tail if child decided to do so (though child should be discouraged from doing so... but you get the idea). It needs to KNOW the aids, because a lead rein pony's job is to TEACH a child.
NOT 'just' sat on and led round a boggy field. THAT is NOT a lead rein pony. IMHO.
When showing, a lead rein pony has to have manners, to move in response to the child, with the handler running alongside looking pretty.
You wouldnt sell a horse that didnt jump as a working hunter would you?
Sorry, I;m so fed up of seeing the 1001 so-called ''lead rein' ponies for sale on the internet right now. The country is over run with the bleeders! Most of them are youngsters, ie, 3 or 4yo. And I would estimate that only 30% of them are actually suitable to teach a child the ropes. That makes for a helluva lot of numpties buying small shaggy ponies. And then having to sit and watch friends struggle to sell perfectly good, perfectly well broken TRUE lead rein ponies because others are selling their 'just led round' ponies for as little as £100.
so, what, in your eyes, makes a lead rein pony?? Discuss
What, to you, makes a lead rein pony?
I ask, because I am genuinley interested in what others think. I'm interested to see if the rest of the equestrian world think differently to me?
From where I'm sitting it seems like it goes like this:
Numpty goes to sales, numpty buys small shaggy pony.
Numpty takes pony home and volunteers another numpty to sit on shaggy pony whilst first numpty leads it round.
First numpty then rushes to make an advert for said 'lead rein pony'.
To me, when looking at a lead rein pony, it needs to have been broken properly. Lunged, longreined, to have been handled well, to be quiet, and for a child to be able to safely hang off it's tail if child decided to do so (though child should be discouraged from doing so... but you get the idea). It needs to KNOW the aids, because a lead rein pony's job is to TEACH a child.
NOT 'just' sat on and led round a boggy field. THAT is NOT a lead rein pony. IMHO.
When showing, a lead rein pony has to have manners, to move in response to the child, with the handler running alongside looking pretty.
You wouldnt sell a horse that didnt jump as a working hunter would you?
Sorry, I;m so fed up of seeing the 1001 so-called ''lead rein' ponies for sale on the internet right now. The country is over run with the bleeders! Most of them are youngsters, ie, 3 or 4yo. And I would estimate that only 30% of them are actually suitable to teach a child the ropes. That makes for a helluva lot of numpties buying small shaggy ponies. And then having to sit and watch friends struggle to sell perfectly good, perfectly well broken TRUE lead rein ponies because others are selling their 'just led round' ponies for as little as £100.
so, what, in your eyes, makes a lead rein pony?? Discuss
