Lets celebrate our great hunters Past or present.

Thank you very much that is so kind, as you can imagine I have a fair few, I could do another post but I don't want to bore people.
 
Oh, please do bore away!

Having come late to hunting and having gone from deriding hunters as broken competion horses or those that weren't good enough in the first place, and not really seeing the point of hunting - well you don't win anything, do you - I am now a complete convert.

I was always pro-hunting, but only ever having done it as education for the young eventers or as a sweetener for something that had lost its confidence, it wasn't until I started riding "hunters" as opposed to "horses that go hunting" that I "got it".

What a special group of horses they are.

I have enjoyed reading of all your special hunters, as I know how special to me, is the horse, that those grey ears are attached to.

So Simsar, if you can bare it please do post photo's from the past, for people like me who weren't steeped in the traditions of hunting as a child.
 
Hi I have started a new post didn't want to hijack this post. There are a lot of photo's and I have named a few of the people so you know who's who enjoy. x
 
PickledOnions you pony looks great and i hope you have better luck with your TB and get loads more days this season. :)

Grey_Eventer what a lovely pic you look so happy to be out and your pony looks lovely and clean. :) I'm guessing it didn't look that clean at the end of the day :p :D

AML real hunters are worth there weight in gold. I know what you mean when you say about horses that "horses that go hunting" they just can't compare to proper hunting horses or ponies esp ponies like Lucy who lived for her hunting. :D

faerie666 he looked like a lovely chap. I'm glad he gave you your confidance back and your last day was one to remember.

thankyou Alec Swan

Simsar off to have a look at your new thread. Pics of the good old days :D :D :D
 
If these work, they are the only photos anyone has taken of us out hunting... I've linked to the website. This was the first time I took him hunting, had had him about 4 weeks and I think it was the first time I'd even jumped him. He has hunted a lot (several full seasons before I got him), I've only taken him a handful of times and he was great at this meet (2 seasons ago) but I couldn't settle him at all last season so we only went a handful of times. I'm hoping to try bloodhounds this season to see if we get on better with that...

At the meet (Farmers Bloodhounds first autumn hunting meet, 2 years ago nearly now!) He is a star at the meet then turns into a devil once you move off:

http://www.richardsloman.com/photos/equine/farm_blood_2008/page/1/6339753174508121684

Itching to get going: http://www.richardsloman.com/photos/equine/farm_blood_2008/page/1/8532151412853792218

Absolutely shocking riding from me but it was our first time jumping - that's my excuse and i'm sticking to it ;) http://www.richardsloman.com/photos/equine/farm_blood_2008/page/2/8233257132330620798

Sorry they're not better but I don't think I have any from last season... :(
 
faerie666 bless him he looks like he's having fun. Glad he's still with you even if he can't hunt anymore :)

chestnut cob he looks cute bless him a real butter wouldn't melt look in the first pic and don't worry about the jumping pic your position is way better than mine :o Thats why i don't post any jumping pics LOL ;):p:D
 
My daughter's pony loves her hunting - this is the day she was lucky enough to be allowed to ride with the huntsman:

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what a georgous pony TGM and lucky daughter getting to ride with the huntsman. Lucy loved whipping in but secretly she wanted to be the huntsmans horse. If only she was 4 hands bigger :p :D
 
LauraWheeler said:
chestnut cob he looks cute bless him a real butter wouldn't melt look in the first pic and don't worry about the jumping pic your position is way better than mine :o Thats why i don't post any jumping pics LOL ;):p:D
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LOL yes butter wouldn't melt... he was a paragon of virtue at the meet in the pics. When I took him with foxhounds last season (so a year later) he was a pain in the ar£e every time. Spent the first 1.5hours of every day spinning round, going backwards and rearing. He was great once he got that out of his system...

If you click on my profile, there should be a link to my Webshots profile so you can have a look at some more recent pics (some from a HT at Eland Lodge a couple of months ago, along with some SJ on Sunday gone) if you're really bored!
 
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