J&S
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I remember a yard near us having the hydroponics thing, us kids thought it was very impressive. Dads reply - TURN THE BL**DY THINGS OUT!!!
Thing was that when I was very young in the late 50's many riding schools were quite urban, they did not have any grazing on a daily basis, horses and ponies would be trekked off to the fields at the end of the week end which were quite a way away. As some have said, Monday was a day off then they came back to work for the rest of the week. Yes, we cantered along the grass verges then too.
The stables where I kept my first pony was lovely Northants hunting country, surrounded by fields and woods but some of the ponies went up to a field in the village which we had a winter share with the horses from Fossett's circus. My friends and I rode with out saddles or hats and it never occurred to me not to go wall jumping like this! I paid (or rather my father did) 10/- a week in the summer and £1.00 in the winter. Shoeing was 30/- I think, and we rode to the farrier, it was a great day out! We hunted locally and piled into big lorries to go to gymkhanas in the summer. To get to the stables I had to cycle about 3 1/2 miles right through the town and one time I was knocked off
my bike and landed under the feet of a horse and milk cart! Dear thing didn't turn a hair.