Nina R
Active Member
Hi, i have just joined this forum today, so thought I'd post a little about my background. 
I used to ride regularly as a child / teen and then moved on to other things ie work / family, etc
I needed to find a new hobby as I had far too much time on my hands and was suffering from depression after losing my Mum .
So, I decided to start horse riding again - went to a local yard once or twice and was offered the loan of an ex race horse ( didnt know that at the time), but sadly, I had a nasty fall whilst dis mounting - my fault, i forgot to lift my leg far enough over the saddle !!
Anyway, after a few weeks to recover , I started to look for an alternative yard and started part loaning a riding school pony .
I had her on part loan for two months and completely fell in love with her . Depsite my constant nagging, the yard owner was not prepared to sell her to me BUT my nagging paid off in the end and I bought her one year ago this month !!!
She had been a riding school pony for the past 18 years and is now aged 27and we now class her as semi retired since we have owned her .
I ride her on light hacks a few times a week and she has taught my teenage son to ride .
In April this year, we decided to buy in a bigger pony / horse for my son so that we could both ride out together.
We bought a stunning skewbald mare aged 9 - unknown to us and being novices at buying horses, she was heavily in foal !!
She gave birth to a beautiful filly 2 weeks ago - the past month or so has been a complete nighmare as we had originally been told by the yard owner where we have them both on DIY livery , that she could not accomodate a mare in foal / foal on yard BUT I'm delighted to say that both Mare & foal are doing well and we are planning on keeping the foal too !!
I have had to learn an awful lot about foaling etc in a very short space of time but we are coping !
all advice welcome !!
I used to ride regularly as a child / teen and then moved on to other things ie work / family, etc
I needed to find a new hobby as I had far too much time on my hands and was suffering from depression after losing my Mum .
So, I decided to start horse riding again - went to a local yard once or twice and was offered the loan of an ex race horse ( didnt know that at the time
), but sadly, I had a nasty fall whilst dis mounting - my fault, i forgot to lift my leg far enough over the saddle !!Anyway, after a few weeks to recover , I started to look for an alternative yard and started part loaning a riding school pony .
I had her on part loan for two months and completely fell in love with her . Depsite my constant nagging, the yard owner was not prepared to sell her to me BUT my nagging paid off in the end
and I bought her one year ago this month !!!She had been a riding school pony for the past 18 years and is now aged 27
and we now class her as semi retired since we have owned her . I ride her on light hacks a few times a week and she has taught my teenage son to ride .
In April this year, we decided to buy in a bigger pony / horse for my son so that we could both ride out together.
We bought a stunning skewbald mare aged 9 - unknown to us and being novices at buying horses, she was heavily in foal !!
She gave birth to a beautiful filly 2 weeks ago - the past month or so has been a complete nighmare as we had originally been told by the yard owner where we have them both on DIY livery , that she could not accomodate a mare in foal / foal on yard BUT I'm delighted to say that both Mare & foal are doing well and we are planning on keeping the foal too !!
I have had to learn an awful lot about foaling etc in a very short space of time
but we are coping !all advice welcome !!
What a story!
any pics of mare and foal?
