southerncomfort
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How about pogo sticks as an alternative?
(Best have a sports bra on for that one!!).
(Best have a sports bra on for that one!!).
Old, nackered and past it riding club
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Glitter's fun
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My knees hurt just thinking about that.
SilverLinings
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Just no. Are you actually old enough to be joining this riding club? I am starting to suspect that a few people posting on this thread may be mere children masquerading as posters of mature years and bountiful experience
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
I was thinking more on the lines of mobility scooters.
Red-1
I used to be decisive, now I'm not so sure...
I used to use mum's. They are really fun and actually quite fast!
SilverLinings
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They will be an excellent addition to our mounted games equipment stash for the RC, and of course we will have some on-site mechanics to keep them fully charged and in working order (no bribes allowed to increase the maximum speed though)
MereChristmas
riding reluctantly into the sunset
They will be an excellent addition to our mounted games equipment stash for the RC, and of course we will have some on-site mechanics to keep them fully charged and in working order (no bribes allowed to increase the maximum speed though)
Visions of older members of HHO on super charged mobility scooters doing gymkhana games…
southerncomfort
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Just no. Are you actually old enough to be joining this riding club? I am starting to suspect that a few people posting on this thread may be mere children masquerading as posters of mature years and bountiful experience
50 this year, but very much in denial!
nagblagger
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Can i have a white one as i love greys?
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
The YOs dad has a whizzed up one. He's lethal on it. Scatters everyone.
SilverLinings
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The engineers at work tinkered with an old (out of use!) electric wheelchair a few years ago to see how fast they could make it go, and the answer was fast enough to need it to be removed from their custody after one lap of the grounds
50 this year, but very much in denial!
Well, they say that you are only as old as you feel so it sounds like you are doing well
I am not admitting my age as I've now realised that if you are excluded then I definitely will be...
Skib
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I did my most important things in my 50s as the kids left home and went to uni. Then I retired at 60 and started riding instead.
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
I'm likely not excluded 
SilverLinings
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After reading this thread I don't think anyone would want to be excluded from this excellent riding club, it should be an honour and a privilege to be accepted as a memberI'm likely not excluded
If it helps, despite my birth certificate saying otherwise I have the body of a 95 year old, so on a day-to-day basis it really is more about how you feel than a number (although I realise the older we are the more likely we are to feel less sprightly/flexible/etc). I am going to be riding a souped-up mobility scooter with abandon (and gin, which may be fun with the prescription drugs) with the rest of you!
Glitter's fun
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Just going to leave this here...
www.carsiceland.com
The Icelandic Horse Beer Tölt: the Art of Riding with a Pint
If you ever wondered how smooth a horse can run at full speed, you need to experience the beer tölt. These friendly bundles of muscle can carry a rider and a pint of beer without the rider spilling a drop. Tölt is the gait that the Icelandic horse is best known for, and owners of this breed are...
www.carsiceland.com
MereChristmas
riding reluctantly into the sunset
Just going to leave this here...
The Icelandic Horse Beer Tölt: the Art of Riding with a Pint
If you ever wondered how smooth a horse can run at full speed, you need to experience the beer tölt. These friendly bundles of muscle can carry a rider and a pint of beer without the rider spilling a drop. Tölt is the gait that the Icelandic horse is best known for, and owners of this breed are...
One of my friends has been to Iceland 17 times, OK I’m guessing bit it’s well into double figures, she loves the ponies and has tolted ( is there such a word ) in all weathers, seasons and terrain. She no longer rides at home. It’s too uncomfortable.
Fire sign
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Pogo sticks ?! Good god !
Spotherisk
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Same goes for trampolines and bouncy castles!
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
I went to Iceland 30+ years ago. I started looking for an Icelandic horse shortly after I got back and bought my first one. They are all different but at one time I had a mare that was incredibly comfortable, you asked for tolt, she stayed in tolt, and could certainly carry a glass of whatever favourite tipple without spilling a drop.
Glitter's fun
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How do you ask for tolt?
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
Depends on the horse. Currently I sit a bit more upright and half halt. The horse changes his posture, lifts in front. Others may have different ways and means.
eahotson
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I rode once in Iceland and loved it.We rode in a group and who the leader asked for told all the horses just tolted. We were told that most Icelqndic ponies tolted naturally but some had to be taught
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
They all have a different combination of gaits and they all have their preferences as to which they find easiest and which they choose, which influences how they are trained. A decent stables taking people without experience in riding the gaits will hopefully use horses that tolt easily as this is what the riders want to experience.
Jellymoon
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Hahaha, that’s awesome!
Skib
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I seem to remember from Anna Karenina that in Russian there are different words for a diagonal trot and a tolt which is translated by the excellent Rosamund Bartlett as an ambling pace. Gaited horses in the UK (Tudor Period) were said to amble.
eahotson
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I think that pretty well summed us up.Our treck leader told us all their horses tolted naturally.I was impressedwith the level of care they got.
eahotson
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Yes I have often wondered about that.They say a lot of our natvie breeds have some Icelandic in them from when the Vikings came and I wondered if it came through in the ambling pace.As an aside I have a gypsy cob/vanner who had wonderfully smooth pace and its almost easier to sit to her trot than ride to it.
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
The Origin of Ambling Horses
Icelandic Viking horses are known for they ambling gait. Following the gene, scientists now suggest that the first Icelandic horses were in fact English
www.medieval.eu
Pippity
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The one I rode in New Zealand was shorten your reins and lean back. Fabulous fun tolting down the beach!
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
It is very comfortable when you get a good one. My mare made me very lazy.