OMG - Now Mother wants to ride!!!

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Despite having got to the 7 - 0 birthday, we now want to ride again!!! First port of call was my door, had I anything which Either too small or spooky warmbloods, where on earth will I find a looker which will appease her ex judge's eye which is a PLOD, any I mean plod, don't want elderly Ma doing more than polite canter!!!
I think it's a bridge too far (don't have the guts to say so of course!). So, if anyone has a pretty horse which only has 1st and 2nd gear...................
Should I advertise via Saga?
 
PMSL!!!!
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My mum whilst quite happy to regale us with her stories of when she rode is now to scared (self confessed!
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) to anything other than pat the horses and feed them carrots!!
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Left to her they would all be spoilt rotten and do bugger all............
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My instructor breaks in arabs for an endurance rider.... she's in her 70's! She regularly competes in trails and does rather well! I wouldn't be able to keep up with her the distances she rides!
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These more 'worldly and experienced' ladies surprise us sometimes
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Hurray, now I've got the amunition I need to persuade my nearest and dearest that I can carry on for at least another twenty years! My mother (aged 73) says I'm getting too old to ride but my friend who is now 87 only packed in hunting at 80 and he still comes and hangs his nose over my horses, think he'd get on if I let him!
 
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Hurray, now I've got the amunition I need to persuade my nearest and dearest that I can carry on for at least another twenty years! My mother (aged 73) says I'm getting too old to ride but my friend who is now 87 only packed in hunting at 80 and he still comes and hangs his nose over my horses, think he'd get on if I let him!

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I'd raise a glass to that ... 'cheers'.... to a long life of horses! I admire him! Wasn't Prince Philip in his 80's when he gave up Scurry Driving competiton wise.... sure I saw some coverage on the Royal Show this year about it!
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Being serious for a mo, the key here is the right horse & support. I know she will be fine and riding will enable her to get out and about. That said, taking on a 'full commitment' may not be quite so easy, we are fortunate as I'm happy to do another. The stumbling block will be finding the horse - we will be on tenterhooks as she leaves the yard if not! I agree that age isn't a barrier, my OH's Uncle hunted into his late 70's, only hanging up his spurs because his eyesight failed.
 
The right horse does exist out there, Henry Marriage in Essex hunted until 80 on very smart middleweight hunters, they tended not to be in the first flush of youth but what stars they were.
 
Bought Little Lad from a lady who was seventy. Alright he was too much for her, but she only had him because her steady lass had sadly passed away (her daughter talked her into buying him! Mad!
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). She was already planning her next purchase (sans daughter lol).
 
My Mother in law is in her late 60s and still rides her horse, hes no plod either!!

Wish my Mother would just stop telling me "horses kill" and i should sell the horses and go on holiday/ move to a nicer house or whatever the latest idea is! Dangerous they may be but at least they never moan!!!!!!!!
 
My friend, in her late 60's, has brought a ride/drive cob from 'nothing' to affliliated dressage, now Elementary with several points!!
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Don't knock the 'oldies' even though they don't like falling off!! I am certainly too old to bounce.
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