over 40's- what sort of horse do you ride?

An Arab. My 40th birthday present to myself, fantastic first horse. Too old and creaky for these cobby types with choppy strides now, need something a bit more comfortable!
 
LeneHorse said:
Have to laugh! I saw the title of this thread and thought 'that looks interesting' then realised it was me that started it! Well it was a year ago and my memory is going!
Nice to see it's been resurrected :D :D
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I'd read several pages before I saw my own post and realised that I'd not looked at the original date!
I did find the brand on my Westphalian, one wet day last Summer but it really wouldn't be much use to identify her if she was ever lost.
 
cinnamontoast said:
Think I have this horse too!

I only got into riding in my 30s and at 38 bought my 15hh Irish cob. He's mostly very good, great brakes, but will gallop like mad given his head and jumps anything! Quite happy to walk, mostly! :D
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Think many of us have cloned the same horse :D I'm 50 and my boy is a 15.1 cob, 99% of the time a total schoolmaster:)
 
I'm 40 and I brought a 14.2hh pure bred arab mare in march. She is certainly a bit quirky, she's 6 but was only backed last year, so she has an opinion on things and has her own mind. At the moment, she is going through the napping at junctions stage, although we aren't getting into battles with it, and I am winning. She will trot across a field on a loose rein, and she is excellent in traffic. My last horse, who I had since I was 18 and lost last year, was a 3/4 arab/welsh cross who was a bit of a hothead, liked to go everywhere fast and would go for 30 miles at speed. I trusted her completely. My new horse in comparison is more levelheaded and slightly lazier. I will trust her in the end, and she is a real sweetie.
I had always wanted a pure bred arab, and although I told myself to buy something like a native cross, I had to have her when I saw her.
 
My mum is 66yrs and has a 16.2hh Dutch Holstein Dressage horse. She's owned him 2 1/2 years, and says he's the horse she should of had 5 years ago. He can be tricky, and he's not anybody's ride, and he ruined her confidence, which took 18 months to get back with a lot of help - he was bought as a 9yr old advanced schoolmaster... Which he turned out not to be.
Her other horse (17hh) Dutch Warmblood is now 18, and she bought him as a just backed 4yr old (he was only 16.1hh then). She did a fab job with him.
She's an total amateur, but is a brill rider (she doesn't think so), but she has the younger horse in livery at a friends so that she has help and support on the ground - he was at home at first, but that's where it unravelled. She adores him now
 
40 couple of months ago & since birthday have started riding my young Crabbet arab that I bred. Have had her mum 11 years & she has been a superb competition horse.
 
What a depressing title - only because I'm eligible to answer *sob sob* my horse is an ex racer, dozy as they come but spooky so just as well I don't want children ;)
I ride one for my YO who is prone to taking off like a jump jet at totally inoffensive things such as a patch of Tarmac that's a different colour or a drain etc. Must admit 20 yrs ago I'd of loved it but now I tut like a disapproving parent :D
 
I'm not sure what age has to do with it! I bought a 3 yo ISH at the age of 43. Seven years later she's the horse of a lifetime. She's full of beans and a sharp ride thankfully as a plod would bore me to tears. :D
 
I am 52 and 5'2 and my horse is a Freision x ID standing at around 15.3 and built like a tank. Aso as someone else said about their horse mine is also 90% most of the time and has a heck of a spook in him sometimes. I sit to most of them ! but he is fantastic in traffic but again plastic flapping bags are monsters.
 
14.2 appy - sharp and forward going, but i know him well, would not want to ride anything that threw itself around too much as been there and done that! i think my boy is quite easy to ride but when others have seen him spook and freak they have said well sat!! do like being closer to the ground nowadays though as i dont bounce anymore only when i am in the saddle!!
 
Erm well into 40's!

Have probably got worse with age! Used to be a work rider in Newmarket in my late teens early 20's. Had my own exracers and now got a very quirky top Eventer formerly ridden by someone on the GBR Team!

Got air lifted to hospital 3 months ago!

Still doesn't put me off!

I do ride in a point two though as I don't bounce well (do any of us)

Rode someones cob last year and I must admit I did text in one hand and email in the other but that was the most exciting thing I did on the cob!

Good luck in your search but reckon most of us get worse in our old age!
 
Love this thread! After a big gap and then a short spell riding my friends pony, my husband bought me a 16.2 ISH for my 40th sadly she wasn't the one and ended up going back. I then got a 15.3 ISH 7yr old mare who is still with me (18 months later) She is a gem and my horse for life, thats not to say we haven't had our ups and downs and we are learning together. I sometimes ride my daughters 14.2 traditional cob, he's such fun and I feel like a girl again!
 
When we're not both broken, a 16.3hh DWB :cool:

I'll still at least sit on most horses, but I no longer want to ride the loopy ones, had enough of those - the hardness of the ground grows exponentially in line with my advancing years :cool::eek::rolleyes:
 
Now in my 50s and riding much sharper horses than I did in my youth when I mainly rode TBs. Now ride warmbloods (Dutch, Belgian and Hannoverian). heightsvrange from 16.1 to 17.3. I do try hard not to fall off!
 
MrsMozart said:
When we're not both broken, a 16.3hh DWB :cool:

I'll still at least sit on most horses, but I no longer want to ride the loopy ones, had enough of those - the hardness of the ground grows exponentially in line with my advancing years :cool::eek::rolleyes:
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It certainly feels harder..had my first fall for many many years a few weeks back :eek: the b*gger thought he would take the bank at the side of the school not seeing there was a 3wire fence, lost my stirrup but I managed to sit his massive last minute attempt to jump the wire which took out the top wire only to go in different directions the other side :mad:
Jesus I dont remember the ground being that hard! Or is it that hes the biggest horse I've fallen off? :)
The trip to hospital flat on my back was not pleasant especially as I was bursting for the toilet..oooh the indignity of trying to wee flat out and on a bed pan! :)
 
54, my current horse is a home bred 7/8tb,1/8aqh. I broke him when I was 49 and he has reawakened my eventing and sj mojo because he is totally fearless and completely trustworthy. I have his yearling full sister in the field.
 
As a 50+ I ride (my own) 15hh traddie cob who's OK most of the time but can be quirky - and pulls like a train if going fast in company. Shows and hunting are no-go areas as he's such a fruit-loop basically. His good-points however are that he is a pretty predictable guy and always gives plenty of warning of what he's gonna do, and will hack alone OK and is fine with traffic.

I've got a little welsh D mare on loan and I ride her as well. She's rather more forward going than my boy, and whilst she can be a bit spooky if not ridden on, is fine in the vast majority of situations, tho' does hot up if hunting apparently! She's fine with traffic; and as we have to do a lot of road work to get anywhere - and have a lot of farm traffic around here, that's the biggest "must" as far as I'm concerned.

When one gets to a "certain age", safety and feeling safe is of prime importance: basically when you get the grey hairs you just don't bounce like you used to!!
 
A 17hh TB, a 16.3 TB and last year, at the age of 41, I bought a 15.3 ex racehorse :) - all super-safe bombproof hacks in traffic, and as we have enormous tractors and trailers constantly going up and down the road we hack along, that's very important to me :D
 
I'm approaching 50 and short (5'2"). I like to be near the ground and have short legs so for the last 8 years I've owned a 14.1hh native cob x. He's very pony and has his moments but love him to bits and he's actually very genuine all told. I've done speed on him (galloping in fields) and jumping which he enjoys more that schooling (I'm a member of the 2 foot club in reality but have made it over single jumps in lessons that have been 2'3 and 2'6 and lived to tell the tale :D). Due to finances just a happy hacker these days but would like to get back to a bit more activity if I can get a proper job again. He's really good in traffic though we are currently fearful of cyclists on the bridleway that don't stop. He will try things on sometimes - the odd big nap but have learnt how to deal with them and get forward motion again :)
 
I still ride my lovely pure bred Arab who herself is a senior at 27 but still fit,fast and has loads of stamina.Also have a section D who was my daughters,and feeling very brave i recently got up on the WB who felt so broad and comfy.I dont do anything daft or reckless but i still enjoy a good gallop,particularly at the beach.Look at some of our top riders,such as Mary King who are such an inspiration.
 
I am in my late forties.

I currently own and ride a sharp and spooky TB, and two PRE Andalusians.

(In fact, the spanish breed are recognised as being very good for riders with bad backs because of their stride)

Remember that life begins at forty, so really I'm only just getting into my stride. If you are fit and healthy, why shouldn't you ride exactly what you want to ride.

Go for it!
 
maresmaid said:
I started out horse ownership with a 15.2 Anglo Arab when i was in my 20's. At the age of 50 i bought a lovely 5 yr old 16.1 sport horse - i chose very carefully, as her job is to be a competition horse for the next 10 to 15 years then become an old ladies gentle hack. she has a fab temperament and i am sure she will do both jobs really well.
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How come it took you a year to raise this thread from the grave??? It was started on 14-06-2011!!! Were you bored:D
 
Pale Rider said:
40, bit young to be talking about 'older riders'.
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I quite agree. Although i'm 5 years away from 40 and ride a pony whose 80% sane then 20% nuts/nappy/spooky with plastic bags/cows/sheep/puddle hatred (wouldn't have him any other way - have glue seat thanks to him ;))

My riding buddy is 72 (yes seventy-two) and her lad is around 30 but is an ex-hunter and will do a good gallop when HE'S in the mood. My buddy's old riding buddy gave up two years ago at 93 (not a mis-print ninety-three) which gives me at least another sixty years of fun, terror and enjoyment of ponios at least :D:D:D
 
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