Parents- How many of you take over the ride on your childrens horse.

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Asking because daughter is currently doing a levels so stressed out with revising and exams, then has a girls holiday to Greece booked and then hopefully may have the opportunity to work at the olympics for up to 6 weeks. We have a lovley all rounder for her and want to keep her as daughter will be full on horsey come September. Looking increasingly likely that i need to take over ,which i dont mind and was discussed. Wondering how many other parents find this rather than the normal sell horse before uni ...?
 
Mines 7 & still on an 11.1, so not planning on taking the ride if she gives up lol. But in theory, yes, I would.
 
Not quite the same, but have taken over the ride on daughter's pony - because I couldn't face selling her when she was outgrown!
 
I often ride my daughter's 14.2 if she is busy revising ( doing GCSEs currently)! I will also take on responsibility for pony when daughter goings to university in two years time! I have my own horse too so do find it hard if I have to ride both! I have got a friend helping out with riding pony this week!
 
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When we bought our most recent horse we had this in mind. She is doing GCSE's and last October went on a trip to Nice so wife and I tool our two horses on a riding holiday . They have a home for life with us :-)
 
Me - took over daughter's 14.2hh connie x who was fantastic but we sadly lost last year. Daughter now at uni so I'm sort of taking over her 16.1hh WB a bit too much for creaky mum but I'm too fond of him to sell him.
 
Sounds like a good alternative, your daughter is very lucky that she's got you to step in :)
You could always look for someone local to come and ride her if you find you don't have time. I'm just finishing my A levels and have all summer free and am hoping to spend that working with horses so you may find someone local who has a free summer to ride.
If I was you though I'd be enjoying all the extra riding before your daughter takes over again in September!
 
When I first went to uni my Dad took over riding my horse, they had a great time doing RC clinics and sponsered rides and it was nice for me to know that the horse was in safe hands and having a lot of fun!
Only problem is you may not want to give the ride back ... ;)
 
Just been discussing this very subject with DD tonight! Pone started out as mine when she was just short of 3yo, I did all the baby stuff and flatwork. Over the last 2 years since the pone turned 5 DD has been bringing her on jumping and took over fully for the last 6 months after I broke my leg. I'm now building my hours back up in the saddle and will take over again whilst DD is doing her studies. I fully expect that she'll nick the pone off me when she's finished and I'll be horse-hunting.
 
Our 13.2 is between children at the moment so I ride him (went for a lovely 8 mile fun ride today over Watership Down!). And the horse I've just bought will be shared with 15 year old son. So not taking him over as such, but certainly both will ride and compete.
 
I took over the ride on my daughter's 17hh Tb and sold my cob as in nearly 50 years of riding I'd never had such a nice horse and she lost interest and then went to uni. Surprisingly she is now more keen to ride when she comes home lol
 
I took over my daughter 16.1hh IDXTB when she lost interest. I ride him most days and have lessons every week. I used to ride her ponies as well when she was younger and busy with school work.
 
Me! I now ride my daughters 12.33 NF Turbo :) She is 22 now, we couldn't bear to part with him so I ride him

I loveeee him lol, when I feel like blowing the cobwebs away I go out on Turbo :D
 
I took over my daughters TB when she lost interest. I bought him in mind that this was a possibility.
 
Kind of. I bought a pony for my 12 year old daughter, she loved him for 6 months and then hit 13 and lost interest....meanwhile my interest increased and so I sold him...rather than squash him myself. And bought myself a lovely sporty cob. Never looked back..and neither has daughter who prefers shopping to mucking out.
 
Dave282B said:
Yep
When we bought our most recent horse we had this in mind. She is doing GCSE's and last October went on a trip to Nice so wife and I tool our two horses on a riding holiday . They have a home for life with us :-)
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Here too. We bought the GreyDonk for both of us so that we wouldn't have to sell when she went off to Uni (she's in the middle of GCSEs now). So, yes, in a way I have taken over the ride ;).

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