Riding/horsey regrets...

Just wish I had stuck at it instead of getting distracted by boys, career, life etc, wish I could have made a go of things competitively and kept my hand in, same as with showing the dogs too.
And not buying the boy in my sig, I have no idea where he is now, but realistically I know I could never have been able to afford him long-term.
 
Regret not being at a better RS when young, and never really learning to ride properly (making life so annoying now!). Also regret not taking the massive opportunity to go to Queen Ethelburga's and take my pony for sixth form, instead choosing the local school, boys, booze and selling said pony. That last rankles especially - who knows what I'd be doing now had I taken lessons with Karen Dixon!!
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Regret not being at a better RS when young, and never really learning to ride properly (making life so annoying now!). Also regret not taking the massive opportunity to go to Queen Ethelburga's and take my pony for sixth form, instead choosing the local school, boys, booze and selling said pony. That last rankles especially - who knows what I'd be doing now had I taken lessons with Karen Dixon!!
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Oh I used to see the ad for queen ethelburga's in the magazines and dream of going there.........
 
I don't really have any, 2 years ago before getting my first horse, my regret would definately have been still not having my own. But now I have him, somehow the 30 year wait as made him so precious that it really is a dream come true. Yes we have had our downs, but somehow that makes the ups seem so much more special. I did my first ever comp at the grand age of 38 and in 2 weeks time I will do my first ever xc comp just a few weeks shy of being 40 - it's never too late!
 
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The morale of this thread is, take every opportunity you have and if something isn't right, change it. We'll see that when we're older, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

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Too true!

I regret that my parents aren't Dr and Mrs Bechtolsheimer. Only kidding!
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I regret that I didn't run away to a good dressage yard in the tiny window I had between getting to Elementary on a borrowed horse and falling off while X-country schooling and damaging my back to the point where I had to give up almost completely... After ten years at uni, all I have in my favour is that I'm self-employed and can at least ride my lovely crotchety old share when I want to. He can do a little shoulder-in now, which is more than either of us could do three years ago.
Memo to self: more pilates needed...
 
Not taking up the job offer from Ted Edgar (yes ok I hear younger forum members saying Ted Who??) when I was 16, my mother wouldnt let me do it (think she had just read Jilly Cooper Riders!!) and thought I should do a sensible job....nursing, little did she know what went on in the Doctors residences!!!

Oh well at least I had a useful career as an ITU nurse, and have now been able to return to my true love horses
 
I regret jogging down to the field with my horse tonight. She was trotting with me then spooked at a horse behind the hedge and stamped on my right foot. Hurts soo much! And i'm meant to be going to Blenheim tomorrow! Gah! Silly me!
 
I regret not buying Pluto. He was on Project Horses and I saw him after I'd lost Tiggy. A nervous unbroken chestnut gelding, that bonded with me within minutes if us meeting. I didn't have quite enough money that week.

I love Dizzy, but there was something about him.

My biggest regret is losing Tiggy, but I couldn't have saved her. If only I'd found her before the damage was done.
 
Giving up because of someone else (I HATE bullies) and not trying harder to loose some weight so I could keep my old mare. I'm now in a position where I don't think I'll ride again for a VERY long time.
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I regret not standing up to my old YO when she pushed me about - like the person who posted above I thought she knew better than me; I'd only had my first horse for a year, after all.

She dictated to me how to keep my horse, changed her feed, over rugged her like crazy, wouldn't seperate her from the horses who were bullying her, and left me with a very skinny, miserable horse. She destroyed my jumping confidence and blamed every problem I ever had with her, on my riding, telling me I was ruining her.

I wasted nine months and a small fortune, hating going up to the yard and not riding because of it. I used to sometimes sneak up when no one was around, take her out hacking and dream about never going back.

I left last month and regret not doing it sooner. I have my old happy horse back and I can spend all day pootling around up the yard once more.
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I regret waiting until I was 45 to buy my first horse!!!!

So glad that I finally took the plunge and thank all the great people who gave me that last final push I needed to do it.

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Yes me too, I also waited until I was 45, I feel like I missed such a lot.
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I should have had parents who liked the idea of riding, and paid for lessons for me, rather than having to walk to school to save the bus fare to pay for lessons or working all day at the RS in the hope I got a free lesson. Plus I should have carried on riding when I left school. However, all the money I've saved over the years probably means now I've got the means to keep my own at home when I do get one. I should also have started riding again 6 years ago when my daughter did, then I'd be as good as she is.
 
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