Riding: Your before & after's!

[Roxana]

Share your before and after riding pics (and change in muscles!). I'm actually quite interested in the pics to come!

Here are mine.

Sendero, 4 months under the saddle.

(taken in the summer)

Sendero, now!
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[Lolo]

He is SO lush!

Reggie and Al, October 2009

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And this summer:

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Sorry for the overload, but we love him and he has gotten rather pretty!

 

[Roxana]

Wow, what a difference! Good job done there!

 

[dafthoss]

We have weight loss

and way of going

and the jumping

Sorry about the over load

 

[luckyhorseshoe]

Roxana - Thanks for posting your before and afters, really nice to see!

You must be so proud of what you have achieved.

Given me some food for thought, with my little PRE as well.

How big is he? And how old is he now? Will give me an idea, as everyone says how late they mature.

 

[coss]

as a 5 year old when we'd just bought him:

June last year:

september this year after very little work for various reasons:

 

[coss]

Lovely to see some dramatic changes in other posters!

 

[Deefa]

My Boys

Goli - Being backed

This summer (4yr)

Harry
Before

After

Toby
Before

After

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[Roxana]

Roxana - Thanks for posting your before and afters, really nice to see!

You must be so proud of what you have achieved.

Given me some food for thought, with my little PRE as well.

How big is he? And how old is he now? Will give me an idea, as everyone says how late they mature.

I'm very proud! I didn't think he would turn out this well!

He's 1.65 m. He's 7. Still maturing!

 

[Sol]

Dante 2 1/2 years ago...

Mid Nov this year...

Sadly he's lost a fair bit of muscle from what he was like over the summer due to being out of work for various reasons

Pic of him early spring this year...

When I first got him...

Now...

Roxana, your boy is STUNNING! So uphill! Lovely

 

[jessamess]

my boy

when I bought him-

6 year old pure bred arab stallion

now 9 year old

my everything <3

 

[coss]

he is stunning!

 

[Booboos]

Rusky rising 6 when I first got him:

And from a lesson last year:

 

[PoppyAnderson]

You can tell he's your everything. He's stunning and you've done an amazing job with him. The pic of you leaning on his neck is just beautiful.

 

[kirstyhen]

Everyone is bored of these by now, but hey ho, I like my pony

Mally Dec 2010

First time trotting Feb 2011

First XC Jump March 2011

Now...

 

[SavingGrace]

I do love Mally, I hope my girl looks that good a year down the line x

 

[siennamum]

These horses all look wonderful & so interesting to see how youngsters change. Mine has changed enormously:


being backed as a 4 year old

and a year and a bit later:

 

[Leg_end]

Buddy when I saw him as a (just) 4 yo

A few months ago as a rising 5yo

 

[Quadro]

Well Done everyone all the pics are fab and stunning !
Lolo your pony is just to cute for words!!
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[xRobyn]

Phil and I went from fat and flabby!

And upside downy.

To..

 

[Jackson]

Stunning horses I'm afraid my beast isn't as graceful as all of yours, but hopefully he's on his way!

Weight Before:

Mid weight loss:

Skinny minnie! :

Way of going... we still have a lot to work on here! I'm not even sure if there's much difference at all
Before:

During:

With the occasional:

And his second ever dressage test:

I might as well add these in too, I think I have drowned you all in pictures already, but jack had... a severe dislike of canter when he came to us fortunately that is now sorted out and he actually quite enjoys it!

Before (if you're wondering, this is a little on the spot bounce he used to do, not an actual canter stride!)

He's just being scatty here

After: I am immensely proud of him for getting through this

And he can do it in the school too!

 

[fuzz]

Dina:

2 years later:

 

[NinjaPony]

my boy

when I bought him-

6 year old pure bred arab stallion

now 9 year old

my everything <3

Wow!! He is so beautiful, what a transformation

 

[MrsMozart]

Dizzy, 16.3hh DWB, mare.

She went to Newmarket for lameness investigation. When she came back we moved yards three times I think it was (at this point) to get grass for her. She was on Top Spec, Baileys No. 4, Alpha A Oil, soaked oats, Outshine, and being fed three times a day, but only the grass put the weight on.

This was her May 2009:

Now we've had the green light to school and she appears to be, for now, over any lameness issues (last couple have been a kick in the field, so bad we thought her leg was broken, then bilateral bone spavin), and I'm over my mental blocks as to what our future would hold, if anything. I'm also just about over the bleed on the brain (that lasted a surprisingly long time, and I'm not sure it will ever be back to how it was, but it's heaps better so that'll do me ), and the broken back. I work away a lot, but when I'm working close enough we do the getting up at silly o'clock so that D1 and I can ride before work/college. I'm so chuffed with her because we only really started working properly in September this year . So proud of the beautiful big ginger one

These are from a session in November this year, we were just starting to get into a steady head carriage, although she was finding hard as she didn't have the muscle, so we had a few moments of strop and lots of chilling and stretching moments as well :

Since these pictures she's put on a bit more muscle . Sometime, sad old bat that I am, I just stand and watch her walk around, just oggling the muscle that is starting in her bum and her neck

Sorry for the picture overload! I haven't posted any for a while and I think I might have got a bit carried away

 

[PucciNPoni]

Phil and I went from fat and flabby!

And upside downy.

To..

WOW! Well done for you both!

 

[PucciNPoni]

Not many ridden I'm afraid - but I do have lots of progress (but I'm often the one holding the camera)

My boy, having had 18 months off, on the day he arrived

Then, after a few weeks we started looking like this

Starting to look a bit trimmer

Ridden work after maybe 4 or 5 months

About a year after I got him

And now (well, September anyway)

Love him to bits...

 

[PucciNPoni]

Mrs M - I am glad you posted all that because I never knew the progress you made with Diz was so dramatic. Fantastic!

 

[xRobyn]

WOW! Well done for you both!

Thank you Typical now he's out with a suspected SI injury

 

[PucciNPoni]

Thank you Typical now he's out with a suspected SI injury

Oh boooo - I hope he comes right soon!

 

[Roxana]

Oh wow, there are some very dramatic before's and after's here! Well done everyone!