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to anybody who was digging at me yestreday,i am sorry,ok you want it,have it:
i am Ella
i am a normal 16 year old girl
i own a 14.2 welsh section d who is gorgeous
i don't why i try to make him out to be something hes not when hes perfectly good as he is
i also own a piebold cob which me and my mum rescued
between me,my mum and a friend we have broken and ridden away a couple of youngsters
i have done one show in my life
i am ashamed and very sorry or anyone that i offended
i thought it would be good to have a good come back for the person who said: "do fat riders make your blood boil?" coz i though it was horrible, so i added a couple of stone onto my weight and said i was a grand prix dressage rider, doesn't sound so bad when i put it like that but i realise it is.sometimes i just think i have missed out on what every body else has done becuase i have been buisy rehabilitating my cob and i wish i was still 13 and i could jump my pony and teach him to be ridden like my mums friend hadto do for us because i was too heavy.i am really sorry and don't expect any of you will ever talk to me again and i don't blame you.it's took me all my bravery to say this and i am REALLY REALLY embarrassed.sorry.
 
Hi Ella
Thats ok, thanks for the apology
Welcome to the forum
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That took guts to apologise.You dont have to 'big'yourself up on here there are people from many differant walks of life to top comp riders to happy hackers (myself included).Be proud of who you are and your pony,He sounds lovely.Welcome to the forum.
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Good on you for having the guts to come clean and apologise! Your horses sound lovely so you shouldn't feel the need to invent anything. The members of this forum are usually very quick to spot any 'fibs' as you have found out.

I hope you can still enjoy the forum
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Hi Ella
I'm Shilasdair, have three horses - an 18 yo TB who I haven't had time to ride, and a couple of youngsters who are too young to be 'broken' yet.
Don't worry about yesterday - we all screw up sometimes (apart from me; I'm perfect, as the other forum users will tell you).
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Ella, well done for coming back and telling the truth. I know its very tempting to make yourself seem more exciting than you really are, and it seems so easy when you and everyone else is hidden away behind a keyboard.

Sec Ds are stunning (have you seen the pic someone put up of a Sec D who actually is competing at GP level??!). I am sure both your boys are beautiful. Have you any photos of your horses?

Competing is fun, but its not the be-all and end-all of riding. Bringing on young horses and rehabilitating problem ones can make you much more of a horsewoman than endlessly hooning about on a push-button pony. I hope you stick around.
 
I think the person who wrote the ( do fat riders make your blood boil) was wrong to write that , shallow and small minded as there is enough bad things written about over weight people who do not match up to these peoples ideas of how a person should look .
As long as the horse is a weight carring build /breed and the person is of a size that is suitable whats the o I have no problem with what you wrote I knew it a jokey coment
 
hi Ella, good for you, having the guts to apologise like that.
since i was the original poster who opened the whole can of worms about larger riders, i'd also like to apologise to those who were upset by it, since i didn't word it very precisely in my OP.
competing's not what it's all about anyway, it's about having fun with your horses. fwiw i had a nightmare coloured first pony who wouldn't load and wouldn't jump at all at shows... great combination, huh?
plenty of time to get around to competing later on if you want to.
welcome to the forum.
 
Awww - hun - I stayed out of the threads last night. Be brave and keep telling the truth and chat on here as yourself, you're probably much nicer and more interesting as you than as some made up person!


Right, the weight thing - it's been much talked about on here. 14.2 Section D - please tell me you ARE riding him! I'm 14 stone and my little 13.3 Section D is happy to take me out and about, we've done a 2'6 ODE and he jumped so big SJ'ing 1.05m that I fell off - he wouldn't do it if he didn't want to - you know what they're like for attitude!

Here you go - pony obviously absolutely hating being ridden by such a lump - NOT! He's carted my daughter off the course a couple of jumps after that in the past so he's perfectly capable of making his own decisions as to whether he will or won't go!

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As for missing out rehabilitating your cob - no, it makes you a better rider because you understand more of how their minds work, it makes you a better person because you are being calm, kind and sensible in order to be ABLE to work with the unhappy and misunderstood.

Further on the weight. Without going mad because you are a teen this is what my daughter who is the same age as you is doing to lose a bit of weight When she feels hungry and would have had a snack she drinks a pint of water - stops her feeling hungry and is good for the skin! She's taking slightly smaller portions at meal times and not having seconds, this is made easier by having a glass of water before her meal. It's easy to follow, nothing radical and is good for you. She's lost about 6 pounds in 4 weeks.

Good luck and be as nice as you really are.

And a further tip! IF (big if) you do get any comebacks from people after this then leave it a couple of days / weeks and give yourself a new name and try again. Try the common room for size as well - you might make some great new friends on there.
 
Hi, I have not read the post you mention...but it took some guts to post this apology...I admire that.
I have a Sec D too (and he is stunning!) and I hack him 100% of the time and do low level endurance rides too...we do no shows, no jumping, no hunting, no dressage and we are both happy. I get stick at times for not doing more with him or showing him etc but I don't care what people think...I enjoy my horse and he enjoys what we do and that is all that matters. Do not feel you have to match up to anyone else...it is not the case!
 
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LOL . That is such a Welsh thing to do.. dont you just love 'em....
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Hello Ella

First thing - dont take anything to seriously on here, people have a laugh and a jibe a lot of the time, so dont think that anyone who made a joke after your comment (me included) was being nasty to you.

Often I feel people take this forum so literally, and how can you when you cant see someones face or hear their voice or know them personally.

Youve been brave and honest and that so respectable but in all honesty I dont think anyone thought you were anything else but normal like the rest of us!
 
hi thanks for the apology must have taken a lot of guts !!

i hope you have fun on the forum and we do get to know you better x x

why dont you post some pics of you and your ponies !!
 
That little man is actually a rescue pony we've spent years working with. He bolts if he thinks he's made a mistake and that day I'd had the dressage from hell (he doesn't DO dressage - you can either go slow, accurate and very very stressed and end up with aching arms or exceptionally fast and not so stressed) and he decided to have a panic in the SJ so we trotted into all the jumps and the ones he was scared of I walked him up to, snorting and blowing, and then turned him round and let him trot up to and over. We got a huge round of applause and lots of lovely comments about letting him get round so that he was happy but OMG did we have time faults! As I said in the previous post on his day, when he's got his sensible head on, he's capable of taking me round 1.05m tracks and winning jump offs! On a bad day he just remembers that in the past, when he was a competition pony, he got beaten witless if he made a mistake so we just let him do his own thing so that he finishes happier than when he started. As for the XC he was clear but because he'd been having a panicky day I didn't want him to feel that he was out of control so we kept stopping and walking where you'd normally have a gallop. More time penalties! but look at his ears - he was enjoying it so much! He came home feeling that he was a total and utter star. Which was exactly what I set out to achieve! He didn't know he was last, just that everybody cheered him and told him how good he was.

God I love that pony! For all his Welshness and all his human-caused problems he's my one in a million horse!
 
Honesty is the best policy....why make up cr@p,TBH reading some of the replies to that post made my blood boil......so I backed out,no I'm not a fat rider just for the record,but, it angerd me the whole bl**dy post.......so making up cr@p just added to the rest of the cr@p being written
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.........by the way welcome to the forum,you came in with a BIG BANG!
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Aww well done for apologising! I love Section D's, they are my favourite breed. Have to horses of my own though which aren't Welshies. (They chose me rather than me them, but love them both to bits).

Am very lucky to have 2 Section D's that I can ride regularly that I also love to bits. One is a stocky lad and has soo much attitude. He has put me on the floor more times than either of my 2, but I still get back on. The other is a finer type and he is soo pretty!
 
soory,i use the college website eause i haven;t got the internet at home but in the future hopefully i will try and get sum pics o here try ma best!! =]
 
Hiya im 16 to and i have a appyx welsh cob shes lovely we to have only done one show lol the charity one when she was 4
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. I have had a welsh D in the past and he was fab, i also have a ickle ponio at the moment to play with lol.

Tbh i prefer rehabilitating(sp)and 'breaking' in horses rather than competing 1 beacuse its so rewarding and 2 because i am a big whimp lol welcome to the forum and feel free to be yourself.

weldone for saying sorry!
 
It was brave to come clean - well done.
Don't you feel better now? You can just be yourself and everyone will like you for it. No one here is judged on their weight or what sort of horse they ride - they are here because they love horses.
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Don't worry about it, we all make mistakes.

Take it from someone old enough to be your mother, you have plenty of time to do anything you want in riding or in life in general. Just enjoy what you are doing at the moment and don't worry what anyone else thinks.
 
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