Standies?

I would highly recommend getting a Standie if you can. My friend's one is amazing. Hacks out all day, does jumping up to 80cm just now and is a pleasure to be around.

He did race so it took a while to teach him canter but I did it with poles and loose schooling.

If I hadn't been so set on getting an Arab that would have been my second choice.
 
fidleyspromise said:
I would highly recommend getting a Standie if you can. My friend's one is amazing. Hacks out all day, does jumping up to 80cm just now and is a pleasure to be around.

He did race so it took a while to teach him canter but I did it with poles and loose schooling.

If I hadn't been so set on getting an Arab that would have been my second choice.
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Thanks! I was set on an arab or arab cross also but have seen a fair amount of standies competing successfully at the 3-4 endurance events I went to over the summer, and they seem easier and more biddable tbh.
 
Kirstd33 said:
Thanks! I was set on an arab or arab cross also but have seen a fair amount of standies competing successfully at the 3-4 endurance events I went to over the summer, and they seem easier and more biddable tbh.
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I love my Arab but he is a challenge whereas I find Standies generally more biddable. I had no experience until my friends one but now know several and they seem easy and straight forward generally. - good luck on your search and hopefully you get to see the one you originally saw.
 
fidleyspromise said:
I love my Arab but he is a challenge whereas I find Standies generally more biddable. I had no experience until my friends one but now know several and they seem easy and straight forward generally. - good luck on your search and hopefully you get to see the one you originally saw.
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I really hope so, so am keeping everything crossed. its just so frustrating having a finite and relatively small budget, that equivalent connies, ISH, nice cob x are just out of our reach.
 
I think mine is a cross possibly. She is a stepping cob but far too lightly built to be just cob and definitely has something else in there.
 

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Thankyou, now I'm very nervous, she has offered me sunday when I already have some child-centered plans that may be able to be switched or Tuesday when I'd have to take a half days hols from work?
 
friend has a standie and know of a few who race them only real problem i see is getting them to stop pacing but really friendly try there best breed
 
I had a gorgeous Standardbred, I didn’t know she was one when I bought her as she was advertised and looked like a TBx. It wasn’t until I realised she struggled to canter in the school that I looked into her breeding and discovered she was a Standardbred.

She was fab, brave as a lion. Hack out all day long, was super sweet and had the fastest ‘tranter’ I have ever sat too. She never did master canter in the school so I didn’t push it.

I unfortunately lost her to a kick in the hock from another horse in the field. She was top dog in the field and really quite hormonal but I wouldn’t have put that down to her breed, rather it as just her.

I hope you get to your viewing and she is everything you want.
 
Standies are very popular in endurance, I see lots of them out and about here. Tall, generally fairly straightforward although usually a lot of get up and go with fast paces. Also, a bonus for long distance riding, because they are a gaited breed you can ride in smooth 4 beat gait and save your knee joints/hips/back if you don't mind the learning curve to get it!
 
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Standies are very popular in endurance, I see lots of them out and about here. Tall, generally fairly straightforward although usually a lot of get up and go with fast paces. Also, a bonus for long distance riding, because they are a gaited breed you can ride in smooth 4 beat gait and save your knee joints/hips/back if you don't mind the learning curve to get it!
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well my spine is fused at the L5/S1 level (back in 2015 and generally doesn't give me much gip now) so that does sound like a bonus also!
 
Kirstd33 said:
well my spine is fused at the L5/S1 level (back in 2015 and generally doesn't give me much gip now) so that does sound like a bonus also!
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Definitely a bonus then! Gaited horses are fairly unusual (or underutilised in the case of standies) in this country but the lack of bouncing is a major plus. Most people I know who have gaited horses (except a few standie owners who just trot or pace) bought them specifically for comfort because of various disabilities/creaky bits.

Theres a bit of a learning curve to getting the smooth gaits, if you do end up with a standie feel free to message me and i can send you some links etc that might help :)
 
FitzyFitz said:
Definitely a bonus then! Gaited horses are fairly unusual (or underutilised in the case of standies) in this country but the lack of bouncing is a major plus. Most people I know who have gaited horses (except a few standie owners who just trot or pace) bought them specifically for comfort because of various disabilities/creaky bits.

Theres a bit of a learning curve to getting the smooth gaits, if you do end up with a standie feel free to message me and i can send you some links etc that might help :)
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Many thanks, having not ridden one before I’m a little afraid of looking like a fool at the viewing GB on Sunday. This horse does pace but apparently also trots and has a lovely smooth, steady canter.
 
Kirstd33 said:
Many thanks, having not ridden one before I’m a little afraid of looking like a fool at the viewing GB on Sunday. This horse does pace but apparently also trots and has a lovely smooth, steady canter.
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Ah don't worry about it, they're just horses, with a few extra gears. I'm sure the owner will let you know if there are particular cues it favours for each gait it has established already, working on the smooth easy gaits is a future consideration! No point worrying about it if you turn out not to like the horses personality :P
 
Absolutely get a standardbred! My mare (16) is now retired now due to wonky conformation related problems catching up with her, but she was lovely to ride.

Absolutely bombproof hacking and would look after all levels of rider including my OH who had never ridden. She's STAGBI registered but never paced in the time I have owned her.

She's one of the bigger ones I've seen, 16hh and middleweight. Built like a chunky TB but with a bigger head! Holds weight well without having to worry about getting too fat as well.

No my other ride is also a Connie (completely different but also lots of fun!!)
 
Kirstd33 said:
So….. he’s lovely! Exactly as described by Liz Collingwood and his actual owners and pending a 2 stage vetting will be swapping the mid wales hills for the more northern wales hills! He offered me all his paces, including pacing which I just need to learn how to sit to!
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very exciting! fingers crossed for the vetting. They're lovely horses.
Pace is sometimes easier in light seat, frankly I find it very uncomfortable no matter what, but some people prefer it over trot. I trained a youngster a while back who initially mostly paced or step paced, pretty much didn't let her out of walk till she went to step pace and smooth gait, and then only smooth gait. Took a little while but hey if you have the extra gaits might as well have the perks too!

edit: theres a Gaited Horses UK facebook group with a lot of lovely experienced people on there, worth a look if he comes home with you :)
 
FitzyFitz said:
very exciting! fingers crossed for the vetting. They're lovely horses.
Pace is sometimes easier in light seat, frankly I find it very uncomfortable no matter what, but some people prefer it over trot. I trained a youngster a while back who initially mostly paced or step paced, pretty much didn't let her out of walk till she went to step pace and smooth gait, and then only smooth gait. Took a little while but hey if you have the extra gaits might as well have the perks too!

edit: theres a Gaited Horses UK facebook group with a lot of lovely experienced people on there, worth a look if he comes home with you :)
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Many thanks - today he offerrred me a nice active walk, then a decent trot up a hill, with a few strides of pacing on the Down transition. Then we went into an open field and we had a tranter that when pushed On a little become a half decent smooth canter. And then on his training track he did a lap in pace! My job will be to learn all his buttons and work on the transitions . But he’s such a polite boy, who you can put your leg on which I like and I think we’ll have a lot of fun teaching each other.
 
Buy yourself this book. I find it has good advice in it.

Easy-Gaited Horses: Gentle, Humane Methods for Training and Riding Gaited Pleasure Horses https://share.google/M9U0piO8oqOMsqhmE

I hope you enjoy him. My current horse is a gaited Icelandic x Welsh cob, though I have had previous Icelandics and a Standard bred many years ago.
 
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