Tell me stories of your first horse!

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Just in one of those moods to learn about people's experiences. Anybody fancy telling me about their first horse? PHOTO'S ARE NECESSARY. :D
Whether they were a surprise or you bought yourself, and what you did with them.
 
We were lucky enough to have ponies from when we were little. They were all freebies, but we were SO lucky!

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Lucy, 12.2hh welshie cross... Sister is 8 in these photos :) She was actually our 3rd pony, but no pictures of Smokey (11.2hh nutter) or Muffin (12hh, elderly pony).

10 years later...
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Things have changed a bit?!

We were so lucky, the ponies may have been a motley crew and we may have spent more time hitting the deck than actually riding, but my family gave up so much to enable us to have that privilege.
 
Wow you lucky thing! I love the little grey at the start, cutie!
And the 10 year photo difference, wow. I'm glad your love for horses stuck :D
 
I started loaning my pony last year and then he was about to be sold and parents bought him as a surprise for christmas but made me wait till my birthday to find out (which is in january so i sort of had to wait but when i found out it didn't really matter:D)
so here is my 14.2 bay gelding....
*i haven't got many decent pictures of him but this is my newest one of him modelling his new bridle:p*
Tucker!:D
 
That's my little sister- she's now doing it for a living, rides for a few different people and manages a yard. Since she was tiny, all she has wanted to do is ride. When she was 8, she said she wanted to be an eventer and ride horses for her job... She's 19 now, and is doing just that!

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This is me, on my first 'proper' pony. I'm 11 in these photos, and he was the best pony ever. Literally could not have asked for a more perfect pony. He was called Joey.
 
Parachute said:
Lolo, your live seems pretty perfect :D
I love Joey! What a cutie !:p
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We are SO lucky. My mum and dad were totally unhorsey, but we wanted to learn to ride and we'd moved to the middle of nowhere (aka Norfolk!) so we started lessons. And then a family down the road had children our age and were v. horsey and after 2 years we got a pony on loan and kept it with them... And it just escalated.

Joey was the perfect pony. He was nutty out hunting, spent most of his time vertical, but aside from that he was literally perfect. I can't think of a single occasion where he was less than the ideal pony. He was only just 9 as well... He sadly died very suddenly exactly a year after I got him of an aneurysm.
 
Lolo said:
We are SO lucky. My mum and dad were totally unhorsey, but we wanted to learn to ride and we'd moved to the middle of nowhere (aka Norfolk!) so we started lessons. And then a family down the road had children our age and were v. horsey and after 2 years we got a pony on loan and kept it with them... And it just escalated.

Joey was the perfect pony. He was nutty out hunting, spent most of his time vertical, but aside from that he was literally perfect. I can't think of a single occasion where he was less than the ideal pony. He was only just 9 as well... He sadly died very suddenly exactly a year after I got him of an aneurysm.
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I'm so sorry you lost Joey! I'm still waiting for my first but can't wait to add to this thread. :D
 
I got him from YO, the Christmas just gone :) from the age of 5, I asked for a pony every Christmas and I finally got my wish!

It's an on-going saga, so not much to tell yet!
I've known him for about 6 years, but owned him 6 months today!!

Before I got him we didn't do an awful lot and neither of us were very good at anything. He would jump, but not very well and truth me told I found it a bit scary. He wouldn't hack alone, so I was stuck going with other people when they fancied it.

In the 6th months I've had him, I've ridden all the way to Milton Keynes, completed a fun ride, begun hacking him alone (everywhere and anywhere!), loads of bombproofing, won my first jumping class and place in ridden and in-hand classes :) I love him more than anything and couldn't be more proud!




 
My first pony was really really naughty! Good fun though. I was 9 here


At 15 I found a v special pony that went from nothing to just missing HOYs in 12 months!
He was sold for a good sum to someone wanting to do FEI euro eventing



Ice funded my first horse. Again did nothing to 1.20s with aims of young riders.... (i own rights of this pic)


I now produce young horses, this is my current one at his second show


I have had many many inbetween! These just stand out :)
 
Lolo said:
That's my little sister- she's now doing it for a living, rides for a few different people and manages a yard. Since she was tiny, all she has wanted to do is ride. When she was 8, she said she wanted to be an eventer and ride horses for her job... She's 19 now, and is doing just that!

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This is me, on my first 'proper' pony. I'm 11 in these photos, and he was the best pony ever. Literally could not have asked for a more perfect pony. He was called Joey.
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Ahh - lovely Joey. You had him when Sophie had Rags. Very special ponies.
 
This is our first pony. He was our first mother and daughter share and as small as I dared go without being tutted at, being an old fashioned sec C hew coped with me fine (13.1). He was a fabulous pony, very safe and a character. Jumping was not his forte, but at least he didn't do dirty stops. He would grind down to trot, then walk and then just stand in front of it as if ?to say jump that? realy? Sadly all to quickly outgrown. But happily went on to a tiny adult lady rider who didn't want to jump anyway.

The lovely Saltmarsh Ragged Robin - AKA Rags




She grew into that jacket eventualy



Getting a bit leggy on him



Cheeky monkey

 
I was very lucky growing up, my family ran a livery yard so I used to ride the big horses out to the fields on their rugs! Got given my first pony, I had him every winter on loan from a riding school and one year my dad took him back in the spring and got told we could keep him :) I was 7 and upset that my pony had gone again, went down to help mum feeding round and there he was in his stable :) we had a few great years doing everything, pony club, riding out all day in the summer holidays, playing chase me Charlie with the other liverys and local shows etc. he dislocated his hip in the field aged 27 and still in full time work, vet helped us half carry him to the stable and then released a tendon and he spend another few weeks wandering around the farm to his hearts content before he was put to sleep when it happened again. Everybody loved Pickles - couldn't take him anywhere without someone saying is that Pickles?! Vet even wiped the bill :) I'm so glad we had those years together my little monkey and me!
 
I grew up riding and loaned a couple then gave up when my parents decided my exams were more important.
30 years later I bought my first horse a 4 year old 14 3 hafflinger, massive learning curve and many bruises later we're fine together. I've had him 5 years now, + I have a 3 yr old welsh d who's a little sweet heart, a 4 year old mini, who's testing my patience as he thinks he's some kind of free spirit who shouldn't be restrained by fences or gates. Then I also have a 12 year old mini who's easily led astray.
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Oh go on then! My parents are not at all horsey, but I did manage some riding as a kid and also a few fabulous riding holidays well before H&S came along, lots of fun!

When I was 28 I bought my first, Harley, this is him in 1997 the week he arrived, five years old and so very narrow!


This is us in 2009, after a fast hack though the woods. He's still going well, albeit a bit stiffer these days but happy.


There have been others, but this is my just backed rising four year old who I bought as a weanling, he and Harley were both bred out of Bodmin moor in Cornwall, I hope Tinner will be a wonderful replacement for Harley in time!
 
Magicmillbrook said:
Ahh - lovely Joey. You had him when Sophie had Rags. Very special ponies.
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Very special, one of the best camps ever that year with Sophie and everyone! Then we had the matching coloured ponies, stabled next to each other. They might not have been the million dollar ponies that branch sported, but I reckon we had the most fun :)
 
This is DJ, my first horse, well he was bought as a 4 year old really for my OH to ride as his horse had been retired. DJ was a 17+hh TB X gelding. He was a very quirky character and could be quite difficult to ride but he gave us lots and lots of fun. Sadly he was PTS last year due to arthritis
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This is Chloe who was bought for specifically for me ( too small for the OH). I've ridden since I was a kid but riding school horses and ponies. I've had Chloe just over 3 years, got her when she was 9, on loan from a friend and bought her just under 2 years ago. She's 15.1hh poss Anglo Arab X. Had so much fun with her and she's taught me lots, love her loads and loads!
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First pony well horse was a 15hh, 18 year old (thought she was 13 :rolleyes:) hackney x section d x cob. Amazing nature and would literally trust her with my life. Best horse i have ever met which i had and still do have the most amazing bond with. Took me from barely being able to canter to making me competent enough to bringing on a ottb but also teaching me to jump, gallop and enjoy every aspect of horses! Today i now have her still whilst she lives about 20 mins away in her field where her old owner sees to her and i go and exercise her and go up as much as i can. Worked out better than anything!


I know own a gorgeous 15,3/16hh tb gelding. Just turned 6. Got an amazing jump and personality. is a little ***** to ride but is coming along great. And i hope once ive finished with him we will successfully compete. Sorry second horse in there too:rolleyes:

 
Ok I've been inspired so I've come upstairs and worked out how the scanner works .... :p Not sure on year for any of these pics, will need to ask my mum :o

First up is Peter Pan, he was a riding school pony and I adored him. EVERYTHING had to be red and he taught me how to ride. He would buck, stop and put his head down so i would slide down his neck and when i reached his ears he would put his head up and I would slide off the side :rolleyes:


Next up was my first loan pony called Sinbad .. He was a complete **** and when i could catch him he was such a naughty pony to ride but again i adored him ... Thats not me on him, im riding my friends Lisa's (cant believe i remember her name, lol) horse and i think he was called Red!
Sinbad turned every colour under the sun depending on the time of year, I think he was in his twenties when this was took and he passed away in his thirties i believe :)


Then my 2nd loan pony call Orion. She was a typical chesnut mare but I adored her. She was sharp, spooky and we went everywhere sideways in a jog but I felt so grown up riding a super 'horse' and as you can tell i was a complete brat at that age :D I believe she was pts after a field accident and she broke her leg! It was just after this I found out about girls, drink and drugs (the girls bit didnt last long ;))



There were others in between but these were 'the ones' but I never owned any of them as we were a bit too poor to be honest.
Im now 35 and after a twenty year break from riding I brought my first horse a few days ago ... Here is my little (17h) stallion wannabe Gizmo :D

 
I don't have any pictures where they're all at my grandparents unfortunately :-( but mine was a 27 year old 11hh dun welsh section a mare that would jump in the air spin round and then throw in a massive buck. If that didn't work she would get down and roll... She also double barrelled you in the stable and would bite and cow kick when you groomed her. Nothing wrong with her, just a moody mare :) mum said it would teach me to ride when we got her when I was 7. It taught me to sit a buck and ride through. When we got rid of her at 29 and went to another little girl she was going double clear around 2'6 with me and was wicked at gymkhanas! Then got ny
 
*sorry on phone! Then got my 12.2hh 4 year old chestnut gelding called nipper. Still have a scar where he bit me and wouldn't let go! But he was awesome to ride! Then got my 14.2hh peony who I cant fault, outgrew her and got big ginger beast who I still have 8 years on. I cant outgrow a 16.2hh so I'll keep him :)
 
I've still got mine !!!

He was 6 and I was 7 ! I'm 23 now and still got him. We couldn't afford him and a horse so I chose to keep him :)

We tried EVERYTHING when we were younger ... nowsdays we still love a gallop and a mini jump, but we have fun in a more reserved way! Our partnership has developed into something different over the years, but we&#8217;re closer then ever now ! I LOVE HIM <3 :)

(I have lost weight since this pic, now 10 stone so we have much more fun as I feel happier to ride him ! )

 
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