Things you remember from when you were young??.

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and Mary King being my idol!
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She still is for me
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Remember there would be a huge poster every other week of the top riders.
 
What do you mean a thing of the past. ive still got all of these!!!
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Do you mean to say there is something better than a jute rug with straw underneath for drying a wet horse??????
 
Candy stripe puffas (that brought back memories!!), cantering along grass verges and jumping ditches, frosty mornings at the yard, bran mash, the elation of getting your first rosette and feeling that you could do badminton the following week......
 
Mid 1970's...

Riding in my lace up school shoes, a chin strap that was a contraption that was strapped onto your riding hat (that only had elastic to keep it on) Itchy yellow polo neck jumpers knitted by my grandma.
Rubber things only came in orange
The smell of cooked barley in the feed room.
Everyone grown up smoking like billy-o regardless of the no smoking signs
 
My sister had a white and navy striped puffa....we still have it.

Stopping and steering were most important - no fuss over head carriage or 'working over the back'.

Unorthodox positions - particularly jumping ones. The point being to stay on.

Horsey products all came in tins that rusted shut after a month of use. Infact everything bloody rusted!

Dustbins of straights that were usually muddled up 'oats' was actually a bin of 'barley' etc.

String everywhere...gloves, girths, holding everything together. Chinstrap hats and those black 'leather look' wellies.

The smell of Stockholm tar, saddle soap, 'proper' linseed and bran.

There only being about 5 different bits availible.
 
Govenor, you are WAY too young to be reminising!!!!

Whoever mentioned Barbara Woodhouse - she was horsey, she taught us all that you blow up a horse's nostrils to make friends with it
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Altogether now....."Ssssss-i-t!!! There's a good boy. Now drop the lead, walk away and there you are to stay!"
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LOL. I must admit that since Ive put down rubber matting I have found it a bit difficult to dry my horse. The mats just wont stay under the Jute rugs. Any suggestions???
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In all the years I watched "training dogs the Woodhouse Way" (I think that's what it was called) she never ever seemed to age.

I was so sad when she died. I was pregnant with Ashley though, so I guess I can be forgiven for being emotional. She was just such an institution.
 
VHS????? What's that??????
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I don't own a video player! We're all HD LCD tv's and Sky HD (it has a nice sony blue playback light on it lol) and from next week will be buying Blue Ray DVD's when the PS3 arrives!!!!!

BOING BOING BOING!!!!!!!
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LOL Ours was a Christmas treat to ourselves.

46" Sony Bravia W series - full HD. It's fabby!!!

I went to my parents today and her 32" looks like a portable when you're used to something so much bigger
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Being totally fearless! Jumping anything and everything that was available to jump, be it logs, a pile of bushes or oil drums (without checking what was on the other side!)
Jute rugs and rollers.
Cleaning tack for hours before a show
Hacking miles to go to shows!
Trying to catch my pony who would gallop round and round and round me regardless of the fact that I had food!
Riding pony bareback in just a headcollar and a rope - which ultimately led to the lovely chap bolting with me down hill and me hanging round his neck!
Hacking along the A3 without a care in the world!
 
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Govenor, you are WAY too young to be reminising!!!!

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You're quite right...I have a heck of a lot of horsey memories from being about 3 years old though - interestingly mainly smells etc. I was looking at some photos from about 15 years ago too...Mum didn't bother with playschool, she dumped me in the field with my sister's pony and her friend's horse.
 


Oooh, I love this thread, such happy memories.

Anyone remember the cream waterproof riding macs that you had to strap underneath your legs incase you took off kite style?!!

I recently had the pleasure of reading a pony club manual from 1965. They were discussing pony club games and there used to be a "cigarrette smoking, bun eating, water drinking" race ..... how bl**dy brilliant would that be?? I'd have been great at that one, make it wine drinking and you have my 3 natural talents all rolled into one race!!
 
OMG! The Candystripe Puffa! I SO wanted one of those! But keeping ponies left no money for luxuries. I rode in my mum's old breeches from the 1950 and my school jumper LOL!

No supplements! No Dengie feeds!

Riding hat held on with peice of black elastic LOL.

Mum and I still use the Jute rugs and NZ rugs we have owned for the last 25 years though. Still going strong and nothing wrong with them.

From reading everyone's posts, are you getting the idea that we spend too much unnescessary money on horses and riding for fashion purposes rather than need? Certainly our ponies and horses were perfectly healthy back then. Of course I dont dispute that the safetly equipment is a god-send.

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o no- replace the water with cider and I think itll be a close run thing! Ive been invited on a "grown up" ( i use the word loosely!) pony camp in the summerand it think that game would be genius!
 
I also just remembered the hours and hours I spent trying to catch my pony Cocoa..... Im sure I spent more time running round her field than I did riding her. And as soon as I got on her, she would bolt. What a great pony!! And oddly enough, everyone seemed to think this was OK and I still went to pony club stuff and competitions. She almost always refused to jump and everyone fell off her.

I think these days, a pony like that would not be tolerated??

She was good in the stable and affectionate. I think that was her saving grace
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Cassandra
 
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