What age did you start riding????????????

First got involved taking my daughter (then aged 7) for lessons 9 years ago. Bought her first pony a year later and decided to have a go myself aged 40. Gave up aged 40+ a little bit!! (Fell off out hacking on a road and broke my arm + hip) tried again when I had recovered but I felt too nervous.

I do now however have 6 (3 Broodmares + youngstock) of my own and daughter has 2.

My lovely OH gave up our gorgeous home he had built ( yep including laying all the bricks himself etc) and moved to the wreck we now live in so we could have land!! Totally addicted
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Going out now to York Horse sales
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Started riding at 8, first ride was on a pony called Raddish, as soon as I got my bum on the saddle he bucked and I fell off the other side, lol, got straight back on, never looked back.
 
I was 7 when I started having lessons, then I got my 'first' pony at 11- he wasn't a first pony, he was a 4 year old 14.2hh Connemara that had come from Ireland a week before we went to see him.
I learnt more from him in the first couple of weeks than I did in the 4 years of been at the Riding School!
 
I started riding lessons aged 4, daughter started at the same age!! I've never owned, but would love to at some point..... Realistically it'll probably be a pony for daughter rather than a horse for me!!!
 
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52 when I first started. Competing this year at 53

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Superb. That did make me laugh. Do all fellas start older? is it the time it takes us to cave in to the OH's obsession?
 
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