What got you 'into' horses?

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Riding the donkeys at Mablethorpe or Cleethorpes can't remember I was only about 18 months old

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Ooh yes - that was me too! We used to have a ride on the cart pulled by the piebald horse on Cleethorpes beach.
 
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I have no idea, no-one in my family is horsey but I was just obsessed with them. My bedroom had thelwell wallpaper and a thelwell bed set
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! My parents didn't have much money and I begged for lessons and on my 7th Birthday I had a lesson on Smudge
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. As my parents couldn't really afford lessons it was agreed that I would forfit my pocket money and wash up every weekday to 'earn' my lessons!! I soon started helping out at the stables and got to earn lots of free rides.

Apart from when I was at Uni I always rode and dreamt that one day maybe........ so roll on 2 yrs ago, an elderly Aunt sadly died
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but kindly left me money in her a will with a hint of what it was for, and OH said 'go for it'
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! So after 30 years of waiting and dreaming my dream came true and I guess that is why George is just so so precious to me
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That could have been me writing that! Except omit aunt and put in gran, and omit George and put in Jake!
I was 30 before I owned my own horse and he was the most precious thing to me for 10 years til he died suddenly. Now his replacement, Jerry, is my most treasured thing!
 
No one in my family is horsey, at all. Like lots of others I seem to have been born obsessed but wasn't able to get my own until I was grown up and had a job that paid well enough to allow me one!

Everyone told me I'd grow out of it, but I'm now nearing 30 and my interest hasn't waned yet....
 
I had always wanted to have a go at riding, but had never really got round to it. For my 12th birthday my parents arranged for me to have a riding lesson at a local riding school. I loved it so I carried on having lessons.
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No idea when the obsession start, far too young to remember, started collecting my little ponies from about age 2! took 4 years of begging my parents to let me have lessons ( i found out years later that the only reason i didnt start sooner was because my parents couldn't afford it). Then it really took off I spent every weekend at my local stables.

I think it must be in the blood, my nan used to ride when she was younger (her older brother dated a riding instructor and when he had to look after her would just plonk her on a horse!), then my mum and auntie, and my cousin all have/do ride too. and my dad grew up on a farm with horses although never rode! crazy man!

Still waiting to buy my own tho
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I have been told that I was plonked on one of my grandad's shires went I was a yearling, loved it and cried when they took me off. Started lessons when I was three and never looked back. Soon as I was 16 got a job in a racing yard and had various other groom jobs until I was 28 then decided I had to get an office job to be able to afford my own horse. He was from the ilph and was a star. I still miss him now. But I've still got one of my mares, wouldn't be without a horse for the world.
 
Watching the Grand National when I was about 9!

Being a single parent Mum couldn't really afford lessons though
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But I had about one a month
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And when I went to see Dad he would take me for hacks in Cornwall (I lived in Bristol at the time)
 
my sisters teacher got us into it,she kept her horse at a riding school and a space came up and for some reason she spoke to mother about my sister going.I wasnt interested in horses back then but what she did i had to do. Got our first pony when i was 11.my sister used to do most of the riding as i preferred the mucking out. Now 30 years down the line,she has been given up for about 20 years and i currently have 3.
 
My dad used to be able ride, to a certain extent; however he never admits to it now. The only other person in family who was into horses was an aunt (who taught my dad to ride so I know he can!), who has since died. Sister rode for a bit last year, but got bored and has packed it in
 
My dad used to ride when he was younger and he loves horses. My mum isn't horsey at all although she does love them and helped me out a lot with my pony. All my friends were horsey, including one of my best friends who was my next door neighbour, they owned the local livery yard- still do.
I live on the same road as a RS so i suppose it was inevitable. Started riding properly when i was 7 and the rest is history. Couldnt imagine horses not being in my life, i wouldnt ever want to be without them, they're the most beautiful things in the world.
 
When I was little my mum and dad used to take me to the local horse sanctuary every Sunday.

I got an 'own a pony' day for my 8th birthday and kept going back to the stables every weekend from then on, mucking out in return for lessons.

Mum tried to get me into ballet to get me away from horses...
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Riding the donkeys at Mablethorpe or Cleethorpes can't remember I was only about 18 months old

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Ooh yes - that was me too! We used to have a ride on the cart pulled by the piebald horse on Cleethorpes beach.

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Agh! But as I grew up well about 10 I used to spend my time on hols leading the donkeys up and down.
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my mum used to show arabs & hacks and my dad used to breed connies & show them in hand so the fact my mum got bucked off my sisters pony when she was heavily pregnant with me probably explains it all!!!!! all my family from both sides have had ponies for generations... im the only child to still have ponies unfortunatly they have lost interest as i showjump not show!!
 
Have a picture of me being held on a donkey at Bridlington aged about 9 months
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Wasn't too interested and was bullied by sister (5 years older than me) to go riding when we were on holiday when I was 6 (parents would not give up a chunk of a holiday day for just one of us). When we got home parents agreed sister could have a lesson a week, if we both went, guess who got bullied into going again? However she didn't need to bully me for long and now very very many years later still riding, having had own horse since I was 15. Interestingly one Grandad had horses and the other came from a family which still breeds shires in the ROI, so I think it is genetic
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I was always interested in ponies (I looked back at my old toys when I had a clearout the other day and 75% were some form of horse!) but I was never ever allowed to ride. I have a pictue in my bedroom of my first ride, on a little grey donkey, but I dont remember it at all...
When I was 10 my mum died and so my dad took us on holiday and knowing how desperately I wanted to ride we went on a very intensive riding holiday (5 hours of lessons a day for a week). After that I was totally hooked!
 
It's all the fault of a certain horse dealer in Essex, Pam Bannister, and her partner Dicky Brown. Their yard was across from our house, and as soon as I could toddle I would be over there. Pam would lift me up onto whatever horse she had tied up in the yard, and I would perch up there for hours happily chattering away to myself. I was about two or three.

Gosh, long time ago, must be over 50 years.
 
My older (by 16 years) Sister always loved horses from a young age (but family are non-horsey) my Grandad used to say horses weren't for people like us they were for Farmers & the well-to-do! Ha ha!
Sister had her 1st horse at the age of 17 yrs so I was sat on a horse before I could walk and when I was 5 yrs old she bought me my 1st pony - Mum could never have afforded to keep him or for me to even have lessons (single parent) so I am very thankful to my Sister, she's the best!!!!!!
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