What has been your proudest moment(s) with your horse?

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I've had my boy 11 years now and have been thinking about all things we've done. Proudest moments were winning my first trophy with him for an arab class and championship and being placed 3rd, when he was 15, at our local country show at our first attempt!! We were up against about 12 other horses, he was by far the oldest!

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I'm always proud of the horse I share cause he's a star, his other mummies are proud of him too (he has 3 :-)) recently though it's been how he coped with loosing my friends pony as we thought he'd be a nightmare on his own but he's been as good as gold :-) he now has a new cob and a very naughty pony to share field with xx
 
In the competition department, I did a BD Novice test and we came third, a practise judge said it was the nicest test she had seen all day and we finally got a couple of points. I cried into her neck.

She was a fabulous, kind, and loving, brave mare. I miss her like mad.
 
With Honey it has to be her standing so calmly and trusting the farrier for the first time :) She had a bad experiance with a farrier and it took nearly a year before she would stand calmly to be trimmed again.

Mysti .. um has to be her being an absolute angel (even though shes a monster :p) for her sharer to get her confidence back up handling horses on the ground :D
 
The first time we threw a rug over him and shook it about and then got on him. He didn't get fazed once.
 
Another one who has been very proud off my horses out hunting, ie people taking leads off me and my 14.2 breifly having the FM on. Was very proud off the one o had on loan over winter as well, had some moments that wasn't that pleased, but the last part off the season he was very good and at our last meet we both jumped our first gate, were second over it and got lots of complients from vistors and regulars about what a good hunter he was :)) (bearing in mind when I took this horse visiting we hot stuck in the middle off a double and I was person who started him hunting v v pleased), I did fall off and break my collar bone later on in the day but not really his fault and my bro got on him after and jumped him over wire so all in all very proud off him out hunting, and that he went back to his owners has a very good hunter who jumps rails, hedges, ditche, wires and gates and loves the hounds :)
 
For the Hocamaffe it would be winning his 3rd race on the bounce at the age of 11 shortly before he retired. And then after retirement to showing when he went overall supreme in-hand champion at his first ever show.

Out of my shetlands it has to be Flint - He has just done me proud year after year after year. 3 wins at the Royal Highland, twice supreme gelding champion of the scottish shetland show, winning more in-hand and ridden classes than you can shake a stick at - both shetland only and mixed M&M. He is 21 now, still rides like a 4yo and will be making his debut in veteran classes though I may need to try and get him to understand the "No Galloping" rule in those classes ...:D
 
Well today he has finaly learned proper walk to canter :D managed to get a few on each rein with no trot in the middle and then some walk trot transitions to :D
he has gone from being a giraffe to working in a nice stretchy consistent outline in walk and trot and canter is well on the way :D he is now confident enough to take on a show jump properly with out backing off :D Much love for my little man that I was advised not to buy <3<3<3<3 now looking forward to both of our first pony club rally later this week
 
Im sat here trying to think what is my proudest moment but you know what..... My horse makes me feel proud every single day :) The first proudest moment being when i bought him when he was 6 months old from a big Welsh auction, he was so good not fazed by the atmosphere and just went straight into the horsebox with other horses that he didnt know. He is now 3 years old, makes me smile everyday and i never thought that i would love another horse as much a i loved my old pony that was pts in 2007. I feel very lucky to own another special and sweet lad. :) xxxx
 
It might not mean alot to most people but it means the world to me, The other day i was in the field with my rising 3yr old spooky arab x and i had a leadrope around his neck, I was showing him around his new field and when i was walking he would walk, when i'd stop he would stop and if i jogged he would trot, it was such a lovely moment and i applied no pressure at all to the leadrope.
 
With old mare, my proudest moment was one day out hacking with a friend and we started cantering across a huge stubble field, in the general direction of home. Old mare was a competitive horse who didn't like to be behind but will happily canter along side another. She's a bright and breezy horse who loves a good gallop. Anyway friends horse took off and my friend was shouting 'I can't stop!' and was trying everything to stop her horse, but he just got faster. It wasn't a doddle, but I pulled up old mare and we stood stock still in the stubble field while her friend galloped towards home. When my friends horse realised mine wasn't following he finally stopped.

That moment just confirmed how very special my mare is, love that horse so much!
 
Probably yesterday! We won a dressage competition doing prelim 7 at a local show. We haven't been to any shows for a couple of years but he was SO good and calm - I really couldn't have asked for anymore.
When I was warming up I had some lovely compliments from other people and when I said to a friend that I really ought to do more competitions with him, she replied that I ought to as a lot of people would do anything to have a horse like Jerry. That made me very proud:D
 
My mare Serenity winning 1st place in the 3yrs & under heavy horse class against 15 others some who were already 3yrs old. She then received Reserve Champion. Her colt foal at 2yrs coming 3rd in a big A & P Sporthorse Class again a big class of up to 3yr olds. Her filly foal being Champion Show Hunter youngstock and being offered $10,000 for her as a weanling (about £5000)

Another special moment is the time of foaling - all those months waiting for my new four legged bundle of time wasting joy.
 
I think probably when we had nuked his napping and I took him out for a hack by myself again for the first time after about a year of being only able to go out with other people. He didn't put a foot wrong and I could have wept with happiness. Also when we got a rosette for coming 6th with 4 faults in a 2 foot jumping class :) Oh and surviving riding club camp the first year - huge thing for both of us.
 
Several proudest moments for me I'm afraid and I'd be hard pushed to single one out so I'm afraid you'll have to have them all.

* as a groom, getting Best Turned Out at point to points which then went on to win, very satisfying also turning hunters out so well that you get compliments from other field members, more than satisfying!

* a 2yr old I bred was being shown and sold at the old HIS Show & Sale at Malvern. He won his class (of 16 geldings) and then was Youngstock Champion, then overall IN Hand Champion then went on to be second highest priced 2 yr old of the day. I couldn't believe my little scruffy mare who only cost me £300 had bred him. He later went on to be successful hunter showing at county level.

* selling a yearling to Andrew Nicholson because he knows what he likes in a horse which has since gone on to start eventing.

* Zoe (Taylored Equestrian on here) taking my mare Witches Broom to the SHBGB gradings and her being Top Mare in the country after all the gradings had been held.

* Watching Joey (another home-bred) become a star hunter for one of my best friends, my vet who broke and did all the work on him himself. Such a good job that when he had two tyre blowouts on the main A55, horse stood quietly in the trailer until we arrived with ours; the police performed a rolling stop of all traffic so we could unload from one trailer to another and away before this seething mass of traffic bearing down on us could swallow us up; took less than two minutes for the transfer and we were away. He was an absolute star that day, made me very proud of him.
 
I've only had my mare since Oct and had been so close to giving up riding as the last share I had wrecked my confidence, and every new step I take with her makes me so proud. Nothing in comparison to some of the other posters, but I cantered her on a hack in a field for the first time just over a week ago and I was so proud cos she just came so nicely back to trot with no pulling, and cantered around a corner in the arena 2 weeks ago - was over the moon - when I bought her she was so stiff she couldn't bend around a corner in walk let alone anything else. Next step is a hack on our own and starting some jumping :):):)
 
D'sMum said:
I've only had my mare since Oct and had been so close to giving up riding as the last share I had wrecked my confidence, and every new step I take with her makes me so proud. Nothing in comparison to some of the other posters, but I cantered her on a hack in a field for the first time just over a week ago and I was so proud cos she just came so nicely back to trot with no pulling, and cantered around a corner in the arena 2 weeks ago - was over the moon - when I bought her she was so stiff she couldn't bend around a corner in walk let alone anything else. Next step is a hack on our own and starting some jumping :):):)
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I'm "over the moon" for you too :D

Am sure you'll have many more proud moments in the years to come :D
 
Probably a bit shallow, but was quite proud when Badger Buck got a half page pic in H&H, looking cool jumping a big hedge! :)

Otherwise, I'm just a proud mummy and love him to bits! :)
 
Has to be in april 2010 when, after a very difficult winter with my mare both in terms of handling and riding, we went to halton sponsored ride. Had only done xc on her once and she flew around the place, jumping most things and even the plane! Gave me such an exhilirating ride and behaved like a saint the whole day. Definately reminded me of what a star of a pony I own and reminded me that one amazing ride makes up for all of the bad times. She also took me hunting for the first time in November, was her first time too - only stopped once and flew a 4ft hedge. I was a proud mummy! love my pony lots :-)
 
I am proud of Herbie every single day. I'm proud that he has turned from a horrible agressive unridable pony, to a happy, loving, loyal pony who got a 2nd and a 5th at his first ever inhand show, A 1st and a 2nd at his second inhand show and at the weekend at his first ever ridden show he came 2nd in the dressage and jumped a clear round :D He is turning into such a cool little dude and proving all those people who told me to just send him to a sale and hope the meat man buys him wrong :p:p:p:p:p:p :D:D:D:D:D:D

I'm still very very proud of Lucy. I'm proud of all we achieved together. How she got from unhandelable to wonder pony. I'm proud of how she fought the Amyloidosis and gave us 8 extra mounths together. I miss her more and more every single day :( but i'm so very proud to say that she was mine and i wouldn't change a single moment we spent together. :) RIP Lucy xxxxx
 
Well my Piglett is a batty barrel racing horse. She was scared of her own shadow would flip over when you tried to mount her and if you could get on her she took off at full speed cause she was a roping horse before I got her. After just 3 months work with her I covered her in tinsel, flashing lights and bells and rode her in the Christmas Light Parade through the local town with no problems throwing sweets from a large bag I was carrying to all the children along the sides of the roads. There was no spooking or bucking or trying to run away. She even plodded past the the protesters that were yelling and setting off fire crackers to try and spook the horses.
So maybe all we have managed is on tiny competition so far but hey this year is still young!
 
only had her 3 months but probably the proudest moment so far was when we were riding while some belton horse was doing weird pole exercises which i've never seen before, and my baby just happily going over the poles with perfect striding everytime and the expressions on their faces when they saw a very dirty grey doing the same thing as well as their 15000 horse. so proud :D
 
Poutu, before she was PTS, allowing me to have several beautiful hacks on her despite her being in pain. (She was always alwful on the road)

Buffy for getting my confidence back out hacking, and in the school.
 
When I got back into riding I bought a pony which was 'in the rough'. Later entered her in a Riding Club Horse class, she by then looked really smart. A woman on a horse next to me said 'That saddle must have cost more than that pony'. Well my pony won the class, boy was I chuffed. She was third at the regionals & did loads of winning after that but that was the sweetest moment.
 
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