What is your best horsey moment?

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What moment stands out in your mind as your best horsey moment?

For me it was last year, i was doing a walk and trot (yes i know sad ....but!) It had been a slow warm up, he was not doing well but as i hit the centre line he changed, if i had false teeth they would be on the ground between A and C! He relaxed and came into an outline! For four minutes i rode and he went like I knew we could. As i finished intro A, square in halt (for a change) i knew our score did not matter, i could not care less where i came. We had done our best and for us it was good. We had for that time, in a school conected and as he has relaxed, so had i, nerves forgotten, i rode as i should have. In the end we won, we had a score of 70%. It does not matter, i use that as a benceh mark and aim towards it. I am sure many people would look down their noses at a walk and trot test, but i don't care.

What moment sticks for you?
 
That sounds lovely :) Well done, you must have been very proud!
Stand out moment for me is galloping flat out on a hack, or flying around a cross country course...there's nothing like riding to make you feel alive!
 
Too many to choose from :p

First canter on hack, first jumping lesson, riding a course of jumps by moonlight in freezing winter, galloping endlessly on this one particular hack, 7 hours in the saddle (including a hour lunch break 3/4 hours into the ride).

Cant think of any more...LOL
 
Buying my first horse - Foxy Lad - a beautiful ex racehorse. I was sooo excited when I led him off of that box at his new home! All emotional just thinking about it :o 10 years on, he's getting on for 16 now and still a little monkey and as gorgeous as ever :) Such a character, I have laughed and laughed with him over the years!

More recently - completing my first intermediate team chase on my other boy, Lockie. Absolutely terrified after walking the course and thought I may actually vomit in the start box :D I needn't have worried, my boy flew round and I was so, so proud! Grinned from ear to ear for days :D
 
Mine is going to sound really lame but it is currently everytime I ride my new loan horse. I lost my confidence massively with my own horse (now sold) to the point I was in a permanent state of worry even when I was no where near her. With my new boy he is proving to be the best and the moments I can list from our 4 weeks together are:

1st ride in school
1st 2 lessons
1st hack when he led through the road tunnel even though he had never been through anything like it
2nd hack when we had our first canter and he was totally listening to me the whole time.

I guess really my best horsey moment is getting Max on loan :)
 
Getting our 1st pony round clear 2'3" at a little RC show. She's my daughter's, (10 at the time) we'd all learned together and D couldn't get her over a jump in public. It must have been painful to watch, I think I walked between the jumps, I was so nervous I fell off twice just trying to get on but we did it and child and pony never looked back. Ever since, we refer to any breakthroughs as another "Slowest Clear Round In The World Moment"!:D
 
Tilda said:
Mine is going to sound really lame but it is currently everytime I ride my new loan horse. I lost my confidence massively with my own horse (now sold) to the point I was in a permanent state of worry even when I was no where near her. With my new boy he is proving to be the best and the moments I can list from our 4 weeks together are:

1st ride in school
1st 2 lessons
1st hack when he led through the road tunnel even though he had never been through anything like it
2nd hack when we had our first canter and he was totally listening to me the whole time.

I guess really my best horsey moment is getting Max on loan :)
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Not lame! Really lovely :)

It is soo hard to come back from a knock to your confidence and sounds like you have found just the horse to help you do that

Have lots and lots of fun with Max!!
 
Aww thank you TeamChaser that's a lovely comment. I do feel so lucky to have found him I think if I hadn't I'd have given up! Who knows maybe one day I'll be brave like you with your team chasing (maybe not lol!)
 
Hey - we all have our moments, I didn't used to be as brave! My TB used to scare the ***** out of me in fact lol!! I had the tears and moments of wondering if I wanted to carry on. And I wouldn't team chase him now!

Horses for courses as they say and when you click with one, it does wonders for the confidence. Well done you for persevering ... that's as good an achievement as any
 
- Winning the europeans

- Watching the South African team win the world cup knowing my little horse was part of that team.

- The finals at nationals this year and playing a different position every chukka, the final chukka we went in 2 goals down, I was the goal scorer on an exhausted horse and she gave me everything she could muster and we scored 3 goals to take the championships. That really was the game of my life. After a tragic summer this just made my year :)

My little horses really don't owe anybody anything :D
 
Dec 18th 2006, getting back in the saddle after years of being in plaster, having cages on leg, then loosing my leg two months after it went I managerd to get back on my girl for the first time in 4 years the best day ever, all I did was walk around the school but at last I was back in the saddle no feeling like it :)
 
ebonyallen said:
Dec 18th 2006, getting back in the saddle after years of being in plaster, having cages on leg, then loosing my leg two months after it went I managerd to get back on my girl for the first time in 4 years the best day ever, all I did was walk around the school but at last I was back in the saddle no feeling like it :)
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wow thats amazing, so happy for you that you've found horses again! :)
 
So many I don't know where to start. Similar to poster above except I lost my confidence completely on a previous share horse to the point I nearly gave up riding completely, went back to riding my first share horse and got some of it back, bought my own mare 16 months ago and from then on every small achievement seems worth it. When I got her she couldn't bend properly (had lots of physio to combat problems from being ridden in a saddle far too small) so our first canter 'large' round the arena nearly made me cry, riding her bareback when waiting for our saddle to arrive, and completing (including lots of canters in open fields - always my biggest fear!) our first ever fun ride last October (no jumps but so proud!). Getting her going driving again, the fact she now nickers for me when I arrive at the yard and probably most recently - she's been on box rest for 6 weeks (as in proper box rest, no walks in hand or anything!) was finally allowed to turn her out for an hour and someone from the yard was full of 'you won't be able to catch her, see you in a few hours' - shook the box of treats and she came trotting over. More concerned I was going to be mown down than anything else! Can you tell i'm besotted?!
 
Aged 15 qualifying for HOYS in Junior Foxhunter with a pony I'd had since she was 4 (hardly broken) and brought her on myself. We taught each other loads - I was very lucky :-)

Actually one of my all-time best moments (not just horsey!) :D
 
ebonyallen said:
Dec 18th 2006, getting back in the saddle after years of being in plaster, having cages on leg, then loosing my leg two months after it went I managerd to get back on my girl for the first time in 4 years the best day ever, all I did was walk around the school but at last I was back in the saddle no feeling like it :)
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Gosh! i feel humble!!!!!!!!! Well done!
 
Mid-November, 2005, walking my new mare down my drive. It may not seem like a world-beating moment, but I had coveted her from afar for over a year, and now she was mine. At 18h1", black with four whites, a neck and crest about which one only dreams, a bottom as round and massive as a globe, a topline as level as a table, and an eye as kind as a deer, she ticked all my boxes. She was a Shire Horse of the Year finalist 4 years earlier, and she was (is) mine. As she walked down the drive, she had a little spook. I just kept walking and talking to her and she settled and my heart was filled to bursting. It's a day I will never forget. There isn't a day since she arrived that I haven't marvelled at her beauty and kindness.
 
The day I first realised my home-broken pony who's only ever had me to screw him up in all my incompetent and inexpert ways would do anything to help me out, no matter how badly I screw up - jumping, dressage, whatever we're doing, he just saves my useless backside every time and I cannot understand for the life of me how he turned out so special :o

I wuv my little pony :D
 
soo many!
Cantering for the first time in an open field, that turned into a gallop.
Racing across the beach flatout with my new pony and a friend :p first time either of us have been on a beach, and she was so well behaved.
First ever cross country comp, couldn't have asked for a more wet, windy, horrible day. But still had an amazing time and managed to finish 4th.
Today, when i realised how much i love my stupid little mare :p after deciding to give jumping a try for the first time in months, and with some very bright poles she was spooking at them constantly. First time she went over them she cat leaped, second time calmed down a bit and stepped over the tiny cross pole instead, third time she just walked through them, stopped with them under her belly, looked down at them and then looked at me as if to say 'look what i just did, barged right through those silly poles! they don't scare me any more, im just so clever' - not the right thing to do, but i couldnt help burst out laughing at her :o
 
When my boy had arthrodesis for ringbone..had a very stressful time with him.. But the day the vet said it had all healed and he could go on to do whatever I want him to.. I sobbed like a baby!

Then a year after his op completing the Newmarket ride with the gallops ...amazing!
 
Hmm probably the thing that kept me buzzing for the longest afterwards was when we qualified for the dengie dressage champs. I'd worked quite hard for the area competition, and he did a really nice test and I was just pleased with him whatever the score. Turns out we came joint 3rd, so won a lush dengie numnah and were through to the champs! Even my mum was delighted! :)

The champs themselves were a bit of an anticlimax tho- he'd pulled a shoe and was lame a few days before and only just came sound the afternoon before. So I hadn't ridden for a few days, combined with being tense and him being a bit gawky meant we did an Okish test for 66%, but nowhere as good as he'd been working at home!
 
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