When did you learn to ride?

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I got mad about horses when I was eight, got enough money to have weekly lessons when I was 13, getting my own horse now, age 15
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Wow! Wish I had learned earlier, I started riding at age 27 and only for a few years at that. I got my horse 4 years ago and absolutely love looking after her, can't imagine life without her now!!
 
I started having lessons when I was 12, and got my own pony 8 months later. He was fantastic and I learnt loads from him.
My parents are totally non horsey, but my daughter was first put on a pony when she was 4 days old!
 
I started having lessons when I was 3, had my own from aged 9, started competing properly at dressage at 15, I'm now 32. My daughter started at 4 and at 8 has 2 loan ponies, but won't be buying her her own for a good while yet.
 
When I was 5. I could tell you most of the horses names from that riding school but I can't remember any of the people I met there names lol. One of the ponies had the same name as me which I thought was so cool!!
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Started lessons aged 8. Got my first pony aged11. Both parents non horsey so i still don't know how i managed to persuade them to buy him!
 
My first time on a horse was when i was 5 or 6 but didn;t get lessons untill i was 9.
I got a share at 11/12 and my own horse at 13[pretty much 14 though]
I'd have loved to have learned earlier but non horsey parents didn't really give me any encouragement.
 
Started when I was seven when my friend wanted someone to go horse riding with her!!! I had been badgering my mum and dad for ages! Got first horse on loan at 13. Fell off BADLY at 14 so pony had to go back! My mum and dad thought that they would get me a "Baby" to bring on!!!!!!! Ive still got him now and hes 31!!!!! Went to see a recommended dealer! led horse up and down and picked his feet up. he didnt react so we bought him!! How naive was that!!!!

So work out my age!!!!

Friends often comment that they think I should have grown out of horses by now!!!!!!
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Hmm, I loved horses from a very early age. I could see horses from every window (neighbour bred and hunted), and my mum rode so i don't think I stood a chance! I was surrounded by horses since a baby.
Learnt to ride over the years really, but more in a haphazard way of being shoved on and getting on with it. I remember being shoved on a 17hh hunter when I was about 4. I helped various people, and was quite happy to ride complete loons. I had a backside like glue. Had my first loan pony when I was about 10ish (can't really remember). I was having lessons about that time, but always preferred helping with teaching etc to actually riding.
Second loan pony made me lose my nerve (he was too much for me) and I gave up riding. When i realised that bones broke and I couldnt stay on all the time.
Took up riding again a while ago, and still prefer to be on the ground lol.
I wanted another baby, my toddler is pony mad and my eldest loves animals and riding so OH bought us all a little pony a few weeks ago. the kids ride and I look after him, OH says it was cheaper than another baby lol.
I am considering getting something of about 13.2hh at christmas, but will need to find something really docile to help me get my nerve back.
 
I was having lessons when I was 5 (part of the school curriculum!
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Have ridden since I was small, but never had a lesson until I was in my 20's...and haven't had a lesson in over 20 years (ooops!)
Rode a lot of other people's horses until I could afford to buy and keep my own, again in my 20's and have had horses ever since
 
started at 7, got first pony at 11 and had horses on and off since then, daughter was 3 weeks old when i first sat her on a friends 14.2 cob,she started riding at age 3 ( now 15). my 3 & 4 yr olds have a shetland to
 
started riding when I was 5/6 yrs old and had lessons once a week. My parents didn't ride but from the age of about 3 I had an obsession with riding and begged my Dad to take me riding
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Worked up at my local yard every weekend from about the age of 11 to get free lessons. Got my first horse at 16 after driving my parents mad for years and Louis (my current) about 2 years later.
 
Started when i was 6-7 .... Im now coming 26 in a few weeks time ...this is the first pony I learnt to ride on and shes still giving lessons where i teach at . Its great to be working with her cause she is such a fantastic pony . My little boy who is now 6 was taught how to ride on her too
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Had first pony before I could walk. My mum had riding school - I had no choice!! The older you get - the more you learn that you don't know it all!
 
My mum rode with me until she was eight months pregnant...too big to get on, then i had pony rides on a lead rope for a couple of years..from a VERY young age, started lessons at 4, was asked to ride a bucking bronko, at 6 (by YO as i was the only one small enough and who could sit the bucks...!!) YO would call my mum and ask me to go up to the yard and ride him before a lesson, so he would be lovely in a lesson!! Then got my 'loan' pony, which was basically free riding 4/5 times a week, when i was 8, rode him for a year. Then i rode 2 times a week at a riding school until i came to France, then got asked to ride another horse (24 yr old loon!), rode her for a year until her tendons gave up....and at 14 got my own horse...but i have a lot more to learn and a long way to go!

oops sorry for the essay
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Started lessons at 10, within a month I was hooked and down to the stables to help every weekend, then evening too - by 13 I was teaching the beginners
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Moved oop North at 14 and had my first pony then horse - at 21 moved to the States and pretty much gave up (big mistake but financial) So over 20 years on I'm a teenager again
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PS Rode my first Cleveland Bay at 13 - the rest is history
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learnt to ride aged 6, got my own little exmoor pony aged 7 1/2 but didnt actually REALLY learn how to ride - as in learn "feel" etc. until i was 12 when we bought Fiddler and my trainer changed
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I started at 11 and rode the horses we had at home until I was 16...so not long really. I then waited until I was 29 and at long last could afford my own horse again! So my current boy is my first horse bought from my own money.
 
I had riding lessons for my 5th Birthday but soon had to stop as the horses triggered(sp) my Asthma, which i had very badly as a babe. But soon started again, had my first horse on loan when i was 9, then my mum and dad bought me my first when i was 10/11, we had him for 10years, unfortunatley he had to be pts because of colic and tumour. I had just bought my current mare a couple of days before he was pts in 2004.
 
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