Where did your "horseyness" come from?

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IE - when did you realise you loved horses? Are your family horsey, or are you the black sheep?

I don't recall ever not loving horses. I have a vague memory of my mother in her riding boots about to leave and me clinging on for dear life, begging to go with her! (I must have been about 3! Because all I can remember is her boots!!)

My Mum has been riding horses her whole life too, she's worked in riding stables in london and in the new forest and ridden royal polo ponies! She has some fantastic old school stories of her pony riding youth! (like me, she loved the nutters!!)!

So, anyone else?

ETS - I realise this is similar to the "when did you click" thread, but I am more interested in where the horseyness came from in the first place!
 
Same from my mum! My dad hates them (but before mum would marry him she forced him to muck out, turn out, rug and handle them on a regular basis and help break one of the youngsters haha - i think that is called dedication
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!). She as you can tell used to breed and my earliest memory was sitting on her, then, giant (15"3 which is giant when you are 2/3) mare and walking her around!
 
Two totally horse crazy and generally crazy parents did for me.

Dad used to take me out sat in front of him on his hunter as soon as I could sit up right and we didn't just used to walk! There would be an outcry today
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My Mum's favourite story is of coming home one day to find my sister and I had turned the garden pond into the water jump at Badminton! as she says "I stood and watched as you both jumped the jump you had set up into the water 2 bounce strides and then jumped out I should have been angry but was too impressed that you had managed to get the strides perfect.

The one time she actually got angry was the time my sister and I dragged the sofa out of the house and used it to jump over all would have been well if my Sisters pony Porridge had not landed on it with both back feet explaining away the hoofprints was interesting
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No idea no-one else in my family are horsey at all....my mum used to ride as a kid and is loosing the weight to get back into saddle...yay!
dad doesnt mind them they help me out with them when needed they are good parents.

I've just always loved horses and started my lessons very young and now they are just a way of life to me i cant be without them
 
No idea!
My parents don't 'do' animals of any description (i never had any pets when i when was little) my grandparents were similar (altho I think my Mum's Mum had a dog at somepoint)

A donkey ride on Whitby beach when I was 7yrs old did it for me. After that i begged for riding lessons. My parents caved - thinking I would be bored with it within a few weeks - how wrong they were cos 22yrs later, I have been riding ever since and finally able to afford my own horse 5yrs ago and now I seemed to have acquired a 2nd ned .....
 
I am from a non horsey family and Im not sure where the love for horses came from but I been there for as long as I remember. My parents never humoured me though, ten riding lessons aside, and I had to wait to I grew up to have horse. It a phase she will grow out of it hmm I dont think so.
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Have no idea, neither my parents are horsey. I think one of my sisters had a couple of rides on a pony before i was born so dont think it was from her.
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I cant remember not liking horses but my mum has told me the story of how i got hooked, i think i was only 2 at the time.
I think they hoped i would grow out of it but that never happened
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My family are old school hunters. So I have always been horsey, right from day one. From being a tot I have been out hunting- often being taken to meet as a baby and my mum would pile me off with random foot followers for the day while she hunted!! I'm not complaining though
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None of my close family is horsey.

My great great grandfather on my mothers side was obsessed with horses and in the cavalry and both sides from my dad were from romany gypsy lines so maybe it skipped a few generations and landed on me??

I', deffinately hooked though!
 
Neither of my parents are horsey, and most of the rest of my family are scared stiff of them. My dad did used to help out at a stables a bit when he was younger but lost interest pretty quick.

I wanted a unicorn when i was about 4/5 and kept nagging my parents for one driving them mad. So they booked a couple of riding lessons for me and i think they have regretted it ever since
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At least i would have grown out of nagging them for a unicorn... 16 years later and i still ask for a pony for christmas (ok, -half- jokingly)
 
Probably from my mum, but she was into dogs/dog showing then, despite having ridden when she was younger.... I just used to spend all my time drawing horses and after riding my rocking horse down the stairs (I know...
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) my parents gave in and arranged for me to have riding lessons xD
The madness began!
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I think I've just always been obsessed and always will be
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My grandad on my dads side was horsey and bred shire horses and had a little driving pony. So I have always been around horses and was sat and led around on one of the shire mares who we have only recently just lost
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My lessons then started when I was 3 and it has continued from there I am really the only horsey person in my family.
 
My Dad - he had horses and I learnt to ride on the village pony (every one in the village learnt to ride on that thing!) - I was totally obsessed with horses and was given my own as a teenager. She was my horse of a lifetime.

My obsession waned for a number of years, but has come back with a vengeance now!
 
Great grandpa was a jockey at Newmarket, Grandpa always rode and did hunter trials, Auntie also had horses, all of these family members from Mums side. Mum however is petrified of horses, never has liked them was into dancing in a big way. My cousins however don't like horses despite auntie previously breeding horses, cousins do like dancing and performing arts though! So must swapped interests in some bizarre way.

I have ridden since 5, and got first pony at 11 years old. Younger sister also had ponies. Somehow managed to convince Dad to buy us ponies, he has never liked horses, only just tolerates them.

My poor parents ended up moving to an equestrian property for us and now we have grown up and both moved out and they can't move as we keep our boys on their land. Still they do get to see me twice everyday, when I go over to do boys, also guarantees that can't move away from family, as can't afford livery!
 
Well always loved horses but was always a bit scared of them. I had an imaginary horse when i was little and when cleaning out the rabbits I used to imagine I was mucking out a stable heheh! This was before i'd even sat on a horse.

My mum had ridden when she was little and living in the country I was always with the horsey set at school. Finally persuaded my mum to let me go on a hack when we were on holiday and never looked back, was bitten from the 1st day

but took a few more years before I could persuade her to let me have lessons... initally it was meant to be once a fortnight... well that didn't last long hehehehe.

then my mum always came along to every lesson and eventually took it back up herself and poof, one horsey family hehe. My dad still hates them though and my sisters were never interested.

I think some things are just meant to be
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All my family hate horses.
I used to live in the middle of Essex until I was 12. There weren't many riding schools...and the closest one was ages away and soooo expensive.

I was allowed to have a riding lesson once a year on my birthday. My mum thought it would hopefully be a one off and I would get bored waiting for the next year. However I think it made me even more determined
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So for about 6 years I had 6 riding lessons.....then moved to Somerset and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw how many horses there were! We moved into a house next to a yard where the woman gave some lessons.....and from then on have been horsey obsessed!!

My family still hate horses and my dad always wanted me to give it up and go into accounting or business or something....but I think this has all made me even more determined to work with and have my own horses. And I like that it's my own little thing too
 
My Grandad in Co Limerick (Dad's Dad) has always owned and trained a few P2Pers, and my Grandpa (Mam's Dad) is a Huntsman in Co Cork. Mam runs a hunt hireling service from our farm in Gloucestershire, and she still hunts regularly herself whilst my Dad owns National hunt racers and would rather spend his Saturdays watching the horses than riding them! My two horses are his ex-racers whom he's owned since yearlings before i got them once their career was over
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Another 2 people on my livery yard have 3 of his ex-racers between them as well, which is nice. So i guess it was pretty inevitable i got into horses!!
 
When I was about 5 years old I watched a film called 'The Black Stallion' and since then I've been hooked.

Never had a riding lesson in my life (could never afford to).

Non of my family is 'horsey' either.

And now I have 3 of the buggars.
 
My dad worked as a groom for nearly 40 years. Mainly hunters in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire until I was about 10 then he moved into racing in Yorkshire. I was around horses all that time but had no interest in them at all. Did a bit of pony riding when I was 8 or 9 and avoided them after that.

My partner had a mare when I first started going out with her and it started there, when I was 32. We have a horse each now that we bred from the mare.
 
My mum used to ride horses back in the 50's and 60's. Although she said it was more bombing about the place at a gallop throwing yourself over things than real riding. She broke her tailbone falling of a horse in Germany before I was born so didnt sit on a horse till 97. In fact, we didnt know she was horsey till 94!

We had a few lessons locally when I was just 11 and sister 8,So when my parents sold the house when I was 11, they sent us to a local riding school for a week...........We had known this was the plan when they started selling the house, so we kinda pressured my dad into buying somewhere that we could keep horses, just in case we were any good at riding
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There wasn't really much else to do around where I grew up and of the kids that lived in the country I think all of us rode and a number had ponies. It was nice being able to ride them round the village.
 
I have no idea where my horseyness came from.

I remember having posters all over my walls of horses when I was 7 or 8 and parents let me have lessons when I was 12.

None of the family is in the least bit horsey, nor were any of my friends - it was a solitary hobby for me as a child, but I quite liked it that way
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I am definately the black sheep of the family, most don't even have a dog whereas I have the three horses, 4 dogs and 3 cats. They think I am very very strange
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My parents used to both play polo and my mother had her polo pony at her wedding in West Africa! I learnt to ride when I was 8 at a riding school then rode a pony for a lady who didn't have a jockey.

Mum carried on riding until she was 78yrs. I hope to beat her!
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Iv always loved horses and startd having lessons at 12. i got my own horse when about 14. My dad used to plough with shire horses and my mum had ridden alittle, but no other im mediate family. my sister and brother aren't interested. Looking on my family tree some of my ancestors were stable lads and coachmen and grooms so may be my horsiness is from wayback
 
I've no idea, I was the first in my family to be horsey (well my mum had ridden as a child but had lost interest). But i've loved horses since I can remember. Mum wouldnt let me ride so I saved up and took myself to my local riding school when I was 13. Now 9 years later I have 5 horses (a 4 yo, mare in foal, my old first horse who i wont part with, a BE100 eventer and my Intermediate eventer) and my mum had caught the bug so she sometimes helps me exercise them!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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