Who met their other half through horses ??

My other half was my riding instructor when i was 12, he was 15!

Stalked him for years, he gave up and asked me out when i was 16 and he was 18...

We're now 20 and 22 and live together with 3 horses and a dog!
 
Life would be simpler if I had met my OH through horses.

Met her through a London workplace. She is from Japan and thinks horses "smell of poo". She has a 'sceptical' view about my hobby/obsession. Plans to compete with a horse of my own seem rather fantastical at the moment.

Sorry, not helping with the OP but getting some issues off my chest ;-)
 
My oh came to the yard I kept my horse at to find someone to train his driving mare to a riding horse, I thought he was gorgeous so I volenteered. His mare was beautiful too, and a dream to ride. He proposed after a month, we moved in together and got married five months later!
That was fifteen years ago, four kids and assorted horses later! Old girl was pts last year sadly, she was very special to both of us.
 
Ha ha !! Love it. The gay ones are always so handsome though. Very annoying.

I just wonder though if there are any nice single men in the horseworld that arent either arrogant or gay ??
 
I've had two horsey OHs both turned out to be nuts / loopy so im wondering will it be 3rd time lucky if a meet someone during horsey activities or should i run like hell in the other direction if presented with an oppertuneity ....?????:D
 
Kind of! I was at a DIY yard, and shared duties with another girl, who worked with my now husband. She suggested we would get on well, blind date, two days alter he moved in, five years later we're married, have horse, dogs, two businesses, etc etc...
 
Met mine through horses. We both used the same person for transport to local shows. Then we started going together to walk XC courses etc. The rest is history.
Now been together 20 years. :D
 
Yep, met mine at a lameness seminar in Newmarket, thought he was an arrogant pric* realised he lived near me, asked him to shoe my horses, got to know him better and decided I should have him. The rest is history! ;) He can still be arrogant at times....
 
This gives me some hope! My marriage broke up because of horses so I would love to meet someone who at least understood rather than hated them. However like many comments the men I have met through horses are either arrogant or gay.
 
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This gives me some hope! My marriage broke up because of horses so I would love to meet someone who at least understood rather than hated them. However like many comments the men I have met through horses are either arrogant or gay.
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Oh that's it !!!! have to comment.. I hope im not the former and would work hard not to be and defo not Gay !!!! my stereotype is most horsey women are either mad, married to there horses, or gold diggers... I would love to find someone easy going, responsible and interesting but its not easy :D
 
Met mine while he was working on a nearby yard. That was over 22 years ago:eek:
He claims he has enough of equines cos of his job, so isn't terribly supportive of our daughter and me, but we just do our best to ignore him, and carry on anyway:p
 
Horse loving male wanted- London/surrey area!
Only requirements are sane, under the age of 30 and happy to spend most weekends trawling round shows living off burgers and picnics and hunt all winter.

LOL. I've tried my hardest to find one thats not gay, mental, a closet gay or has an IQ over 90 but sadly there seems to be a real lack of them in these parts. Anyone able to point me in the right direction?! Even my hunt seems fairly fruitless of YEB's!
 
Yep me!

Met mine in a riding lesson five years ago. We married last year.

Never thought I'd pull wearing my jodhs! It didn't half take the pressure off, if he fancied me in my jodhs, with hat hair and no make-up, dressing for a date was easypeasy!
 
When I went to start my job in a top livery yard my OH was the first person I saw when I arrived with two horses and all my luggage. He had his own mare which was kept elsewhere. 18 months later we were married and riding each others horses. That was 33 years ago. We got a bit carried away when the vicar made the comment about go forth and multiply. We have 2 children and 2 grand children and 20 horses. I wouldn't swop him for all the tea in China or even a lottery winner.
 
I met mine when I was 14 and he was 18. Every weekend I stayed with my friend at a yard in Cumbria, and he worked there. Started 'going out' when he took me to the Zetland Pony Club Ball. Together for a year and a bit, he left and went to Bishop Burton, we kept the letter writing up, but then he dumped me after a few months!

3 years ago, when I was 28, he found me on Facebook. I was living at the other end of the country, with someone else. Career, mortgage, etc etc. I came up to visit him, and helped groom at Hunwick. It all started off again, he showed me a big box, he'd kept all the letters I'd written to him. So after a month, I jacked my job in, left the guy I was living with, and moved in with my very first boyfriend!

Been together 3 years now, horses, dogs, chickens, businesses, it's fab!

(He's a much better rider than me, which is annoying!)
 
Met my OH through my friend at the yard, she threw a BBQ for some guests from the UK, we spent all night chatting and the rest as they say is history!

Poor guy had no idea at all I arrived over from Cyprus with 3 mangy rescue dogs, which have now taken over his house. As I was really missing my horse in Cyprus He bought me my Spotty Arsed Circus Horse as a present and now comes to the yard every night on the way home from work to help me poo pic, he has also taken lessons in how to handle said Spotty Arsed Circus Horse so he can deal with him if needs be. When I had Bronchitus a couple of months ago he mucked out and hayed up for me for a week.

He is a gem!
 
havnt found one yet, all the good ones round here are gay, or are converted to the other team. i do however fancy the farriers apprentice and he knows this to ;) but has a rather irritating girlfriend which he knows she is abit of a player and the other farriers are ripping the p*ss out of him. im not sure wether to hang on and wait as hes a lovely lad but... i have met someone through a friend and he got me 3 tyres for trade price as i had 3 slow punctures (i must have magnets in my tyres)so he changed my tyres for me and he took me out for a drink. now hes a very nice lad but i dont really find him attractive, i like him but only as a friend... at the mo. things may change! but he is besotted by me! and really wants to be with me. but i like the farrier ahhhhh advice appreciated haha!!
 
Me !!!!!!!!!!!!! I did!! Over a bag of bran!!!:eek::D
He was business sitting for a friend who ran the local feed store and I had gone up to buy said bag of bran. (he is also very horsey!!) It was luurrvee at first site , well for me anyway! We started dating some months later.
21 years later and married, two kids, horse and other four legged friends later and still going strong!:D:D
 
Yup, me too. Rather bizarrely at a military showjumping competition.

He got a clear round and I forgot the course half way through. Think it must have been my drunken dancing that impressed him as opposed to my equestrian skills :D
 
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Two of my exes I met through horses, the first I worked for his grandad as a groom and he kept hanging around the yard like a spare part. Until he plucked up the courage.

The 2nd I was schooling in the arena and he came to design the x country field so thought mmm, have a bit of that. And we were together for 5 years.

Still working on my vet at the moment ha ha
 
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