Will You Still......

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be riding when you become a OAP ? After comeing back from the yard last night I spent the next couple of hours thinking......will I still be doing this in my old age and had lot's of "what if's".I guess it would be down to health and money mainly, at my friends yard that she was at ,one lady rode in her 80's and kept her horse on full livery,she went out on her own and at the time that really did amaze me....what do you lot think still riding into your 90's

 

[kirstyfk]

My dad is 55 does that count!

 

[happyhack]

when i was in newmarket a 70 yr old was still riding work. I say also if its good enough for the queen its good enough for me!!!
will 100% be riding well into my pension!!

 

[fizzer]

we have a lady local to us that has just stopped competing in long distance riding at 79

 

[Sparklet]

I want a Friesian or a Highland (something a bit nearer to the ground to help with mounting. Hope to still ride though.

 

[riotgirl]

I hope so. My next door neighbour who instructs me and my girl is nearly 80 and still rides. She reckons it isn't so bad if you keep it up, it is just when you have a long break you feel a bit to fragile to be doing it!

 

[ru-fi-do]

I hope so my friends dad still hunts. never misses a meet and he is 72!

 

[Jillian]

My Father rode until 75. I hope to still ride but on a quiet cob!

 

[ru-fi-do]

Oh and justto add he doesn't do it on a laid back horse either, he is a 24year old ex racehorse that gets very fresh when his toes touch the grass!

 

[Happytohack]

My friend's mum is 83 and still rides. My friend has Arabs and competes in endurance and her mother was still cantering them round the stubble fields last year! So there's hope for us all

 

[Super_Kat]

If I'm still in one piece then yes

 

[Tempi]

il definately keep riding as long as i can!

 

[johnsongreyhorse]

I hope so

 

[Dogbetty141]

Ill be riding untill I die love it and miss it even if im poorly and cannot ride.

 

[Mid]

My grandad used to still gallop around at 85... My gran stopped him then though xD

 

[debbielinder]

where our yard is the man that lives in the house there, was the master of the holcomb hunt for years and only stopped hunting at 83! hes 86 now and had to give up riding 2 years ago due to his arthritis if any one has the h&h from the wk before last, the holcomb hunt article, he is mentioned in that he was loony and still is!

 

[regalrendezvous]

Where my friend does track work in the morning there is a 7o something year old man that still exercises the race horses FIVE DAYS a week! Now that really is something.

 

[Santa_Claus]

Lady at our yard is 93 and still rides at least once a week amazingly!
She is far far from straight (to extent I wonder how she doesn't slip off side at times) but she still walks & trots and goes out for normally well over an hour each time for her hacks (wearing traditional hacking jacket

). Horse is a saint (although admittedly also arthritic but still hacks out happily). Bless her for her 90th Birthday she wanted to learn to jump YO thankfully persuaded her that trotting poles could be interpreted as jumping!!!!

Not sure I will still be riding at that age but I would want to ride as long as I was physically able as I think it definetly shows with this lady that the riding keeps her far more supple than she would be if she didn't!

 

[GTs]

I used to play polo with a guy who was 78, he war mean, hit you hard, and talk smack (in Spanish) - he sold up a number of times, but kept being around it, trying horses and buying them.