with all this size thing going on .......

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At the end of the day size is only one part of the equation, breed, weight, age, fitness, type all contribute to how much a horse can comfortably take. go back in history and 14.2hh arabs carried 6ft warriors!! If the horse is happy and healthy, and carries the rider without trouble who else has the right comment!! enjoy her, I think you look great!
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What a load of rubbish!

There's nothing wrong with adults on ponies! I had this argument with Trailblazers a couple of years ago when they told me in their opinion, adults should not be allowed to ride ponies and if they had their way it would be banned in all competitions (yes, really!!)
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What a load of rubbish!

There's nothing wrong with adults on ponies! I had this argument with Trailblazers a couple of years ago when they told me in their opinion, adults should not be allowed to ride ponies and if they had their way it would be banned in all competitions (yes, really!!)
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WHAT!?!?!?!
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Was only thinking the other day of all the fun things I could do with Lukey once he's old enough and Trailblazers was one of them.......may have to rethink that!!!!!!
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Yep I spoke to them about their height restrictions (as an adult you can't jump a pony in their classes). When they told me that, I said my local centre was happy for me to do the senior classes as an adult on a 14.2hh pony...they said they wanted to know which centre as they would be endeavoring to stop holding Trailblazers there if they couldn't stick to the rules!!
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I found TB very difficult to deal with. I sent them a photo of me on Rhyn and said "did they consider this an unsuitable partnership", and they just said adults shouldn't ride ponies and if BD would revise their rules on that then they would be able to stop adults competing TB dressage on ponies...
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Rhyn is a stocky 14.2hh Welsh D and I am 5ft4 and 9st
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Trailblazers - a case in point. When they first introduced it, before they knew how popular it would be it was advertised as 'any adult/child on any size horse/pony'.

So the likes of us on our beloved ponies could take part in a national competition - hooray!

Then after the second rounds had taken place they changed that to 'any child on any horse/pony' and 'any adult on any HORSE'

At the Champs, the girl (aged 17 I believe) who won both of my classes was riding a 14hh. Don't think she was aware the rules had changed until she'd arrived at the Champs.

Anyway, her pony was brilliant and she was petite. So why shouldn't she have been riding a pony, when there were kids in the Juniors ring clearly overhorsed.
 
I think that most knowledgeable equine owners tend to buy ponies/horses to suit the size and shape of the rider; you are one of those. You both look good together.
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trailblazers can go stuff themselves as far as i'm concerned.....what would they think of M&M classes where GOD FORBID adults ride ponies SHOCK HORROR!!!
 
thankyou!!...i'm short and stocky so is maisie
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at just under 14hh i would feel a bit underhorsed on anything finer though...
 
What a stupid rule that is. I don't compete so have never heard about the rule and will not be affected by it but I still feel annoyed for those adults who ride ponies and who are affected by such an arbitary rule.
 
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I think that most knowledgeable equine owners tend to buy ponies/horses to suit the size and shape of the rider; you are one of those. You both look good together.
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Oops. That's not me then! PF is far too slim and gorgeous for me!!
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Actually, an instructor I had in the UK used to go on and on and on at me for being too big for her
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Nobody has mentioned it here... but perhaps they're terrified of me seeing as I have similar dimensions to Hagrid
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As long as your both happy. I'm sure if you were too big she'd let you know! My friend had a 14hh and she was 5'10, but as skinny as a rake. She did get a bit of flack though as she almost need skates.
 
And for whom and what purpose, pray, does this organisation known as "burn themselves up their own back passage", believe that ponies were developed for many, many hundreds if not thousands of generations before there was ever such a thing as leisure riding?

For Fairy Princesses and Barbie dolls?

No, to carry farmers and 16 stones of lead and full-grown dead stags, and to heave ploughs through mud, and coal carts in mines.

Ponies should not be ridden by adults? What size horse would they think suitable for me, then? At 60 I am most certainly an adult, and at 5ft tall I am not abnormally dwarfish. Neither am I abnormally tiny - or humongous - at eight stone, and with rapidly aging knees and hips I prefer to lessen the strain and impact when both mounting and dismounting.

I am also concerned about the environment - as we all should be - and feel that a horse imposes, IMPO, an greater effect on it than does a native pony.

SO - do trailblazers have any argument that will stand up against reason or common sense as to why adults should not ride ponies? Or are they just throwing their toys out of their pram?
 
I'm 5'10...long in the leg...so even when skinny (and I'm SOOO not skinny now
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) couldn't ride smaller horses/ponies.
But as long as horse/pony and rider fit together and are reasonably happy, I don't see a problem. A Sheltie could probably carry an adult without too much problem...the current trends are just an extension of the body image/weight obsession of society...
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SO - do trailblazers have any argument that will stand up against reason or common sense as to why adults should not ride ponies? Or are they just throwing their toys out of their pram?

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Toys - pram -throwing out of I think.
Perhaps they should take a leaf out of the BSJA book who do allow adaults to ride ponies but then class the pony as a horse for the year. This efectively prevents an adult training the horse BSJA for a junior to compete at junior level.
Seems fair to me.
God forbid BD ever stop adults riding ponies. My wife would have to find a new mount as her medium level 14.1 welshie with 230 points would be out of it.
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I am 5 ft 4. I have a 16.3hh hunter which I was given and I look fine on. I also have a barely 15hh cobby pony I have been asked to hunt for a while who I also look fine on. Out of the two I would trust the pony to get me out of trouble more!!

My vet told me a funny story last night - he was asked to vet a 17.3hh warmblood for a teenager who is barely my height. He told them his feelings that in no way would the girl be able to hold the huge horse and he wouldn't recommend it for her. Some people seem to think that the bigger the horse the better and more important they look. Total load of rubbish!! You see little kids out hunting on their 13.2's who jump hedges bigger than them and who can ride far better than the majority of the adults. Size does NOT matter!!
 
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