You know your a horse geriatric when.....

When you go to the local riding school as a child and it's normal to be handed a hat with elastic for a strap... health and safety be damned!
 
When the johdpurs you wore only came in beige and bulged out over the thigh. When you always wore a hacking jacket when you rode. When hats were really thin and were held on by a piece of elastic under your chin.
 
My horse is the only horse at a dressage competition wearing a cavesson noseband, plain browband and stainless steel snaffle.

No horse needs diamante crap all over it.
 
String girths. Rollers with foam under to hold your rug and under blankets in place :) what were stirrup irons and bits made of before stainless steel? Name escapes me but it did bend and occasionally snap!
 
Springy said:
This was posted on our facebook horsey group the other day and some of the posts were hilarious......

I'll kick it off for good measure......

.... when rugs used to be Newzeland or Jute.... :D
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Oh my God... I'm only 27 and my first pony had New Zealand's and Jutes and had duvets under his rugs with rollers holding them in place ... Does that make me a horse geriatric at 27?
 
Wimbles said:
when there was no such thing as a balancer and even mixes were new, anyone else remember Main ring blue?
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We used to feed my 1st pony main ring blue! I think i had a leaflet with main ring gold in it and i was like 'wow one day i will feed main ring gold when im a competition rider!' What a daft kid.
 
Wimbles, you're right - nickel it was. We used to braid our own brow bands with velvet ribbon. And used to send our reins away to be re rubbered - is that even possible now?!
 
am I the only one who remembers wormers that were blue and looked like 100's and 1000 cake decorations?

and hacking to the local village gymkhana!!!

and I still have my late sisters old nickle stirrups!!!!
 
Bran mash. And you, aged 5, went out with your 18 year old sister on her 15.1hh horse, perched on the front of the saddle with no hat on and neither did she and you had a lovely time and came to no harm.
 
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