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what was your first mount and how old were you? mine a welsh b grey mare ,i was seven and she taught me how to stay on top of all those full body shakes whilst bareback .do horses do full body shakes ?
 
A riding school pony called cracker, when I was aged four. Now 38 and will never forget him. The riding school is still going and all the staff have been there forever which is nice. I try and support it, by buying feed and bits and bobs there, even though it is a little more expensive than other places.
 
Twinks, riding school pony, little dun welsh a, I too was seven. I met my old instructor when he was juding a class I was stewarding last summer, 40 years on from my first riding lesson:)
 
mine was Ben, approx 15.2/16hh shire x hackney, absolute gem, taught me alot including my firse canter and jump, canter was bolted with so i just hung on, quite liked it so sat there and done it alot. My first jump was a park bench, i had seen the pros do it on tele and thought it didn't look hard (how naive?!) so tried that, stayed on then it was 5 bar gates. Also learnt to drive with him.

As well as Ben i also had Sparky, 14.2h coloured horror, used to stop dead in the middle of a road and refuse to move, used to drive me crazy.

Couple of months later i got Charlie as well, 13.2h coloured stallion, came unbroken, me being me hitched up my school skirt and hopped on bareback! Never looked back, he was fab!!

I was 11 at the time and all on my own yard, was really hard work used to go to school and then exercise 3 ponies every night including the dark winter nights, luckily i could drive Ben and Sparky together and the just ride Charlie
 
Megan, an 11.2 palomino. As cute as! Really strong and V fast! I was 6yrs old, I rode her till i was 9!
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First I can ever remember was a welsh looking grey pony, riding on holiday being led when I was about 8. I begged for lots of trotting, and the funny thing was I seemed to know how to do it? I was doing the rising trot just like that and never had a lesson. Will always remember that.
 
A little black pony called Herman at my first riding school. I was 5 and first ever lesson I slid down his neck(didn't stop me going back for more though!).
 
A bay gelding about 14hh called Page Boy. Really sweet. Blind in one eye if I remember correctly, which assisted in my first fall. Pagey wouldn't walk on so the teacher cracked the lungeing whip behind him. Of course he didn't see it coming and shot off forward....I shot off backwards and ate dirt!!
 
a riding school pony called sandy, would stick his head in the nearest patch of grass without fail, i was 7 . currently keep horses at the same place as it is now a livery yard run by the old YO grandaughter, the horses graze one of the fields that sandy is buried in.
 
A Fjord(sp?) and I was 10,nearly 11.Did an own a pony week thing at a holiday camp stables,loved every second of it and cried for ages when we left,lol!
 
One of my grandmothers Welsh Sec Ds - either Tessa or Tammy, prob Tessa as she was the elder. I would disappear and mother would find me in the paddock sitting on the pony - I was about 4 LOL!
 
A smallish Sicilian donkey named Susie (I was about 3 and in hindsight -- think the similarity in names was no coincidence). She pretty much just went wherever she wanted to with me in the saddle on her back -- really a pretty excellent babysitter for an equine crazy toddler.
 
a black shetland mare called sooty, i was 4, she use to buck me off all the time and i hated her because she would never will any gymkhana games, then i loved her when we won our first and last game! i rode her for as long as i can remember! probably till i got my frist pony when i was 8
 
A 12.2 dapple grey pony called Pudding at my local riding school. I was 10 and heard tales of him rolling when he got bored but i used to ride him every week and cried so much when he got sold!
 
Mine was a little grey welshie type called Tom Thumb. He used to disappear across Silvermere golf course with us at any given moment!!LOL.
 
Well I had some lessons at a riding school but then my step mum would lunge us on her 16.2hh WelshxTB!!!!!! I was only 11 at the time so not an ideal horse really! But I survived!
 
I was 7, the pony was bay and about 14hh. It was at the local riding school (now closed). Their arena was a fenced patch, with an 8" deep mud surface which was next to an abattoir. Another girls horse jumped the perimeter fence and bolted back to the yard and mine tried to roll in the mud. I didn't go back again and didn't ride again for 18months.
 
A little grey pony, on a hack on holiday when I was about 6. He wandered away from the rest of the ride and scrambled up a bank to graze - all with me quiet happily sat on top!
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A little bay welsh-type called Goldie about 11.2hh, I was 9. She had one blue eye and one brown and for a while I assumed she was blind in the blue one!
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I saw her a couple of years back in a young handler class when I was judging at a local show, I was very excited that all these years on she was still going - I think the young handler thought I was off my head and didn't seem to share my excitment that his pony was the first I ever sat on!
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An old mare 15.3h I'm really just a happy hacker but love to ride other school horses. I'd always found her a challenge and still do in comparison to some horses I ride during the week where they have a start & stop button.

So when she was put up for sale I bought her
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