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I was just wondering! I have a pony called Kelly. She is a dark bay 14.2 pony with two white socks on the back and a large hour glass shaped blaze. She loves galloping and jumping, but is just recovering from a locking stifle so can't actualy do much. But shes awesome anyway! She realy thinks she is a racehorse. She is pretty fast too.
awwwww!!!!! I love horses! I took lessons and stuff and I like western riding the best. I wish I were a coyboy. hahaha. But I love how smart horses are too. They are just too amazing lol
i saw "horses" and i knew it was yours! i love horses too, they're amazing. i wanted to take classes once, too, but i haven't start with that. i don't know why actually. and horses can heal ill people (especially psychicaly ill). it's really amazing. i envy you! you have a horse... i live in block of flats and there are many other of them around etc. well, i live in the capital city, though just 600 000 occupants, it's still the capital city..
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First off, I'd just like to issue a general warning concerning signatures -- everyone, please take a moment to review the rules (link in my signature). You're allowed a maximum of only five lines of text, and I see that a couple of you have pushed just over the limit.
All right, onto horses.... yep, I'm an equestrian myself... been riding non-competitively for about ten years now, although I don't own a horse. I joined a lease a little over a month ago, however, and it's been awesome so far! And the horse is named Harry, which is just too cool for me. I've been trying to train him to respond to "Potter," and now all my friends think I'm a raving lunatic, if they didn't already know that I was sort of nuts. Anyway, yeah, I ride English, do some jumping. It's a fun sport and good for your mental health. Anyone care to share pictures of their horses, by any chance?
Oh yeah, lutsija, you're absolutely right about the effects of riding on the physically and mentally ill. I worked at a branch of the NAHRA as a volunteer when I was fourteen/fifteen-ish -- basically as a groom, barn management and that sort of thing -- and it's truly amazing what therapeutic riding can do for people psychologically. Have any of you been involved in similar programs?
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Aww, I miss horseback riding! I was deadly serious about riding from when I was about seven until my freshman year of high school, but then track and cross country got in the way of my lessons I think I'd like to get back into it though, because I really did love it. I normally rode English, and I leased a quarterhorse named Jake for the longest time. He was totally sweet, but he was over seventeen hands - huge! Awesome for jumping, though
Allie, i hope my signature is better now no, i haven't been involed in anything like that, but i've heard and read about it and i think it's really amazing. btw, (though this isn't about horses) i've read the true story about mute boy who started to speak again thanks to dolphin. it's perfect if it really is true!
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Oooh, I LOVE horses! I'm planning on taking lessons, if I have the time. I'm already booked...With friends, the mall, school, and art...My dad wants me to do PIANO! Uh...
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Piano? Not that I'm anti-music, but riding is better Honestly, I think that riding lessons was one of the best things I've done in my life. Not only is it just generally awesome, but it's good for the self-confidence and all that. Really. I strongly promote that you take riding lessons
Definatley take lessons. Even though I have been riding for years and got my own horse I still have them. You can never regret to many lessons. I was spiecialy glad I had them when I did work experience because they saw my riding ability and let me ride one of thier race horses!! I felt so honoured. They have the longest legs imaginable. I got to canter accross the beach on him which was completely breathtaking. Also, if you want your parents to take your riding seriously, help out at the riding stables. It teaches you soooo much. And I used to play the trombone and run cross country and do archery but riding took over because it was so fun, and when you have a horse it can't take a back seat. You have to be there everyday. I wish I could learn to ride western, but there is not many places that you can learn it in Wales, exept for this one place that is amazingly expensive. But I tought Kelly neck-reining anyways. How do you put pictures on? I have tonnes!
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Don't worry, lutsija -- signatures are looking good all around now!
I used to be obsessed with being a jockey when I was a lot younger and really into the Joanna Campbell books -- "Thoroughbred," I think the series was called. I got extremely absorbed in the plot and the characters, and I didn't stop reading them until I was, um, much too old to be reading those books. Like when I was twelve -- it's that pathetic. Then I read Laura Hillenbrand's book about Seabiscuit, and my whole perception of racing changed rather significantly. Became less of the "fantasy world" if you know what I mean. By the time I hit 5'4", I knew the whole thing was over. Did you guys ever go through those weird stages of reading all the Walter Farley books and "Black Beauty" over and over again? I've always been one of those obsessive readers -- HP is far from the first series that I've gotten completely hooked on!
OK, sorry for the long tangent about my eccentricites... That's so cool that you got to ride a racehorse, SOAOFMCCCLS (by the way, I only just understood your username today... I'm a little slow!). I definitely wouldn't be able to handle that sort of stress -- let's stick to the old horses and trail rides and nice little 2' courses (the highest jump I've ever done was about 2'9" and it's probably going to be staying that way for a good long time ). I'm with Meggie about the self-confidence and mental health benefits. Huge, quiet fields and 65 degree weather... *daydreams*
As for the pictures, you can find help on images here. Basically, you want to go sign up for a Photobucket account (it's really easy and they don't send you a load of junk mail or anything), get your images hosted, and then link to them using the URL tags when you're posting in the forums. Just remember to use a link rather than the IMG tags, because uploading large images can be a pain for people who have slow Internet connections.
Riding a race horse was a huge responsibility. I was so worried about getting it wrong at its so easy to just be completely in awe of it so you don't feel that you have the right to tell it what to do, or correct its behaviour. I used to be hooked on 'The Saddle Club' series. I guess it was because I could relate to the charecters although I was never a member of the Pony Club. i should probaly join but I havn't got a box or 4 by 4 so I cant exactly go to many shows or meetings. And Allie, don't worry. Most people still havn't got my name. i am always getting asked what it means. So anyone else who it about to ask, it stands for Stop the Outragous Abuse of Our Fellow Magical Creatures and Campaign for a Change in thier Legal Status. No one ask me to write it out again. I will have a go at getting the pictures. Watch this space!
Edit: Well, as you can see I have edited my avatar so the picture in it now is the famous Kelly. Is she not the most gorgeous thing you ever did see?! Here is another: ThisMy Webpageis Kelly again. And thisMy Webpage And, tkelly collagehis is three pictures of us, the top is us at our second ever show! It was so long ago! The next is us just randomly on the drive leading up to the barn. And the last is us up on the hill where I we are alowed to ride. My legs do not go forwards like that all the time, O.K.?!
As you can tell by my signed name I am a crazy horse girl.
I'm torn between which I like more, horses or Harry Potter. l.o.l Yeah, but anyways, I rein with my horses.
I used to ride wester pleasure, but then I went to this huge ranch and got on a pro reining horse for the first time in my life. It was so amazing the way that horse slid under me. and he span faster than a bullet... i think.
Now I'm training two year olds. I don't own a horse, but I work on this ranch in a small town that breeds paint horses. They are some of the nicest people ever (as are most horse people)!
When I went to work at a bigger ranch the woman there told me I needed to break a six month old filly that had never been touched. (I had only been around horses for like two years and didn't know much)
I had a really hard time and so I decided I would read my book in there. During the hottest parts of the day, when everyone was inside resting, I would go to the filly's stall and sit in the corner reading my book.
Pretty soon she just came up to me and I could pet her no problem. I just couldn't get a halter on.
By the end of my job there I went back to the small ranch and one day they said that we needed to pick up a show horse so he could retire on their farm.
We loaded up and hooked up the horse trailer and then headed out. When we got there the woman who owns the small farm I work on pulled out this baby halter, handed it to me and said, "Go get your horse."
I kinda stared at her and then the major owner of the big ranch came out and said, "What are you waiting for. SHe's yours."
I went in and we tried to halter break her, but it was so hard because of her size. (she was HUGE). I decided that I would drive down an hour and visit her every day until I could halter break her. I did.
And now that small horse lives on the farm I work on and her name is Mel. Short for my name: Melissa.
Wow - I would love to break in a horse. Mine just came ready made. Although she needed a Lot of work because she had just had a year of to have a foal so she was unfit. And she was the worst (but the most fun) behaved horse i had ever sat on. The race horse was nothing. But shes a lot better now. Although I wouldn't want her to be perfectly behaved.
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Hi! I ride horses also. I have a horse his name is Gillie. He is 6 years old. He is a dapple grey. If I can figure out how to do the pic thing I will put a pic on.... anyway I do hunter/jumper stuff and show around the west coast.
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We might be getting a new horse!! For my daddy. 15.3 part quarter horse - broken to western and to english, which is cool because i would love to learn to ride western. We are going to see him on Sunday. I can't wait!! HPgoldsnitch - the picture thing isnt that hard, just when your doing a hyperlink, and it says to type in the web page name type in the word you want it to link to not what i put.
Horses, Anyone here got a horse? Or likes them?
Dec 6 2005, 08:02 PM
I have a pony called Kelly. She is a dark bay 14.2 pony with two white socks on the back and a large hour glass shaped blaze. She loves galloping and jumping, but is just recovering from a locking stifle so can't actualy do much. But shes awesome anyway! She realy thinks she is a racehorse. She is pretty fast too. 
Anyway, yeah, I ride English, do some jumping. It's a fun sport and good for your mental health. Anyone care to share pictures of their 
I think I'd like to get back into it though, because I really did love it. I normally rode English, and I leased a quarterhorse named Jake for the longest time. He was totally sweet, but he was over seventeen hands - huge! Awesome for jumping, though 
). I'm with Meggie about the self-confidence and mental health benefits. Huge, quiet fields and 65 degree weather... *daydreams*
