Horses

[kitkatz]

Does anyone else ride or own a horse?  My sister and i owned a horse when we were growing up and I think he wa spart mule. He learned to kick sideways at us when we would try to mount him.  My Dad got so mad the horse he kicked him back.  I have horse stories to share.

[angela515]

I don't... I have rode horses before... I have family who own horses in Arkansas.  My kids love horses and rode one a few months back.. Now my daughter wants one.. lol

[st789]

They look gorgeous from far away but smelly in close.  So no now and probably no in the future.

[kitkatz]

I love smell of horses. They smell great.  The manure reeks, but the horse smells good.

[Rerun]

You are looking at the 1978 Grand Champion All Around at the Hi Mount's Horse Show plus many many ribbons.

My horse was McKeya and he was "mostly" quarter horse.  He was such a sweety.  He lived to be almost 16 which isn't that old.  He got a twisted instine and we lost him.  Good memories on that horse.  I still have a big oil painting of him in my house.

[goofynina]

The only person i ever knew to actually own a horse was a distant cousin of the family who we would go visit on occasion.  The horses name was Haji (Hajee) and it was so well mannered, they taught it to bow and dance and it played kick back with a ball.   I swear if that horse could fit in the house they would've brought it in, it was so pampered (and it knew it too)  Horses are beautiful and i dont mind their smell at all 

[kitkatz]

Here is a story I have. My sister and I, a friend and her brother, were all out riding our horse Geronimo riding along the flume road in Escondido, California.  We were taking turns riding the horse.  One of us would ride the horse and the others would walk alongside or ahead or walk on the flume itself. The flume was old then and it is a lot older now. It is made of plaster and concrete. There were holes periodically where you could access the flume and holes that had broken through on the flume.   My firend Heather was walking on top of the flume while one of us was riding the horse.  The flume top collapsed and she landed in the flume water.  We helped her with the help of the horse out of the water.  We rode around the country for a few hours that day afterwards, trying to dry off. My parents would have killed us if she had come home wet.  We were not supposed to be on the flume at all. It was household drining water for the area. We told my Mom years later about this little misadventure.  Hehehehe.

[KICKSTART]

Me ..me..me  I am a qualified riding instructor !! I have had horses all my life , competed , worked with them and rescued them..till i got this bloody illness. The most i have had at one time is 12 , most of which i rescued , from sales (going to slaughter) or in bad condition. All were eventually found nice new homes when fit and well. Some days now ..after over 30yrs of riding , i just go crazy to get back in the saddle. Sadly because of the time and money involved in keeping them , i cant do it any longer.

[Adam_W]

I like horses, and I've ridden a couple times a long time ago. I live in the city so it would be impossible for me to have horses, but occasionally I see people from some of the neighbouring country-side riding their horses down our street. That really makes our dog go nuts.

Adam

[charee]

This is a pic of my old horse " Tommy" I got him when i was 14,  he passed way when i was in my 20's, he was 23 . He was a great old bloke  we had lots of fun times. Now fingers crossed i can attach the pic !

[brenda]

Growing up one the farm there was always horses around but I never cared for them. The things always scared me to death. My kids had horses and loved to ride. The one old horse the had you could put them on with only a bridle no saddle and he would do a figure 8 around the yard. If the kids would start to slip he would stop and wait for them to slide back up. Can't remember that old horses name even. They had a couple other's,  Keoma and her colt Koko. Keoma was a buckskin quarter horse, very high strung, preferred to brush you off at the first fence she could find. The colt was never broke before the farm was sold so I don't know how he turned out.

[kitkatz]

One day my sister and I were riding horses on my grandparents property in Mountain Center, Ca. I was barebakc on a barebakc pad and leaned over to avoid hitting my head on a manzanita bush and fell off of the horse into a buckthorn bush. OUCH!  My horse stopped and looked at me as if to say What are you doing there?Needless to say at the time I was too short to mount the horse from the ground bareback, so I mounted my sister's horse, who was saddled, then got onto my horse's back.  I was not going to walk back to the barn with the darn horse!

[keefer51]

I wasn't allowed to ride when i was younger because i was only born with one kidney. When i became older though i found out i could and was very careful. When i lived in Nashville i was seeing a woman who had 14 horses. She taught me to ride. We would go on weekend rides and have a blast. There is a picture of me with the horse i rode on this site. I lived in a trailer on 300 acres. My landlady owned around 40 horses and some of those i rode too. The pic of me shows me wearing a sleeveless blue shirt. There is a story behind that. I must go to dialysis now so i will save that for another time.

[mariannas]

I love horses.  They are my hobby in many, many ways.  My grandmother bred racehorses and my uncle is a real honest to goodness cowboy and trains horses for cattle work and rodeos.  I used to work at a horseback riding camp and have leased horses and taken lessons.  Before I got really anemic last year I was taking beginning dressage lessons and will probably start again after I start my pd exchanges and get used to the feeling of having all that extra liquid in my belly!

Also, since I don't have the energy to have a real horse I now collect model horses.  I've been in the hobby for at least fifteen years, but there was a long period where I wasn't involved at all.  Now I collect realistically painted miniatures and scale model horse tack.  It's very fun and I have met some of my best friends through the hobby.

By the way...in response to one of the other posts in this thread, a horse can't be part mule, but a mule is definately part horse.  Confusing, eh?