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Horse-back riding? Does anyone here on Chatterbox ride horses? if so, Western or English? Ring work or Trail rides? What horse do you ride? Do you take lessons or just lease a horse for fun?
I ride a skewbald pinto named Brandy. She is a mare so she often decideds that the ride is over and turns around to head home. I ride English but haven't had the opportunity to ride Western much, so I can't compare. I like Trail Rides much better then Ring Work, but Brandy is ring sour (she once was worked too hard in the ring, one time I tryed to take her into a ring and she almost bucked me off!) so trail rides are more enjoyable for the both of us. I don't often take lessons. This Aug. i am riding for a one-week horse packing and camping trip in the mountains! I'm really excited!
If you don't ride horses but would like to, what color of horse would you like to ride?
Also sorry for any spelling or grammer mistakes, we are in the middle of a heat wave and my brain is fried.
submitted by Kendra, age 14, The Woods betwe
(July 31, 2009 - 7:01 pm)
(July 31, 2009 - 7:01 pm)
Ooh! I ride horses! I started out with this lovely black mare named Willow, then helped train this Haflinger named Gerneral. Now I ride my horse Hank, who is a paint quarter horse gelding and stands 16 hands tall. He's red and white and I ride him Western (but I"ve never really learned English. Western's easier) and in my pasture or on trails.
(July 31, 2009 - 11:09 pm)
What color was Gerneral? A little girl i know says that at the stable she rides at there is a black horse named Gerneral...
(August 7, 2009 - 12:38 am)
I love to ride horses!I ride western and love to go on trail rides.I have two horses and their names are Rose and Rosebud.I don't take any lessons, I ride for fun!
(August 1, 2009 - 9:23 am)
I've always wanted a horse. Sadly, I can't have one. I used to take riding lessons, but then my mom said I had to stop.
(August 1, 2009 - 9:34 am)
Can't really ride horses in my neighborhood. Riding a horse looks easy. If I WERE to ride one, I would ride it at top speed in a field.
(August 1, 2009 - 10:03 am)
I ride horses! I take weekly English lessons on a pretty paint mare called Montana. If I can't ride Montana I will ride 20-year-old gelding, Kodiak. Next week we will learn to canter!
(August 1, 2009 - 10:40 am)
Key word: looks easy. I used to always want to go really fast, and then I fell off and broke my tailbone, and I'm trying to get used to that whole feeling of being on them again. It really freaked me out. I was in a roundpen, and a bee stung Toby, the horse I was riding, and he took off at a gallop. I stayed on for a couple laps around, but he wouldn't slow down, and while I was trying to loosen my legs to tell him that I wanted him at a walk, not a gallop, I lost my grip and flew off...so, as I said, key word: looks.
(August 2, 2009 - 8:39 pm)
I haven't ridden since... November, I think, cause there was ski season and I really have to call my teacher, but I ride English, ring work. "My" horse is Dusty, a fat, lazy, generally-pain-in-the-hindquarters-loveable Tennessee Walker. He's a chesnut, and generally annoying. I broke my arm falling off him a few years ago (and if I was superstitious, I would take note of that fact that it was a Friday the thirteenth :P) and I've had a hard time cantering ever since, just cause no matter what I tell myself, I have an irrational fear. *scowls at self* I want to trail ride, but I don't know if Dusty can or if my teacher would let me or if I'm ready. I'm really not a very good rider, but it's fun.
-EH
(August 1, 2009 - 10:27 am)
I'm a terrible rider, but the few times I've gotten to go, it's been really fun.
(August 1, 2009 - 1:54 pm)
Yeah same with me cantering on brandy. She began to buck (and i mean, really buck) when i once asked her for a canter. So i don't canter her anymore, because i'm afraid to. But when i very ocassionally take lessons the school horses are very willing and have nice canters.
(August 3, 2009 - 1:21 pm)
Maybe the saddle is hurting her.
(August 5, 2009 - 1:30 pm)
yeah thats what we thought to, but she is more then willing to canter for my mom. So we think that it is just me. She is very sensitive to feelings, when she feels like i don't think i can control her, she sometimes takes advantage. But when my mom is riding her, she knows that mom means 'or else'! We also checked the sadle out on our own, and everything looked like it fit alright. But hey, i'm no expert!
(August 6, 2009 - 1:41 am)
I REALLY want riding lessons. I ♥ horses.
(August 1, 2009 - 2:41 pm)
OHMIGOSH!!! i love love love horseback riding! I sadly don't do riding lessons, but I do a camp a summer, and may start to do lessons. I like Western; I've never ridden English! One time, at a camp, we were in the arena and were learning how to trot. The horse in front of me, Summer, being ridden by my bff, Danika, started trotting too early, then Nellie, the horse I was on, started trotting. I had never trotted before and the stirrups didn't fit, and then she started loping, and I didn't even know how to trot! Now I know how to trot and post, and I love to!
(August 5, 2009 - 8:49 pm)
Hi, I love to ride! I do mostly trail/road riding. I have taken lessons too.
My Horse is a wonderful 22 year old quarter horse mare called Pesky. We also have two mini horses and a three year old Andalusian-Arab.
(August 15, 2009 - 10:09 am)