Who has horses

Just wondered who has horses. I have one named Pete. He is 18.1 hands tall. He is a draft horse, a percheron. Nost percherons are gray , white, or black but Pete is
red with a white main and tail

Wifeypoop's mom has "Toy" a white 1/2 thoroughbred 1/2 quarterhorse.  She's hot and likes to go.  The horse that is.....

And "Therman" brown (thoroughbred?) was a race horse, but now just eats and goes for a ride once in a while.

Wifeypoop used to ride with the "canadian cowgirls".  They did some cool drills, and made a lasting impression.  Then the team manager turned out to be a real A-hole, so no more riding with them.  TOO risky for Toy.

I'm afraid of horses but I have something over 400 My Little Ponies.  That count?  :P

I think that counts.

plus you don't have to scoop poop

I have a bay half-arabian pinto mare named Bonnie, she's sweetheart.  My husband has a black and white Paint horse named Earl, he's a butt-head...

I have friends who have horses.

I dont though =[

I WANT HORSES!!!!!!

I used to ride mine occasionally but when I would get off I would  have trouble walking because he is so big. I used to drive horese in downtown Indianapolis. it was fun and gave me a whole different perspective of the city.

If jack helped you off the horse, would you help 'jack off' the horse?

I have a 7 y/o throughbred bay mare, 16hh, for a TB she's ridiculously sane, but she's got a little spirit too! lol i have her at my house (old farmhouse) which is SO cool, plus barn chores are great excercise and I really don't mind. She's off the track, and was a polo pony for a while. I got her at a local ag college's auction, where she was severely underweight and negelected, for only $600, and since I have been working with her and training her to be an english pleasure with a little but of h/j. I love being a horse owner!

LOL Frothy, when I first read that my eyes kinda jumped accross the words oddly at first as they can do when I start to read & I read that VERY wrong!  

That is very interesting mothersweet.  Do you have any more stories before bedtime?

<3 the troll removal service.

 

ANYHOW. I have no horses at the moment and I miss riding terribly. I had a 17h chestnut arab stallion called Impala, then his son Campala. Impy died of old age (we got him late in life), Campala died of tetanus when our neighbour was looking after him while we were away one time. :( I've only ever had arabs so I find the idea of an 18.1 to be VAST. The father of a friend of mine had one in and around that size and he was HUGE! I couldn't even get my foot in the stirrup but rather had to climb on him from a fence.

Sometimes I think I want a little pony sized horse.  But I couldn't ride that.  Well I could but just once because I think It'd kill it.  lol  So it couldn't throw me off, but it could still bite & kick.  And I couldn't keep it in the house & that's where I like to keep my pets.  So I guess I'm never getting one.  Well, for those reasons and that tiny detail about how much they cost!  lol  If I DID ever get a real horse it would be a smallish chocolate colored one.  But seeing as I jumped when I first went to pet the Fur Real Pony in the store, I'm assuming I ought to stay away from horses.  lol

There's a reason there are at least 4 different names for the phobia of horses.  It isn't just me.  :P

My cousins are into horses though.  They have a couple of horses & a pony up in NY.

My family has 12 horses, most of them are draft horses that my dad does comepetitive pulls with but i also have a 12 y/o appendix quarter horse which i do competitive barrel racing and pole bending with, we also have two oxen lol! 

i don't have one now, but have had three.  my first (i was 11 when i got her) was a black appendix QH mare, 16HH.  she was wonderful, and really taught me to ride.  when i was 12 we bred her to a friend's palomino QH and they produced a sorrel colt, whom i hand raised.  he was more dog than horse.  sold him when i was 16 because--well--because i was 16.  i "needed" a car.  then i got jimmy, the big TB in my gallery, when i was 22.  had him for 17 years before he died, @ 27.  he was a complete wingnut when i got him (threw me on the test drive, actually), but so sweet on the ground, so charming.  and over the years, we established a great, playful, trusting relationship.  i miss him.

I have a 16 year old gray dutch warmblood/TB cross gelding named Steely. I showed him in the jumpers for many years, and just last year had to retire him due to founder. He is now a happy pasture ornament :)

My first horse that I bought when I was 12, Stryder, just passed away in February at the ripe 'ol age of 34! He was a bay TB gelding. I showed him in the hunters and equitation as a junior. He was retired at 17 due to a cracked navicular bone, and had a very nice, and LONG retirement! We should all be so lucky.... :)

I don't have one now, but I have owned 2 shetlands, i used them for buggy racing, a welsh cob, the last one I had was a registered pure bred Arab who was the smartest out of them all, he scared the hell out of folk who didn't know him, i bought him when he was 5wks got him home when he was 8mths, backed him when he was 4yrs and had to sell him when he was 5yrs. He had to have (his) eye level electric fencing around the paddock because if not he would jump out of it and then jump into another field with horses in it, or just take himself for a stroll. There was only one vet who was brave enough to deal with him. On one occasion when we decided to get him gelded and under heavy sedation I saw him forward kick a vet in the middle back. My then partner had to go into his pen one time to fix the light fitting, he stood quiet whilst ladders and tools were clanged and banged behind him, showed no interest, but when Stuart had finished and was trying to get out he caught the ladder in the pen gate, Punch seized the moment and took a 4 inch chunk out of his back, spun and landed a single barrel kick on his bottom. These are just of a few of the things he got up to...

He was the best I owned and I try not to think about him because I do miss him.

I don't own a horse personally. I do ride, though.  I ride a bay 16.1 hand AQH named Domingo. I used to do western on him, but now I do english.

I don't own a horse, but I do ride.  I take lessons once a week and then ride when I'm down visiting my friends who have horses.  I'm probably going to part-lease the grey TB in my profile pic next fall.  He is a great horse and has packed me around since about a month after my first riding lesson since in over 15 years (and first ever English lesson).

I have owned horses most of my life, but in Jan last year my much loved little man Dilly had to be put to sleep - all down to a tiny nail in his foot. So tragic and unbelievable, it tore straight though his ligaments and  there was nothing any vet could do, it was and is still heart breaking, he had been my best friend and companion along with part of our family for just 13yrs far to young to go. I still have not had another horse, and to honest I dont think I ever will now I have had various horses in my life but sold them on and not lost them and I think the pain of Dilly going will prevent me from ever owning another. I miss being around horses so much even getting up at stupid o'clock and mucking out! Sorry I ve put a downer on the thread xx

 

 

 

In previous years... we've owned a couple but not since moving here.  How I Miss riding.  Haven't found a local barn that will allow fences over 3' or cross country and the closest course for me is about 8 hours away.  Needless to say I haven't owned in about 6 years.  Ridden yes, but nothing close to what I'm used to since my trainer friend moved!  Not riding is better then riding and remembering what I really love.