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Post by proudwilliam on Nov 26, 2014 19:49:17 GMT
Be careful some do gooder will say it is dangerous!
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Post by kayjayem on Nov 26, 2014 21:14:15 GMT
Lol! I remember Family Pony similar to Handy Pony but they had to be ridden by an adult and a child. The stakes used to get really high and some of the shows would have put Billy Smarts Circus to shame! They would be jumping on and off and swinging off tails and producing a duster to flap around the pony's head and crawling on the floor underneath them! The competition at some shows was so fierce that you expected someone to come up with a rendition of Amazing Grace on the bagpipes whilst doing "round the world" followed by a triple salco dismount with a forward roll! Even in those days you had to compete against the professionals
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Post by chocaholic on Nov 30, 2014 12:32:02 GMT
Best thread Ive ever read on here!! I remember those days (I go back to the 1960s!!!) I remember when a few friends got together and hired a CATTLE WAGON to get to the bigger shows. We all went up on the luton and then the ponies were put in (probably about 10 or so) with just a metal pole between them. We would do showing class, clear round (numerous times) show jumping and then all the games, eat our picnic lunch when all climb back into the cattle wagon with our rosettes and go home. Those were the days when ladies wore hand scarves to show inhand!! I remember being on the Prince Philip games team and practising leapfrogging over my ponies hindquarters to get on because I couldnt run fast enough to vault on! We would practise our jumping over anything we could find (think the health and safety would have a fit if they could see would we used) Very happy times and memories! I still have a few rather funny pictures but dont know how to get them on here. Sorry OMG! we did the same thing regarding a cattle wagon ! It makes me wonder if maybe i know you from those years ??
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Post by proudwilliam on Nov 30, 2014 14:14:24 GMT
We all then had multi talented ponies. I owned a 14.2.hh pony who in 1962 won the 14.2. show pony class at the local county show 2nd in the novice JC show jumping class and was in the Prince Philip Cup team!!! We came 2nd in the regional round.! She was a darling and so versatile Spent her final years being a very good broodmare.
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Post by maxandpaddy on Nov 30, 2014 18:19:31 GMT
Thats so true, all ponies seemed to do everything. My 14.2 won Handy Ponies, Working Hunter, got 6th in the BSJA Newcomer finals and we were on the pony club county eventing team
I wonder if that's why we didnt have as many problems? Diet was simpler and more basic. They were more versatile and had no choice in the matter. Fitter maybe. Hardier and not as pampered?
Makes you wonder doesnt it
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Post by 5874julie on Nov 30, 2014 18:45:25 GMT
We all then had multi talented ponies. I owned a 14.2.hh pony who in 1962 won the 14.2. show pony class at the local county show 2nd in the novice JC show jumping class and was in the Prince Philip Cup team!!! We came 2nd in the regional round.! She was a darling and so versatile Spent her final years being a very good broodmare. to be fair, there are still ponies like that! although not county level, we took our little 13hh racing/games pony to a hotly contested local show this year and he won the working hunter, a showing class, the 13.2 jumping and the games shield. a bit of a red letter day! but it hardly felt like pot hunting as it was in four completely different categories!
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Post by proudwilliam on Nov 30, 2014 19:04:32 GMT
Well done but I think he is rare.
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Post by workingcob on Nov 30, 2014 22:06:12 GMT
All our ponies did a bit of allsorts - kept them interested (makes me sad to see the obviously sour showing ones now that must be sick unto death of just trundling round rings and/maneges)
I remember bidding at an auction for a New Zealand and being so excited to win it that I slept with it on my bed that night lol.
We held a charity show at our place (we only had a small paddock so god knows how) and of course finished with a Chase Me Charlie. We used grey Co-op milk crates as "wings" and any manner of stuff which might feasibly be jumped over
We also started out by packing our ponies onto a cattle wagon and then being dropped off at the show. There were also lots of evenings riding home from the local SJ arena in the pitch black - my mum would follow us in the car so we rode in the headlights!
I don't have a digital version but somewhere there is a pic of my sister jumping my mum's old sec C over a jump with the top pole resting on the top of the post n rail fence - it's huge and she was about 5! Her legs are flying up out of the saddle like a Thelwell cartoon
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Post by sarahp on Dec 1, 2014 7:37:40 GMT
Even if you didn't achieve what the above did, we all expected our ponies to have to do anything - after all, any discipline is really just some combination of correct flat work and being able to jump.
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Post by gillwales on Dec 2, 2014 13:41:25 GMT
Not sure about most of the rest of you, but my parents were not horsey, but it was the only thing I was interested in and pestered my poor parents from being a toddler. They went without so I could have a pony, as we all know it is not the cost of buying one but the cost of keeping one, the drive came from me. These days I often think that the drive comes from the parents, hence far more money tends to be thrown at ponies and the chasing of qualifiers and being focused on these goals rather than children having fun and having a go at everything with their ponies, I consider that my life was the richer for it. I had such fun.
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Post by tountmarastud on Dec 2, 2014 13:47:10 GMT
Any chance of Flee doing a 12 days of Christmas to make us oldies laugh!!!
Heres your starter which is so bad will hopefully inspire Flee to do it!!!
On the first day of Christmas my OH gave to me A sparkling brand new two horse lorree (some hope!!!!!!)
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Post by gillwales on Dec 2, 2014 14:38:08 GMT
Any chance of Flee doing a 12 days of Christmas to make us oldies laugh!!! Heres your starter which is so bad will hopefully inspire Flee to do it!!! On the first day of Christmas my OH gave to me A sparkling brand new two horse lorree (some hope!!!!!!) On the second day of Christmas mu true love gave to me 2 French link bits And a sparkling brand new lorree
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Post by tountmarastud on Dec 2, 2014 16:59:10 GMT
On the third day of Christmas my horse weary OH gave to me
3 jute rugs (well this is an Oldies thread) 2 French link bits And a sparkling brand new lorry
Come on Flee Im no good at this!
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Post by Philippa on Dec 2, 2014 18:35:27 GMT
. There were also lots of evenings riding home from the local SJ arena in the pitch black - my mum would follow us in the car so we rode in the headlights! Oh those were the days eh. I rode that same road home regularly on a Tuesday night in headlights!!!!!
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Post by mjcssjw2 on Dec 3, 2014 13:59:03 GMT
wow, my dad had a milkround with a horse and float!! I bought a new style stable rug with my first paypacket and nice blue one with red binding and cross surcingles!! wow, my mum made me some before that and we put wool bed blankets under if we needed them. My horse ate pony muts, bran and straights! I think the standards in tack and turnout classes have dropped dramatically since those days. Succesive jumping classes were very popular along with handy pony and gymkhanas. Ridden mountain and moorland classes, novice classes and veteran classes were very few and far between - had to go to Royal lancs for ridden veteran. shp classes were not invented!!I longed and longed for a red white and blue browband - like the ones the Hollings used to use (if i remember correctly) resorted to maing my own. Oh the days, and if i had given my parents so much as an answer back I would have been beaten and the ponies sold - simples!! Never mind the tantrums i see these days, I had to muck out and get my pony ready for a show - and I loved it.
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Post by richvale on Dec 3, 2014 17:45:18 GMT
Wow that brings back the memories! My Mum worked for the Co-op Diaries with shire horses pulling the milk floats. They were massive but very intelligent. They knew the milk round by heart and stopped at each house that was on the round. Mum would call home for a brew and the horse and milk float would just stand in the avenue until Mum started the round again. My grandad (Mums Dad) used to work with a coal float with Shires, beautiful horses. Those were the days!
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Post by maxandpaddy on Dec 11, 2014 17:54:54 GMT
Brrrrrr its cold...time to get out dads long johns, wooly bobble hats or ear muffs, leg warmers (admit it we wore them) puffa jackets, plastic bags on feet and stripey fingerless gloves !! We looked fab back then...fashion icons
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Post by proudwilliam on Dec 11, 2014 18:42:14 GMT
What about Liberty bodice then with rubber buttons! woollen vests that made you itch! Bat wing jodhpurs! ?? White rubber like riding macs! that really never really were water proof.
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Post by maxandpaddy on Dec 11, 2014 18:49:36 GMT
Or the navy blue kagool that wrapped up and went into its own breast pocket.....veryyyyyy handy !!!
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Post by oldschooler on Dec 11, 2014 19:53:56 GMT
What about Liberty bodice then with rubber buttons! woollen vests that made you itch! Bat wing jodhpurs! ?? White rubber like riding macs! that really never really were water proof. I had a liberty bodice, they were nice and warm, lined with brushed cotton - and yes those rubber buttons. Also remember doing games - at secondary school - in an aertex top and a pair of navy blue knickers. Trouble was our hockey pitch was a short walk down the road. Dirty old men must have had a field day. I wonder how we survived in those days, playing with pointy sticks, riding double bareback with only a headcollar and sharing dirty cups with water that was very suspect. Oh those were the days, health and safety didn't exist.
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Post by proudwilliam on Dec 11, 2014 20:19:59 GMT
School uniform! was a nightmare Our school colour was brown and yellow! velour hats in the winter and panamas in the summer. I went to day school 20 miles from our farm. which meant a car then train then two buses to get to school. Had to leave at 7.30am and not home till 5pm. Often walking home 3 miles from the station as mum did not drive.!
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Post by switchblade82 on Dec 11, 2014 20:58:21 GMT
I remember most horses lived out (selective stables with long waiting lists), herd turnout, lot's of choice of yards, riding out on road with no hat and saddle at times, what was poo picking?, less laminitis and if you owned your own horse whilst at school, you were a lucky, lucky sod.
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Post by maxandpaddy on Dec 11, 2014 21:22:31 GMT
Hahaaaaaaaaaaa no idea, we use to jump the poo's !!
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Post by ikklecob on Dec 11, 2014 22:27:21 GMT
On the subject of School uniform we had to wear navy knickers and were subjected to knicker checks on a random basis. I travelled almost 30 miles to school bike, train then bus also leaving home at 7.30 returning at 5.15
My daughter and I did family pony on her 14 hander. Won several locally, some involved gates and obstacles others just ridden as a show by both riders.
I remember when the Bay City Rollers were the in band and we wore long stripy socks over jods with Jody boots. Seems all the trend again now but we know we started it.
My dad used to ride and lead the horses to school dropping them off at the smithy. He would pick them up and take them home at the end of the day. His favourite mare was foaled on the battle fields of France and one of the few to return with her mother.
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Post by proudwilliam on Dec 11, 2014 22:44:46 GMT
I can just remember having 2 shires when we moved farms one was called Voilet! that would be 1953. Darkie was my first pony a Dartmoor with attitude and I did not have any trousers so wore a dress. Dad soon made mum get me some and other than the dreaded school uniform I don't think I had any dresses, except a party one for the pony club Christmas party.! I won the D cup one year and the cup was small. Dad used to put an egg in it to wind me up!
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Post by cliche on Dec 12, 2014 19:46:42 GMT
What a fab thread. I didnt own a pony until I left school and went to work aged 16, but we used to do the exact same thing with the cattle truck, our yard would hire one and load as many ponies in as we could, no travel boots or rugs, kids in the luton and oldies in the cab. The driver would chuck us all out at the showground and come back later. We all entered everything, swapped ponies and tack, hats with a bit of elastic, no BPs, and do you know what, nobody died and no ponies were hurt. Amaz.i.n.g!! We had jute rugs, green canvas NZs, string girths, bran mash or pony nuts, hay and straw and not much else. Happy days and definitely no 'elf and safety.
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Post by proudwilliam on Dec 12, 2014 19:51:30 GMT
How I agree cliché. Riding hats mostly made of cardboard, and only used for best! Rode ponies in a snaffle, and for show either a double or Pelham! Pony club rallies were fun too.
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Post by maxandpaddy on May 29, 2015 16:47:14 GMT
I found this picture recently and had to share it on this thread. I'm the one on the right and very proud of my 3rd in the Tack'N'Turnout riding Pele, seeing it made me remember the gloves!!!! Thick white almost knitted jobbies were the in thing Quarter marks done with a plastic cut out And rosettes were proudly displayed IN THE MOUTH Ohhhhh how times have changed since 1980 xxxxx
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Post by 2connies on May 29, 2015 18:01:46 GMT
Of course I'm not really old enough for this thread !! ...ahem...!! I love those trousers the steward's wearing!
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Post by maxandpaddy on May 29, 2015 18:33:59 GMT
That was the judge
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