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Hello I am one of the older people on this site have been riding for 44 years and a horse owner for 21 years. I owned a Gypsy Cob called Tonka for 21 years kept him at home lost him last year aged 30 missed him that much I have ended up with a welfare rescue 17.2h Chesnut Mare ex-racehorse who was to be pts unless rehomed as she was in such a bad way, took 3 months to get her back in condition and a total of 6 months to trust me and bonding proving to be a gentle loving horse told not a typical Chesnut Mare. The problem with my riding was I was taught to ride the old fashioned way with very long stirrups and because of this I get the horse to fall on me not being thrown off on a regular basis, the new mare managed to drop out the side door dropping a shoulder and bucking when I first had her while I was adjusting stirrups a new and interesting experience of being thrown in 40 years instead of being squashed.

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Hi and welcome!

I'm also originally from H&H forum, nice change of scenery over here! Snowy looks gorgeous! xx

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Hi thank you all :) Sorry my names Daisy the little bit of important info I missed out on!! Just realised I didnt have a jumping pic in so thought I would add one :p. Stable stains are lovely in a grey, hes currently brown and desperate for a bath!! Not looking foward to his next dressage, or jumping outing in fact as he cant go in his current state..... :p. Anyone want to come and bath him for me, you can have a free ride if you do haha! 

kevinhiatt your mare sounds like fun......... I got squished when my horse went over backwards as I had the attitude of "never let yourself fall off" (it broke my back then learnt to bail). Then old safe as houses cob spooked at a chicken and got me airlifted to hospital (worried about my back) - fortunatley only torn the ligaments in my knee though. That fixed, sold him to a lovely lady as he really was the ultimate confidence giver (that was the only time I ever fell off him in 3 yrs and we did XC, hacking, jumping etc). Got snowy from a person who lied (vet given us a full refund for the vetting when we found out he was linked to the dealer!) and he spent the first 8 months reguarly bronking me off, bolting and being a retard which was it for me, I lost all my confidence! Fortunatley he has now grown up and has actually turned into a completley bombproof horse through my perseverence and not giving up on him so hes the safest on the yard and hacks out with all the babies etc. He very rarely spooks and has never ever refused at any type of jump!

This forum seems really friendly, Im loving it already :)

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Thank you richard, I also use that in his tail but yes I will be using it on his whole body next time hes bathed - lots of kettles of water are going to be needed for that one! And yes Micki its amazing how quickly they seem to go light, when I first got him his dapples were incredibly dark but now are really faded and he has started to get a bit of a fleabitten coat coming through for the first time in the last month :)

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Hi Newbie.  Love dapple greys too and used to ride one called Griska who I loved the bones of.  Now just have a crusty Fresian X who is typically marish and love to bits.  Hopefully you will like us all here.  You've had some pretty horrendous accidents!