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To the OP -- do NOT feel large because of the jacket size you require!! I'm about 5'3" with my boots on, and a size 2 to 6 depending on brand. And I wear a size 12 (or 12 slim) coat in Grand Prix....

It's funny -- I too have a PDN from way back when, and it did seem like everyone rode in them regardless of the horse. Then again, all our horses tended to be much more TB-type in shape (both horses...

Testify, sister. Not to mention that plenty of shirts with sleeves (short or long) are made now with Coolmax or other fabrics that actually wick and keep you cooler/less sweaty than if you had bare...

Limerick on this board has a lovely splashy hunter that she's done quite well with. :)

I probably won't get close enough in the near future to look at Popeye's swirl... but is it "nice" (i.e. kind, quiet, etc.), or was your point that it is dodgy somehow? We have a filly by him -- I'd...

Interesting thread -- I haven't read through all the pages so I may be repeating, but I think a big difference between "now" and "back then" (which for me was '92) is that back then you could really...

No foot, no horse.

>>Originally Posted by LarkspurCO
The people who have babies and still ride and train, do you have JOBS?

I have no kids, work full time, and have difficulty finding time to ride and stay in...

I had forgotten about this, but a day before an A show close to home, I had packed the car with all my stuff... saddle, bridle, bag full of helmet, gloves, crop, etc etc all in the car. Which was...

My TB's dam was named "Nancy's TV". Oy.

Our Dutch gelding looks like the world's biggest Shetland pony, complete with crazy mane. Seriously, I've never seen a horse grow a coat like this (unless it was in its 20s!!). :P And he wears...

Our barn hosted a schooling show, and my lovingly-faded helmet went missing from inside our tackroom -- exhibitors were not even supposed to be in the barn, all facilities were provided outside....

The place we board has a lot of foxhunters, and a beautiful course of natural, solid obstacles. Our ammy hunter has jumped all of them -- including a hedge that has to be 4'9 almost square. I have to...

Here in Canada, we get a year mat leave -- which is lovely for taking the squishy new addition to the barn. When they're super little, they generally nap in their stroller while you do everything you...

Obviously you're not in high tech... some years ago when things tanked, we were getting resumes from folks with 15 years experience and multiple degrees who would have been happy to refill our...

OK kashmere, I have to ask as I've seen these before and can't figure them out for the life of me... that "dimple" piercing your ex has, does it just go through one cheek, or is there a bar through...

Scariest experience ever was being kicked by a horse while blanketing it in the aisle -- who had never kicked in 5 years of prior ownership, and who has not kicked in the 2 years since -- while 4.5...

The usual... exams, groceries, the mall. I really have no shame, so there really isn't anywhere I won't go in my riding clothes.

At this point in my life, nothing would make me buy a horse that habitually ran off (is out to get me, not fun, raises blood pressure)... let alone bolted blindly (dangerous). Honestly, that's stress...

2ndyrgal, you might be thinking of Richard Spooner's Robinson... or Jay Hayes' Zucarlos, though that was wayyy back now. ;)

Thanks, Barb! :lol: :D

Aw, nobody looked at my big hedge picture. :cry:

It's true that, in the grand scheme of things, 3'6" is not earth shattering. But it's also true that -- if you are riding in a hunter ring where you are more likely to be crawling along trying to...

OK, how's this for a fresh story... this happened to me today.

In my adult equitation o/fences class, we had a super course with a bunch of tricky stuff near the beginning. I nailed the first...

I could care less if someone (except maybe my daughter or husband) chooses to ride without a helmet. I wear one, but whatever... to each their own.

However, people should have the common courtesy...