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I have come to confess. I was once a beginner rider, and I even attended horse shows

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  • #41
    Originally posted by 2DogsFarm View Post
    I got y'all beat.

    Lucky for us all my pics are circa 1950s and need to be scanned (won't happen).

    But picture these {please hold applause}:

    8 or 9yo me in my very first schooling show.
    Horse is a Saddlebred wearing (I kid you not) BLINKERS on double bridle (all schoolies went in curb & snaffle). Her head is just about in my lap.
    I am resplendent in jods, saddleseat-style jodphur boots that buckled at the ankle, white ruffly shirt with bolo tie & a red vest. No helmet.
    NOTE: this was an English Huntseat show, not Saddleseat.

    FF to the early 60s when I wore my Aunt's hand-me-down black wool huntcoat. To my everlasting shame. The cool kids had madras plaid coats.
    At least my boots were tall ones - Dehners - off the rack from a shoe store in Evanston,IL that carried the brand.
    IIRC breeches were tan corded twill with the oh-so-lovely hip pouf.
    And buttons on the calf - ouch.
    Helmet was the velvet huntcap style with elastic chinstrap.

    Those were the days.......
    You don't have us beat until you post the pictures! Get that scanner cranked up!
    I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound. --Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    • #42
      Supershorty - ROTFLMAO - quietly, at work. Those are priceless!
      www.ayliprod.com
      Equine Photography in the Northeast

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      • #43
        I don't know what in the world was happening here... Mom breeches with paddock boots and a white egghead helmet. Kind of embarrassing...


        Circa 1997 or 1998ish. According to many, I should not have been showing...
        Horrible position and on a buckskin no less!!! Rust breeches and a show bow to top it all off.



        Fast forward to the present and previous buckskin forgave me all my transgressions. He's ancient but we still show occasionally just for fun. People still give me funny looks for showing a buckskin


        On my youngster sometimes my leg slips back...


        Or I lay quite unattractively all over his neck


        A little while back COTH posted a lovely article about "caging the railbirds". It came at the perfect time for me, when a rather nasty railbird at HITS Ocala essentially told me that my youngster (that no one but me has ever even thrown a leg over) was too nice of a horse for me. I shook it off but it still stung. Growing up I was always berated for showing my ugly buckskin, he was free, kind and tolerant and all I could afford AND I still love him to pieces. I was frequently told I needed a nicer horse, I can't win, haha! As riders we need to support each other and remember that we all start from somewhere and not every single jump, round or even day is perfectly executed. Thanks, Nickelodian for starting such a fun and refreshing thread!
        Last edited by Hunters Ridge; Mar. 19, 2014, 10:09 AM. Reason: Fix link

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        • #44
          Me in a hunter class LAST YEAR: http://ridingwithscissors.files.word...3332848763.jpg

          me jumping FOR my horse on a XC jump: http://ridingwithscissors.files.word...adrolltop.jpeg

          *** and just to clarify, I wasn't pulling willy nilly - my horse was actively trying to run us both into the left standard for funsies. This is why he is no longer a hunter. Bored horsed was bored and made up games to amuse himself.
          Last edited by PaintedHunter; Mar. 19, 2014, 12:45 PM.
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          • #45
            Photographic evidence of the shame of my hand-me-down, two inches too short boots that I wore in the late 70s early 80s…

            Though in this photo circa 1978 or 79 I had the grooviest powder blue hunt coat with navy velvet collar. Unfortunately it was a couple years out of fashion by then, which is how I had managed to pick one up at a 4-H barn sale…

            http://s444.photobucket.com/user/ark...88023856563848

            This of course was an improvement over the attire from my first few lesson horse shows a few years previous, when I was still in rubber riding boots (they were large enough around the top that the lesson-kid style was to stick our crops in there when not in use…). My mom still has some old photo collages documenting these fashion atrocities, also featuring re-purposed blazers in “interesting” colors/patterns and home-made chokers with large safety pins impersonating stock pin.

            Ack, I just had a flashback to a Victor Hugo Vidal clinic that was held at the barn where I took lessons…. There was a section for the advanced lesson kids/ship in local show folks, as opposed to those for the stables’ regular A show boarders. I had no idea that I was supposed to wear boots and breeches so I showed up in jeans and chaps like I usually wore in lessons – oh my, did I get a ration of $h!t from my instructor!!! VHV managed to ignore my highly informal attire and told me I had a good seat…

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            • #46
              This is wonderful. I'm so tempted to go home and take some of my oldies (they're ALL oldies - haven't shown in a couple decades!) out of the scrapbook, scan, and share.

              Thank you all for sharing yours. And thank you, OP, for creating this wonderful, positive, upbeat, FUN thread!
              www.ayliprod.com
              Equine Photography in the Northeast

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              • #47
                Originally posted by arktos19 View Post
                VHV managed to ignore my highly informal attire and told me I had a good seat…
                Gentleman that he was, he always could look through the mist and find the solid ground.
                www.ayliprod.com
                Equine Photography in the Northeast

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                • #48
                  Originally posted by Dewey View Post
                  You don't have us beat until you post the pictures! Get that scanner cranked up!

                  Did I forget to mention I am technologically damned?
                  But I promise to dig up the pic of Exhibit A - it still makes me smile (& wince) - and try to get it somewhere it can appear here.
                  *friend of bar.ka*RIP all my lovely boys, gone too soon:
                  Steppin' Out 1988-2004
                  Hey Vern! 1982-2009, Cash's Bay Threat 1994-2009
                  Sam(Jaybee Altair) 1994-2015

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                  • #49
                    Originally posted by 2DogsFarm View Post
                    8 or 9yo me in my very first schooling show.
                    Horse is a Saddlebred wearing (I kid you not) BLINKERS on double bridle (all schoolies went in curb & snaffle). Her head is just about in my lap...


                    Love it!!!

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                    • #50
                      I love this! I could never pass up an opportunity to show off embarassing old show pictures!

                      First up we have one of my first shows. Notice the way too large hunt coat as my parents thought I would get bigger and grow into it better. Full seat breeches. Better yet, the hair bunned up at the base of my helmet... Not a hairnet to be found. I assure you the horses braids are pretty rough as well but those are hidden as they are, of course, braided on the left side of her neck.

                      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

                      Fast forward about a year. I have found myself a better fitting coat and lost the full seat breeches. The hair is still a mess though as well as my pony's braids. But I am doing a course a jumps!

                      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

                      Fast forward another year. I spent the winter studying how to look like a competitor, convincing my ever patient SO that yes I neeeeddd all these new things, and practicing my form.

                      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

                      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

                      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

                      And earlier this year. Lack of riding over the winter has admittedly led to some lower leg weakness/jumping ahead tendancies so there has been some relapse in progress... The progress is still there though in the big picture

                      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

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                      • #51
                        A more recent fashion faux pas, riding Trainer's young TB (young as in 1/10 my age ) at a small combined test last year....

                        https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.ph...type=3&theater

                        The color scheme would have been less heinous if I had realized that we had to wear bright red number pinneys... Though the bright colors would have come in handy if the threatened explosion had occurred and I got tossed into the underbrush. There was a reason I was riding my dressage test with body protector and medical arm band in place

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                        • #52
                          Ahh yes.

                          Let's go on a journey of how I my riding has digressed since the day I started.

                          Here I am at my first show. Paddock boots, nice polo, jeans and a traditional velvet helmet. My mother didn't know how to apply a number, so that part was her fault. If my helmet had fit properly, I would have been looking up. But note, the soft hand, not jumping ahead, solid in the leg, though the stirrup has probably been rolled 6 times and the 'tail' is still longer than my leg...
                          http://s1299.photobucket.com/user/fa...b1737.jpg.html

                          That, folks, was the peak of my riding career.... Watch as I spiral out of control for the next 18 years....

                          'Ducking' became a thing, as did short sleeve ratcatchers, as evidenced here:
                          http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps24884adf.jpg and here: http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4044c904.jpg.

                          Then I graduated to 'A' shows and this happened.
                          http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps070371c5.jpg

                          And when all else failed, I began to flop on my horses' necks and turn my toe out 90*.
                          http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps98d2fbfc.jpg

                          Then someone gave me a sympathy ribbon and look how happy I was!
                          http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...psce110fe0.jpg
                          (Note: you will notice I finally picked up on fashion cues and dressed like everybody else and bought a 'normal' colored horse. I am 97% sure the judge mistook me for a rider with actual credentials and gave me that ribbon).


                          And that, is the sad, sad story of my riding career.

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                          • #53
                            Haha okay I can play...

                            First show on my pony, Sugarbaby, sporting the rubber all purpose boots, baggy sweater and unique personal way to hold the reins...

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=f4483c9a93

                            Graduated to a couple shows later in rust breeches, paddock boots and velvet helmet (who needs to see anyways???)

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=8918dd7af0

                            This pony was a saint!

                            Got my second pony, Popcorn (very unique) and started to learn to jump. This was taken at our local county fair... (those were my farms jumps we had to bring in for the fair!)

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=82e777c122

                            Different show, but the pony again was a saint!

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=82e777c122

                            I remember my mom loved to braid my pony's mane and tail and would get matching ribbons to tie in her hair so we would match. As in neon green, pink, and yellow rain jacket meant neon green, pink and yellow bows in pony's mane/tail. (still searching for that picture.

                            Then outgrew my pony and didnt own a horse for 8 years but spent 2 weeks a year at summer camp....

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=6a2cd9d28d

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=c438145f92

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=97de2acef2

                            For graduation got a horse as my gift. ( I mean seriously who wanted a car anyways......) Ended up with a backwoods small 15 hand TB that no one wanted...

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=52d4b68d69

                            First show...

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=43fbc355a2

                            Hunters weren't our thing so why not try the jumpers

                            https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...eat=directlink

                            Jumpers was okay, but why not cross country...

                            https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...eat=directlink

                            Time to retire so got my next horse, but slowly moving up in the world of fashion... (however I did have a thing against hair nets....)

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=f519e5b11c


                            Again not a hunter so swapped to jumpers...

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=d2023dce1e



                            And through all the trials and errors...

                            Hunters this past weekend....

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=49267ea2cb

                            Jumpers at the same show this past weekend...

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=f602b7e6c1



                            Definitely a learning experience!! Always hope!


                            Age never stopped this horse, he is a year ago... (25 years old)

                            https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1&l=2fff398401
                            Calm & Collected, 13, OTTB
                            Forrest Gump (Catasauqua) , 17, OTTB
                            Little Bit Indian, 29, TB
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                            • #54
                              Somewhere I have a photo of me at my first ever show. I was 12. I'd just won 3rd place in hunter under saddle, riding a lovely old roan school pony named Lollipop. I was wearing rust colored Dittos jeans, rubber boots, a white turtleneck, and my first bra (which was really embarrassing, because other than the nascent AAA boobs, I looked like I was 7 or 8.) And I was smiling like crazy!
                              You have to have experiences to gain experience.

                              1998 Morgan mare Mythic Feronia "More Valley Girl Than Girl Scout!"

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                              • #55
                                My first riding lesson ever. December 1989 in Maine #winning!
                                https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

                                When I was concentrating I stuck my tongue out https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater
                                Oh, and my coat was 4 sizes too big.

                                And, the shot taken, about 7 yrs later, right before I landed and proceeded to biff it on the grass: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

                                Good times
                                Barn rat for life

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                                • #56
                                  I absolutely refuse to scan it, but there is photographic evidence of me, in shorts, sneakers and a tank top, riding an arab stallion in full park horse gear, standing at the ingate. Since it was barely the 80's, it goes without saying the shorts were very short, the sneakers were very canvas and there was no helmet to be seen.

                                  Actually, my biggest shame was that I lived in South Florida and my legs were glowing white. Proving I care very little what I look like, even way back when.

                                  Oh yes, and even when I do look stylish, I can still take time to enjoy the finer things in life. Like my youngster's ears...

                                  mmmm... tasty!
                                  Your crazy is showing. You might want to tuck that back in.

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                                  • #57
                                    Ok ok....I'll play too. I admit, as a kid, I was a nasty little railbird. Thank goodness I grew up! I ain't had NO ROOM to talk lol

                                    I'll start with fashion missteps.

                                    Circa 1993-1994. Schooling show at the barn I took lessons at. Check out the awesome Navajo print square pad and obviously the judge didn't mind by looking at my ribbons lol
                                    http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps08486d42.jpg

                                    Riding at home. 1995. There's that awesome najavo print square pad again! And I'm using a western bridle. Halter still on. T-shirt 8 sizes too big. Full chaps.....with shorts.
                                    http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...pscf9c2e8c.jpg

                                    Oh boy. Check out this awesome schooling at home outfit. 1997. I had just gotten Chance which is why I am using ~4 saddle pads (he was emaciated when I got him). Details I particularly like (read: cringe at): homemade square pad, full chaps w/ shorts on, my bangs.
                                    http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...psd603a1e0.jpg

                                    1998. Jumper style. Homemade square pad (stars and stripes type pattern since it was around 4th of July!). This one also doubles as a bad riding example. My leg is not touching my horse (to be fair...I had to ride him like that...but we'll get to that later) http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...psfa15f729.jpg

                                    2013 - gray wool jacket in a world of navy or black softshells. I want a grey softshell coat next though.
                                    http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps22ae775c.jpg

                                    Also 2013 - Navajo rug as a pad!!! EEEEEEKKKKKK! I love schooling in these things. Fashonistas be damned!
                                    http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps6bab7a62.jpg

                                    Ok....I think I'm ready to move on to bad riding. I am no where near perfect now, but boy am I better now. I wish I was like PNW and just started off a winner

                                    I had a ducking problem that I am just now finally starting to get over...

                                    Example 1 - 1996. Oh, and I had a strawberry roan QH pony. WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?
                                    http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps125cdfd3.jpg

                                    Example 2 - let's move ahead a few years to 2000. Style is better, but still ducking! (I have soooo many pics of me ducking. ugh)
                                    http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps6eb91f44.jpg

                                    2013 - So much wrong in this picture. Still glad I'm not a celebrity.
                                    http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps4f15a63b.jpg


                                    PS....I do wear a helmet every time I get on a horse now. I was young and dumb (and had saintly horses).

                                    PPS....If you can't go back and laugh and learn and move on, what else can you do?? I'll never be perfect....but I'll never worry about what any random person thinks about my riding/fashion/etc. Ok, so I do worry what the judge thinks. And my trainer. But that's about it. I think.

                                    PPPS....we are starting to get it together sort of (even though this pic is us taking a stride out.)http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/v...psc135794c.jpg
                                    Last edited by King Creole; Mar. 19, 2014, 11:24 AM. Reason: wanted to add proof that I sort of got it together. Sort of.
                                    A Moments Worth - "Chance" - 1990 Chestnut OTTB
                                    King Creole - "Milo" - 2006 Bay Appendix QH

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                                    • #58
                                      This is fun! Alas all my early photos are lost.

                                      As a beginner, I showed in my first backyard barn leadline class in jeans, cowboy boots and a velvet hunt cap with an elastic chin strap. My then golden locks were flowing freely from the helmet. I guess I did not own a rubber band. I was six and it was the early 80s.

                                      I got my first show clothes as a birthday present in time for my first solo trips on fuzzy lesson ponies around those in-barn shows. The coat was really long and I still had the elastic chin strap helmet. I guess they really didn’t care much about young children’s noggins back then!

                                      When I moved to a fancier and very saintly pony, short stirrup and traveled to shows, I graduated to a helmet with a chin strap – yay safety! I had a single braid with a bow (wimpy compared to the bows of today), navy pinstripe hunt coat, gray jodphurs, and show shirts lovingly made by and monogramed by mom ;-). I think it was more the style to have pins in your choker then?

                                      Two years after I started, I was fortunate to receive a pony of my very own. We were green on green (yay!) and moved up the ranks from short stirrup to the pony hunters on the local rated circuit. We did our best to look the part (in the above mentioned attire until I graduate to consigned high boots) to make up for a multitude of mistakes, chief among them, my penchant for leaving it out when in doubt. I can't tell you how many photos I had with my poor, game pony in superman mode.

                                      My in-barn attire was a hunt cap with a caliente in my colors and someone’s hand-me down suede chaps with fringe (often paired with shorts in the summer). Loved them! Before I got those chaps, I would ride with my legs wrapped in standing bandages and those rubber muck boots that were so popular in the 80s because I was forever playing in the water and mud and rotting out my paddock boots, much to my mother’s dismay!

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                                      • #59
                                        God, you guys all suck. My eq, OTOH is perfect (even over small jumps. My horse always has square knees and I look amazing) and I'm always turned out per George Morris standards. Of course, I have videos/pictures to back it up but I'm not going to post it so you're just going to have to trust me as I judge you all from my armchair. Carry on.

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                                        • #60
                                          Originally posted by GoneAway View Post
                                          This is my new favorite thread. I need to find pics, but my first show was on an old style Appy and I rode in RUBBER BOOTS THE HORROR.

                                          Rock on folks!

                                          Originally posted by ToTheNines View Post
                                          Good idea Nick! Cute pics, and wow the recent ones!! This could be fun. Nice support for Zooey and all the other beginners.

                                          Like the funny post above, not that I have improved much, but here is Dallas Charity Horse Show 1968? I was 16 on my first horse, Black Lace, a wonderful quarter horse, God bless her soul. Note the homemade braids, short boots with socks showing, loose hair, and plenty of daylight under that seat!

                                          https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/..._2805961_o.jpg

                                          How about socks showing above rubber boots? (Who taught me that socks should be long and pulled up over the jodphurs? ick! )

                                          ToTheNines I love your photo, it brings back so much! I tended to be similarly attired, probably not as nicely as you. And the hat/cap/whatever - if I fell off, that hat would hit the ground before I did. For lessons I think we used batter's helmets without the wire cage face guards. Actually they probably didn't have face guards then.

                                          I started in a lesson barn riding schoolies. I vividly remember my first jumping class. The horse was a bay solidly-built C-show-veteran schoolie. He had already been around the course twice with other kids. Going back into the ring he gave me the very clear message "Shut up and try to stay on while I do this." I understood so clearly that I could give a little leg, but I was not to touch the reins, so I left it up to him! He already knew the course (basic outside-inside) and knew his job, which was a good thing because I was too nervous to think. We got a ribbon of some kind, but I mostly remember being thrilled at the end of the ride that we did all the jumps the first time, in the right order and in the right direction. (No photos unfortunately.)

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