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I thought this was cool! What was YOUR childhood barn?!

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  • #41
    Cindeye...

    That's pretty funny, I used to ride at Saddle and Bridle club, too! Very irregularly though.

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    • #42
      bmandt...small world. I rode there in the 1960s & early 1970s. (probably before you were born).

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      • #43
        I rode with Jill Simpson at Raisin' Cain Ranch. Jill is still running a small training operation, although for the life of me I can't figure out where it is. I know the address, have even driven down the road, but still can't find the place.

        Both of the facilities she was located at while I rode with her are still standing, although one is now a private facility and the other has been completely changed. Hardly looks like the same place.
        Keith: "Now...let's do something normal fathers and daughters do."
        Veronica: "Buy me a pony?"

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        • #44
          My first barn is now under a subdivision too.... though I have over the years (21+) have kept track of the very first school horse I rode - she even ended up at my current barn - she died last year and we think she was in her late 30's.

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          • #45
            My first barn was Audley Stable in Mendham, NJ. An old cow barn turned into a riding horse stable with a ring and cross country course.
            My mom would drop my sister and me off there every afternoon and weekends back in the early 70s.
            I took lesson, then gave lessons to pay to board my first horse. Great memories-- The trainer there got me riding all of the "Bunchie" sales racetrack rejects, and thus began my love of the racetrack--go figure?
            The Lowry's of Mendham owned it and Ziggy and Nancy Maillet taught me all about horses...
            Sadly, a big development now.
            Turning For Home, Inc.
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            • #46
              <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Bogie:
              The Hill in North Salem, NY. Now Old Salem Farm -- completely transformed from when I was there (and it was a bit run down). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>It was "Salem View" before it was "the Hill". Built by someone whose name I am drawing a blank on. Green-something I think. We looked at a couple of horses he had for sale, but didn't buy them.

              Then it was run by the Jungherr brothers for a while.

              Then it was sold, and the name chagned to "the Hill"
              Janet

              chief feeder and mucker for Music, Spy, Belle and Tiara. Someone else is now feeding and mucking for Chief and Brain (both foxhunting now).

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              • #47
                <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Bells:
                My childhood barn was Mt. Holyoke College Stables. I was there nearly every day that school was in session. Started there when John Moffat ran the barn and was there for when Carol and CJ started... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
                I went to Hampshire college, and my first semester I kept my horse at Mt Holyoke stable, which were then on the far north edge of the campus.
                Janet

                chief feeder and mucker for Music, Spy, Belle and Tiara. Someone else is now feeding and mucking for Chief and Brain (both foxhunting now).

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                • #48
                  <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>My first barn was Audley Stable in Mendham, NJ. An old cow barn turned into a riding horse stable with a ring and cross country course. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I remember that. I went to riding camp at Seaton Hackney. Is that still around or it is a shopping mall or something?

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                  • #49
                    I join those whose childhood barn is now a housing development (I think it is a nursing home). My barn was Wildewood Stable in the Wildewood subdivision. This is in Columbia, SC.

                    After the barn closed but before it was bulldozed, I went out there and walked around. Even though it was overgrown and everything was falling down, it was neat to see the place one last time. I also stole 3 metal barrels and used them for jumps until they rusted away.
                    \"So shines a good deed in a weary world\" - Willy Wonka

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                    • #50
                      Bells - Yep, it was Teelawooket! I was there in 1980 & 1981 for the 10 day clinics. My SO went to Teelawooket in 1982 & 1983. It was so much fun up there - I loved doing the cross country course!!

                      There was a guest instructor from Canada, Leslie. Was he there in 1985?

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                      • #51
                        I had two childhood barns, Nimrod Farm and the Fairfield Cty. Hunt Club. Nimrod sadly no longer exists, there are houses there now. Fortunately, the facility at Fairfield has not changed very much.

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                        • #52
                          buryinghill2 - What years were you at Nimrod?
                          "The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse" Lord Palmerston

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                          • #53
                            <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by acottongim:
                            I rode at a barn in Germany - outside Bitburg on the Luxumburg border (my parents were Air Force). Funny thing is, I still occasionally meet people that have taken lessons there. They are still in business, and breed TKs and Oldenburgs...

                            http://members.aol.com/hungerburg/ <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                            LOL! My husband was stationed over there, I rode at two places, this one I rode at more then the other, but still only a few times,Ferienranch Klaes
                            Tara


                            A horse already knows how to be a horse;
                            The rider has to learn how to become a rider.
                            A horse without a rider is still a horse;
                            A rider without a horse is no longer a rider.

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                            • #54
                              Wills-I sent you a PT.
                              Where's the glamour? You promised me glamour!

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                              • #55
                                Never had a "real" childhood barn like most of you but I got my first real riding lessons at Camp Cherith in the Adirondacks (Corinth, NY). We had a very old barn with straight stalls and dirt floors. Sure wish I was a kid again just so I could go back to camp and ride out of the new barn they built in 1998.

                                Their website Camp Cherith has pictures of the new barn and one one picture of the old one I knew posted in their Pictures / AlumniPage links.

                                Great memories flood my mind whenever I think of that fantastic camp.
                                <>< Sorrow Looks Back. Worry Looks Around. Faith Looks Up! -- Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

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                                • #56
                                  <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Party Rose:
                                  buryinghill2 - What years were you at Nimrod? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                  A LONG, LONG time ago. Around the mid 70's.

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                                  • #57
                                    my childhood barn was Hillcrest farms.Which is no long where it used to be.Housing developing now. now i believe its in bealton va.
                                    [april-amber-annie-ben-potter-jester-pumpkin-lucky-blaze-chewey- reggie-smokey-willie-rocky and now little jill the only sane things in my life!!!

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                                    • #58
                                      Oh man Bac, We probably rode together and dont even know it! Remember all the horses. Commander was my favorite. I still have tons of pics from those days. Its amazing I can probably name every horse that was ever there.
                                      ~Sniff~ Oh man I havent been back to NY in 20 years. That would have broke my heart to see that, but I have a few people who tell me the Island is so different from what I would remember! When you say Donnie you dont mean Don Sachey do you??? I have read some of his articles recently. Hes in CA. Right? Wonder what happened to Margo? Man this could get long. You can PT me if you want! You made my day replying!

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                                      • #59
                                        <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Sannois:
                                        Oh man Bac, We probably rode together and dont even know it! Remember all the horses. Commander was my favorite. I still have tons of pics from those days. Its amazing I can probably name every horse that was ever there.
                                        ~Sniff~ Oh man I havent been back to NY in 20 years. That would have broke my heart to see that, but I have a few people who tell me the Island is so different from what I would remember! When you say Donnie you dont mean Don Sachey do you??? I have read some of his articles recently. Hes in CA. Right? Wonder what happened to Margo? Man this could get long. You can PT me if you want! You made my day replying! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                        Yes, I do mean Don Sachey, in fact he has stayed at my home the last two years when he was east for the USEA annual meeting. He's still in Santa Barbara, CA, I spoke to him last on New Years Day. Margo is in Collegeville, PA and Mrs. Sachey is nearby to Margo also. Yes, Commie was one of my favorites but Censored was my most favorite. I'll PT you as soon as I get some work done, I'm still good friends with lots of people from those days and am in touch with quite a few others too.

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                                        • #60
                                          Mouse2713, who posts here and puts on the College Bound Invitational shows, was one of the trainers I rode with growing up. It was quite a surprise to run across her on COTH this many years later!

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