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Hey all you Old Timers, go through your files and post those pictures of "when I was a young'n" (please, they must be from before Reagan was prez)

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  • #101
    Another from Wayzata, my old friend Debbie Cox on her horse, Casper, and me on Sport.

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    • #102
      Sport and me, St. John's Playground, Hugo, MN.

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      • #103
        And, we jump in the rain at St. John's.

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        • #104
          Trying out a breastplate, which he didn't need, because I "liked the look". See, we all do it!

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          • #105
            Jumping at Wayzata.

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            • #106
              LaCrosse, WI. Equitation.

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              • #107
                LaCrosse, Hunt Teams. Unfortunately, I'm the only one in the shot, but there was one ahead of me and one behind.

                Mary Beth and Terri Van Sloun, Colleen McQuay's sisters were the other two.

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                • #108
                  coming in from a bareback ride in the fields at the farm.

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                  • #109
                    After my horse died, I kept riding, but didn't show. Consequently the ensuing 20+ years are undocumented. But I rode daily until my second year with Joe and Conrad, when riding came to a screeching halt.

                    After that, riding was sporadic, as it remains to this day. This is a picture from 1995 when I judged the Dalmatian Club of America's Road Trial in Chicago. I was the mounted judge. A local field trial supplier of horses, mostly Tennessee Walkers, provided me with this steed.

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                    • #110
                      Whoa nelly, love the psychedelic jump!

                      That panel in the 1970 jumping photo is HUGE! I also like your Kathy Kusner/Fleet Apple look in your 1970 eq picture!!!

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                      • #111
                        It was that obvious, huh?

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                        • #112
                          <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by lauriep:
                          I was the mounted judge. ...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> no *, no reins, clipboard in hand! I LOVE those kind of pictures! It's amazing we all survived those days. I recall entire winters when I rode bareback every day... in the snow and slush, through the trails of Armonk (NY), Bedford and Greenwich (CT). Even on the roads. No *, just a bridle and sometimes a Baker blanket (on really cold days). Some of us have guardian angels.

                          [This message was edited by ritzy on Jan. 08, 2003 at 10:58 AM.]

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                          • #113
                            A request, please:

                            Can we all just leave out the helmet mentions and just enjoy the old pictures? There are MANY of "those" threads to hash out our feelings on that.

                            This thread should be for pure enjoyment and laughs!

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                            • #114
                              I agree, and am sorry. I was guilty of the first antiheadwear comment.

                              Yowza could your boy jump! Those old panels - take a sheet of plywood slap on all the various colored paints accumulating in our basement, nail it to a 2x4 (or just lean it up against a rail), and voila!!!

                              Someone asked about the pointy "rails"... They were usually just extra fence rails... We used everything for jumps back then. I have a picture from a show where there are empty creosote buckets under the jump...

                              I've been thinking of restoring the old outside course on the farm (prior to this thread), and now methinks I'll just do it! We have a "hill" (old bomb shelter) that we used to ride up and over and 2 strides from the bottom jump into the field where ther was the bank jump made of railroad ties, a ditch (after Weatherford's incident, I may not put that back in ). Oooh, this could be fun!!!

                              Proud member of the Sunnieflax Clique, IDAC Clique
                              "Poster formerly known as SQW"
                              I gotta do-over and am doin it my way!!!

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                              • #115
                                Oh, Silly Mommy, DO IT! You could charge admission just for today's riders to come and SEE a real outside course. Nevermind actually ride on it!

                                There were 2 or three outside courses that I remember on our circuit, and the ring at the old Helvetia show was so large that it was an outside course with a rail around it. We never thought twice about riding on them - just another class. As S.M and LaurieB said, if it was on the course diagram, we jumped it. Never questioned anything...

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                                • #116
                                  Normally I am not a big nostalgia buff, but I just love seeing these pics. The two qualities that shine through are FUN and FORWARD. We need more of both today!!
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                                  • #117
                                    lauriep, thank you for posting your photos from your early days. They are great and represent a real horse crazy kid determined to ride. I really admire you.

                                    When I look at my oldies I find myself judging them constructively. Do you do the same?

                                    Back in the 60's I rode a small pony, 11.1hands over real outside courses with solid fences at a galloping pace. I thought nothing of it because that's what we did at the time. The same pony would do the pony jumper division at the same show before time faults were introduced. The fences just kept getting higher and higher. This 11.1 hand pony jumped the whole course up to 2'9" until a winner was decided! Would I do it today? Hell no! I have become a wimp with everything dummied down now. My how things have changed drastically!

                                    The young rides today do not have any idea of what real showing was like back then. We did not have any short stirrup, long stirrup, schooling classes, low divisions, etc. The shows just had the rated divisions without all the fillers. Can anybody else relate?

                                    Please keep posting Old Timers. I loff it.

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                                    • #118
                                      I know I've posted these before, but I don't have many from that era! This one would have been circa 1973 perhaps?

                                      The horse's barn name was "Duffy", show name "Maker's Mark". He was donated to the Ethel Walker School and used at Teela-Wooket Camp during the summers. This was taken at Woodstock in the camp class. He had just stopped three times at this first jump. Someone took pity on me and dropped the top rail to get me over. Duffy didn't like jumping anything higher than 2'6" and preferably 2'. Methinks that might have had something to do with the reason why he was donated.

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                                      • #119
                                        I believe this was at the same show, but here I'm doing my Vana imitation while showing my Aunt's Connemara yearling mare...

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                                        • #120
                                          Talk about a fashion statement. This large pony's name was "Potato Chip", or "Taters". This was on the outside course at Sweetbrier Farm in Easton, CT...circa 1970?

                                          This same pony flipped over onto me on that same course my freshman year of high school. Not fun. Oh well. I lived and I was still young and stupider.

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