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Hi, I am very new here and I have enjoyed looking around the site now that I have High Speed! I am 52 and have 3 horses. Two of them are rising 5 and I am proud to say I have trained and backed both of them. The 3rd is a pasture ornament who deserves a early retirement. I only have time for one these days so I have chosen the gelding to be my main mount...........He is the chestnut in my avatar. We are taking training very slow. I have had to many unplanned dismounts in past to push the envelope.lol. I look forward to meeting all who join. Here is my Steady Eddy

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Permalink Reply by Joan Young on July 1, 2009 at 11:08am

Hi over 70 still ride most days, have warmbloodarabian cross, that I ride westerm. We have fum and enjoy the outdoors. We trail ride across farm land and pasture. Have fum with your horse Joan

Permalink Reply by Gail Morse on July 2, 2009 at 9:52am

Hi Joan: Where do you live and ride? This website is so widespread we could be talking to neighbours or people who are half way around the world. I live in Ontario. Gail.

Permalink Reply by Eileen on July 29, 2009 at 3:49pm

OOOPs sorry I meant to write to someone else.

Permalink Reply by Eileen on July 1, 2009 at 3:35pm

Joan, it sounds like you are a very young 70. Good for you to get out there and ride almost everyday. I always seem to have too much to do to get out there every day. But I do enjoy riding when I get out. My life pretty much revolves around the horses and trail riding. I love to load up the horse and take off for camping and riding excursions all over the continent. The last couple of years though have been kind of quiet as far as the long journeys go, been too much happening at home. but hopefully that will correct itself. I see that you have the right last name for keeping fit and ready to ride. I will be watching for your posts to see what you have been up to.

Permalink Reply by Gail Morse on July 2, 2009 at 9:50am

Hey Eileen: I sent you an email not too long ago about the Sandaraska Park and the camping sites they have there and the 11,000 acres of riding trails. Did not hear back from you about that. I thought that might work out when you were heading for Barrie in August. Gail.

Permalink Reply by Eileen on July 29, 2009 at 4:04pm

Hi Gail, sorry I took so long to respond, I have just got back from a long camping and riding trip and am still trying to get caught up with e-mails, etc. Regarding the Ganaraska, yes I have ridden there a few times and camped at the Sandaraska as well. My permit for riding the Ganni has expired, so I will not be riding there this year. With the camping fees, permit (for a few days riding) , and fuel to get there, it just seems to be too much this year. However I still am trying to plan a aride in the Barrie area. When these plans materialize with dates length of stay etc I will see if you and I can plan on a ride or two. The riding that we do in the Barrie area is mostly in the Simcoe Conservation areas, not sure if that is the name of these areas but I know that there are quite a number of these areas there. Hope that this does not put a damper on your plans.

Permalink Reply by Gail Morse on July 30, 2009 at 1:41pm

No, that is ok! I know it can be expensive at some of these places. Let me know your plans and I will see what works out for us. Gail.

Permalink Reply by Gail Morse on July 2, 2009 at 9:47am

Boy! Someone who was technically capable of adding another group. I had wanted one for us older folks and just saw the instructions as to how to set it up when I saw oneone had already done that. Great. I am almost 65 , have one horse and do a lot of trail riding. I live in Ontario around the Whitby area and still would like to find someone who would like to trailer out to the local forests.

Permalink Reply by Shirley on July 2, 2009 at 12:39pm

To anyone: Hi! Have you been riding since u were a kid or did you start as an older adult?
Are you by any chance active in horse rescues like leaving the wild horses to be wild and free roaming or helping the abundance of abused horses that need a home & lots of patience & understanding love. I think i'll add an over 60's and over 70's group to keep us youngsters optimistic about being able to ride for a long time yet....

Permalink Reply by Ann Hatfield on July 8, 2009 at 1:06am

Hello Everyone,
I, too, am new to this site and to social networking. I'm Ann and I am 56. Hard to believe each time I write it.

I had decided to 'retire' to an Icelandic from my Polish Arab, who is getting old, but find myself not ready to do that no matter that he is a great deal of fun to ride and makes me feel just like a kid again. Falling off him is a bit like falling off a bike, and he is a going concern on the trail and can be ridden in a halter or more formally. I feel ten again when I dress in a pair of old running shoes, my bathing suit, and helmet and take him swimming in the river.

Pressured by ever-growing land taxes on our old riverside homestead I decided I had better become a real farm. So, I am raising mules! Crazy? We will see. It may be the most expensive recreational equid pursuit I have taken on, or it may help offset costs of horses and land. I am being educated by the young jack; donkeys are very different from horses! I have a donkey mentor and good material from mule and donkey trainers, and it is fun being really challenged to think up new training methods.

I have five mares, the mammoth spotted jack, my elderly Arab gelding, the Icelandic, who should be for sale, sigh, and a 16 month National Spottled Saddle Horse gelding. He, like his full sister and his dam, is gaited. Eclipse was in utero when his dam and sister arrived and I had hoped he would be a she. So, this summer I am training youngsters again. Odd, it wasn't that long ago I had firmly told myself I was too old for this.
Ann, from the northern Okanagan Valley, BC

Permalink Reply by Shirley on July 8, 2009 at 2:43am

Sounds like you are having a great time! I am 59 and started riding as an adult 5.5 years ago on a nearly 3 year old Quarter Horse. It's been wonderful learning lots of stuff together. Enjoy your horse time and Barnmice!
Shirley

Permalink Reply by Janet Ortega on July 15, 2009 at 3:16pm

Hi to all of you, I am new here. I live in AZ, as some of you have probably read my other note, and am 61 yo. I was force retired almost 3 years ago and I haven't done much since then. I think I was in shock after working my whole life.

I have 2 arab horses, 1 an aged mare (24 yo) still spicy and ready to go and a gelding that is 15 yo and not been ridden much. I'm working on him with a trainer. He's very spooky with me and I have lost my confidence with him.

I also have 2 Australian Cattle dogs that I love dearly and not necessarily in this order, a fiance'. heh heh!

I just visited my dear friend and my veterinarian yesterday and asked her if my mare was too old to start endurance riding again. This is kind of funny as I had been riding endurance and competitive trail for 7 years when I had met her just out of vet school and starting her first job. I took her on her very first endurance ride and the rest, as they say, is history. she's now doing multi-day rides and I'm not even riding. So my plan is to take it slow and easy (when it cools off maybe in September) and get my mare back into shape and maybe by next year I can do an LD ride (limited distance of 25 or 30 miles). That's my story. I feel like I'm starting my life all over again. Isn't it great!