Horses for morphlet
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jaceyA while ago i posted some photos of me and horses in the mid 1970s at Margaret Harvey's riding stables in Menston (near Otley) and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
morphlet found them online. It turns out that she used to go to the same riding school but about 8 - 10 years later than I did. We share some horses in common and I promised to post some old photos of horses and ponies she remembers hearing about. Please bear with me while I get all nostalgic.
Morphlet, this is the Metal that I knew. According to MH he was 35 when this photo was taken. He was still virtually unstoppable. Oddly enough, he was actually better with a fairly weak rider because he hated having his mouth messed with and so someone who sat still and kept their hands to themselves was safer on him than someone who tried to boss him about. He always had to be upfront, though. MH use to tell tales about this pony, many of them apocryphal, I think. Though when you saw him in action I could believe the bit about being descended from Hyperion and winning the open jumping at the Yorkshire Show in his youth! Sorry this is a very poor photo and doesn't show him off at all.
Metal's long-time stable-mate was Star. Also a great little pony, fast, a bit headstrong but he'd been a good jumping and gymkhana pony in his heyday and still wasn't a pony you could put an inexperienced rider on.
This is Tamarisk, who buggered my back by bucking me off spectacularly.
More in the next post...
morphlet found them online. It turns out that she used to go to the same riding school but about 8 - 10 years later than I did. We share some horses in common and I promised to post some old photos of horses and ponies she remembers hearing about. Please bear with me while I get all nostalgic.Morphlet, this is the Metal that I knew. According to MH he was 35 when this photo was taken. He was still virtually unstoppable. Oddly enough, he was actually better with a fairly weak rider because he hated having his mouth messed with and so someone who sat still and kept their hands to themselves was safer on him than someone who tried to boss him about. He always had to be upfront, though. MH use to tell tales about this pony, many of them apocryphal, I think. Though when you saw him in action I could believe the bit about being descended from Hyperion and winning the open jumping at the Yorkshire Show in his youth! Sorry this is a very poor photo and doesn't show him off at all.Metal's long-time stable-mate was Star. Also a great little pony, fast, a bit headstrong but he'd been a good jumping and gymkhana pony in his heyday and still wasn't a pony you could put an inexperienced rider on.This is Tamarisk, who buggered my back by bucking me off spectacularly.More in the next post...
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Date: Jul. 6th, 2011 06:20 pm (UTC)I've just heard from someone else who used to ride at Margaret's in the 1960s. He confirms that Kestrel, Major, Peregrine and Merlin (who was sold) were all half brothers from the same mare, Wharfedale Jesse. he says he'd got a load of slides tuced way somewhere and I'm hoping he'll have some photots for me at some point.