Margaret Harvey

[jacey]

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Margaret Harvey always seemed to be batty - and she was, indeed, horse mad. She was an excellent rider and bred several different lines of horses - Fell ponies, Dales ponies and a general line of horses and ponies from her stallion, Kestrel. I'm not sure when the following photos were taken, they were given to me by one of the girls who lived in Menston and had known Margaret for years. Margaret's real problem was that she loved all her horses and ponies and couldn't bear to get rid of them, so their numbers kept increasing. She always seemed to be on the borderline of broke, though I guess the family had money at one time. (Margaret had been a society debutante in her youth - I saw the photos and she was gorgeous!) By the time I knew her she lived with her mother (who seemed to disapprove of the horsy lifestyle) and there was a sister whom I saw once from a distance, but never met.


Margaret on Kestrel. Date unknown - possibly late 1960s



Margaret Harvey. morphlet , is this horse Honey?



Margaret Harvey is central on the horse I think is Honey. I don't know the other two riders but the horse on the left is Major and the one on the right looks like an offspring of the one in the middle. Look at their heads.

One more post and more pics to come.

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Margaret Harvey

[morphlet.livejournal.com]

More stuff coming back to me now, I was told that the caravan was used for trekking holidays and was pulled by a skewbald shire called Jimmy?????
Was Mary Wanlas one of the helpers?
A family turned up one day with two teenaged boys and we had to get the 'posh' horses out for them.
Kestrel, Skylark, Celebrity and Nectar I think. The family had bought Robin and or Harrier or both or Merlin, I was never really introduced to them.
Then MH commented on their terrible hands after they wanted to ride Kestrel.
I was always amazed at the number of people Margaret knew when we went to shows,she was really into her showjumping and we were always begging lifts off people with lorries or trailers,now that I have my own horse box it makes me wonder how we ever got anywhere.
One night at Pool Court Arena the lorry broke down and Andrew Fielder put the horses up and I collected them in the morning and hacked them home.
Farnley Hall must have been the place where MH put the youngsters. She was telling me that she sent them away but Kite was sent back because she was too ugly and Celebrity was so clumsy she kept galloping into things.
Strange but I used to jump Kite and Celebrity nothing ugly or clumsy about them.

Re: Margaret Harvey

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I don't have a photo of Kite so i can't check, but I doo seem to recall she had a fairly common looking head - a little on the big side. She was a very sweet ride though. Very young when I first rode her - only just working, so probably about 4.

What are your horses like now? You should post some pics to your own blog.

Re: Margaret Harvey

[morphlet.livejournal.com]

I have managed to get photos of two of the horses,mother and son on my blog. More to follow when I find time.