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I was wondering...(I wonder ALOT!) how many of you have horses? My passion other than Heartland would be horses of course, so I was wondering (I wondered again!) if any iloveheartlanders are horse owners. Or leasers, which ever. Even if you ride, or take lessons, or... whatever. Here's my story.
I do not own a horse, but I ride very frequently. My dad's best friend's daughter has two horses, and we ride on them alot. Her first horse is a Standerdbred, and he is light grey, with tiny little "flea bitten" brown spots. He's the horse I ride, and I would die for him. Her second horse is an Arabian, and he is brown with a white star. She trains both of her horses and rides Western (What I ride, GO WESTERN!!), and she wants to compete with the standerdbred in Barrles, and the Arabain possibly in team roping. I don't want to give out her name, or her horses's names for her privacy. Sorry. I also take lessons, so my riding time doubles.
Anyways, I just wanted to see if any side of the Heartland fans have an equine side too. Tell me what you do! Thanks!
ZoZo
July 27, 2010 at 9:03 AM
No body has a horse, or rides, or loves horses? All of us love Heartland, aka "The Horse show of Canada" and none of you like horses? Oh well.
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July 27, 2010 at 5:11 PM
Okay, ZoZo. Patience. I'm here!! Yeah, our family owns 8 horses, 2 of which are mine. I ride Western as well (Oh yeah!!) and I don't have any plans of riding English. I train all our young ponies and I love going out for trail rides or working with the cows (Hurrah for cows!!! :) lol
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July 28, 2010 at 7:31 AM
Nope. Don't ride or own horses! I used to ride, but I gave it up. Not all heartland lovers are horse lovers as well ;)
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July 28, 2010 at 3:45 PM
@3blindmice, why did you give up? Hope you don't mind me asking.
@ponygal, that's so awesome your family owns so many horses!! Do you live on a ranch? I don't have any plans to start English either. And yes, I do agree that cows should be given a hurrah! Go Western and Cows!
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July 29, 2010 at 1:05 AM
@ZoZo....I just preferred to use the money for other things, like my music :)
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July 30, 2010 at 3:54 PM
@Zozo- we live on a pig farm, but it's my goal to turn it into a ranch :) lol, I don't think my dad's gonna go for that, though!!
@ 3blindmice- Good for you; it's probably cheaper :) lol
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July 30, 2010 at 5:39 PM
i have 12 horses!
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July 30, 2010 at 6:21 PM
@MikaylaDeal- wow!! Are they all yours? You're soo lucky!!
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July 30, 2010 at 6:52 PM
My pony died a few years ago. I got out of riding for about 2 years, then went back with it by taking lessons and leasing. Currently, I still do not have a horse, but I am doing Western lessons on a horse named Banner. He's a Buckskin Quarter Horse (Looks like the one Amy rode with Soraya in the pilot when Ty revved his engine). In September, I will switch to English and jumping, but Western is what I have ridden since I was 6 years old, so it is my passion :)
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July 31, 2010 at 1:31 AM
@ponygal....actually, you'd be surprised, but it's not :)
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July 31, 2010 at 4:46 AM
I don't have a horse and I have never ridden one either! D:
Western looks like alot of fun though, team roping and bulldogging and that other one, tying down the calf. I have to try it one day.
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July 31, 2010 at 12:03 PM
@KMA88- I'm sorry to hear about your pony. It's good to hear you still ride.
@3blindmice- Whoa!! Seriously?? I am surprised!!
@DaleC- It's too bad you've never ridden before. I like your riding tastes, though!! Western all the way!!!!!!!!!
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July 31, 2010 at 7:53 PM
I'd love to try bulldogging. No one will let me though! Barrel racing is fun. Would love to try breakaway roping one day.
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July 31, 2010 at 11:16 PM
@ponygal....yeah. My music teacher is expensive, but she's good! And we pay more for my music lessons every week than we would do if my sister was having riding lessons every week. (which, as it happens, she's not. She has riding lessons every fortnight.)
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August 1, 2010 at 5:57 AM
I love horses and its my life's passion to work with them. I have never owned or leased a horse but have been riding and taking lessons since I first discovered horses. I ride both English and Western and love jumping and hacking for hours. Im planning to go to the Equestrian Academy in Plettenburg bay after I graduate and cant even think of a life without horses, they arent just going to be in my life they ARE my life! :)
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August 1, 2010 at 6:01 AM
@3bm I used to do music too. My mom is a piano teacher and wanted me to become one too but I gave it up for my horsy life (the exact oppisite of what you did lol). Like your sister I also ride every fortnight!
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August 1, 2010 at 3:18 PM
Yes! I have my own horse his name is John Wayne or "The Duke" he responds to both! He is still young but a joy to ride. He keeps you on your toes when you ride him! I keep him at my Aunt's horse farm, they have tons of land so he has ;ots of room to play and its not very far away so i can go alot!
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August 1, 2010 at 3:52 PM
So, here's my story... *deep breath*
My family's had horses since before a was born. Dad use to work on ranches and rode broncs and bulls, so, naturally, I started Western. When I was 11, I fell in love with jumping, and, aside from a five-day day-camp every summer for four years, I trained myself as best as I could from books and videos. Eighteen months ago, I did my first show at 2'6" with my 15hh QH. Five months later, I attended a clinic by Canadian Olympian Jill Henselwood, and she "recruited" me to train with her on the other side of the country but said that I needed more horsepower (a horse that could jump higher). That was just over a year ago, and I now own two warmblood jumpers and show seventeen weeks of the year with Jill and the rest of the Juniper Farms team (in which I show 1.10m and 1.20m). Enough of an unlikely story for you? Lol!
I still ride Western when I'm home with my QH's, though, and it remains my strong background (hence, my username. Lol!)
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August 1, 2010 at 3:59 PM
My horses...
Danie: 16yr - 15.1hh - Dun - QH (one of two biggest loves of my life)
Cody: 13yr - 15hh - Sorrel with chrome - QH (the QH that I did my first show on and attended Jill's clinic with)
Rea: 6yr - 15.2 - Silver Grulla - QH
Splash (Simply Sequentos): 11yr - 16.1hh - Chestnut with chrome - Dutch Warmblood (the other love of my life. Lol!)
Cassandra: 7yr - 16.3hh - Bay - Canadian Warmblood
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August 2, 2010 at 6:36 AM
I have one but am getting another horse next month.
I have one gelding that is 27 years old xD
Army; i love him so much hes a buckskin quarterhorse,
and just advertising the AMBER MARSHALL HORSE WISH GALA, august 29th at the Wilson H2 Ranch. Amber will be signing autographs and pictures for a limited time. 1p.m- 8p.m
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August 2, 2010 at 7:55 AM
hey i have two horses :) i live in the north of scotland and have a highland pony called Breeze. she's a grey dun 14hh 6 year old mare i love her too bits! i ride english with her and do parelli but havent been able to do either with her since last year as she's just had her first foal who i named Brook :)
Brook is a highland pony crossed with a clydesdale so he'll end up quite a big boy when he's older! his sire is a 16.2hh bay roan clydesdale with a lovely temperment :)
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August 7, 2010 at 8:01 AM
Wow!! Sorry I wasn't around for a long time, I was on vacation...again. This time I wen to Nova Scotia. Anyone from there? I had a great time, but I prefer the West. Anyways, it's awesome to see how many people have horses!!! I'm starting a horse camp soon and I've been riding alot with my frined I told you about up top.
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August 7, 2010 at 8:05 AM
@ ponygal - That would be greaa to statrt a ranch. That's what I want to do.
@JumperCowgirl- That's sooo awesome how many horses you have. You sound like an amzing rider!
@Heartland Gurl- That's really cool! I cn't imagine how big you highland, clydesdale will be!!
Sorry I can't do every body, but that's incredible how many of you have horses. You are soo lucky. Who knows, maybe someday I will be lucky too. Ahhh...Maybe some day.
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August 7, 2010 at 9:25 AM
@Jumpercowgirl! What a cool story!! She was an olympian!!?? WOW you must be good!!! :)
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August 7, 2010 at 9:26 AM
@KMA88 Breakaway roping looks like fun! I would love to try it some day! Also barrel racing to!!!! :) I have high hopes :)
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August 8, 2010 at 11:15 AM
@Zozo and Free Spirit, LOL! Thanks a lot! You can Google her - Jill Henselwood. She was on the silver medal show jumping team that went to the Beijing 2008 games! :)
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August 9, 2010 at 6:31 AM
@JumperCowgirl, that's absolutely amazing! It must make you so proud to have that "title". I can't believe she's on google!A SILVER MEDAL?? Holy Macarle! That's soooo good!
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August 9, 2010 at 6:34 AM
@ Freespirit- I have that high hope too! My friend, (With the horses I ride, and she's my instructer) does barrel recing, as I said, and she was teaching me the basics, and there's alot!! It's hard. Plus I'm not really the speed type. Her other horse, she's training to become a roping horse, and I can't even throw a rope, or keep the loop going. SOOO hard!
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August 9, 2010 at 11:17 AM
I have a 27 yeard old tennesse walking horse he's black and he's amazing he'll do anything for me! :) he's starting to get a little slow , but i still ride him-just not as much. I'm planning on getting the money for a 8 year old kentucky moutain.
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August 10, 2010 at 6:16 AM
@girlwithhorses, KMH's are cool! :)
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August 10, 2010 at 1:16 PM
Nice girlwithhorses! Sometimes, the slower the better. I'm sure the kentucky mountain will change that!!!
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August 10, 2010 at 7:01 PM
@ZoZo I am hopeless with a rope :P Unless of course if a really cute cowboy helped me out then I'd be willing to practise all day!! :D
Horse camp is comin up soon!!!!!!
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August 10, 2010 at 7:01 PM
whats a kentucky mountain?
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August 10, 2010 at 8:09 PM
I have 3 standardbreds :) i love each of them to bits!
Briana~ 24 yr old mare
Encore~ 23 yr old mare
& Classy~ 12 yr old gelding
<3
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August 11, 2010 at 6:31 AM
@HorseLuver822, That's awesome . I guess that's why your name is what it is.
@FreeSpirit. (sigh), I agree. I also have a horse camp in 1 week. It starts monday...I can't wait. Yipee!!!!!
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August 11, 2010 at 9:50 AM
Hey ZoZo we should start an e-mail thing and talk about our horse camps and such :)
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August 11, 2010 at 10:50 AM
I have 4 horses
JB is a pure breed Connemara 6 year old that I trained from when he was 2 he's a great jumper and has lovely paces I use him for eventing and showing completions.
Lady is my Anglo Arab I use for dressage and some jumping, she mainly does dressage cause of her floating paces.
Jasper is my new exciting horse he is a 17hh 4 year old warmblood gelding with brilliant bloodlines. I am still training him, he is an amazing jumper, jumping around 1meter 30 already. He will make a awesum eventer.
Murphy my old pure breed Irish Draft he's a pure star i love him to bits, he's too old to do much riding but my little cousins and brother love to take a ride on him from time to time.
Btw I ride english (from ireland)
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August 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM
WOW 17hh thats big! lol Thats so cool! I dont own a horse(at the moment)
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August 11, 2010 at 11:19 AM
@Free Spirit he is big but he's very sweet sometimes spooky (he still is a baby) and did well in his class.
I love all my horses too bits :D
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August 11, 2010 at 12:23 PM
@Free Spirit he is big but he's very sweet sometimes spooky (he still is a baby) and did well in his class.
I love all my horses too bits :D
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August 12, 2010 at 8:22 AM
Free Spririt, that`s a great idea, I`ll start the emails in a second!
lolaC, that`s great! You obviously ride English, right. I ride Western.
I actually went riding last night. I groomed the two horses, then rode the Standeredbred the whole timw. I love him!
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August 12, 2010 at 12:28 PM
@Zozo yeh I do lol wow thats great! I would luv to ride Western! and i might be lucky enough to soon after I finish training the horse im on (Im a horse trainer) there's a american man that has a quarter horse yearling might let me break it but I would have to break it to western tack which will be pretty exciting and a great challenge!!
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August 12, 2010 at 5:20 PM
You should lolac Western is so much fun! In a couple weeks I will start riding english! :)
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August 13, 2010 at 7:47 AM
@LolaC. I love Quarter horses. They are great! I think it would be great for you to try to break a horse with Western tack. It would teach you alot, and obviously th horse, and give you a challenge. It would be great to be a trainer! No wonder you are a jumper with those skiills! Wow!
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August 13, 2010 at 7:48 AM
@ Free Spirit, I agree Western is soooo much fun! Ièm glad youère doind English! Itès fun...but not for me.
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August 13, 2010 at 7:49 AM
The apostrophie mark on my computer now doesnèt work either, look ÈÈèè. Ahhh! Same with the question markÉÉééé. WhatÉ
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August 13, 2010 at 5:51 PM
thats ok lol, that way wherever you post we will know its you if you ask a question lol :P
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August 14, 2010 at 6:32 AM
Funny Free Spirit...just kidding. I fixed. Who knows hw it happened, I just must have hit some key, then hit it again because look , ?????. Yes!
Horse camp starts in two days, can't wait!!!!!!
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August 14, 2010 at 2:41 PM
COOL!!!!!!!! :D I cant wait for the updates!
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August 14, 2010 at 3:37 PM
@Free spirt - Yeh it looks so fun so I really what this job!! keep your fingers crossed. btw good luck riding english sure you will do great!!
@Zozo - Quarter horses are beautiful horses, I would luv to work with one, I really think they would make amazing jumpers with how athletic they are. Yeh im still young so I train horses for people sometimes break them or train them for certain levels of competitions, and i also event. Im still stuck on weather I want to do eventing as my career or training...or just both? lol
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August 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM
Im very late to this post!
I ride every week and have been riding for about 7 years ish. Im in England so ride english! I ride a couple or horses, mainly new forests, and a cob cross, ands sometimes an arab. I am riding the cob cross at the moment - Tacco - He great, a crazy jumper, I have a lot of fun on him.
I would love to own a horse one day, when the time is right and I have enough money......so who knows when that could be. But im hopeful. I have a very soft spot for cobs, would love to own one :)
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August 14, 2010 at 5:48 PM
we have 5 big horses and 2 ponies i have been riding for a long time
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August 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM
@maria xox horses- your name tells it all! That's really cool, which out of all those horses do you love the most? That will be a hard question, and what do you ride, English or Western?
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August 15, 2010 at 1:47 PM
@Free Spirit- Horse camp is tomorrow, look out for my email around 5 or 6p.m. and I'l tell you about my day. I really hope I get to choose hich style I get to ride! They have both types of saddles, but i want to do Western!!! Please let me ride Western!
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August 15, 2010 at 1:49 PM
lolaC- Go Quarter horses!
@guineapig- That's cool, 7 years of riding? You must be good! I would like to try to jump some day, but I still have a bit more improving to do.
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August 16, 2010 at 6:37 AM
QUARTER HORSES ROCK!!!!!!!!
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August 16, 2010 at 5:07 PM
Started horse camp today and loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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August 17, 2010 at 10:37 AM
@Zozo how was you pony camp PM me, and i hope you got to ride western.
Btw everyone. OMFG!!!! the Western cowpony is going to let me break his quarter horse!!! OMG im so exciting i feel like screaming lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omg
omg
omg
omg
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OhMyGOD!!
I need to calm down...
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August 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM
LOL lolaC be as excited as you need to!!! I know I would be :D Just dont make the people around you go deaf if you scream lol
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August 17, 2010 at 2:10 PM
Yey! I got to trot today! And just minorly go around barrels. It was great!
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August 18, 2010 at 1:50 PM
Today...I got to trot for a longer period of time, and work on my post trot, and almost canter. I alos got to go rund some obsticles. My horse was terrrible today. He wouldn't stop, and he had to be 'told'. Bad Remi!
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August 18, 2010 at 2:12 PM
I dont own a horse ,but i have wanted one since i was young. But well lets say i dont have the money and i woulnt make my dad pay for everything because then the horse woulnt feel like i deserve him or her. I love heartland by thet way. Good you are getting better zozo. So you are in enligh?
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August 18, 2010 at 2:12 PM
Not all heartlanders have horses.... including me.. sadly....
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August 19, 2010 at 12:37 PM
@free spirt - thanks i am excited i get to start his training soon because im going back to school soon so i hope to be near finished his training by then.
dont worry no one went deaf lol
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August 19, 2010 at 3:04 PM
@ BuckleBunny-I agree, I don't have a horse either. Oh well, a camp will do. I'm not english, I'm totally western, you?
Today... was the best day ever!!! I got to trot the whole time. I discovered that trotting for an hour hurts, but it was worth it!!! It completely improved my riding! I worked on my post trot, and finally got it! I feel do happy! I won a barrel race, at a trot, but I did win! So yey! Tomorrow I get to canter, but I'm upset, because it's the last day. Oh well, I'm taking lessons there!
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August 25, 2010 at 7:22 AM
Im moving up in my jumping again! I jumped a 60cm oxer last weekend! It was awesome except the horse I rode was in a bad mood and kept cutting the corners... I hope to start competing in my school's extremely small equestrian team next year!
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August 28, 2010 at 11:28 PM
@ Zozo and Maraiha, good for you! How long have you guys been riding for?
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August 29, 2010 at 3:15 PM
@JumperCowgirl.
First rode when I was 5, but I was too scared of the horses, and I couldn't understand anything. I'd been riding on and off for a long time until the past year, when I've been riding twice a week.
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September 3, 2010 at 9:17 AM
Nope, never mind four.
Thank you to everyone who posted on this blog and I wish you the best of luck. For aything. Anyone who loves horses, continue to give them my love, and I hope everything goes well. You can keep posting on this blog, just iloveheatland's going to be gone soon so.....
Cry.
Bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xoxox
ZoZo
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