I have been looking for a horse for a few months, but more seriously in the last few weeks & am getting disheartened that I will ever find one, I am not sure they even exist & am wondering if I have unrealistic expectations?
I am in my early 40's, I have been riding from 4 to my late teens, during that time I was a pony mad child spending all my weekends at the local riding school helping out, falling off etc & did own my own pony.
I started riding again last year & have been having weekly lessons at a RS, I feel comfortable I am cantering without stirrups & doing a bit of dressage, I appreciate I'm not by any stretch of the imagination great but I think I am competent & so does my instructor.
I am after a steady family horse for hacking & light schooling, someone who doesn't need to be ridden every day. I have phoned up about a few horses which from the ad seem to fit the bill, but when I explain where I am riding wise & what I want suddenly their horse is unsuitable :cry:
Yesterday I went to see a RS horse who was described as an ideal safe first horse, he was safe because you couldn't get him to actually move :banghead: The instructor selling the horse said I needed to get angry with him & use my stick but that to me isn't what I want, I don't want to be kicking the living daylights out of a horse to get him to move. She said he was perfect for me & she wouldn't consider anything more forward to be suitable. I am not a nervous rider I just want to enjoy my riding on an easy horse.
So do such a horse exist can you get easy, safe, forward going horses for my level of riding?
I am in my early 40's, I have been riding from 4 to my late teens, during that time I was a pony mad child spending all my weekends at the local riding school helping out, falling off etc & did own my own pony.
I started riding again last year & have been having weekly lessons at a RS, I feel comfortable I am cantering without stirrups & doing a bit of dressage, I appreciate I'm not by any stretch of the imagination great but I think I am competent & so does my instructor.
I am after a steady family horse for hacking & light schooling, someone who doesn't need to be ridden every day. I have phoned up about a few horses which from the ad seem to fit the bill, but when I explain where I am riding wise & what I want suddenly their horse is unsuitable :cry:
Yesterday I went to see a RS horse who was described as an ideal safe first horse, he was safe because you couldn't get him to actually move :banghead: The instructor selling the horse said I needed to get angry with him & use my stick but that to me isn't what I want, I don't want to be kicking the living daylights out of a horse to get him to move. She said he was perfect for me & she wouldn't consider anything more forward to be suitable. I am not a nervous rider I just want to enjoy my riding on an easy horse.
So do such a horse exist can you get easy, safe, forward going horses for my level of riding?