Not meant in a competitive, who-has-ridden-the-most-horses way - just that I thought people might enjoy having a think back at their horsey history while you tot up your numbers!
Someone asked me the other day how many horses I’ve ridden, and after 4 weeks in plaster unable to do much of anything I’m starting to go up the wall with boredom, so this afternooon I sat down and had a count.
My overall tally is just shy of 400 But that includes 14 years as a groom, and all the opportunities and “you-must-get-on-it-because-I’m-your-boss-and-you-have-no-say-in-it” situations that go with the job. If I take away the horses I’ve ridden for work, my leisure count - from riding holidays, random hacks and lessons at riding centres, and riding friends’ horses - drops to 73. Out 21 of those have been horses belonging to people from forum land!
Quite interesting to see those numbers as I’ve wondered about it before but never bothered to try and count! It was really nice actually, thinking back through my riding journey and the various horses, people, experiences and feelings that it’s involved. There were some that I had forgotten about, most of those memories I had repressed for good reason
Needless to say that despite riding almost 400 horses I am currently nursing a badly broken wrist from falling off a horse that was STANDING STILL
Someone asked me the other day how many horses I’ve ridden, and after 4 weeks in plaster unable to do much of anything I’m starting to go up the wall with boredom, so this afternooon I sat down and had a count.
My overall tally is just shy of 400 But that includes 14 years as a groom, and all the opportunities and “you-must-get-on-it-because-I’m-your-boss-and-you-have-no-say-in-it” situations that go with the job. If I take away the horses I’ve ridden for work, my leisure count - from riding holidays, random hacks and lessons at riding centres, and riding friends’ horses - drops to 73. Out 21 of those have been horses belonging to people from forum land!
Quite interesting to see those numbers as I’ve wondered about it before but never bothered to try and count! It was really nice actually, thinking back through my riding journey and the various horses, people, experiences and feelings that it’s involved. There were some that I had forgotten about, most of those memories I had repressed for good reason
Needless to say that despite riding almost 400 horses I am currently nursing a badly broken wrist from falling off a horse that was STANDING STILL