Hi I learnt to ride at Bakers (Park riding riding school) when i was 11..Hmmm *coughs *29* coughs* years ago!! Crikey.. I guess all the horses have been replaced but the first pony I rode was called midnight, Aww bless. there was also Scooby,simon, shandy,toby pinto, Robin(ace as was v fast!!) ripple(my fave) taffy ,magic(v.bouncy), dominic and many more. sorry, just reminiscing. although Mr B was an a**e I had a fantasctic time. There wasnt such a thing as health and safety-lots of riding bareback with headcollars on roads and on the West common!! When I helped(which was from 6.00 every sat morning) I got to ride the instructor's (Mrs Goldsmith) horse. AAAhh Good times!
AAwwww probably all the horsies and ponies I remember are now in horsey heaven! It was overs 24 years since I last rode there!! I gave up when i hit 16 until I started riding again in my 20s at Rednil (but thats another thread! )ripple was my fave too!! was devastated when he had to go to horsey heaven i cried buckets for weeks
Hi I learnt to ride at Bakers (Park riding riding school) when i was 11..Hmmm *coughs *29* coughs* years ago!! Crikey.. I guess all the horses have been replaced but the first pony I rode was called midnight, Aww bless. there was also Scooby,simon, shandy,toby pinto, Robin(ace as was v fast!!) ripple(my fave) taffy ,magic(v.bouncy), dominic and many more. sorry, just reminiscing. although Mr B was an a**e I had a fantasctic time. There wasnt such a thing as health and safety-lots of riding bareback with headcollars on roads and on the West common!! When I helped(which was from 6.00 every sat morning) I got to ride the instructor's (Mrs Goldsmith) horse. AAAhh Good times!
I didn't ride there but think my horse Charlie may have been owned by the lady who run the riding school then he was bought by her friend Karen, I am trying to get some photo's of him when he did some jumping, I am in touch with Karen but may be you knew him or someone that did.
See thread with pic of Charlie on
Oh my god I remember, Ripple(extemly fast!!) Scooby (mad out hunting), shandy and dear old Taffy, Magic too, does any one remember Pip? Dominic, simon, pickles,Nutmeg,Jasper......he probably(almost definatly) still got the same tack and rugs etc, from those days!!!!
I used to ride and help there many many years ago. I remember Pip, Robin, Copper, Nimrod, Billy, Misty, Lassie, Colonel, Harvey,Flicka, Cindy, Darkie, Dumpling, Sugar Puff, Taffy, Midnight, Scooby, Smokey, Magic, Blaze, Pinto. I remeber the RAF coming and nicking all the best horse for the gymkhanas we used to hold and then not being able to ride them! Tracy, Killer Millar was in my time too....and Braces........how many of you go back that far???
Unfortunately I've been informed that very sadly Mr Baker has passed awayyes i remember all those horses!!!