What do you ride?

[gaited horse]

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Interested in a breeding this spring???

I don't have any amres to breed I don't have any mares to breed I need to keep telling my self that.

 

[Tn Gamebirds]

We ride racking horses here. And like something with some speed and style to it !

 

[Kansaseq]

I rode huntseat growing up and into my twenties, gave up riding for about 10 yrs due to tailbone injury, and now ride western almost exclusively. I bought a Wintec a year ago and LOVE it! So much lighter than my old Simco roping saddle that I've had for years and years, and it's super comfortable.
I ride foxtrotters and a super smooth quarterhorse.

 

[michickenwrangler]

I ride competitive trail (UMECRA rules) and ride in a Bob Marshall tree less Sports Saddle. I love it! If I ever do ride in my dressage saddle, I can't feel the horse as well. I do like to switch back and forth to build leg muscles though. In the treeless, it's all thighs. In a regular dressage saddle, you use your calves more.

ChickenJ, love the horse! DH thinks he's pretty too

 

[patandchickens]

I grew up riding at a hunter barn (both show and field hunters, and a lot of horses recycled from the New Holland auction); got into eventing in grad school. I rode/trained/showed everyone else's horses but did not own one myself til after grad school. He was an $800 TB who couldn't jump worth beans but had good aptitude for dressage and (more importantly, excellent ability to teach me to ride dressage properly

), and his successor also turned out to be somewhat of a loser o/f and thus a 'dressage project', and by then I couldn't afford to trailer around to horse trials and other peoples' cross-country courses ANYHOW.

So, somewhat by default although also by interest, for the last fifteen years or so I've been basically a classical (i.e. old school and non-show-oriented) dressage person. I am also big on trail riding and just hacking around the field. Although I have not been able to ride much at all since having kids, just no time and no decent footing most of the time.


Pat, with a retired half-Lipizzaner, retired TB, and allegedly-"project" TB who has not been ridden for slightly over a year

 

[greyhorsewoman]

We have Paso Finos. I ride in my trusty Kimberly Aussie, but my husband uses an original 1911 McClellan saddle and he TEAMPENS on his paso !! I purchased a cart and harness recently and am definitely thinking to train one of our pasos to drive.