Nice to meet you all!

I currently have a horse on part loan, 3-4 days per week (though the snow has kept me from getting up to the barn for over a week!) Jackson is a 15.2 gelding of uncertain origin - probably some Connemara, too fine to be a cob - who could play the part of Black Beauty. He's 8, but knows about as much as a 5-year-old, since the owner only bought him as a status symbol and hasn't done anything with him. We're currently mainly hacking out - there's a forest up the road, quite rare in Ireland - until he gets his condition up a bit. I'm not a great jumper, but plan on doing dressage work with him. I'd love to get into TREC as well.

Up until October last year, I was riding Irish Sport Horses, but I didn't agree with the owner's idea of horsemanship - I felt he was ruining them by starting them under saddle as three-year-olds and asking far too much of them far too soon, and beating them up when they didn't get it. The final straw was a bad fall - I decided I'd rather pay towards the upkeep of a good horse than the high cost of riding for free!

I also drive - I've had more jobs driving carriages than jobs that match my degree, alas. We use mostly large cobs and a Clydesdale mix at work.

Another horsey person here! Feel free to add me! I ride English and Western. I have barrel-raced, hunter jumper, western pleasure, trail ridden, and am touching on dressage and eventing now and some other stuff I can't think of right now LOL. I have four horses an AQHA Appendix named Cinco, a stock paint horse named Doc, a grade paint mare named Lady, and a QH/Saddlebred paint named Cajun. Please add me!

I'm an active horse person !I live in Australia. I used to own two horses. An arab x quarter horse called Mysti. She was 13.2 hands and a palimino. She was the sweetest horse but I grew out of her. My other horse Jay was 14.3 hh stock horse x. He was funny and tempermental and a little challenging. In the end we had to sell him because we didn't have enough time or money to keep him.

Now I just ride of a weekend and its killing me! I will be going to uni in a year or two but after that I can't wait to get another horse. I mostly do trail riding but would love to try western and some trick riding.

Hi everyone! I'm active on MFP, but not as active in the equine world anymore. Up until June, I was working at a dressage training stable and riding some really fancy warmbloods professionally. My last horse was a sweet grey Irish Thoroughbred gelding named Jimmy D. He was my event horse - while we didn't compete very much (college budget!) we schooled through prelim. He's now enjoying retirement as a therapeutic riding horse.

I'm not riding very much now, but might return to it in the spring. It's still my favorite form of exercise and a decent way to earn a little side cash!


My Jimmy D!

Hello! I am kind of new here. I signed up on MFP in January 2013 and have been working hard to lose a little excess weight. I have been riding since 1980 and am riding horses here and there until I can afford to get my own again. I rode Hunter / Jumper, tried eventing, western and am probably settling in somewhere between dressage and hunter. I try to adapt to whatever horse is available to be ridden. I also enjoy running and going to the gym to get in some calorie burn during the workday.

Is there anyone in or near the northern Baltimore County (Maryland) area that wants to ride together?

Happy healthy days everyone!

Hello everyone. I currently have two horses. Both paints, a buckskin overo and a black tovero. I ride mostly English, but I love to just hop on bareback and go for rides down the road. I have been riding on and off since I was little, but have really only focused on it since I bought my first horse 8 or so years ago. My favorite thing to do is basically trail ride. I'm just starting to finally ride again after a bit of an accident.
I also like to do other things as well. I love being outside, and could spend my days hiking, camping, etc. As far as fitness goes besides riding; I love my MMA class, going to the gym, walking, swimming, and hopefully I'll be able to find a yoga class soon.
I would like to find more horse people on here as well!

Hi everyone -

I have been on MFP for over a year and I log in every day. I have at least 50lbs to lose and it has been a slow process!
I have two horses - Snazzy who is a 15.2hh, 18 y/o sorrel QH gelding. He has some arthritis in his hocks so my daughter (she is 7) rides him. He is really her horse. I have shown him in local level open shows and so has my daughter. He isn't fancy but he is dead solid and one of the best kid ponies I have ever met. Lonesome is a 16.1hh, 20 y/o (going on 10) Palomino Paint gelding. Lonesome was free to me and was very skinny when I got him. The owner had not had him for very long and she didn't know much about him other than he had been a hunter horse and a trail horse. Turns out he knows A LOT. He is a little rusty but we are currently working on western dressage. I am a western rider and tried to get him to slow down but it just isn't his style, his a big mover and knows his stuff so I decided to meet him in the middle and try something better suited for him. It seems that WD will be our forte'. My first WD show with him will be in June. I ride western obviously. I used to show Paint horses a lot but kids, life, etc. toned that down a bit and now I just enjoy small open shows with my daughter. I love trail riding and we have a lot of lakes and woods to ride in around here. I try to go every weekend. I have a small place with about 10 acres where I keep my horses. I live in Fort Worth, TX. Anyone can feel free to add me. I love to talk horses and can always use more MFP friends!

Hi everyone! I've been logging for about a month now and am looking for more horsie friends to help encourage/be encouraged by to lose weight for better riding!

I've got a 20 yr old Arabian gelding who is a fantastic partner in dressage. We're both pretty lazy and so we're not so much into a show circuit - just about learning our craft better and having a good time doing so. As an adult amateur I feel like it took me 7 years to finally get a proper seat, but hey! Better late than never.

He's a spunky old guy but I feel bad - I made a promise when I stuck him on a diet (he was eating two horses' worth of food stealing from a pasturemate) and made him lose 100 lbs. I told him I'd lose 30 to be fair. The first 10 melted off like butter and now nothing is changing for weeks, so I'm definitely in a slump and looking for more friends to help motivate.

Anyway, great group, glad to be a part of it, and hope you'll add me!

Hullo! I'm a horse nut too. I have an 8 yo TB gelding named Darcy - he's a rescue, this is his official blurb http://www.schrar.net/sc-spirit
and an almost 30yo Welsh gelding called Gold - he was my first horse when I was 6.

Rode Darcy in his first dressage test on Sunday, just walk-trot - not perfect, but I was pretty damn pleased with how well he did.


I'm trying to lose weight partly to lighten his load and be a better rider. Wanting to quietly bring him into occasional competitions - eventing, dressage, showjumping - not super ambitious, just for fun and our development.

I'm an active horsegirl too and try to log in on MFP every day. I've got 3 horses, 2 geldings and a stallion. My one gelding, Quaker, turn 17 this year and I've had him since he was 2,5 years old. He is retired, because he is almost permanently lame. (completely fine until he runs a little or go faster than a trot!) My stallion, Clodan, turns 8 this year. I've bred him myself. I do a little bit of Western Riding with him. His halbrother, Nicholis, turns 6 this year and I've also bred him. I only started riding him last year when he turned 5.