Welcome, Terri! Good for you, getting back in the saddle. You go!

Laotte, where are you from in WI? I also live in WI and Im from Stoughton, which is between Madison and Janesville. My hometown where I grew up was Wausau. Im always looking for someone to ride with. We have 4 horses. Outlaw my husbands horse and he is a Spotted Saddle horse (spotted Tenn. walker). Duncan who is in training 3yr old Gypsy Cob. Splash my Rocky Mountain horse she is blind and I trail ride with her, she had a colt 5 weeks ago....our first baby, his name is Thor. Anyway good to see someone on here from WI.

Cool fun!

What breed of horse I own/ride? My little bay project is an American Quarter Horse mare named Chance. Full name Destiny's 3rd Chance.

What style of riding? Western with a classical foundation. I have a background in dressage which I find transfer nicely to good Western riding.

And anything else you might want to add: I call Chance my little bay project because she once had a horrendous life. Two years after acquiring her, she not only managed to not kill me but we are attending our first show October 5.

I am looking forward to the feedback so we know what to work on this winter. I am currently not only shedding pounds but putting myself through an athletic training regimen so we can clean up next year.

Hi there, Happy to have found some other horse enthusiasts. I am from Nebraska-cow country! I had a horse when I was younger, but was out of the horse world for 30 years until I happened to have a little girl, now a teenager, who was just as horse crazy as her momma once was. I put her in lessons when she was 8 and of course my own suppressed passion for horses came flooding back. I bought her a horse of her own when she turned 12. He is a former cutting horse that we are re-training to be a hunter jumper. He is a 14 yr old beautiful thoroughbred/ paint, flea-bitten grey and white with 2 blue eyes, his name is Dusty. I decided to buy myself a horse a year later after riding Dusty for a while. I just knew it was something we both would love to share and do together for some great mommy/ daughter quality time. So, after 30 years away form riding, I now own Lilly, or she owns me, not sure which ,lol. She is a 15 yr old solid black breeding stock paint. (QH bloodlines). She was not ridden much in the last couple years, very spoiled, and needs to re-learn a lot of things. I've had her a year. We are making progress slowly as she had bad feet from her prior owner keeping her on pasture despite foundering. (yikes-I know!) I'm learning some basic dressage skills with her, and doing lots of ground work/natural horsemanship. Neither my daughter or I do the show circuits. We love the English disciplines, but we trail ride western on occasion. We really just enjoy learning and working with our trainer on making our horses (and us too) the best they can be.

I'm from Leeton, NSW, Australia.

I have six horses/ponies and a donkey. My horse is a Welsh Cob of 15hh and we do carriage driving competitions. I also ride my cob, which helps with the carriage driving anyway. All are welsh bred apart from the donkey of course.

1 x Welsh A Gelding called Dalen
1 Welsh B Mare called Prim
2 Welsh C Geldings called Feldie & Skyway
2 Welsh Cob Geldings called Jack and Granite
Loveable Donkey called Eddie Murphy

I used to love jumping as a kid, but don't think I'd bouce too good now...lol

We also have five cats, two dogs, a rooster and four hens. Gotta luv animals!

I'm from New Hampshire (USA). I just started back up with myfitnesspal and was thrilled to find a horse group here! I have a 8 year old TB that came off the track last fall. Hoping to get back into eventing (I had an arab who I owned for 28 years, until his death last year, and who I evented back when we were both much younger). We also have a 13 year old standardbred that my daughters ride - she's a sweetheart and great with my 11 year old.

Also, I own three horses. A QH, generic gaited horse and a BLM Mustang yearling. I ride western.

I'm from Scotland

I currently have a lovely loan pony, a dark bay Welsh Section D X called Monty.I ride English and we are currently working on our jumping, I'm hoping to compete in some unaffiliated showjumping competitions next year.

My name is Mindy. I live in Colleyville, TX. It's just NE of Fort Worth, still in Tarrant County. I have two horses, both are Paints. My mare's name is Dixie, she is a sorrel overo (my profile pic) and I also have a gelding named Lonesome. He is a tobiano palomino. Although I have shown Lonesome, Dixie is my show pony. I show primarily western but have been known to enter an english class or two. Dixie and I just started showing western dressage. I have a bunch of ribbons (that I have won over MANY years) - mostly red, yellow, some white, pink, and green... but NO blue, until now. We won our first Western Dressage class. I can't tell you how amazed I was when they handed me that ribbon. I was so proud of both of us. My mare is a rock star and gives her all in the arena, on the trail, anywhere. I LOVE that horse. I owned her as a weanling and then circumstances forced me to sell her when she was 4. I accidentally found her for sale on the internet and brought her home a few months ago. She is 12 now.

I really want to excel in WD but I can't do that if I am fat and out of shape. I have been on MFP for a few years now and still have about 75 - 80 lbs to go.

I'm from Southwest Missouri, USA. About halfway between Springfield and Joplin. Haven't ridden in years, but am looking to take it up again. Did mostly ranch work and no competitions when I rode.

Grew up on a beef cattle operation and used horse fairly often. I have a brother who has competed in roping and rodeo most of his life and so I have access to his string of horses and facilities.

I have a Masters in agriculture and worked in the feed industry for part of my career. I have taught secondary agriculture for about 16 years.