Article 37
RWYM ARTICLE 37 The photograph shows a 12 year old girl riding her Section D Welsh pony mare in a showing class. Her mother tells me that they bought the pony at a Welsh auction as a three year old, and backed her themselves. She adds, ‘Storm works well at home but at shows she…
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Article 36
RWYM ARTICLE 36 This handsome horse is a four year old, sired by a warmblood, and out of a polo pony mare. He has been with his present rider since he was a yearling. She rides him in showing classes, and in affiliated novice dressage competitions, She tells me that ‘ I have been riding…
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Article 35
RWYM ARTICLE 35 The photograph shows a seven year old Connemara pony, whose breeder gave her to the rider as a four year old. The rider tells me that ‘we have had much fun together competing in dressage, show jumping and cross country. We mostly do prelim and novice dressage, and in each of the…
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Article 34
RWYM ARTICLE 34 This horse is an eleven-year-old thoroughbred mare, who was a chaser until she was nine. Her owner used to ride out for the horse’s trainer, and bought the horse at the end of her racing career. Two years on the mare is much saner than she was, although her owner tells me…
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Article 33
RWYM ARTICLE 33 This photograph was taken at my riding centre this summer, and it shows a longer-term pupil from America riding my own thoroughbred mare Luby, shown here at twenty years old. This article is her epitaph, as she has since died. It would seem that she had a heart attack whilst cantering down…
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Article 32
RWYM ARTICLE 32 This photograph has been sent in by a Swedish reader, and it shows her New Forest/Haflinger pony, who she sadly had to have put down towards the end of last year, at only sixteen. She tells me that she ‘loved to ride him and found him lazy but very responsive’. She had…
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