Article 19
RWYM ARTICLE 19 This photograph has been sent by a reader in Barcelona. She is riding her 25 year old thoroughbred mare, who she describes as ‘wonderful in every way and a joy to ride’. The photograph shows a lovely, and unusually ‘up-hill’ mare being basically well ridden in terms of the rider’s biomechanics. However,…
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Article 18
RWYM ARTICLE 18 This horse is an eight year old 17.2 h Irish gelding, who has been hunted each season since he came over from Ireland as a four year old. His owner tells me that ‘I have never found a hedge/wall or any other obstacle that phases him’, and also that ‘flatwork has not…
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Article 17
RWYM ARTICLE 17 The photograph shows a ten year old Cleveland Bay cross Welsh Section D mare. Her rider has owned her for four years, and loves her dearly, even though she describes her horse as a ‘17h hunter on pony legs’!. She describes herself as a ‘happy hacker’ who would like to do some…
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Article 16
RWYM ARTICLE 16 The horse shown here is a Connemara/Standard bred cross, who is aged nine. His owner and rider is aged sixty-five, and living proof that it’s never to late to learn and improve. She started riding at fifty-seven after a life time of longing to be around horses, and has owned her horse…
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Article 15
RWYM ARTICLE 15 The Welsh cob/Hanovarian gelding in the photograph is a ten year old who has been owned by his present rider for six years. She has only been riding for eight years, and is in her mid forties, so I think it’s quite impressive that she took and passed her BHS State 2…
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Article 14
RWYM ARTICLE 14 I have virtually no information about this horse and rider, other than a short note which says ‘My riding has been so wrong for all these years, please help. My leg jigs about all over the place’. It is signed, ‘Confused Rider’. From the length of the rider’s stirrups, the proximity of…
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