Spirit stallion of the cimarron

[west ,]

I just went riding, and we did jumping and i rode this piebald pony called charlie, but also in the lesson, was a crazy bay horse called spirit. jumping is fun .

[Luvtomfelton!!!]

I know i love jumping! I am really lucky,i ahve three horses of my own who live jsut outside my garedn!

[stray]

I can't jump

[NocturnalPanda]

I can jump but i don't get to do it very often. I have been riding for 8 years, but last year due to various reasons i stopped riding for nearly hald a year and managed to loose my confidence. I am now building my confidence back up and im feeling almost as confident as i used to, not quite confident enough to canter on a horse i don't know very well and definately not enough to jump again yet but im nearly there i think.
What really annoys me is that every time i have liked a horse someone else had either brought it or got it on loan and its always someone who rides in the same lesson as me. My parents won't let me get a horse or have one on share so its really annoying when other people get to and they choose my favorite horses.
The first one was about 4 years back, she is now about 25 (the horse) but i loved her so much, she is called Chocky, she was really stubborn and i first learnt to ride properly on her (my previous stables was useless, the lessons were taught by 13 year olds and they just said walk, trot, canter etc and taught no technique at all) but then when i got better, after about a year of riding her all the time and we had really bonded i moved class and it happened to be the same class as the person who had her on loan. So i couldn't ride her.
Then two years ago the stables got a new horse called Misty. He was brought over from Ireland and he was practically bombproof. I didn't ride him for awhile but when i finally did he was an absolute dream. I loved him and again like with Chocky i rode him continoulsy for almost a year and we bonded. Then suddenly about this time last year, a bit later the owner of the stables put my friend who was also in the same lesson as me on Misty. It was the first time she had ever ridden him and it was a trial to see if she wanted to buy him. The next week he was hers. I havn't been able to ride him since because she put him on full livery, meaning that only she could ride him. She isn't a particularly good rider and neither of them every look any good in our lessons. The person then went round comenting on all of my pictures of him from ages ago going 'oh look at my boy' 'my boy is so cute' 'was that before or after i brought my gorgeous boy' i think i managed to shut her up after that with a very blunt reply but she still annoys me. And the thing is that Misty is such a good horse that he is wasted on a rider like her. Im not saying im amazin, i know i am better then her because i am one of the best younger riders at my stables, better then quite a few adults as well, but im not saying im the best. I only know because the owner of my stables, before my friend brought him didn't like letting me ride him because she said he was too easy for me. I know he wasn't because there was so much we both needed to work on (we both hated circles, especially canter circles).
The last one is the most recent, no one has brought her but this really annoying woman i don't like is planning on buying her i think. She is called Queen Jester and she is four years old. She was born at my stables a few months after i got there. She earned her name because when we brought her mother we didn't realise she was pregnant until the owner of the stables got up one morning and found a foal in the fields. (the mother was really thin for being pregnant, she was evr so slightly overweight but there were no other signs of pregnancy, unless a vet had given her a thourough check i doubt they would have noticed she was pregnant either) So i had known this foal since i think it was a day after she was born. I never thought i would get to ride her. But then last summer, after she had turned three she was broken in and started being used in lessons. I didn't ride her till this year because i was having a break from riding. When i did it was because this new woman was riding in our lesson on her, she was meant to be good but actually she wasn't that great and we were made to swap horses. So i get to ride this young horse and i loved her from that moment on (i had loved her before but just never ridden her before) she is really energetic, not bombproof but cute and adorable and she responds really well, although is a bit stubborn at times. She made me actually want to go to riding again (before i was still getting back into it and didn't particularly want to come to each lesson, i lacked the motivation) she brought back the motivation for me to ride again and i loved her for that. I rode her for about a month more, the lady had stopped coming to our lesson. Then i go on holiday for a few weeks, come back and the really annoying lady is back riding Jessie again. I can't remember when i found out that she was thinking of buying/getting Jessie on loan, but im pretty sure she is thinking of it. She didn't turn up to the lesson this week so i got to ride Jessie. I value every moment that i get to spend with Jessie now because i know that quite soon i may not be able to ride her anymore. And it annoys me because i know i am a better rider then the other woman, i know because i have experianced riders praise me for being good, i hope im not sounding stuck up but i know i am good, i have weak points like everybody and i know what they are so i try improve on them. I also know Jessie likes me because as my riding instructor said 'She likes you because you don't pull her around so much' evidently meaning the other lady does.... it pains me to think that now two of my favorite horses in such a short space of time are now being made unavaliable for me to ride by people who can't ride very well. (I grew out of Chocky so it doesn't hurt me as much about her because i know that even if someone didn't have a share on her i still couldn't ride her because im too big)

Sorry if this bored everyone, i didn't realise it would turn out to be so long. Once i started i couldn't seem to stop. I think Jessie kinda reminds me of a young Spirit that has actually been broken in and likes the people that rides him.

[west ,]

soooooooo lucky to have all those horses and stuff. Mum said i need to do my GCSE's before i get a horse, but i can get a loan pony soon. My friend has a loan pony and she is apparently looking to buy a horse now.
My mum also works with this woman, who now has 5 horses, she said that her mum said she could get a horse after her GCSE's, but then realised she would have no time to look after the horse after her exams, so they caved and bought her a pony at 12. I am going on 13 and still dont even have a loan pony, but i have 2 bunnies and 2 guinea pig.

[west ,]

Oh, and there was this pony called Penny at my old riding school. She was AMAZING, best jumper i ever rode, boosted up my confidence LOADS, fast but not really a push button pony, and gorgeous! I rode her loads and loved her soooo much. Then there was this girl and her mum, who bought this amazing flea-bitten grey pony called Rene (Re-neigh is how its pronounced) and they bought him, he was scared of poles but so easy to tack up, and apparently, the mother who bought him could not even put a saddle on him! so then they bought Penny instead, i missed herr so much and still do, but i went to this riding school when the one i used to go to (where i 1st met penny) closed down to become just a livery yard, and went to a new one. There in a stable at the new place was a scruffy, fluffy black pony. I had this feeling i recognised her, and then later found out i was right! it was penny! I couldnt ride her because her rider was in my lesson, and owned her. We were jumping one lesson and pennys owner could not ride! She cantered up to the jump with her reins very long and bouncing about, then instead of doing jumping position, she sat there and thrust her hands forward up pennys neck, i have no idea how she didnt get left behind. I felt so sorry for penny, but then i moved to the riding school i am at now, and i am LOVING it there, its so proffesional and all the ponies are well-schooled but not push button ponies, and they can all jump and stuff. oh, and rene got bought by another person, i was jealous at 1st, but then i saw them together, rene was scared of poles at 1st, but she was riding him in a bit-less bridle and they were jumping quite high, rene was also mentioned in PONY magazine, in the life stories place.

[stray]

Aww you all have long horsey stories to tell... but this is spirit club! Anyone got anything to say about spirit?

[Luvtomfelton!!!]

Yeah...umm.. He is amazing i love him!

[Luvtomfelton!!!]

Yeah...umm.. He is amazing i love him!

[west ,]

yeah, spirit is amazing!