Sunday Silence is the first one I can clearly remember watching…
oooh, i’m a LOT older than you 
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Made you look like you were wearing a diaper underneath!
I’ve got one…boots without zippers. That was fun. Still have mine, actually!
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My full custom dress Vogels gave up the ghost a few years before I quit riding. I got a pair of beautiful Parlanti’s but they never looked quite as elegant, IMO. OTOH, nobody had to help me take them off, so there’s that
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On the Western side, I remember when California horses went up and light in the bridle (vaquero tradition) and people laughed at the horses in TX and elsewhere than went with their heads way down. Though I also remember a trend that consisted of jogging as slowly as possible. One friend did this a little too well and was actually walking when she was supposed to be jogging.
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I was on a three year old at a dressage show there in the middle ring. The person before me warned me that there was a deer on the road. My three year old erupted at some point during the test, but I never figured out if it was the deer or the fact that the sun hit the mirror just right and blinded both of us.
A friend was showing there when there was a manhunt that went into JPL territory, complete with a helicopter that landed in the parking lot next to her ring. When she finished her test and left the ring, everyone complimented her on her focus. She said, “what helicopter?” #focus
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OMG! I love you all! Where to start—Clovite, yes. Still have no idea what that was. Crosby PDNs—I have 23—including my original junior/eq one from the mid 1970s and still ride in them. OTTBs—didn’t we all? Boots—I still have my junior Dehners and can still wear them after 50 years although I do have new Ariats too. Harry Hall breeches and we’d buy men’s small shirts from the cheapest places, open up the seam and take the collar, turn it upside down, and use it as a choker and call it a ratcatcher. Never heard of a warmblood. Of COURSE same horse for junior hunter and eq! I mean, what are you thinking? Mine took me to the Maclay finals and he was $1800 out of a pasture OTTB. Rust breeches—oh heck yes! And a hunt cap that always flew off over the outside course because every hunter and eq class was over the outside course. I’m talking Chagrin, Sewickley, Rolling Rock, etc. Still ride for fun in full chaps!
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NOT 23!!! I have 2!!!
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Oh, good. I did have some questions about how many horses you have and/or how big your basement is to fit 23 saddles.
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Does anyone remember the paddock boots that had neither laces or zippers, but the long strap that went completely around the ankle and buckled?
I’m that old.
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The hunters at Spruce Meadows! Glad somebody remembers. I showed my appy pony (with basically no tail) in both the pony hunters and jumpers and the pony prix! That and the rest of your list lead me to believe we are of similar age 
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I am weirdly disappointed that it’s only 2 PDNs.
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Ditto.
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It’s the SuperThrive of the horse world, if you’re into gardening. Also, 100 bucks for 25 lbs. these days.
I was weirdly enchanted, as a tween, by the Source pails that some boarders had at their stalls. That wee seahorse. They can afford the horse, the board, the shoes, the vet, the coach, the shows AND the supplements. Sigh.
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Man, these things are so stylin’. I had a pair not for riding, but for wearing with jeans in high school and college. I’m inspired to go find a pair right bloody now.
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HA HA! late night after a long day. Typos be me. No basement. Actually, I got one PDN off eBay for $200 to have a spare, and it’s newer but the condition was not great. Like, no such thing as neatsfoot oil at least once? It’s much better now!
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Same. Lol.
Wow-- that brought back a memory too. We were stabled next to the Duchessois at a show—can’t remember which one in the midwest—but I remember they had the sweetest Doberman stable dog. I don’t remember any grooms or anything other than Bruce—and wasn’t there a brother too?—just doing their own grooming and tacking up and going to their class.
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And you had to jog your hunter into the ring for ribbons AND then get on to do a victory gallop! The stuff of nightmares for a short adult amateur that had trimmed her stirrup leathers hahahahahha
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