Who is from the "olden" days

[pippy]

[QUOTE=BAC;3669878]
I was around when Rita Timpanaro, Lesley Burr, Katie Monahan, Crystine Jones and Conrad Homfeld were all winning Medal or Maclay Finals, they are all still either riding or involved with horses. And I remember watching David Olynik (sp?) win at MSG and Stacia Klein Madden winning the Maclay.[/QUOTE]

I was a young teenager, and we went to Katie Monahan’s barn to pick up a horse. What was the name of her barn? We also went to Conrad Homfeld’s place. Gosh, that seems like a life time ago! I hope someone remembers the name of Kaitie’s barn…it is driving me crazy.

[shade]

[QUOTE=pippy;3671224]
I was a young teenager, and we went to Katie Monahan’s barn to pick up a horse. What was the name of her barn? We also went to Conrad Homfeld’s place. Gosh, that seems like a life time ago! I hope someone remembers the name of Kaitie’s barn…it is driving me crazy.[/QUOTE]

I believe it was Plain Bay Farm

[Playing_Games]

[QUOTE=just_me;3650294]
I learned to ride at Claremont in NYC in the early 70s. I’d jump hack horses over police barricades and anything else I could in Central Park. :lol:

Boarded my horse at Jamaica Bay the first summer it opened and regularly took my horse swimming.[/QUOTE]

Me too! That’s where I learned to ride. It was 1973.

[pippy]

[QUOTE=shade;3671282]
I believe it was Plain Bay Farm[/QUOTE]

Ahhh, thank you! My friend’s horse was plain bay, too. Great horse.

[MAD]

@shade;3669944

I’m pretty sure it was on Indian Hill Rd. Not sure of the exct year I was there but it would have had to be early 80’s. I always wondered what ever became of the farm itself. It was a decent place. The barn has 2 levels and had faucets outside every stall.,.,and I swear it was close to Susie Shroer(sp) place.

The barn on Indian Hill Road belonged to Mrs. and Mrs. Arthur Hawkins before Kelly Hoy had it. I think the Hawkins sold it about 1976. Eric Hasbrouck took over the barn after Kelly Hoy.

[fair_judy]

i can’t believe i haven’t looked in here. i know some of you guys from nimrod days… rode at old mill (yohais) in jericho LI with george and dear robert hoskins in 1968 . crazy days! lessons in groups with really famous people who must have thought who is THIS kid? went to mutch indoors that winter and lived in the DERELICT camper with david/suzie fubini, d distler, my sis and me, j vullo and off and on anyone who needed a place to stay. ronnie silcox was playing bad bad leroy brown in the aisles, frank bonner was there and debbie porter had the hack string. we got sent to the ring to pick up rocks if we rode badly. i think i built an extra foot on the nimrod wall ( its still there around the subdivision). i remember blast parties at cape cod!!! and dunphy’s indoor ferris wheel. i remember when lake placid had big water tanks and we had to carry water. what was the name of that hippie bar there?

you guys are mostly puppies:cool:

[War_Admiral]

[QUOTE=LuckyFinn;3651895]
1968…Friars Gate Farm with Julie Ulrich…great school ponies- and got my first “show pony” there also…[/QUOTE]

LuckyFinn - In 1968 I was still riding saddle seat so we probably don’t know each other, but I rode right down the street from FGF at Fleetwood Farm! I got my first OTTB in 1969 and switched and I think I took a couple lessons at FGF (in fact I know I did, it was my first time in an indoor, which Fleetwood did not have) but ended up riding with Denny O’Keefe instead.

Janet - Nope, never rode sidesaddle in an astride saddle, but I definitely remember the time a friend and I dug her grandmother’s sidesaddle out of the attic, spent DAYS cleaning and conditioning it, and stuck it on that selfsame OTTB to see what would happen! :lol: I lived on a main road, with my ring right next to the road, and O’Keefe (ex-cavalry drill sergeant) happened to drive past. He hit the brakes on his truck, rolled down the window and bellowed “IF YOU’RE GONNA WRECK THAT GOOD HONEST HOSS TRYING TO RIDE SIDESADDLE, BY GAWD, GIRL, YOU’RE GONNA LEARN IT RIGHT!” Pulled his truck over, got out of it, stomped down the hill, climbed over the 4-board (he was 83 at the time! :eek:) and proceeded to give me the sidesaddle lesson of my life! I took a couple more from him over the next week, he and about 3 other trainers helped me get the appointments together, and my freebie OTTB and I beat quite a few squillionairesses at the Myopia show a couple weeks later. :lol:

[fair_judy]

Janet - Nope, never rode sidesaddle in an astride saddle, but I definitely remember the time a friend and I dug her grandmother’s sidesaddle out of the attic, spent DAYS cleaning and conditioning it, and stuck it on that selfsame OTTB to see what would happen! I lived on a main road, with my ring right next to the road, and O’Keefe (ex-cavalry drill sergeant) happened to drive past. He hit the brakes on his truck, rolled down the window and bellowed “IF YOU’RE GONNA WRECK THAT GOOD HONEST HOSS TRYING TO RIDE SIDESADDLE, BY GAWD, GIRL, YOU’RE GONNA LEARN IT RIGHT!” Pulled his truck over, got out of it, stomped down the hill, climbed over the 4-board (he was 83 at the time! ) and proceeded to give me the sidesaddle lesson of my life! I took a couple more from him over the next week, he and about 3 other trainers helped me get the appointments together, and my freebie OTTB and I beat quite a few squillionairesses at the Myopia show a couple weeks later.

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[shade]

[QUOTE=MAD;3672563]
The barn on Indian Hill Road belonged to Mrs. and Mrs. Arthur Hawkins before Kelly Hoy had it. I think the Hawkins sold it about 1976. Eric Hasbrouck took over the barn after Kelly Hoy.[/QUOTE]

Thanks MAD…I wonder who has it now…

And boy was I a newbie to the H/J circuit ways back then. Surprised I survived.

Fair Judy did you know about the Nimrod reunion a few years back? There was also website started at the same time.

[just_me]

@Playing Games;3671348

Me too! That’s where I learned to ride. It was 1973.

I heard the bridle paths went downhill later on and the city didn’t maintain them, but in the early 70s, they were the cat’s meow. I loved riding in the park. I pushed rides, so I got to do a lot of it for free.

[fair_judy]

shade, i didn’t go to the reunion. i do go over to the group sometimes…

[ponybreeder]

Actually, Kelly Hoy sold Indian Hill to Mickey and Maria Newman, both riders and parents of Jessica Newman who started and runs Just World. The Newmans Hired Eric Hasbrouck and they had a number of boarders as well as their own horses. Cara Raether and her family became customers of Erics, and after the Newman’s owned Indian hill for 10 years or so, they sold it to the Raethers. Cara no longer rides with Eric, but he still does some training there. It still belongs to the Raether family.

[pines4equines]

Hay

I worked at Indian Hill when Kelly Hoy owned it. And yes to those water spigots outside each stall. What a dream that was! I worked at a race hrose farm that had that…excellent option.

[theoldgreymare]

[QUOTE=MintHillFarm;3651241]

Nothing beat The Saddler though till Beval came along…There was a tack shop in Larchmont too near the train station.[/QUOTE]

The Larchmont tack shop was the Village Saddlery. Proprietor Arnold Weiner, IIRC.

[fair_judy]

saddler… anyone ever see annie morris?

[taylor93]

annie morris? Was she a teacher at Nimrod? If so, I believe she lives in Redding, CT now.

[Hocus_Focus]

This is a dangerous thread. It dates us beyond words. LOL

When I refer to my old days there are different stages… the very early years was more cowboys and indians than actual riding. Rode for five years bareback. Even jumped a barbed wire fence bareback … not intentionally mind you, but it happened and both of us survived, but I think that was when I got my first gray hair. Fun in those days would be galloping across a snow covered field, having the horse hit an icy stretch and go down and slide. I was very good at lifting my leg and sitting on top while we slid. Oddly neither horse nor rider ever got hurt from those antics. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

When I finally moved to civilization. I took my first riding lessons at Leitchcroft Farm just north of Toronto and after a year and a half of that, did the groom circuit. Worked for Jim Elder for a time. That was certainly the highlight of that era. My first day there was certainly monumental. It was right after the Royal Winter Fair and Hans Winkler (then capt of the German team) was up looking at young horses. Jimmy made us jump them that day adn the fences shall we say were much higher than anything I had ever faced before. I would dearly love to have a video of what occured that day. I gave new meaning to soaring through the air above the horse, but miraculously we met on the other side and apart from some snickering in the background, I demonstrated beautifully the “creative seat” which I am certain impressed everyone to no end.

Things improved. I had one year of showing later, mostly eventing and it was successful including three wins at training level and a second place finish in the Eastern Canadian Championships (90 entries) so that is my riding career in a nutshell.

Always been a horse junkie and followed the circuit as a photographer ever since. Such is life. Olden days for me also including starting as a horse show photographer working with June Fallaw in the mid seventies in California
Time does pass does it not.

I am 56 already.

[Sansena]

[QUOTE=fair judy;3675910]
saddler… anyone ever see annie morris?[/QUOTE]

Yes, Annie still is in Redding, at her house. I saw her last month and she’s doing well.

[buryinghill4]

[QUOTE=pines4equines;3646207]
Gary Rockwell at Sleepy Hollow Country Club…Also worked from Reiner Neivisch [/QUOTE]
Small world. I was at SHCC when Gary got hired. And one of my best friends worked for Reiner… total flashback this morning! :lol:
Gary wanted me to buy a young stallion that had tons of potential. Breeder was going to let me do payments! I turned down the offer (Gary was sooo sad). That colt ended up being realllly famous. Oh well

[buryinghill4]

@pines4equines;3646786

In 1979, we went to Mason Phelps show, Mt. Snow, several others that I don’t remember.

One of my alltime favorite shows! “Pre-Vermont!”
I didn’t realize that was a Mason show.
I recall Leslie rode a palomino 1st year (can someone help me out with the name??). Used to lie down when he was waiting at the ring. Very calmly would lay down and graze :winkgrin: At Mt Snow he really enjoyed the sun and grass.