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LEMON DROP KID. You would have remembered HIM :winkgrin:[/QUOTE]
Yepyepyep!!!
Secor Farms Riding Club
OK, this dates me…(mid 60s)
Anyone remember Secor Farms Riding Club in White Plains?
Wayne and Frank Carroll?
Horses off the top of my head: Willowbrook, Peter Pan, Pal, Fiddlesticks, Chopsticks, Brandywine, Ebony, Cadet, Blue Boy, Cheri, Joker, Margo, Ridgefield, Candy Stripe, First Impression…
Frank’s Hackneys?
The smell of hot mash for the evening feed?
Straight Stalls? Padded Stalls? Straw bedding?
Harry the tack guy?
Randy the groom?
The Lounge upstairs?
The bridle path through the skunk cabbage?
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In the 70’s I was jumping ponies over 3’ jumps bareback in a halter…even backwards! Kids nowadays dont get to do that stuff. I remember taking my Harrisburg qualifying medium to swim in the borrow pit, then being champion the next weekend.[/QUOTE]
Yep, in the 70’s I was doing the same thing. I learned bareback and we would jump anything, go anywhere (try riding on the median strip of route 7 in Sterling, VA to the community college these days!!!). We would ride all day long and the pony I rode tied by throwing the reins over a fence post and she never moved.
I feel lucky to have grown up in a great horsie area with the best classic books of instruction and the best shows to go to even if just to watch.
I rode everyones outgrown or outcast ponies and horses. I never had a real good one, but boy did they teach me to ride and to LISTEN.
I had SO much fun as a kid!!
FMR…I remember Secor! I too remember Randy and also Billy. My horse was on his aisle. How about Sherry’s Fortune’s Turn? And Dale Batchelder (sp?) had a nice chestnut mare and Zelda. (She was a monkey.)
There is a nice picture of Wayne and Nan on FB - “Back in the Day.”
I also rode with Jack Rockwell, but much earlier than old salem, started with him when i was 5 at Tricolor farm in greenwich. We had a tragic fire there and i lost my first pony “Page Boy” Jack was as real as they come~ And all of these years later, the words from Jack echo in my head as he said repeatedly… Slowwww downnnnnn~
OMG N C M T now THAT brings back memories~ i can fondly remember the circus that we put on there where i decided to jump a course “standing up” on top of my pony “Comic Page” still have that picture proudly positioned on my night stand, those were the good old days~
ancient times
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That must make me ancient because I remember McLain winning the medal finals… LOL.[/QUOTE]
i remember when mcclain was BORN so i guess im beyond the grave:}
No, I don’t remember a tack shop in Banksville. The only tack shops I remember (60s- 70s) were the Silver Bit in Mt Kisco and Horse and Rider in Bedford Hills. But I DO remember riding from Bedford to Banksville on the PLA trails.
Yes there was one in Banksville, but I can’t remember what the name was. I will ahve to think about that one…My Dad actually drove me to The Sadddler in Wilton which for him was the end of the earth…
WinningWaysEast - weren’t you at Coach House for a time back in the 70’s???
There was a tack shop in Banksville called Kaufman’s (sp?). From what I have heard, the person that owned it was a brother of the owner of the Kaufman’s (again, sp?) in NYC but the stores were not affiliated.
You are right, it was Kaufman’s! Thanks so much for remebering that for me.
BTW, for Janet and anyone else who is interested, you can still ride the BRLA trails down as far as Watch Hill Farm, Mrs. Debany’s place. You can see it on the new BRLA trail map, which is written about in today’s New York Times, Westchester section.
Mrs. Debany 
was my source for the name Kaufman’s.
Ha ha!
My late father was a “walking” member of BRLA, and there is a copy of the new map now at his house.
We used to ride to Margot Graham’s place.
But they have changed a bunch of the trails off Guard Hill Rd. “Our” trail (past the Tanrackin retirees barn) is now marked “no Riders”, and the one that used to go up behind the main house has been moved to run along the fence by I684.
I am from the olden days. I rode western (yes I know) when I was a kid. I was only 6 months old in May of 1972 when my first pony arrived. Badger was the meanest shetland pony around. Mom would sit me on him and hold on to me while dad walked us around. When I was 7 I started taking lessons 3 times a week. Then moved into huntseat and got more serious showing all over.
It was the days when you could board a horse at the best place for under $175 per month full board. That same place is still there and I heard they are asking 850 a month now.
I loved the olden days wish I could go back. Things were just different than they are today.
Well I had read this thread thinking “that was before my time” but if you were in the olden days in '72 then I guess I need a reality check…
Most of my friends had horses at their houses and we would ride to Caumsett State Park/LI bareback with halters wearing shorts, sneakers, and bathing suits. We would school around the cross country course and end up down on the beach so we could go swimming with the horses.
We used to laugh at the professional eventers who would trailer in to school with every piece of equipment they could fit on their horses and we would go by with only halters with ropes on each side!
Hard to believe we lived to talk about all the fun we had -
I envy everyone that can recall names and such. I certainly can’t and I’m not that old! I rode in the 70’s and 80’s too- started at barns on long island- hunter jumpers. I didn’t own my own horse but bounced around when my parents ‘leased’ them for me or later on I worked to afford my own. I recall riding at places in Greenlawn, Smithtown, Patchogue(???), and barn further out on the northshore (when I was actually showing). I also recall going down the east coast one year with a group to show.
Later on- when I was mucking and working my way to stick with horses, memory was better served 
But this is how bad I was… I rode in a clinic by GM and I didn’t even know who he was at the time. It wasn’t until a few years later when I reconnected with a riding buddy- that she dawned the light on me.
Ahhh I’m still really bad with names…
any one remember my cousin beth coakley? i think she rode with jack rockwell, she is around 62 now… had two lovely junior horses, pebble hill and springfield.
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that is a good one!:lol:
how about m j knoud’s tack shop?
