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.
Twentieth Century moved great…and as we used to say, hacked it’s way to Madison Square Garden. Back then you could literally win enough under saddles classes alone to get there.
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I guess I am really OLD. Seeing how I rode at NCMT in the 50’s. I do rememberall those horses plus Mr Buttercup, Shoebutton (shetland pony) Squirrel, Burgundy (I owned him) then donated him. Jimmy’s Girl - Carol Wilson owned her. Remember Toby Self?
We use to hack all the way over to the Wilton Riding club to show and then hack back home that night. We got to ride in the New Canaan Parades. What FUN !!!
The went on to ORHC, Patty had the horse named Pete. Patty was my Maid of Honor at my wedding 46 years ago. She is now down in Southern Pines. :)[/QUOTE]
I remember Pete! Yes, Mr Buttercup, who would occasionally get, um, turned on, and would bang against jump OUCH!
The parades were a blast. Somewhere I have a picture of me on Lord Byron, waiting in the parking lot behind the movie theatre for the parade to start.
Carol Wilson’s mother was my 3rd grade teacher, and I vaguely remember Toby. Gincy, on the other hand, was my hero then. Loved watching her school Sari in hand, teaching her Piaffe and passage, Do you remember Mighty Mite, Diabolo?
Sunnyfield was the place of my introduction to dressage. My sister lessoned there when Karen MacIntosh was preparing for the Olympics. Sis rode with Fritz Stecken, I believe. I remember all the Lippizaners there.
Love reading all the memories on this thread!
showed in the 70s and 80s in Atlanta
Mr Pounds had wonderful shows at his barn and he had a very “unique” panel that he put in a class once. My horse was the only one who would jump it…all the others quit. Needless to say he had to remove it.
I wish I had a pic but it was a raging bull blowing smoke! The horses FREAKED…
HA HA…AHHHHHHHHH the good ole days
started riding hacks in the early 50’s, still going and never want to stop
Lake Placid jumps. . .
I was at a Pony Club A hopeful (I passed) clinic at Jessica Randenhouse’s (with George Morris and Kip Rosenthal) the summer of the first Lake Placid Big show (1970?). All the rails and standards for the Grand Prix where there being painted in pastel colors (by us). The panels had been painted by some artist. They looked like someone had just thrown paint at them so we threw some more. . .
oh well.
in the evening after the work was done, we would get on our horses in halters and lead ropes and jump the courses we had done earlier in the day when no one was watching. . .
I don’t remember those 2 names…
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Jeffrey Pooka - Pooka to his friends. :lol: A chestnut with four white socks and a big white blaze. My friend’s horse was Hermes.[/QUOTE]
Though in the middle of the night it may come to me! I was there then…
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ou had to be at NCMT when I was. Carol Wilson was my best friend at the time. Do you remember the horse Bonnie, Meadow Maid had fun BUCKING of all of us. Then all the shows we did at the farm and all the trail rides we did through Hoyts Nursery.
Silly, you were probably one of the older riders, because both Carol Wilson and Patty were big high school people when I was just a 12 yr old or so.
Small world - and the rides at Hoyt’s were definitely part of the memories.
Did you live in New Canaan? PM me!
Hay!!!
Oh my God a bunch of memories:
I remember showing at Fox Hill, that’s where I got my first blue, and I rode with Linda Jasquiel Brown at Sunnyfield.
Minthillfarm: I worked for Kent Jungherr when he moved to Orange County NY and had a boarding facility for Standardbred broodmares. That was 1982 -ish. He is still in this area. We moved to Orange COunty NY from Westchester in 1980. He’s the one I worked for that he had to replace me with 2 1/2 employees. He was a GREAT boss. Really left me alone to plan my day and do what I needed to do. No nitpicking just let me do my job. I think he is transporting horses now and buying horses from Europe with his brother and reselling them over here … to all you Warmblood buyers out there…
Janet: Reiner Nievisch, wasn’t his farm called Clover Knoll or Hill? The farm in Bedford. What a wonderful place and I think I learned the most from him in regards to grooming, cleaning and keeping the place spic and span.
Do you all remember that large tack store in Bedford or Bedford Hills called Horse & Rider? I can’t remember where that place was located except that my mother would drop me off there, do her shopping and then pick me up. I would spend hours poking through everything dreaming…I’m sure the owner of the store hated me. I never bought anything…
Does anyone remember Mrs. Sheila Adams of Chestnut Bay Stables in South Salem or maybe NOrth Salem?
I knew Reiner, he used to manage my old boss’s private stable, knew his ex Lucy too, she was at the Rockefellers I think riding dressage. This was back in the early-mid 1980s.
Actually Catamount Hunt Club was not called Huntover. Mike Heneghan moved all his horses over there when Sunnyfield (where we had been staying) was sold to Neilsens. His business was Huntover and he leased an aisle from CHC. Probably '76?
I remember Horse & rider in Bedford but alas can not remember the name of the road…but I could drive there! 
My first horse I did combined training with at first and then switched to Hunters. Rode out bareback and halter alot and he was the best trail horse. He was Nationally ranked at 3rd level Dressage the same year he qualified for NY in the A/O’s. Not in todays world.
The '70s and '80s was my era in Conn. I also rode many Tbs.
And how about the saddles? I still have my old potato-chip saddle – talk about “close contact”! It’s an antique!
I remember how I loved to watch Leslie (Burr) Howard ride in jumper classes; she was probably only about 18 or so.
We used to go to shows at The Hill (since someone mentioned it earlier).
It was on Adams Street in Bedford Hills. It was about halfway between the train station in Bedford Hills and Harris Road.
There was a tack shop there back in the early 60’s but I don’t remeber the name of it. :lol:
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The mutt pony I rode in 1965 - Maryland Pony show - don’t think we saw a 3 foot fence :lol:[/QUOTE]
LOVE that picture!!! Have one from there at the old Timonium Race Track from the early 60’s too. What a great show with it in the infield. It had the old time outside course I was in elementary school and for some reason fascinated by the stables at the racetrack.
Here’s a picture of Pooka, me, and my best friend Lynne taken at Coach House 1974.
http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq123/janp1/pooka_jan_lynne.jpg
We were at Catamount before that.
I am still not placing him firmly in my mind…I’m trying but can’t seem to remember!
PINESFOREQUINES:
Yes, Kent would be great to work for, and he really appreciated hard work - he grew up that way. He just wanted everything neat! He always had a broom in his hand at CHS…I was at the STBred farm in Goshen a few times in the 80’s after he bought it. CHS was not the same after he and Mark left. When it got sold it was run into the ground and neglected…it was finally torn down some years ago and there are homes there now I think.
Horse and Rider was in Bedford Hills.
I do not remember the name of the street, but MAD’s “Adams Street” sounds right.
You head north from the train station, parallel to the train tracks and the parkway, into a semi-industrial strip. There was the place that they stored the snow plows and so on, and had fuel for all the Town of Bedford equipment. Horse and Rider was right next to a car body shop.
If you kept going north on that street, you would get to the women’s prison, and the north end of Harris Street.
My social studies teacher, Mr Hamid, moonlighted (moonlit?) at Horse and Rider, which was kind of wierd. He went on to become a breeder in CT (Norman horses).
But does anyone remember the tack shop that was in Mt Kisco before that. I want to say “The Silver Bit”, but I could be completely wrong. They sold both riding stuff and ballet stuff. Then they stopped selling the riding stuff (probably because Horse and Rider was cheaper and had a bigger selection), but continued with ballet.
Not specifically horse related, but who remembers “The Bedford Barn” on North Bedford Rd? I still have some clothes from there, but they are pretty well worn.
