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I am fine and hope you are too… Love your website, and am so happy your ponies are doing so well! I did forget one member of the group we had in Bedford; Bad Cat…[/QUOTE]
Do you rememebr when Albert ripped up the screen and jumped out the window from the second floor? (Albert being a mentally challenged 9 pound JRT, for those who don’t know) Most JRTs get excited about animals, Albert saw the kids who lived in the main house swimming in the pool and playing with a ball. He had a ball fetish. He went to join them. The kids saw him jump out of the window.
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seems like we were all floating around here at the same time! Do I know any of you???[/QUOTE]
Pony, I took a couple of lessons from you at Shannon, perhaps early 80s? Sure you don’t remember me, tho;) I rode schoolie Casey, schoolie Murdock, Susan Silver’s mare, Salamagundi, and Montana(?). This was after Barbara Lindsay left. Wasn’t Reinhard Teetor there, too, for a while?
I rode and showed in the 60’s, 70’s 80’s,2000’s, notice the big gap there? We rode, showed, hunted, equitated the same horse. Went to local and rated shows. Did our own grooming, stall cleaning, braiding, and thought that was what everyone did. Remembering some favorite classes from back then, pairs hunters over a real outside course, back to back bareback classes, bareback eq classes, no stirrups classes, and my favorite, the parent leadline class, always won based on loudest cheers and whoops from the sidelines. My mom usually one that one, on my sister’s large pony, because we could “whoop” the loudest. Kids today miss out on so much of the fun and the real riding experiences.
Hmmn, I was at The Hill in the 70s too! Perhaps our paths crossed! I also did not have a horse so I mucked stalls, cleaned tack, groomed and rode anything that needed to be worked. I spent a couple of summers hanging out there working. I had my first paid job there in the summer of '76. I remember making $60 a week and feeling rich! When I was there Michael Page boarded there and watching him ride was a real education. I don’t think I’d even heard of dressage before then.
That is one facility that has REALLY changed since then!
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Hmmn, I was at The Hill in the 70s too! Perhaps our paths crossed! I also did not have a horse so I mucked stalls, cleaned tack, groomed and rode anything that needed to be worked. I spent a couple of summers hanging out there working. I had my first paid job there in the summer of '76. I remember making $60 a week and feeling rich! When I was there Michael Page boarded there and watching him ride was a real education. I don’t think I’d even heard of dressage before then.
That is one facility that has REALLY changed since then![/QUOTE]
I was at The Hill for a bit at the same time. I left to go to college in 77 but sold my hunter in 76. I also used to work for Michael at some horse shows. Talk about a perfectionist. Were you there when Gretchen Blair and Wendy Kessinger were there. The boarded on the “show aisle” with me. I was a working student there.
Gretchen Blair rings a bell . . . honestly, it’s been such a long time since I was there it’s hard to remember - my brain cells just aren’t working that well at my now advanced age :lol:.
I was a working student for the “other Jack” for awhile, taught some beginner lessons (scary, thinking back on it that they let me do that), and rode Roxanne Zobek’s horse, Mr. Pickle.
I grew up in NYC and used to take the train up during the week to ride or get lifts with Carol Maytag (I believe she rode with Michael then). In the summers, I lived with my grandparents in Patterson so could be at the barn every day.
I did everything on one horse too! (in the 70’s) I also remember the bareback equitation classes. I did equitation, hunters & jumpers on my 15.2 chestnut mare. She was awesome…she had a huge heart and would do anything for me. Then when I moved up to the big Eq and the ‘A’ circuit (early 80’s New England area) I had to “specialize” on one horse. My little mare wouldn’t cut it anymore. I then graduated to a 16.2+ TB mare…I don’t know something about mares? They just have huge hearts. This mare would do anything for me too. She didn’t have a stop in her and boy did I get her to some sticky spots. I then stopped riding…had a family and about 20 yrs. later. I now have another little mare (with another huge heart) and back competing on the local level. I guess horse blood runs thick in humans. :winkgrin:
There can only be one and that’s a name I haven’t heard in 30 years.
He was a squarely built kid with bright red hair that haunted the Cornell barns in the 70’s. He didn’t have a horse but would beg, borrow or steal a ride on anything(and I mean anything) in hopes of having a jumper. The outcomes were often not so good…
If I remember rightly he finally got his own horse when he was about 17. He probably had to earn the money to purchase it himself. Not much of a horse but he had dreams of making it into a jumper.
I googled him and lo and behold!! I’m very happy he made his dreams come true and finally got some very good horse education.
He honestly was one of the last names I’d expected to see here. Good for him.
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1968…Friars Gate Farm with Julie Ulrich…great school ponies- and got my first “show pony” there also…[/QUOTE]
LuckyFinn- I had lessons at Friars Gate 1976-1980. Julie had trained my aunt’s horse prior to that, and while I was there was starting to spend more time way from the farm- in Germany, i think?
Totally agree on the awesome school ponies- one called “Blue” did advanced dressage- I accidentally asked him to do a levade once! I learned so much there.
Bogie:
Late 70’s or early 80’s would be about right. I believe but am not absolutely sure his dad was a Cornell professor. He would have graduated from high school in 73 or 74 then I’m very sure he went to college. He probably pursued his passion after that.
Albert was true to his breed and had his eye on the ball for sure! He was a character - Jill Russell was the best JR I have ever known though…hopefully she and Lion are hanging out together; she perched up on her hind legs and Lion sitting next to her with his paws crossed.
Bogie: I was at the Hill in 1979, were you there then? I did the show aisle…Which horses did you ride? Do you remember Beverly and Native Gem, a grey that we joked was a camel with his withers. Us grooms called him Lips.
Do you remember the groom Diane? And, Theresa? I think she was Jack’s working student that year. I’m trying to think of others. Prima Donna was a horse there…I just can’t remember others.
In '79 I was in my freshman year of college, so not around much. Mostly I was there from '76-78. I was a working student for Jack Adams and rode the myriad sales horses that he had come through. Roxanne Zobek also fixed me up with some rides and I rode her horse. I even took some of the schoolies to shows. There were a group of kids there all the time – Theresa, Lorie, Peter, me (Liz). Most of us didn’t have our own horses.
There was another barn in N. Salem, smaller, and I can no longer remember the name, but I rode horses for the lady who ran that, too. And for a private barn in Greenwich. Basically, I rode anything anyone offered because there was no way I was going to get my own horse.
I honestly didn’t know all that many boarders that well. Jackie Lundy, as she was the daughter of one of my father’s friends, Carol Maytag, as she used to give me lifts up from NYC . . . those are really the only names my ancient brain can remember!
It would have been about '77. I remember that he was married when he arrived, but that he later had an umm “relationship” with a groom that worked there. She used to drive me to the train station and was full of gossip.
That place was a real education for me – and not just about riding. I was truly shocked as a 16 year old to learn about some of the extra-marital relationships that went on at that barn :no:.
Bogie: Was Peter the boy with one green eye and one blue eye or was it brown? And, I remember Theresa! And there was another boy that I can’t remember the name.
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LuckyFinn- I had lessons at Friars Gate 1976-1980. Julie had trained my aunt’s horse prior to that, and while I was there was starting to spend more time way from the farm- in Germany, i think?
Totally agree on the awesome school ponies- one called “Blue” did advanced dressage- I accidentally asked him to do a levade once! I learned so much there.[/QUOTE]
Hey tberider…I was gone by the very early 70’s…Julie is in France now “Friars Gate en France” I’m pretty sure…great ponies…Lone Oak ponies,-Jet and Eagle were cool, Wishful Thinking, Krackerjack, Raggedy Jan, Powdered Sugar, Bo Peep…all good ponies. I ended up at Rock Meadow in Byfield MA for my late junior years…always will love Friars Gate tho!!!
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Pony, I took a couple of lessons from you at Shannon, perhaps early 80s? Sure you don’t remember me, tho;) I rode schoolie Casey, schoolie Murdock, Susan Silver’s mare, Salamagundi, and Montana(?). This was after Barbara Lindsay left. Wasn’t Reinhard Teetor there, too, for a while?
We moved up here shortly after.[/QUOTE]
I don’t remember, but that is really cool. Where are you now?
