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I’ve tended to find ponies on the hard side to move, - bear in mind I don’t deal in ponies, I’ve just had a few over the years for the boys to compete on as they were growing into their horses. I should re-define that. they were hard to find, easy to sell. I’m talking just your basic little packer for jumping xc 2,6 2,9 heights. Hard to find ones that weren’t going to cost as much as the down payment on the farm.
My family is english, and hence we still have relatives that side of the pond who come over to visit now and then - at shows when they happen to hit one, they are always quite surprised at the lack of ponies being shown - with small kids on full sized horses on the west coast side here.
I still have one in PC - every spring, he takes his pony out, dusts him off, and all the new members are like omg a pony!!!
As they are tromping around on 16hh horses, trying to get their little 7 year old heels past the saddle flaps.
I’ve never understood the fascination we have out here in the west to have small kids on big horses.
My son chooses each spring one PC horseless little one who can use his pony for the year, since he’s on his big mare now. (the whole 14.3hhs of her - but she thinks she’s big)[/QUOTE]
You sound lke me. I don’t understand the little 7-year-olds on the 16hh horses. I’ve wondered at the lack of ponies at the local dressage and CT shows (the hunter/jumper people still believe in them). I used to post on a UK BB 'til it went paid-only; lots of adults on that BB ride ponies and I envied them.
