GOLDEN OLDIES

Horse riding tuition for the more mature but young at heart

Young Children Older Children Fun Serious Riders Teenagers

Finding Your Partner

Like a dating agency, there are many requirements to make an ideal match. Here we define these details, and although the choice is never going to be perfect, there are certain failings on both sides that will not totally cause a divorce!

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Relearning to Ride

Through the last 50 years equipment, attitude, and understanding have all changed considerably. This lesson helps you through many of these changes so that you avoid costly and in some cases dangerous mistakes.

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Ambitions

Here we find opportunities available for the young at heart ‘oldies’. It helps you to realize some of your dreams, to enable you to have more fun and overcome some natural problems of anxiety, tension at your own rate of progress. Take a look at modern protective gear on offer and ways to avoid basic accidents. Remember you are only as old as you feel!

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Choices

Many people over 60 still ride, compete, jump, hunt, etc. with remarkable enthusiasm and skill, while many over 40 (or younger) are limited by physical problems which, no matter how brave or long-suffering they are, they are never completely going to conquer. Here we open doors to help people do the ‘impossible’! Remember that looking after horses and riding can make life really worth living.

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Pride Comes Before a Fall

It is so easy to think we are bold teenagers again - I only wish I was! Ways of getting your riding muscles fit are amongst numerous enjoyable ways of getting back in the saddle painlessly after a lengthy gap. This is an absolute ‘must have’ for those who now have the opportunity to enjoy the sport again.

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The Next Stage

This lesson is designed for the more ambitious rider who fancies taking up ‘Dressage’. What does it really mean? - the basics of training your horse and developing his paces on the flat. Just watch how your partnership develops as you progress through the exercises and movements.

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Taking it a Stage Further

Why not have a go at some of the early tests? Lots of hints for the rider and an insight into the judge’s requirements. Learn to accept people’s opinions and form some of your own. One of the most important words in my vocabulary is ‘why?’. We seldom ask why our influence on the horse caused something to happen. From this lesson we take a whole new look at things!

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 Enjoying Hacks (Trail Rides)

Appreciate the companionship of your horse as well as the scenery. Suggestions that you can try out when riding in the country. Coping with a horse that ‘spooks’! Ride up and down hills, and negotiate banks and water successfully plus many more ideas with illustrations to make your rides what they should be: FUN.

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Options for Horse and Rider

Nowadays there are many choices for horse and rider and this programme discusses some giving pros and cons. In this lesson clothes for the rider including hats are discussed, then types of training available - what is best for you - and ways of acquiring and keeping a horse. What are your options?

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Text written by Doreen Johnstone. Layout and illustrations by Su Gough.
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