Originally Posted By: RedfrogGood picks Will. I hope to get riding in about two months when the snow starts to disappear.
My saddle is 120 years old.
Dang!!!!!!!
I've seen some old saddles, but, none ever THAT old.
I rode horses, both around the farm & in shows (for sport, similar to rodeo barrel racing, and reining-type events...definitely NOT any of those high-class shows where you dress funny, or the jumper shows
)...from age 4 to my early 20s.
'Course, I was 200# lighter then, and young.
Last time I was on a horse was in '06, at a picnic party the company I worked for had.
The couple who managed the business owns some horses, and they brought them, since the party was being held next to a rodeo arena.
They were letting anyone who wanted to, ride them...although very few people actually did.
I hadn't told any of my co-workers that I used to ride, so they laughed when I told them I was going to ride one.
(Understand...at this time I already was just shy of 300#)
I told my boss to give me the horse that was the most "spirited" one. (I thought they all were very gentle horses, even though the boss thought that he had a couple "wild" ones along that day.)
Anyway, once I finally got in the saddle, I went into the arena, and not only rode a couple barrel racing patterns, but also about half-dozen different reining patterns @ full speed.
By the time I was done, I had drawn a crowd, and the horse was huffing & puffing...and I was wanting more.
I absolutely loved all the shocked faces, and exclamations of "I didn't know you could ride a horse, let alone ride like that."
{When a fella learns to ride a cutting horse, he kinda has to learn how to ride, or fall off all the time! hahahaha}
Nowadays, I doubt I could even get on a horse.
But if I could, I have no doubt that I could still ride just fine.
