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#1 ·
If you have something to do with horses that you want to do before you get too old or croak, put it in this thread!

Here's some of mine:

Pony trekking in Iceland
Learning to drive and teaching my horse to pull a little cart so I can triptrap about (somewhere, can't be where I live).
Horse camping in the Rockies with my mare & friends
 
#2 ·
I have a lot! Iceland and pony trekking is at the top of my list, too.

* Riding and driving around Mackinac Island

*Taking a pack trip in California to see the wild mustangs

*Learning to drive a big team of draft horses!

*Taking driving lessons at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna (they offer this to outside students and it's not as expensive as I thought).
 
#3 ·
a lot of my bucket list may seem easy to a lot of people, but some of them are hard for me to do

1. try riding English
2. Ride an Arabian/ Lipizzaner/ Icelandic
3. Be able to be comfortable at all gaits, saddled and bareback
4. be able to ride my current horse solo on trails,lol
5. ride on a beach
6. and hardest of all actually find people who are not flakes/ or stand you up to ride with
 
#4 ·
1. Crack an Australian stockman whip off a horse's back
2. Ride the multiple day Pioneer endurance ride in Ft Stanton, NM
3. Learn to ride English
4. Start and finish my own horse, preferably Kiger or BLM mustang
5. Attend a natural horsemanship clinic with my future horse
 
#5 ·
1. Spend time on Chincoteague Island and help with the round up
2. Take about a month or more and ride the Rockies from Rattan NM to Estes Park CO.
3. Do a real working cattle drive
 
#8 ·
In no particular order of importance...

1. Do the week long Independence Trail ride into Houston during the Livestock Show and Rodeo.

2. Trail ride in Bandera.

3. Take my mare to every state park I can.

4. Try my hand at Eventing.

5. Win 1st at Nationals in AHCA.

6. Train a horse from the ground up and win competitions with it.

7. Learn to drive

8. Be able to compete bareback and bridleless (almost there!)
 
#12 ·
This will make some of you laugh: the only thing I wish I could do is take riding lessons. So many of you take lessons and wish you could canter or gallop or jump or start your own colt, or go camping or ride in some exotic country. I've done all those things so many times, but I have rarely had a chance to take riding lessons. I've always wanted to. That's one reason why I enjoy reading people's posts about their lessons.
 
#13 ·
I got one item on my bucket list crossed off this year!

Some remaining ones:

Big South Fork 100
Big Horn 100
Virgina City 100
Mt Adams 100
Grand Canyon XP pioneer
Michigan Shore-to-Shore pioneer
Tom Quilty Cup
Mongol Derby
trek in Iceland
ride a cutter
ride sidesaddle
 
#14 ·
I have had an opportunity to ride a horse in some pretty cool places, but I still have many things on my bucket list....in no particular order.


  • Ride MY OWN horse through the Rockies/Blue Ridge Mts/etc.
  • Travel the U.S. and do multi-day trail rides.
  • Ride the Australian Outback
  • Ride with real Dudes and bring in cattle
  • Lease/own a reining horse and compete in QH Congress Freestyle Reining Competition
  • Meet the Budweiser Clydesdales in person
  • Have Stacy Westfall or Guy McLean guest speak at my after school horse club.
 
#17 ·
I've never thought much about a bucket list. I've pretty much taken advantage of every opportunity for travel and adventure that came my way. What remains is to settle down on our own place. Get our fences and other buildings in, and start building our herds.

A German friend once told me of an old German saying. "The things a man must do before he dies are to build a house, plant a tree, and raise a son.".

We've raised a son. We've planted over 100 trees on our ranch. Now to get to work on that house.
 
#19 ·
Some great ones on here- I couldn't help but "like" everyone's :)

My current list, in no particular order:

1. Be able to complete a 50-mile endurance ride (and maybe a 100...)
2. Get my property set up to accommodate 3 horses at home
3. Own at least a part of a stakes-winning TB racehorse- and then see it happily retired, sound, to a second career
4. Attend the Breeder's Cup Classic when a true champion wins (really missed out on that one this year, of all the years!)
5. Publish a peer-reviewed research paper on the benefits of therapeutic riding and equine-assisted learning

I've been amazingly lucky to check off a few things on my bucket list already:
1. Own a horse
2. Attend the Kentucky Derby
3. Meet champion racehorses up close and personal
4. Horse trek/beach gallop on my honeymoon in Ireland
5. Horse trek with a local family in Honduras
6. Become a certified therapeutic riding instructor

If I never did any of the other things on my list, I'd still be completely satisfied about my equine life :)
 
#20 ·
- Gallop along a beach like Alec Ramsey (well, maybe not tackless) :wink:

- Ride all over the Southwest, especially in the mountains

- See the wild horses out west

- Adopt a horse that's been neglected, get him fixed up, and spoil him for the rest of his life.

And if I ever win the lottery, I want to buy a cool old barn and turn it into a sanctuary for unwanted and special needs horses where they'd never be sold or ridden again.
 
#21 ·
My list is fairly complex for my age I guess:


  1. learn as much "natural horsemanship" as I'm able
  2. Adopt a gentled or trained mustang as a personal horse
  3. Learn to handle/train that adopted mustang
  4. Adopt and train mustangs for other people to use in trail and ranch tasks... one year training per horse so they are titled when sold.
It doesn't look like much. Just 4 items. But, I'm a realist and know that actually accomplishing it is a huge deal.
 
#27 ·
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I'd like to take the horses camping at a local lake that is set up for horse camping. Go to the ocean and ride on the beach and ride through a redwood forest.
You can do all of those things within 35 miles of where I live. Huh. After lunch I'm going to ride in the redwoods (I live amongst 'em, it's hard to ride anywhere else).

Do you live in Kansas?
 
#24 ·
well for starters..i want to buy a horse! haha. but hopefully that will happen sooner rather then later.

some of my goals:
- train a chestnut ottb mare right off the track (only because appearently there the "most challenging") even with assistance with this is okay, but eventually i want to train an ottb right off the track pretty much myself
- start a young horse
- train a foal (even with assistance is okay)
- rescue from auction at least once
- have horses on my property
- own a show/ lesson barn or at least be the manager
- teach lessons
- and last but not least, i would really love to ride a horse on the beach!
 
#25 ·
I have a few on my list lol

1. Build a farm!! (HOPEFULLY farm shopping next year)
2. Go to regionals for AHA (Hopefully next year as well)
3. Go to sport horse nationals (no clue when that will happen...)
4. Take my horse (who I started from the ground up) up the levels to Grand Prix Dressage
5. Ride different styles of riding (I've ridden pasos and a saddleseat horse; have so many more to try!!)
6. See the Derby in person (I even live in Kentucky.....)
 
#26 ·
My bucket list is really simple:
I want to retire, sell everything (house, property), buy a 3 horse slant with full living quarters, and spend the rest of my healthy life traveling with my horse(s) and dog(s) to everywhere I've not yet ridden! And when I'm tired or ready to rest, park at my childrens' homes and drive them crazy and spoil my grandchildren (until it is time to wander off into the unknown again).
 
#28 ·
I've ridden on beaches and I think it may look more romantic than it really is. Or maybe it's just our beaches, which are either glaring sun and cool with a steady onshore wind or foggy and cold with a steady onshore wind. Usually the latter. The Pacific is too cold to swim in without a wetsuit up here and most horses don't like to go in the water. It's the calmest at dawn. Maybe I should go for a dawn ride and see how that is.

Seems like there are enough people who want to go horse camping we should plan a jamboree.
 
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