Equine/Bovine congrats on your new horse! She is lovely! My Belgian/saddlebred was 15 hh at 4 yrs old and he matured to 17 hh. I think the drafts grow slower. She may top out at 16+ and she will fill out too. He was sort of "gangly" at 4 yrs old, all head and feet! but by about 7 yrs old he matured beautifully and became very stocky. here is a picture.
Tbrl, I am so glad you stuck with your passion, don't let your weight hold you back. Besides, when you start riding regularly, you will gain muscle and balance.
Thank you. You do have some lovely horses, and you both seems so comfortable together. I hope that one day I get one too
And I will continue to ride. Preferably the fjord, cause she has such easy-to-follow movements, that even I am capable of sitting down on her in trot, and sometimes even go up and down in tact with her movements. And she has a such a comfy saddle. Deep, soft and feels the right size for me.
I hopefully will get some pictures of me riding her sooner or later, but its kinda hard to take pictures of myself. And I can`t ask my daughter to do it for me either, since she is riding herself.
For the longest time I was very self conscious about my weight, especially when riding, but over the past few years have grown to love who I am... I'm glad to have found this interesting thread. I don't have many pics of me riding, but here is one my daughter took about a month ago. And please excuse the dress attire... my daughter was riding her and she started giving some bucking problems, so mom had to jump on and work out the kinks (wearing my leggings and tennis shoes which is what I normally do my barn work in lol)
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She's about 15/15.1 hands but built like a tank, and I'm about 5'10.
But I wanted to respond to this because I feel the same way. It gets kind of depressing actually. Sometimes I am on the top of the world with my horse and then she starts tripping or gets a minor injury and then I feel SO GUILTY riding her. I may not ride her for a week or more just to "rest" her because she tripped. Then if ride her and she does awesome and I LOVE to ride so I will want to ride every day. And that's the real me.....I would love to ride almost every day. But if I feel like my horse is even the slightest bit "off" I go into this terrible cycle of guilt and feeling I'm too big for her.
It wasn't too bad when I had 3 horses because I could always rotate. But the young horse was just too much for me and his mother was getting pretty old and stiff. But I was able to rehome them together and I think the are doing great in their new place. But that leaves me with one horse to ride and she's not a big horse either......maybe 14.3, 1100 lbs. So I want to ride so bad and I feel so guilty doing so!
We were cruising along just great until earlier this year when she got some type of lameness about 3 months ago. She is nearly back from that (I hope) but I feel like I have to be so careful and ride her with kid gloves so to speak. It makes me sad.
I wish I could loose weight but each time I try I never seem to be able to stick with it. I did low carb years ago and that worked for me, but now it seems like I can't stick with it for more than a few weeks and the pounds don't drop off like they did the first time.
So I guess I just needed to talk to some people who hopefully understand. The horse's previous owner doesn't think I'm too big for her. My family doesn't think I'm too big for her. But I worry about being too big for her. She's just not a big-boned horse like I wish she was. But we match so well in every other way. Temperment wise, she's perfect for me. I just don't want to hurt her, you know?
I like this idea, and since the thread has been bumped, here's a few of me.
I'd venture a guess that my horses think that packing my plus sized extra pounds around is a pretty good trade for having an owner and rider who is kind and fair, and who takes great care of them. They are pretty happy fellas!
I'll also add one of my husband on his quarter horse. He is 6'4 and more than 250 pounds. I knew his horse when he was owned by a 150 pound, anxious teenage rider,and I know Gus prefers my husband to anyone in the world!
I just saw this post and wanted to share some of my photos. My horse (really technically a pony) is 14.1 on a good day lol he is probably about 900lbs? Maybe less and I'm 5'3 and about 185, which is just on the mark I think for that 20% but then with the saddle added and such we are a lot over. I know that I really need to lose weight for him (and for myself) and I am trying to get there, but I tend to think I'm too big for him. He is young and is built really well and the guy I bought him from was taller and larger than me. Newt doesn't seem to trip or have any issues carrying me, but still can't help feeling frustrated about it sometimes. I just hope I don't look overly large on him. Sorry, I know the photos arent the best, but wanted to share.
I just joined this forum and of course was very excited to see a plus size section. I am built very strangely and have thin legs and carry all my weight in my belly. I just bought my dream horse and I’m in love! I weigh a little less than 200 lbs and I was told by everyone the new horse is a great size for me. Cowboy type men were riding her before doing everything from trails to cows. I’ll be riding her English and she is beginner safe so that was what I loved the most about her! She was even jumping before the guy I got her from got her. This photo was from a week and a half ago on the day I tried her and bought her. I have not ridden again because I fell down the stairs and got hurt and will also be moving her to a new barn Tuesday.
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