Jacked from emoninja
Neutral1. Name?
-Ash
2. Age?
-24
3. Height?
-5'1"
4. What started your interest in horses?
-I love all animals and have since I was old enough to walk!
5. How long have you been riding?
-About twelve years
6. Do/did you take lessons?
- Only a few
7. Can you remember the first horse you rode?
- lol no... a pony when I was four or five?
8. What's the smallest horse you've ridden?
-Miniature pony
9. And the biggest?
-a pinto
10. How many times have you fallen off?
-I've lost count. More times than I can count on my hands.
11. What's the worst fall you've had?
-When I was training my mustang when she was still green... she started bucking like crazy, I lost my momentum and went flying off, hitting my head on the stony ground. The side of my right temple was scraped, couldn't stand up right at first without falling over because I was so dizzy and everything was spinning, was seeing stars.
13. What about the funniest/most embaressing?
-See above. My shirt almost came off. I'm sure The horseman who was helping me saw my bra, as he was the one who I think pulled my shirt back down because I was too out of it to realize it at first.
14. Have you ever broken a bone because of horses?
-I cracked a rib or two...
15. Have you ever shown - Naw, I don't need to show my horses to know how special they are.
16. What's your favourite show memory?
- See above.
17. Have you ever won a class? Which one(s)?
-N/A
18. Have you ever won a championship?
-Nope, don't enter those things.
19. Have you ever come last in a class?
-See previous.
20. Have you ever had a groom, or have you acted as groom yourself?
-No, I find the grooming process helps bond you more with your horse. If you can't even groom your own horse you're not responsible enough to own one.
21. Have you ever worked with horses?
-Yes! The very first job I ever had was giving pony rides to children.
22. If not, would you like to?
- I'd do it again!
23. Do you read horsey magazines? Which ones?
-Um... not really into magazines of any kind.
24. What's your favourite horsey book (fiction)?
-Black Beauty
25. Do you have a good non-fiction book to recommend?
- Not off the top of my head
26. What's your favourite horsey film?
- Black Beauty, The Black Stallion, Hidalgo, The Silver Brumby, and another one I cant remember the name of about a chestnut arabian named Lucky.
27. Do you ride English or Western?
-Western rules!!!
28. Do you drive horses?
-No... I ride them.
29. Do you wear a helmet when riding? If not, why not?
- No. Helmets are for pussies. (Unless you're under 16, then it's the law.)
30. Do you wear flourescent gear when riding on the roads?
- No...
31. If not, why not? If you do, do you wish more riders would?
- Flourescent gear isn't going to stop a car from hitting me. How could you NOT see a horse on the side of the road?
32. Do you carry a whip?
-No, whips are cruel. So are crops and spurs.
33. Can you open a gate from horseback?
-No, the gate's too heavy. I'd probably slip off.
34. Where do you usually ride - in the arena or out on hacks?
- Usually in the pens, but trail riding is the best!
35. Are there many bridleways in your area?
- Where I board, yes.
36. Do you ride out alone or in company?
-If it's on a trail it's safer to have a buddy with you. In the pen I'm usually alone.
37. Have you ever had problems with cars or other road users?
-Yes. Someone who drove by on the road had a deer alarm on their car which spooked the living crap out of my horse and sent me flying into a ditch while Frank had to chase after Zipper and catch her reins before she tripped on them.
38. What's the longest ride you've been on?
- I wen't on a three day horse ride at a 'Cowboy Camp' my horses boarder was hosting one year on my birthday.
39. Do you have any goals relating to horses?
- One day I'd like to live out in the country and board horses for a living.
40. What's your favourite thing to do with them?
- Riding bareback and grooming them, talking to them quietly.
Your Horse(s)
41. Do you own, loan or share?
-I own, but I board them since I live in the city now.
42. How many horses do you have?
-Two.
43. What are their names?
- Zipper and Jewel
44. Ages?
- 12 and 6
45. Height?
-15.3HH and 14.2HH
46. Breed?
-Mustang/Quarter horse and Egyptian arabian/paint.
47. Colour and markings?
-Both chestnuts. Zipper has a star, strip, snip and left hind sock, and a golden mane. Jewel has a blaze and four stockings.
48. How long have you had them?
- eight years and four years.
49. Do you know anything about them before they came to you?
- Bought Zipper from a beef farmer. She was crammed in a pen with many cows, mud up to her knees. Jewel came from a nice little hobby farm, she has some great lineage in her blood. She's the great grand daughter of Patrick Swayze's egyptian arabian horse Tammen.
50. Do they have any vices or bad habits?
-Not anymore, but Zipper used to have a bad habit of biting people.
51. Are they novice rides or not?
- Zipper's very well trained. And Jewel is very sweet and docile for an arabian.
52. What kind of things do you do with them?
- Trail riding mostly, grooming them, feeding them.
53. Have they had/do they have any illnesses?
- Zipper had colic once. She got into the ritch hay and ate too much of it.
54. Are they insured?
-The place they're boarded at has horse insurance.
55. Have they ever been involved in an accident?
-Um... Zipper kicked in someone's window once.
56. Are they shod?
-Yes
57. What do you feed them?
-Hay, oats, grain, carrots and apples.
58. What are their personalitys like?
- Zipper's very curious and intelligent. Jewel's just a total sweetheart!
59. What's your favourite thing about them?
- How loyal they are.
60. How much did they cost?
- $1,000 for Zipper, and... I can't remember how much Jewel was. I'll have to look for the receipt.
61. Do you intend to keep them for the rest of their lives?
- For as long as I can afford them.
62. Would you keep them even if you couldn't ride them anymore?
- Of course. They're not like an old car where you just throw to the junkyard when it's outlived its use. These are living, emotional creatures.
63. Does anyone else ride them?
- Frank does sometimes.
64. (question has been removed)
Past Horses
65. How many horses have you owned?
- Only two. My sister had a pony when she was younger.
66. Are there any that you no longer have?
- No.
67. Were they sold? If not, what happened?
- N/A
68. What were their names?
-N/A
69. Age?
- N/A
70. Breed?
- N/A
71. Height?
- N/A
72. Colour/markings?
- N/A
73. If you sold them, why?
- N/A
74. Did you compete with them?
-N/A
75. Do you still own anything that belonged to them?
- N/A
Random Questions
76. This is my horse's theme tune:
- I ran- Bowling For Soup
77. This song represents my riding career:
- We Are
78. My horse's showname is:
- N/A
79. My next horse will be called:
- Don't know
80. When I ride into the ring, the song I compete to is:
- I don't compete.
81. I listen to this while mucking out:
- I don't listen to music when I clean the stalls.
82. If I owned my own ranch/barn, I would call it:
- Prancing Paradise
83. My horse loves this song:
- Anything mellow.
84. My dressage to music test will be ridden to this:
- I don't do dressage. Every dressage rider I've ever met has been stuck up and treated their horse like an object to do what they demand.
85. If I was to ride in a musical display, we would enter the arena to this:
- Return to Innocence
86. This song makes me think of the horses I have known:
-"All the Pretty Little Ponies"
87. This is what I was thinking the last time I fell off:
- OMG, I hope nobody saw that ~_~
88. If my horse could speak, the first thing he would say is:
- "You can understand me??"
89. My horse's name for me is:
- I dunno... the girl with the blue eyes?
90. If my horsey life was a movie, the opening song would be:
- You can't take me- Bryan Adams
91. And the song that played as the final credits rolled would be:
- Run with the wild horses
92. Do you have your horse(s) at home or do you board?
- I board.
93. Do you use leather or synthetic tack?
- Synthetic. No animals were harmed in the making of my tack.
94. Do you ever use a bareback pad?
- No, I like feeling the horse's body heat under me, especially in the winter.
95. Biggest pet peeve?
- Dressage riders. They treat their horses like inanimate objects to do with as they please and then send them off to the slaughter house as soon as they've outlived their usefulness.
96. How many pairs of riding boots do you own?
- One now.
97. Have you ever gone swimming with your horse(s)?
- No, Zipper hates water. She won't go through it, she'll jump over it.
98. How many acres is your horse(s) on?
- oh gosh... more than ten
99. Any foals/pregnant mares?
- Not this year
100. Tag someone!
Whoever loves horses!
Tired
Have been since I was twelve. 
Guilty
Angsty
