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| I thought this would be fun and interesting to talk about our old friends that we still compete or competed on. Every horse is different. I know some are done at 16 and others can run into their 20s. I would love to see pics.
Mine is 19 this year but she looks and acts like she's 4 lol I plan on riding her until I can't no more. She's athletic an quick and you'd never know by looking at her that she is 19. I'd post a pic but my phone won't let me.
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 Hot Dispatcher
Posts: 10185
Location: Utah | The paint horse in my profile picture is 22 this year and I still run him. The Buckskin is 20 and I will run him a few times this year. Both are sound, happy and love their jobs. The buckskin is now my sons horse. |
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 Off the Wall Wacky
Posts: 2981
 
Location: Louisiana | My HS rodeo horse was grade, but we know he was at minimum 26 when he passed. From tracing his owners back through friends.
He was in great physical shape and I was running him every weekend. He coliced and had to be put down.
He had the biggest personality and was ornery as heck, but he did love his person. :) |
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Posts: 383
Location: Sweet Home Alabama | Well growing up, all I rode was my dad's older rope horses. We only have one that officially retired at our place and she is 32 and partially blind. I quit riding her in '07 but then my little cousin rode her as a beginner for a couple years. Since then, she's been enjoying the retired life. My HS pole horse is 23 this year and has slowed down quite a bit so now he is my niece's. The mare in my avatar is 16 and she's basically retired because I don't want to sell her and I'm riding 4 youngsters. I'm hoping in a few years my niece will ride her.
I think it's alright to ride older horses, but I watched one of my friends run her gelding until he was 30. He used to be a bad cat on poles but toward the latter of his career, he was lucky if he was running a 23. I think they should retire at the top. But that's just me  |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 682
Location: Northwest | I just sold a 21 year old that I was still running. The young gal that bought him has already won a buckle and some other stuff. Those oldies are the best. |
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Posts: 110
| Thirty three, but I was a lil eight year old who weighed about forty pounds with her saddle. He's still alive and looking better than my twenty year old. |
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 Three in a Bikini
Posts: 2035
| 23.
And we were going every weekend.
I love the old ones. They are all I am willing to deal with these days. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 762
Location: NC | My "old" man is 20 this year. Still has more energy then most horses i know. My mom rides/runs him know and he takes such good care of her. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 634
| I ran mine once or twice a month until he was about 24, just kept him legged up and he was great. He's 27 now and enjoying retirement. I enjoy hopping on him bareback once in a while. ha. |
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 I hate cooking and cleaning
Posts: 3314
Location: Jersey Girl | The horse in my avatar, he was 22 the last time I ran him. |
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Expert
Posts: 2678
Location: Mi | My niece won a saddle on my old high school rodeo horse when he was 28, he's 31 now. |
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Posts: 1631
Location: Somewhere around here | My first horse was estimated to be around 18-19 when I bought her and I sadly only had her for 4 years before she passed away but she was the best! |
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 Midget Lover
Location: Kentucky | Oldest was 22, and he was a confidence builder 4D horse.
The mare I run now is 19 and is 2D. She's a beast. I love the old faithfuls. |
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Sparklin Cowgirl
Posts: 4379
| Woody was 21 when we retired him but he would have kept going! But we wanted him to retire sound and healthy. |
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Posts: 141
Location: College Station, TX | I ran one until she was 28, stopped running (still sound) and she died at 30. Until she was retired you never would have guessed her age. She went downhill quickly at that point.
Edited by Talkeetnababe 2016-07-20 10:59 AM
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Regular
Posts: 85
| My youth horse raised 8 (yes, 8!) girls and competed until she was 27. She was 15ish when I got her, I was her 5th girl. I retired her but had a family beg me to buy her and she helped raise their daughter and then 2 more. She was notorious for prancing everywhere she went and never walked lol. Now she is back with her original owner and enjoying retirement at the age of 33. She was Mr. San Peppy and Leo bred. Sweet girl, you could compete in any event on her and had a shot at winning. |
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
Posts: 11181
Location: Kansas | Joker is 23 and still running pretty well, though on a limited schedule. He actually just pulled a 4D check on a way too big for him pattern Tuesday night at our county fair and I'm planning to run him at a rodeo next Wednesday since it's an 11-12 second pen and no one will have as much time to outrun him. He's a really fun horse to run......super solid and loves his job, so as long as he's healthy, happy and reasonably competitive, I'll keep running him lightly. He requires shockingly little maintenance so I tell people he's the magical unicorn barrel horse that we all want, just not quite 1D except in TINY pens with hard ground.
Here's one of his solid 3D runs from this spring - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYKIHv1NiGI. |
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Location: Illinois | One of mine turned 23 in April and still running! He amazes me :) |
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 Take a Picture
Posts: 12841
| There was a 27 year old competing in the speed events at the world buckskin show in the amateur events. He did very well. |
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Posts: 338
Location: NE TX | I've had a couple of oldies. First horse I purchased was 22 when I bought him. Ran him for a year and he bowed both front tendons (was young and dumb and didn't run in splint boots or anything in DEEP dirt multiple times) and so he was retired and used as a trail horse and swim horse for another 3 years before I fully retired him. Next horse I bought, didn't work out so I bought another 20 something year old and ran him till he was late into his 22 year old year. Found out he had a chip in his ankle and was so painful even injections didn't help and since he was older it wasn't "worth" the surgery. If it weren't for those two horses becoming injured, they were both so good to me I would've probably retired them in a year or so anyways but those are the oldest ones I've run that were my own. When I first started out I was on some OLD lesson horses that needed to have been retired years prior but they were great to learn on before I bought my first one.
Attached pic is from the last run I made on the one that ended up with the chip in his ankle. That was fall '09, I lost him to colic the following February.
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