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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fox hunting. [/quote]

Most people learn how to fox hunt in their 20s. A few in their early 40s but not many.[/quote]

Umm, no. I started at 11 and most of my friends were born with a seasoned hunt pony already waiting in the barn.

If your family hunts you hunt. [/quote]

Umm, I started at age 4. I said most people, not all people.[/quote]

I grew up on a horse farm, and I was a Pony Clubber.  Fox Hunting etiquette and terminology are taught at Pony Club and are intrinsic to Pony Club culture/history (I remember when our Pony Club leader taught me, at about 6 years of age, that the little metal d rings on English saddles are for attaching "hunting appointments"; my first grade teacher thought this was hilarious when I explained this to her as I described a drawing in class).  Many children start Pony Club when they are 4 or 5 and continue through high school.  Our Pony Club attended drag hunts (we were affiliated with a local hunt club), and I was about 7 on my first time out.  I don't know anyone who "learned" to fox hunt in their 20s.  I guess that would be for people who didn't grow up with horses?  In any case, "most" of the horse people I know who hunt learned well before they were in their 20s.[/quote]

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