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[quote=Anonymous]I have three girls. The older two were doing horseback riding for a number of years. We were not going to buy a horse; we were not going to even get into leasing a horse. We had said they can take weekly lessons, some camp time in the summer, and we'll do a few shows that fit our schedule.

The problem with that plan was that you send them into the shows against girls who own their own horses and are practicing multiple times per week and they're riding up in their Tahoes with the little horse trailer and the whole thing. Obviously they're getting more practice, and they better know their animal, just like I could more easily get my own dog to roll over as opposed to your dog.

So you sit through these shows, and often times your DD is getting fourth or fifth in every event, and not ever having ridden ourselves, my wife and I are like "Huh. I wonder what the difference was between her and the first place winner. Maybe her boots were pointed in the wrong direction." It starts to get really frustrating, and we started to feel really out of place. And we were actually with pretty low key groups, too. I can't imagine if we were in the fancier areas.

Then at one point, one of my DDs fell and got a mild concussion. We kept going, but my wife would be watching, and in addition to the frustration of feeling like our moderate level of participation and commitment was keeping them as a permanent underclass, DW had increasing anxiety about her falling.

So we "took a break" and didn't go back. Occasionally, we get in touch with their first instructor and set up a trail ride on a Saturday. That's enough. No jumping.

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