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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Another former Pony Clubber here.  My first "real" hunt (with the Hillsboro Hounds, for those who know hunting) I was 12, I think.  It's not something you generally learn late in life, although I suppose it's possible.  I moved on to Eventing, and then back to dressage when I decided I was too breakable at current age.  :)

Anyway, OP is spectacularly full of $h!t, and weirdly entitled to think a family of foxhunters should come up with something for her to do, especially since her husband doesn't like it.  SMH.  Wish my inlaws liked it.[/quote]

Oh, good for you, ponyclubber!

Can this thread die already? The OP wrote it poorly. I believe it was about the in laws, who partake in a variety of equestrian activities, not even going riding with her, or inviting her to join them riding, ever. She rides with her children, but the family will only invite the kids to ride, not her. It was an in-law vent, like about 95% of the other posts on the Family Forum. Not that they should come up with a dumbed down version of fox hunting. Although that would be funny, and I would pay to see as many proletariat versions of fox hunting as possible. [/quote]

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