saffie, I agree, I think bad backs and, in my case, bad hips, just go with the territory. I have never taken a bad spill, knock wood, just worn myself out from over use and trying to stay on crazy horses for so many years. I started with a pony, riding bareback mostly, all around town with my cousins from sun up to sun down, then graduated to Saddlebreds, showing first a pleasure horse, then a walk trot, finally, five gaited horses. Also showed road ponies.
Now I am done with showing, have a paint mare that I trail ride, western, and a couple of rescue ponies that are pasture ornaments.
