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I was about 14 or so years old. Since the age of 8, I had puttered around on lesson horse after lesson horse, I was an unconfident, frightened rider who would often start crying if my horse so much as leaped to the side or tripped. Honestly, riding was more of a past time than a "hobby" when I first started. But then I grew better. My parents had both promised that when i turned 13, I could look for a real horse of my own. I always made it very clear that I didn't want a horse over 15.2hh and absolutely under no circumstances was it to be a thoro