Now and then: celebrating your long-standing (equine) partners

‘These pictures were taken 15 years apart. Sprattsdown Tenacity has been with me since I was 12 and he was seven. We are now 28 and 22 respectively. My pony of a life time!’ — Louise England

‘This is my horse Ben 10 years apart — back in 2005 and then in 2015 in the intermediate at Aske. The horse of a lifetime.’ — Boogie Machin

‘Unfortunately I can’t find the younger pictures of us… I had him from a yearling and I was six months old and sadly lost him at 28 last year.’ — Rowanne Treanor

‘2003 and 2016 — my boy Saul at Hickstead in a coloured class and now aged 24.’ — Mel Newman

‘This is my first pony Mojo who I sadly lost last year. I am 12 in the first photo and 34 in the second photo, so 22 years apart. I owned her for 27 wonderful years and she reached the grand old age of 36.’ — Lucy Moggridge

‘This is a bit of a cheat as it’s different riders but the top picture is me aged 14 in 1996 on my pony Magic, and the bottom picture is 20 years later of my daughter aged 10 on the same pony, taken a few weeks ago. Twenty-five and still going strong!’ — Lisa Mc Mullan

‘This is me and my boy Camarthen Kid. The first picture was taken in 1993 and the next taken 23 years later. At 28 Rocky is still going strong and is still my best friend.’ — Laura Halstead

‘These photos were taken 10 years apart.’ — Katie Marshall

‘Here’s my Mum’s horse Dylan who was a buy one get one free from her mare. On the left is him at just under two-years-old and on the right is last week and he’s now nearly six.’ Joy Leng

‘This is my daughter aged seven and fourteen — with Queenie, a friend’s mare she rode then and now.’ — Jeni Harte

‘Twenty-five years apart with our beloved Beauty who we lost this summer aged 33. I’m four in the picture on the right and on the left is a photo from almost two years ago of me leading my niece, then aged four.’ — Grainne Rose

‘I got Kizzy when we were both six and she taught me so much. She has gone on to teach so many other children and is still loving life at 27.’ — Emily Breeze

‘Top left is 17 years ago at our first show when my horse was five and I was 14. The right hand picture is in 2010 when she was 16, not long before her retirement and the bottom left is this year in her retirement at 22 years young.’ — Amanda Rushby

‘There are 10 years between these two photos — we were champions at the Toddington & District charity show’ — Cathy Comerford

‘This is me and my favourite girl about 15 years apart. It started off like a pea on top of a mountain (my Mum said I’ll grow into her!) and luckily enough we still have her at the age of 26.’ — Loz Gallagher

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