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Ariat boots are tiny. Or is it me? I wear Dublins(not endorsing them,payroll-0!) Durable, nice looking, comfortable. I ride Hunter-Jumper, so comfort = #1!! But curse Dansko… they quit selling Riding Boots For SANDALS!! The dansko boots I had where great, and outlived three different pairs of paddock boots ive had since….

ali you are so right the shoes and riding gear from thear are verry comfy in my opinyon but other copinys are good to like bukeroo bizz (you probly havent herd of them reasn thay are in dumfriesand hardly eny thing hear is famasthe most famas thing hear is my dog and we only won one pet show)

i have a pair of saxon boots which are great they don’t cost much, are comfortable and have lasted me a while they also have steel toes so when my friesian stepped on my foot i didnt even have a brouse on my toe. though one pair of boots i bought which i dont rember the brand, had a torn off sole (literally the whole sole of the boot came off in a few days of riding) they were horrible!!!

(p.s. i’m english but because your american im gunna speak to you americanish)

i go horse riding in gellngs riding school (its somwhere by a feild) and i sometimes take the horses back to their stables after ive ridden them. but i want to work there!!
ive askd my mom if i can work there, and she said that i can if i can ask anne myself (hahah that rymes!) anyway, i’m not good at talking to people i cant even go nextdoor to ask if i can borrow something!! but all i want my mum to do is ask anne if i can work there i used to work their a long time ago but i stopped going because…well i acctually dont know why i stoped going. but anyway how can i convince my mom to ask anne if i can work their????

Luckily, Americanish and English are pretty much the same, minus a few missing zeds and l’s and u’s here and there. Plus, I’ve been in and out of England for the past two and half years, so I speak English pretty well!

First, I’m very glad you’re so excited about riding! And I totally understand being scared about talking to grown-up people–sometimes they don’t understand you, and they can be pushy and demanding. But I really do think that if this is something you want to do, then YOU need to be the one to ask Anne if you can work there. And you may be surprised by how nice Anne is ;) You never know until you try! Because your mom isn’t the one who wants to ride, she shouldn’t be the one to do the work. If you want it, you have to go for it! It’ll be good practice for you, too, no matter what happens.

So, tell you what. Give it a shot, and then post back here, and let us all know how it went!
-Ali

hi, i would like to thank you ,ali and noah .You have taught me plenty of steps of how to work horses and their tack.It has been really useful ,so i can use these skills when it comes to me riding,my pony oggit A.K.A ogg-bogg.Thankyou (AGAIN)

I bought a pair of boots by the brand of Perri’s (I believe that was it lol) and the quality was awful. The sole completely fell off.

Hello Ali,

I have been trying to find a good place to buy riding pants. I haven’t found many actual stores that sell them. I would like to try them on before buying them to make sure they fit. Do you know of any chains that I can look for that might carry jodhpurs?
Also where is a good place to get them online? I like the prices of http://www.chicksaddlery.com/ but they have a lack of selection.

Thank you,
Kate

horse.com is a great online store, as they carry pretty much every brand. I’m surprised you aren’t finding them in stores, though–every riding store should carry them! Ariat is only online, I think, but you can order them and return them for free if they don’t fit (I think).
-Ali