Riders of a Certain Age: Your Guide for Loving Horses Mid-Life and Beyond

The fastest growing segment of the horse world is women mid-life and beyond. This thorough but light-hearted guide welcomes you to the equine life. Whether a newcomer to the world of hay and hoofs more someone who’s been in the saddle since childhood, you’ll find information about every aspect of the horse world. Riders of a Certain Age is full of wisdom and sound advice for people coming into horses as adults. It encourages us to keep riding forward at a point in life when others might expect us to whoa. From leasing to leakage, money to manure, this engagingly candid, comprehensive resource is an owner’s manual for reclaiming the right to indulge your horse-loving inner child. With carefully curated guidance collected over years of horsing around, Fran Severn presents you with tips, lessons, and advice as you begin enjoying a life with horses in it.

You’ll find information about:

-Getting into the saddle (or not, but still enjoying horses)

-Finding an instructor and being a good student

-Understanding and overcoming fear

-Riding with ‘replacement parts’

-Dealing with the physical changes and challenges of our older bodies

-Learning the world of buying, leasing, and boarding horses

-Managing your ‘stable finances’ to pay for it all and still stay solvent

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Release date

Audiobook: 14 November 2025