Father’s Day is a time to celebrate and honor the dependable, hard-working, and much appreciated fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and fatherlike figures in our lives. They work hard to provide for their families and help us learn valuable lessons. They might not always understand our obsession with horses, but that doesn’t stop them from helping us achieve our goals and dreams with them.  

So in honor of Father’s Day, here are some of the equine lessons and memories that we—The Horse staff—and you—The Horse readers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers—have shared with the fathers, grandfathers, and horsemen in our lives.

For some, it was their father or grandfather who introduced them to horses. 

Reader Lorna MacDonald said her grandfather introduced her to horses early in life. “My grandfather put me on his horse before I could walk, so the love of horses was started,” she recalled. “Then my grandmother bought me my first horse when I was in primary school. I’m a grandmother now and still have horses. My daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter all ride so the love of horses has been passed down through the generations