no, not at all.

its never too late

Its never 2 late to start something if you really want to do it. Hard work and Practice practice practice. Also you want ur horse to get to know your every move when you ride him/her.

No, as a few riders started later in life. But you will have to work much harder and make god connections to keep you going.

It's not too late, but might I suggest you have attainable goals and not expect to compete with the elite? Show Jumping is extremly expensive and the training that is required is immense. Good luck!

no of course its not too late, you can learn at any age even though the difficulty might rise from a certain point, i totally encourage you to do this. Though you should probably get proffesional help from a trainer, i think this would probably be alot easier

If you have a few million spare dollars laying around it isn't too late. You can probably learn the skills and build the muscles. But you have no idea how much it costs. I've watched more than a few people shipwreck their lives on those rocks. The single minded devotion that would take, unless you have the money of a Rockefeller is more than you want to do. I know you might not think so now, but when you look back on it from forty, you'll know it was. Here is how it works. You start riding with a trainer and developing the skills, riding the trainers horses and saddle. Eventually, you realize you need a better saddle to get to the next level, one that actually fits you. So you spend every dime you have on a really good Kieffer and drive a junk car to pay for it. College dreams are gone out the window, but hey, you can make it up when you hit the big time. Eventually you have to get a good horse, and luckily, someone gives you a thoroughbred off the track that has some talent. You walk away mopping your brow in relief that you didn't have to cough up $30,000 for a mid-level competitor, they walk away mopping their brow with relief that they don't have to feed the beast anymore. Now the real fun starts. You are now working for your trainer, working off your horses board and training and your lessons, because its the only way you can afford the horse. You are either living back at home with your parents, or you are living in some 30 year old camper on your trainer's place. Every spare moment that you aren't mucking stalls or filling water buckets or tacking up someone elses horses, or exercising 20 other horses for the Olympic hopefuls with the money to go to college and pay someone else to prep their horse, you are trying to ride your horse enough to advance it beyond trotting over cavaletti. You work and you sweat for years, trying to reach for that one moment of glory, and then one day, your horse bows a tendon, or develops road founder, or gets arthritis in its ankles or shoulders, or you have a bad fall and lose your nerve, or you and/or your horse just get too old. And you wake up one morning, 40 years old, single, living in a cold trailer, no degree, no career, and just too darn old to muck stalls anymore. Your parents are too old to help you get another start at this point, and really need you to help care for them. Your car is a rusty, 15 year old pickup with a 350 for pulling horse trailers and it gets 10 miles to the gallon on the days it runs. You've got absolutely nothing to show for 23 years of grueling work. Save yourself some grief. Do what my grandfather told me to do, and I wouldn't listen because I was young and dumb and loved horses: go get an education. Get married. Get a home and a family and a life. If there is enough money on the side, keep a horse at the local pleasure stable and have fun with it. But if you don't have the money to run with the Rockefellers, don't try to run with the Rockefellers. I did wake up in time to get out and get a life, but I didn't go to college until I was in my thirties and my only child was born just under the wire. I have MANY friends who didn't wake up until it was too late and they are grieving for it now. Don't break your heart on those rocks.

I know this question was posted ages ago but I'm in exactly the same situation now. I'm 17 and I'm starting riding lessons soon and hopefully starting equine studies at college in September but did you start riding and if you did how is it going?