Yem
New User
Hi All,
I just had my 12/13th lesson this weekend. For a few of these lessons I have been riding a beautiful horse called Rosie. She is eager to go and needed the lightest touch in order to get her to do anything. I was riding her last week and everything went smoothly, trot, canter, even jumping (Did my first jump).
This week, I had a horse. Another beautiful horse but a lot less willing to do anything. I could barely even get him to trot.
This got me thinking - What really makes a rider? Is it the horse, or is it the rider themselves? If you put a world class level rider on an unresponsive RS horse, do you think they would be able to make it perform better? Also, on the flip side, do you think a novice rider would perform better on a world class horse?
I understand it's a little of both. Obviously, the ideal match is a world class horse and rider! But, I am interested to see your responses.
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I just had my 12/13th lesson this weekend. For a few of these lessons I have been riding a beautiful horse called Rosie. She is eager to go and needed the lightest touch in order to get her to do anything. I was riding her last week and everything went smoothly, trot, canter, even jumping (Did my first jump).
This week, I had a horse. Another beautiful horse but a lot less willing to do anything. I could barely even get him to trot.
This got me thinking - What really makes a rider? Is it the horse, or is it the rider themselves? If you put a world class level rider on an unresponsive RS horse, do you think they would be able to make it perform better? Also, on the flip side, do you think a novice rider would perform better on a world class horse?
I understand it's a little of both. Obviously, the ideal match is a world class horse and rider! But, I am interested to see your responses.
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