I can remember watching a display by mounted police, not Canadian, where the riders removed their saddles whilst performing. Can anyone help me find a video of this.
Watched that many times at the Met. Police horse show at Imber Court when I was young. Always impressive. We used to go every year until I moved away to uni. in the 1970s
They also had a Sword, Lance and Revolver competition between the mounted branches at that show along with inter-services show jumping.
Sadly the show no longer exists but there are some historic mounted branch links here:
Police Horses have been at Imber Court for over 100 years. They are trained for the Metropolitan Police Service and horses will also have rest from duty here.