Riding a horse usually ridden by a bloke... How hard is it for you?

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Does anyone else find them MUCH harder work in the beginning? I assume because a bloke is stronger in hand and leg? It takes me 2 or even 3 rides, to get one of my YO's horses going where I don't feel they're pulling my arms out and making my legs wobbly from the effort. Or am I just a weakling?
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my fella alot of the time rides my youngster and you can defo tell when he has been riding not saying he is a bad rider at all just that i think they ride different to us girls. It doesnt usually take me that long though after getting on board to get a tune out of him.
 
I do. I think that most men ride with muscle power and we 'ladies' are more likely to have a conversation about what we would like our mount to do. Most male ridden horses either sigh a sigh of relief when they realise that theyre being ridden by a female or they take the piddle and take 'us' for a ride
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. Ask any horse and they will tell you- 10 out of 10 horses, prefer women
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. Its the truth-I heard it straight from the horses mouth
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Well, last week I started riding a horse called Mernier; He was stiff through the neck, VERY strong (big strong chap as well!) and I was absolutely exhausted from the effort. By yesterday, he and I were best friends I was riding him on a very light contact... YO got on him today and was very pleased with how he was going (he told me last week I'd made his horses crooked!!) ... reckon he'll be pulling my arms out again tomorrow??
 
He might learn to switch modes?

My brother rides my horsey with lots of leg & no hands, she loves haring around with her nose poked out but he's always in control because he'll give a BIG aid when she needs it.

I can definately tell when he's been on! But give her 3 minutes & she'll remember how she's meant to go again.
 
One of our horses if 100% a girls horse in the stable but work him under harness or saddle and he's definatly a boys horse. Being dominated reasures him, he can be nervous and it comes out in bolshyness. He's a 16.2 boulanaise/brabant so has alot of weight to throw around if he wants to yet if he has a bloke he doesnt try to arse about so much and I think being told rather than asked suits him better. I'm learning to ride/drive more like a bloke to get the best out of him. hope it works
 
It's pretty hard for me when I ride my husbands horse - mainly cos she is such a daddys girls and does exactly what he wants! If I moan and he gets on she is all sweetness and light - she lurves her Daddy! It has been mainly him who has ridden her since she was backed and she's 20 now! But it may just be she knows when a numpty (me) gets on!
 
For the time being I have stolen my dad's horse. (Insert evil laugh) I have to ride him in spurs as I just don't have the strength in my legs to make him go forward. I am a foot smaller than my dad so i'm only little. And He's quite a big horse.
 
I keep being told I ride like a man recently! mainly because I can ride pickle (who my dad rides) and various other men's horses without a problem!
 
Blimey no hope for me in October when I finally get to ride Ralph after 15 months.....Mark my instructor has been riding twice a week.....I'm gonna ride like a spastic one thinks
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Well, I've read all of the post above and all I can say is...what a bunch of GIRLS
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My OH say that H, our Newfie gelding, is definitely a 'blokes' pony. Mind you, she scares the stuffing out of him (poor little boy) and really expects him to work.

Blokes on horses are the same as on motorbikes, we just want speed and something a little bit unruly
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I think my YO wants something he can wrestle with!!

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Umm, not sure I would fancy that. There is a phrase about wrestling a pig in mud, I think you could paraphrase it into 'never have a battle of strength with a horse'
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"Blokes on horses are the same as on motorbikes, we just want speed and something a little bit unruly ".

Oh how true, I backed OH's horse myself, but then he took over the ride and yes, the sentence above sums his attitude up perfectly.

Now OH has damaged his back (not through riding may I add!) and so for the time being I have taken over the ride again. After a few initial battles, the horse is beginning to understand some discipline and that he can't just canter everywhere. But boy is he strong! We are now just getting to grips with the brakes at canter, but it's been very difficult because my use of the seat aid seemed almost ineffective at first (possibly because I'm nearly 5 stone lighter than OH and the horse hardly notices me), so I admit to going through a stage of relying rather too much on the rein to apply the brakes and, with OH being that much bigger and stronger than me, what he calls a light rein aid is the equivalent to me nearly having my arms pulled out. But the good news is that we're getting there, the fights are now few and far between and I am now able to get the horse to work steadily, with the minimum of contact, without him taking off with me.
 
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