sensitive ride - what do you take it to mean?

The horse needs a very 'quiet' rider. Not too much leg and hand. Can mean they are easily upset by heavy handed riders or unbalanced sudden movements in the saddle. Can also mean they are very good to ride, responding to the lightest of aids.
 
Wagtail said:
The horse needs a very 'quiet' rider. Not too much leg and hand. Can mean they are easily upset by heavy handed riders or unbalanced sudden movements in the saddle. Can also mean they are very good to ride, responding to the lightest of aids.
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^ What Wagtail said!
 
A very good thing for the right rider, a disaster for the wrong rider! An unbalanced rider with unclear aids would probably wind such a horse up and scare both of them in the process. An experienced rider would enjoy the energy and sensitivity, and put it to good use!
 
As above really, needs a quiet, sympathetic, balanced rider - and probably prone to be easily wound up and frightened.
 
Wagtail said:
The horse needs a very 'quiet' rider. Not too much leg and hand. Can mean they are easily upset by heavy handed riders or unbalanced sudden movements in the saddle. Can also mean they are very good to ride, responding to the lightest of aids.
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This ^^^^ .
My lad is an extremely sensitive ride. He hates being ridden by anyone but Elizabeth, to the extent that her AI said he was "the stubbornest most bloody minded horse I have ever ridden"When trying him out. Yet he goes beautifully for E. He is very sensitive to seat and aids. I rode him once after riding Fany ( kick and go type) and was a bit firm with my leg, he shot off. Not being naughty just sensitive.

Elizabeth can drop the reins and just control him with her seat, so I think they suit each other and he finds other riders, including me, crude, lacking subtlety and sensitivity to his way of going. This winds him up and makes him feel insecure and nervous. I also think it is about harmony between horse and rider Elizabeth makes my lad look easy to ride, because they are tuned into each other. He finds it hard to find that with other riders, so becomes incredibly sensitive rearing, being stubborn and "bloody minded" etc.

FDC
 
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I would take it to mean the horse is as hot as a scotch bonnet pepper and the rider only has to twitch in the saddle for it to leap 20ft sideways with eyes bulging and nostrils flaring!
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Basically if you breathe wrong you'll be on the floor, Carl used to say Peanuts was 'sensitive', what he meant was 'if you took a deep breath he went ballistic...' I wouldn't say I was a hard rider but I don't like sensative horses, I like a horse I can occasionally make a mistake and won't be paying for it with broken bones!
 
My horse was described as sensitive when i first saw him, i quickly realised in this instance they meant fruitcake! Sensitive ride i would see as a good thing ie sensitive to aids, doesn't require pony club kicking but could also be a disaster with the wrong rider
 
KVH said:
Oh Silverstar was wondering how your horse search was going, I take it no luck yet?
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Nope not found anything suitable yet. Getting fed up with horse hunting especially now its lighter at night to ride and the comp season is upon us.
 
Delicia is sensitive, sometimes i dont know how she gets up in the morning :D

I once saw a keyring that said "just as i got used to yesterday along came today" just about sums it up.
 
My Lilly is sensitive - to what is going on around her (read scared of everything), and to her rider. She reacts to the slightest shift of weight/balance from me, and everything I do has to be correct as a result. She's a lovely girl who always tries to please and has a fantastic attitude to humans and to her work, but not for the faint hearted, and if you handle her wrong, you've had it lol!
 
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