it's all about trust and training.
The horse doesn't know what's on the other side of a fence, so trusts the rider.
The rider is also there to keep stride in check to ensure the horse doesn't jump too early or too late. It's teamwork all the way.
Without a rider the horse would never be fit enough, but without a confident horse it'd be a mess.
( Windy Pig is a stupid cunt., Tue 31 Jul 2012, 12:22, archived)

WP, animal bondage enthusiast.

( mark morrisons prison shoes like a metrosexual bellend or something, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 12:24, archived)

and without a fit horse it wouldn't be much good, either.

( Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 12:24, archived)

i guarantee you a wild horse would never be a patch on a trained, well looked after event horse.
The human input improves performance.
( Windy Pig is a stupid cunt., Tue 31 Jul 2012, 12:30, archived)

certainly, but that goes for the rider as well.
I wouldn't say that only one of them is putting the effort in, or that the horse makes no difference. In other words there is such a thing as "horse talent".
( Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 13:08, archived)

horse talent is also called Good Breeding,
and is also facilitated by humans.
( Windy Pig is a stupid cunt., Tue 31 Jul 2012, 13:27, archived)

well it might be,
but it isn't true to say that the individual horse isn't doing any of the work, is it?

Also humans didn't invent horses in the first place. We worked out how to get the best out of them, but there's still a lot of horse nature in the exercise.
( Moon Girl Technologies don't take my word for anything, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 13:34, archived)

yeah but what i want to know is whether zara has a series of pulleys and hoists to make the horse fuck her
like princess catherine or something didn't

what do i look like, a historian?
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 12:32, archived)

almost certainly q,
Almost certainly.
( Windy Pig is a stupid cunt., Tue 31 Jul 2012, 12:44, archived)

"without a confident horse it'd be a mess".

(Drimble 0891 50 50 50, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 13:30, archived)

in that case, they should do it on the back of a blind person instead of a horse

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 31 Jul 2012, 13:25, archived)