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)