As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.
Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.
When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It would be laziness not to do it.
One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.