Horsetalk.co.nz - Full Article
Neil Clarkson | 9 November 2015
...Horses are nigh-on perfect. Powerful, fast, agile, perfectly balanced. And they’re tractable enough to allow us to climb on their backs and do our bidding for us.
We marvel at their sheer speed on the racetrack and admire their endurance when we ask them to compete over 100-mile distances.
The sport of endurance, at its pinnacle, is about the partnership between horse and rider. Yes, horses are pushed hard, but the rider is attuned to their mount and can sense its performance as surely as any race-car driver can monitor his engine with a myriad of gauges in front of him.
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