Re: [RC] Maybe shorter is better ;) - Chris PausKristen, there are no hard and fast rules. I'm a heavyweight rider. I've competed on a 15.1H, 1050 pound Arab and a 14.2H 850 pound Arab. Each horse has done equally well. In fact, the littler horse has better heart rates.
I think it has more to do with the sturdiness of the horse, than it's height or weight. As a heavyweight rider, I've learned to ride well balanced and as "light" as I can, i.e., posting carefully, not flopping myself down on the horse, using a mounting block, etc.
chris
Kristen A Fisher <kskf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot Chris and Star BayRab Acres http://pages.prodigy.net/paus
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