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<sigh>  Truman, you really do need to go back and study mechanical advantages of levers, etc.  I'm sure kat could give you a far better detailed description than I can--but she said she's already given up trying to educate people who don't seem to want to understand basic physics.  :-)

 

Heidi

And as amazing as the horse is in it's biomechanics he still has to
answer to Mother Nature. Double the mass he has to carry - he has to to
twice as much work and expend twice as much energy. Mother Nature makes
an exception for no one - no matter how good their equitation.

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