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Thank you, diane.  Well said.  Of course I am feeling chubby these days so 
anything I hear that is positive for being a rider and not a 
passenger..........



As Winston Churchill said, "No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the 
saddle."  As Shakespear wrote in Henry V, "When I bestride him, I soar, I am 
like a hawk; he trots the air, the Earth sings, when he touches it; the 
basest horn of his hoof is more musical that the pipe of Hermes."





> From: Diane Trefethen <tref@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [RC]  Rider weight vs horse size
> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:38:38 -0700
>
> heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > ... Likewise, some people just don't stress a horse as
> > much, weight or no weight.
> When I first started to take riding lessons, my instructor told us that 
> there were "riders" and there were "passengers".  If you are a "rider", 
> even if you weigh 130#, you can ride a Shetland Pony over fences.  If you 
> are a 130# "passenger", even a 15 hand horse won't be happy with you in the 
> saddle.
>
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