Re: Re To Tall Horse

[Truman Prevatt <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

This was a discussion on our traing ride this morning.  I am almost six
feet tall and cannot synchronize to the rhythm of any short (horse under
15- hands) horse I have ever ridden.  I can almost always synchronize my
rhythm fairly eaisly to most horses over 15-2.  Some of the in between
heights I can and some I can't.

I believe there is some basic physics at play.  Taller people have
longer legs which would lead one to believe that their resonant
frequency of posting ( the frequency that requires the least energy so
is the most comfortable) would be lower than a person with shorter
legs.  

Now the resonant frequency of a short horse - again because of limb
lenght - will in general be faster than that of a taller horse.  I
believe in my situtation my resonant frequency of posting is mort
matched to the resonant frequency of a taller horse.

This may be why shorter people perfer shorter horses and taller people
perfer taller horses.  Of course I am not discounting that may be as
simple as shorter people don't like to fall far and that tall people
don't like to replace the bottoms of their riding shoes.

Truman

Bernita & Jerry Barfield wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I really have to disagree with you regarding "the bigger the horse the more comfortable", unless you're talking about ponies versus horses.
> 
>

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