https://www.horseillustrated.com/the-near-side-blog-2010-0308-short-and-tall/ Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:27:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.horseillustrated.com/the-near-side-blog-2010-0308-short-and-tall/#comment-187150 Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:23:37 +0000 /the-near-side-blog/2010/0308-short-and-tall.aspx#comment-187150 I agree with you — it’s great to ride different horses, especially if they’re really big or really small. At my barn, there’s this 16.2 hand-high gelding, Louie, and this 14.3 hand-high mare, Stormy. They’re so different to ride!

]]> https://www.horseillustrated.com/the-near-side-blog-2010-0308-short-and-tall/#comment-181692 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:04:23 +0000 /the-near-side-blog/2010/0308-short-and-tall.aspx#comment-181692 As a trainer for the past 29-30 years I have had alot of horses come through my stables. Yes riding a variety of horses can teach you alot, especially if you ride back to back only on different horses. As much difference sometimes as night and day. It’s not only physical work but mental work as well. You have to do some good consentrating when you ride a variety of horses in a day of work. It will let you know that if you didn’t love horses and working with them, you wouldn’t be doing it.

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