No doubt horses replace best friends  at times but when you ride them, they have all the capability to buck you off for any whips you hit them.

Oh that morning..

Dejected by the entry of rains at a wrong time, sitting near the barn, I wondered what should I do to make my day interesting as riding wasn’t possible now.
Feeling lazy, I got up and strolled through the barn noticing this beautiful pair enjoying the rains romantically.

Walking further,I recalled that we had a new horse this morning, I went to its barn. It is just so beautiful. Its chestnut colour makes it look so stunning.

 

I wondered what if it had never rained, I would not have lived these moments. Though rains made riding impossible, they gave me these moments as the recovery of the loss.
This morning was a memorable one. Strolling around for a moment and capturing the place of one’s own passion is fun in itself.

We all have heard about many such sports that are played in teams like cricket, football, basketball, volleyball etc. But have you heard about horse back riding being a team sport? Isn’t it?

In the prominent and widely played team games, where people can communicate, devise a strategy and implement it, even then it’s not guaranteed that everything goes as planned. Altercations among team mates are always witnessed.

On the other hand equestrian riding is that sport where team is formed between a human being and an unpredictable, four-legged, two hundred pound creature, emotionally attached to you. Without any verbal communication and strategy, the two mates form a team where either the rider dominates the horse or its the other way round. So how does one dominate the other?

Neighs cannot be understood by a human being. It all depends on the body language. In this sport, one has to tune up with that one creature, whose body language has to be understood at each and every moment. As what it thinks would change, just in a fraction of second. So it’s that creature one deals with, who can do anything and everything at any given point of time. No one is assured of what can come over its mind. And it all depends on the performance of the horse. The rider is judged by the performance of his/ her partner(the horse). And the funny part is, even if the horse did anything inaccurate, a rider cannot get frustrated and shout at it. While in the case of the usually played team sports this is highly possible.

Horse back riding is that intense team sport where there is no place for frustration. The horse and the rider are so well tuned up that their heart beats together. There is a telepathy amongst them.

Non-equestrians may disagree of  horse back riding as a team sport. As most of them have always perceived that horse back riding is that where a person sits on the back of the horse like he/she may sit on a sofa set and just grab the reins and then its only the horse who plays the vital role. While this can never be true. If that would have been the case, why wouldn’t most of us be a champion at horse back riding ? Non- equestrians might always take you to task and never understand what horse back riding is for you and why.

With due respect to all the team games, I perceive that horse back riding is just an another level of team sport that takes more than just a human and a horse.

Happy Riding. Cheers!!