how do people burn calories when horseback riding?

Question

I’ve never rode a horse, but it seems like the horse is doing the work while the human just sits there. I googled if calories are burn during horseback riding and I found that riding a horse for 45 min burns 200 calories. How is this possible if the humans not really doing anything except sit on the horse?

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A horse isn’t much at all like a car. The rider has to move to account for the horse’s bouncing, control where the horse goes, and of course balance to avoid falling basically any direction. If it were “just sitting there” it wouldn’t be such work to get good at it.