I mean there are professional jockeys and show riders who must be doing *something* at a very high level, but I honestly don’t understand what. Like if I’m riding a horse that’s jumping over a fence, isn’t that all the horse? And I just need to not fall off?
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Riders at the top levels have ridden/trained for many years. Just like other athletes and skilled practitioners. And as others have indicated it takes time and skill to become successful with a particular horse. While any good rider can be proficient with any trained horse, it takes both the rider and horse working together to be truly successful. Also there are many different types of horse based competitions. Racing is a more obvious one. But you have dressage, barrel racing, hunter jumper, steeple chase, cross country, stadium jumping, driving, endurance, etc etc.
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