Horse and Rider
To match horse and rider, we ask about riding ability and experiences. One of the most challenging tasks of putting people on our horses is matching them up with a horse that best suits them as a rider. A few words on a booking form only tells one so much, the rest comes in conversations and mannerisms, and the final say is in the horse yard. It helps to know the horses so well, that’s half the battle won:) and most folks are straight forward about their experience.
It is one thing to have ridden for many years in a controlled environement, or on a horse that you know inside and out…and all together another thing to be riding out in the bush, through creek beds, over rises and across wide open flats on a horse you have only just met. So, a great deal of consideration does go into matching horse and rider, and it mostly seems to work out fantastically. There might be a swap here and there, but this is one aspect that we seem to get right again and again. Thank goodness!
