Hmm I seem to off lost my thread on where I was going with the posts. Argh this is why I hate a break from posting, but then again it has been a busy few days. So I think after  where I left of I was then going to say something about being in a dark place and having a feeling of being too heavy to ride.

And then I was go onto to say something about the fact I used the word feeling, rather than point blank outright stating the fact I am too heavy to ride. Once again it comes back to we just don’t know.

Last week after my post I thought I would do another search to see if there was any more new info on the subject. And I came across an article I remember seeing a long time ago, about a study of around 300horses carrying 30% of their body weight and it not having any adverse effects.

I am looking for the article but it is lost in my history somewhere if I find it I will post a link. And in case you’re wondering I didn’t find any new info just a lot of the stuff that has been on there since I started searching five years ago. The irritating thing is for every positive article I probably find at least five others with a negative spin.

I even found one saying, should they set the limit for all horses at 170lbs, I honestly can’t express my feelings on here without causing offense but seriously c’mon I doubt I’ll ever see 170 again and I expect there are some people out there that would look horrendous if they did!

I would like to know where they get these figures from.  I swear some of them look at their own weight and pick a figure just above it. Either way those figures are just as un-validated as the high end ones.

Plus there are so many factors to figure in, condition of the horse and rider! Experience of horse and rider, and what you intend to do once you are riding. I just get annoyed that we are classed as abusing our horses for carrying us, but asking a horse to jump across a thorny bush and then into a 4ft ditch isn’t another form of abuse!

Don’t get me wrong I don’t actually think it is abuse, on a surface level but if you over analyse it then you begin to think it is. This is part of my block with riding for too long I have over thought the comments such as horses weren’t designed to be ridden, all animals have rights and coercion of any sort is wrong!

There is so much wrong with the above statements I really can’t go into it all here. But what it has left me with is once again a ‘feeling’ that me wanting to ride regardless of my weight is wrong.