Riding Style Quotes

As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used... it's virtually unrecognizable.

All horses are different - sometimes they have a long neck - so you don't ride the same way on every horse. It depends on their body, and your body, but the object is to get down low so you're aerodynamic, so you call pull from the horse through the head. The best jockeys do that really well, and know how much to push.

Would you like to cross another item off this list today?" "I should like that very much. Which do you propose?" "I think it's time to try riding astride". "You can't mean..." "Oh, but I do, indeed, mean, Empress.

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

I think the goal is always to be both. I put more effort into the technical side of my riding, but style is very important nowadays.

Headquarters in the Saddle.

No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

The female touch is a lot softer than the guys and some horses just respond better to that. Who's to say we're not stronger in the finish anyway?

I had to relearn how to ride a horse like an ape. I had to change how I jumped off and how I gripped them with my thighs and distribute my weight differently.

It's the way you ride the trail that counts.