No they sit in a gym for hours every day working those legs so that they have the strength to move a 1000 lb animal. Sounds like more work for them than runners.

Wow good thing a horse isn’t a machine. That horse has just as much of an opinion about doing something as you do. If they don’t want to do it, they won’t, that’s why riding is a partnership. I want to sit and watch most people as they try and get a 1500 lb animal to jump a 5' jump across a 10' ditch and see how it…