Riding Ability Quotes

Many of us in the jockeys' room are wasting to ride many pounds below our natural weight, but all the while you are doing that, you also want to ensure that you are as strong as possible so that you can give your mount every possible chance in a race.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

I'd been horse-riding a couple of times, but I wasn't that good.

When I say that I'm a grade-A student in motocross, I mean that I can sit on a bike and ride it. But I'm confident that, with time, I could do a 12 o'clock.

Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.

I've always ridden horses.

I was probably on a horse before the age of three. From a very young age, I could ride on my own, work, trot, you name it.

I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.

There's this assumption that every British actor, they can ride horses. Definitely not!

Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.