K&T Farm

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I am going to say something that may raise some hackles, but it needs to be put out there, and I will block you if you need to attack this-- Ten years or so ago..., give or take, I read an article about a woman who was an Olympic luge competitor, and it gave some details of her daily and weekly workouts. Lots of running, weight lifting, sit-ups, squats, stair climb machines---Deadly, hard ass stuff that took huge guts and commitment, And when I read that, I compared it, in my head, to most of the women riders I knew, and very few of them even began to work that hard on their own athleticism. And now everyone knows that Rachel Blackmore, another tough, fit athlete, has won the Aintree Grand National. So there's something to be learned in all of this---Women have always been capable of beating men in horse sports, but there is that additional fact that most of the top women riders are also top athletes, like Rachael, and back in my day, riders like Mary Anne Tauskey, Lucinda Greene, Ginny Leng, so many others. There's a saying that the best riders have the tact of a woman, combined with the strength of a man. So the women who are also tough and strong have an advantage over most men, because although men are generally stronger, many men use their strength to coerce their horses, which makes the horses resentful and resistant. What's the point here? Simple--In order to maximize your riding gifts, men need to control their testosterone fueled macho, and women need to get physically tougher. I think, generally, not always, but generally, what I have just written is fairly accurate.