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[quote=Anonymous]I rode horse from age 4-15. It is an exercise. After an hour of serious training, you'd be quite tired. I have some wicked inner thigh muscles, I can hold you in death grip.
I rode ponies also from age 6-9, but they were less fun. Horseback riding is fairly safe if you are given a trained horse and I was as a child. My parents competed and so did I couple of years. I don't know why they always give you a heavyweight horse that should be pulling a cart, not carrying a human. They are not trained to do so, they are stubborn and clumsy. Well-trained horse listens to your every command and isn't scared easily. Nobody wants to give a beginner a well-trained horse because it took a long time to train them.
Ofcourse there's also a horse that is used to being circled around with a new rider day in and day out. We had ca 30 horses and ponies and nobody had a serious injury over the years even though we went through 100s of riders and were not extremely careful. I twisted my leg and had a few stitches but it was completely foreseeable, and voidable. 
I will teach my kids, but we will do it in Eastern Europe where it is so much cheaper. I think it's a cool thing to know how to ride a horse.
We used to go to forest  trails with horses and if one starts racing, so will others, there's not stopping an animal as big as a horse. We did not get them to stop until we were back on the big field and were able to get them circling. The faster they run, the less they shake, and it's so much fun. It's the sudden stops, moves and jumps that make a new rider fall off. More experienced rider sees them coming and can hold on usually, but not always.I went back to ride from ages 22-23 and remember falling only when the horse decided to stop suddenly. Few times I landed on my feet, few times over the neck and head of the horse, on my butt. Not a big deal. I'd do group lessons once a week for couple of months  and be done with it because it is expensive.[/quote]

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