SINNER

A英

I have a lot of information on this in my horse riding tag here, but in short, animals don’t exist to be our entertainment or transportation.

Horses need exercise, but they no more require riding than dogs do, therefore doing so is mostly for the benefit of the rider, not the horse. Using animals as entertainment in this way is against their better interests and is not something that any responsible pet owner should take part in.

Riders will often claim that riding is the only way to properly exercise horses, and this may well be true if you don't have access to open spaces and your horse spends most of their time stabled in an enclosed stall or in a small paddock, as is the case for many animals. But if you can't properly exercise your horse without sitting on their back and risking the health complications that commonly comes with that, then frankly, you just shouldn't own a horse.