UNDERSTANDING A HORSE IS AN EXACT SCIENCE. 100% of a horse’s feelings have absolutely precise physiological, biomechanical, myological, psychological and other characteristics that can be understood by man. Thank god, everything is known. Everything is more or less clear.

The School mount of a rider, which is the topic of our conversation, is developed from an exact knowledge of a horse’s feelings about a man being on its back, and from a desire to minimize the harm and discomfort that a rider always brings to the horse.

I’ll explain now that presence of a man on the horse’s back never gives a horse any pleasant feelings. Without any regard to whom that human is. It makes no difference. It may be a refined riding master of the Royal Riding School of Vienna, who has been polishing his mount for 30 years, a thoughtless person who rents a horse, a show-jump rider who finds a special pleasure in torturing a horse, or a conscientious Natural Horsemanship student who consciously doesn’t want to “abuse a horse”. I reiterate that this doesn’t matter. The physiological feelings stemming from the myological system of the horse’s back, dermis and epidermis, are nearly all the same. It sounds paradoxical, but I will further clarify and explain this postulate.

The way to calculate a horse’s feelings is quite simple. In all cases the same laws of physiology apply, according to which the soft tissues of the back, main skeletal and subdermal muscles – undergo compression and this always causes physiologically-based negative feelings or sensations, from discomfort to pain.

Feeling pleasure from discomfort or pain isn’t an attribute of any living being. If riding on horseback gave the rider all the painful feelings that the rider brings to the horse, I can tell you that horseback riding as a historical entity wouldn’t exist. Man would just anathematize the horse.

Any talk about “love” that a horse has for being ridden, “trail rides”, or “pleasure riding”, or in general, to the presence of a man on its back, is a very funny dilettantism. It is a very vulgar and absolutely blind substitution of reality by what is desired. It is the substitution of a very convenient stereotype for the truth. This stereotype is propagated by what I would call a “mucky girl.”(1) Weak-minded and hypnotized by so-called “equestrian experts”, they repeat this rubbish with different degrees of ecstasy and persuasion.

It is interesting that the irony of saying that any other creature “loves” when somebody sits on its back, batters at the muscles and the spine with all his weight and compresses the living tissues on its back does not come to anybody’s mind. This effect is always uncomfortable for any living tissue. Panegyrics of horseback riding within equestrian circles is sometimes an attempt to justify a personal desire to entertain, but more often, it is a slavish, unthinking dependency on stereotypes. Taking into account the low intellect of equestrians it is no surprise. Statements like “horses love equestrian sport” sound even funnier, or the thought that the horse is “happy” under the rider. In order to prove such statements a whole set of complicated experiments would be needed to show that some horses must be masochists, which means they gain pleasure from physiological discomfort or pain.

Such experiments haven’t been conducted; there are no scientific proofs that a horse with a masochistic mind exists.
The concept that a person sitting on a horse’s back brings with it some kind of “pleasure” is a dense misunderstanding of the main principles of a horse’s myology and physiology and all the principles of elementary physiology of mammals in general. It is an absolute and PRINCIPAL ignorance of the horse.

However, sportsmen cannot admit to weak-mindedness, and they are doomed to ignorance. Their relationship with a horse is based only on strong painful impact. The horse’s feelings, in fact, do not worry, have never worried and shouldn’t worry them. The process of raping, as we know it, doesn’t assume even the slightest interest in the feelings of the person being raped (or an increase of pleasure from the sufferings that are caused). As soon as the truth about the relationship between a man and a horse becomes known, equestrian sport ends. Ignorance is its only cause.

I feel like I can speak out bravely. Sportsmen, even if they began reading this tractate, are already asleep. Their small and regularly-perspiring-under-a-helmet-or-top-hat brain refuses to perceive the text, everything distorts and mixes-up. This is excellent. We can now speak calmly and openly.

So, horseback riding, the human presence on top on the horse’s back, until now has been an important School discipline. Yes, the proportion of the studies “from the ground”, “in hand”, or “at liberty’ to the studies “under saddle” is nearly 90% to 10%, but these 10% exist. Maybe the next, even more honest and more enlightened generations will perceive this discipline (riding) as a barbarism and perversion, but for the present moment, as I have already said, it exists. Yes, Nevzorov Haute Ecole has a rather high goal and absolutely honorable methods. It seems that we are completely different from sportsmen. However, as I have already mentioned, there is the matter of the soft tissues of the horses’ back, which is the reason for discomfort or pain.

To be continued…

(1) A “mucky girl” is Alexander Nevzorov’s term for girls of varying ages who work with horses without any basis of hippological or scientific knowledge about the horse. They smoke, drink, use slang, beat horses with whips and use the phenomenon of NCS (neurocranial shock) brought about by the use of bits to control the horse.

(2) An itching sensation appears a bit earlier than myological discomfort, but in the first stage it is practically unnoticeable.

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