No Two Horses Are Built the Same — And We Haven't Asked What That Means
We say it all the time: every horse is different. But we have been building our training systems, our saddle protocols, our collection theories — on a generic horse that does not, in fact, exist.
Article Summary
The count itself varies. Not the shape of the bones, not the angles of the joints — the actual number. Lumbar vertebrae. Thoracic vertebrae. The bones that carry the saddle, that connect the hindquarters to the back, that determine what collection is even asking of this specific horse. The variation is documented. The anatomy is known. What is almost entirely absent is the research into what any of it actually means for movement, for soundness, for the honesty of what we are asking. This article names that gap — and asks why, with everything at stake, we haven't looked harder.
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This article is exclusively part of Kjrsos Magazine Volume 16.
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