I'm just getting started after a 40 year break and I am reading all the new rider stuff I can find. A reoccurring theme is new rider has a wreck because they were "over Horsed." When I was a kid I mucked stalls for a man who had a popular stallion. He boarded lots of mares and I got to exercise them which pretty much meant 20 to thirty minutes of what ever I wanted to do. If they appeared manageable I'd usually trot them bareback around the pasture. Some were well trained reigning horses that had auto transmissions power steering and power brakes. We didn't wreck. Some were lazy hard headed and convinced they were boss. They were a wreck waiting to happen. Un encumbered with stirrups I'd bail with the lead line in hand and walk them to the lunge ring for a lesson in who was boss. My point is beginner wrecks are not caused by being over Horsed. I think they are caused by being under Horsed. I think it is a dis service to tell a novice rider you wrecked because the horse was too good for you. In my limited 5 lessons I've ridden three school masters. Two were lazy. One of the lazy ones Is rebellious. In my opinion the safest only one I would take out of the arena is the quickest most athletic one who happens to be the best trained. He trots when asked first time every time. I can tell he would canter as soon as asked. When I loose my balance he slows to a walk. The instructor tells me not to let him stop on his own. I tell the instructor I think loosing my center is a good cue to stop. A good horse, the most horse, is like a juggler with a plate on a stick. Forget the reins a good well trained horse accelerates turns and stops to keep the plate, your head, on top of the stick, your body. It is a lessor horse that unloads the stick and plate, you, as quickly as possible. End of rant. Thanks for listening.