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Don't feel bad, I was almost 25 years into my riding career before I rode a draft for the first time. He is huge and flat, super comfy bareback. His walk feels like those elephant rides at the carnival and his lope is to die for (though a standard horse has to nearly run to keep up LOL). His trot however, is the most uncomfortable thing I have ever ridden. I have ridden lots of rough travelling horses but Good God, nothing like him. I haven't been able to ride him enough to really accustom myself to sitting his trot. I have to either post or stand. But talk about quick, especially considering his size. All because of a kid on a bike, he went from walking one direction to loping the other direction before I could really react. He tried to buck with me once but that was more amusing than anything. Not quick enough to really make me think I would fall off but if I had let him get going, I am sure that the sheer strength would have torn me in 2.

 

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Wow Daren, those are some awesome pictures.

 

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Haha, the first time I loped John out in the pasture, Dad and I were riding together. It took John a minute to get up into the lope but when he did, my Dad got to laughing at me and said "It sounds like a steam locomotive is trying to sneak up behind me."