Process Essay: The Benefits Of Horse Riding

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Galloping across an open green field is a big, brown, silky smooth, majestic animal known as a horse. I’ve been riding horses for four years and it has been the best four years of my life. They are fun to ride and teach you so many valuable skills you've probably never thought of. Horse will develop a strong loving bond for you and always stay loyal as long as they are treated well. Having a skill like horseback riding can benefit you in many ways because it is great core and leg exercise, you develop a strong bond between you and your horse, and it teaches you how to love and care for animals in unimaginable ways.
One way horseback riding benefit you is that it gives you phenomenal leg and core muscles. For example, when riding horses, you
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When you own or work with horses they have to be taken care of. Horses need to be groomed just like dogs and cats! Horses need to be fed and loved. They need to be exercised too! You ride them to exercise them. “ take care of your horse and he’ll take care of you”. April loves to be groomed and loves to be ridden. I use most of the skills i learn with caring for horses on my dogs. I walk them to exercise them and i get them groomed. When I take care of april I know that she'll take care of me while riding. I know shell keep me safe and not buck me off. This is the same for all animals. Having a horse teaches you to care for animals in so many ways you’ve never thought of before.
In conclusion, having horseback riding as a skill is truly unbelievable. I believe that it needs to be tried by more people. Horses and horseback riding allow you to develop exceptional leg and core muscles. It also helps you develop a strong loving and caring bond between you and your horse that you have been missing your whole life. The last way this skill benefits you is it teaches you how to care for any animal imaginable. Now get out to your local barn or stables and take some lessons on your dream horse and maybe even buy one and gain this skill as soon as

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