If you’ve been around horses for any length of time, you’ll have noticed that much more goes on around them than actually on them. In addition to our archaic bond with them, we may also be afraid of them. Whatever the cause, advancing as a rider, certainly as a polo player, requires that you streamline the process of getting on.

Here is a sequence of photos that shows just such a streamlined process. Notice that it takes me less than ten minutes from the time I arrive at the barn to the moment I mount up and ride. Giddy Up!