It is an interesting game and app. I just learned how to jump and now can jump over fences and other obstacles. Makes racing a lot easier, I'll tell ya.

Doing it in real life sounds fun. I've done some of it in real life, and it's a lot of hard work. I've also fallen off a horse a few times. Not so much fun considering the falls resulted in bone bruises. However, that's all part of riding, as my mother says. She grew up riding a chestnut gelding named Blue Boy that was a little skittish, especially if she rode him near town. That's probably because he was just 3 years old when my mom got him. Still a bit untrained, as my mom says. He wasn't of any particular breed, just your garden variety farm horse. At least he didn't have any paperwork suggesting he was a certain breed.

Mom's sister had a lovely bay quarter horse mare named Sugar, who did come with paperwork that said her breed, but the name was a bit deceiving. Sugar had quite the attitude about riding, going so far as to try balk at the reigns and buck her rider off, that is, if anyone could get her still enough to mount her. A lot of sore feet were to be had around her as she loved stomping them. Sugar was a stark contrast to the third horse my mom's other sister had, Betsy. She was an old mare who was easy to ride and easy to handle. However, she'd turn around and try to go back to her stable if you weren't paying attention and she felt she had enough of you on her.

My great grandfather was also an avid horseman. He was in the US Cavalry during WWI, and tended to the horses in his regiment. There's an old photograph of him we still have where he's in full cavalry uniform astride a handsome cavalry horse.