Interested in Roman Riding?

[John Conyard]

Photos from Chillingham are up on our website and the cavalry element can be viewed at

http://comitatus.net/gallerychillingham11.html

As ever we have hundreds of photos and some of them make me smile for lots of different reasons.

It certainly takes time to get the equipment working well on the rider, and even more time to get the kit working correctly on the horse. When I started it seemed to take months for it to come together. I remember the first time getting seven horses and riders ready for the arena, and it taking over an hour. But the more shows you do the faster and easier it becomes.

I was a great treat at Chillingham to ride in one of my own saddles on a great little horse in a practice session. Currently I am still using my old saddle.