Trotting Romans

A trotting horse makes a very uncomfortable ride if you don't have stirrups
to ease yourself off the saddle when the bump comes. The Romans didn't have
stirrups. Did their horses trot?

When I was a boy, in the dim mists of time, I had a pony who had been an
Argentine polo pony in his youth. He could go straight from a walk into a
very slow, easy and comfortable canter -- no stirrups required.

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