Fantastic Horse

Stolenbjorn Valued Member

Some claim that the portugeese mounted toreador-stuff can give some idea as how it would have been to meet knights in europe in the medieval times (perhaps allso eastern mounted warriors as well). Others claim that this tradition was refined after the knights era was over. Some sources states that knights were poor riders. IMO the truth was probably that quality would vary greatly from area to area and to family to family. The knight's warhorse is claimed to have been the "dextrarius", others claim that only a small fraction of knights actually possessed "dextrari".

Some claim that "dextrarius" was a definition of a properly trained horse with the right mindset, regardless of race, others think that the andalus of the spanish/portugese pininsula is the decendants of the knights warrior-breed; the dextrarius.

So looking at this brilliant video (not wanting to venture into tha animal rights-discussion), is perhaps a glimpse into what the ulitmate mounted knight could have been capable of doing on a battlefield; I'm thinking about the feints at around 1 minute in particular: