Susan and I frequently watch Heather Cox Richardson's daily podcast, in which she explains, as historians will do, the news and its contexts. She's great, but she said something that annoyed me a few weeks back.
Cox claimed that among American presidents, the best horseman was probably Ronald Reagan.
I don't know how long Reagan stayed in a saddle, but I doubt if he was comparable to the Founding Fathers. Many of them rode horses every day. That's how they got around.
For absolute best presidential horseman, most historians choose U.S. Grant. He set a high jump record at West Point. Grant had great technical skills. Washington and Teddy Roosevelt were also adept.
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