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 Ronald Reagan!
I don't know how well 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 George Washington got around.
For best presidential horseman, my candidate is U.S. Grant. He set a record at West Point for jumping a horse over a high fence or something, winning him an award. Until the Civil War, that might be what Grant was known for.
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