i enjoy horseback riding.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, \"horseman\", \"horse\"), more often known as riding, horse riding (British English) or horseback riding (American English), refers to the skill of riding, driving, steeplechasing or vaulting with horses. This broad description includes the use of horses for practical working purposes, transportation, recreational activities, artistic or cultural exercises and competitive sport. Horses are trained and ridden for practical working purposes such as in police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch. They are also used in competitive sports including, but not limited to, dressage, endurance riding, eventing, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving and rodeo (See additional equestrian sports listed later in this article for more examples). Some popular forms of competition are grouped together at horse shows, where horses perform in a wide variety of disciplines. Horses (and other equids such as mules) are used for non-competitive recreational riding such as fox hunting, trail riding or hacking. There is public access to horse trails in almost every part of the world; many parks, ranches and public stables offer both guided and independent riding.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I so enjoy horseback riding.  i don't have a lot of opportunity to ride anymore though."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What are some horseback riding techniques you learned?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I was a lay person sitting on a horse, lol.  I would love to know how to show jump."}, {"role": "user", "content": "How can riding a horse be useful in everyday life?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Obviously, we don't require horses as much as those, say,  in the Middle Ages when it is was critical to use horses for transport and agriculture chores."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That makes sense now that we have automobiles. When were horses first domesticated?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think the actual date of domestication is hard to pin down but 3500 BC seems to have some consensus."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What can you tell me about horse racing? I'm concerned this may be a form of animal cruelty."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know that there are a lot of animal cruelty complaints in rodeo.  I bet this applies to horse racing as well."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Well I hope they are trained right because they have feelings just like us."}]