I wouldn't trust the kid not to have a brain-fart and do something really flaky at the wrong moment
Tosca had had someone on her back maybe 10 times when I put our 12 year old grandaughter up. Still at the mounting block, she suddenly collapsed forward over Tosca's withers. I asked her what happened. She was picking burrs out of her socks. Granted, Tosca handled this just fine, but I never thought to tell Nikki not to make sudden goofy moves and certainly wouldn't have considered that she would decide just then to decide she needed to remove burrs. Nancy
