Adrienne Tomkinson | EQWO.net guest blog – Skeletal muscles are amazing, they hold the skeleton together and allow movement of all kinds in the horse. Horses are talented creatures that not only can gallop extremely fast, but can also jump, swim, perform ‘ballet’, slide, spin, etc… all with a rider on their back! The conformation and the biomechanics of the horse make them agile and comfortable for us to ride.