I only went ridding a couple of times when I was a kind but the thing I remember is you'd start off on a ride ... then stop, tighten the saddle, start again and continue on the ride. Though I think maybe we'd do that twice.
The other thing I remember is that brushing down horses was kind of fun - though I'll be honest at the end of the day I never really trusted those animals; they were just too damn big for my tastes.