[Good question. By which one means, the answer is attached to centuries of history he's not sure he should be relaying, but certainty seems like a remote and increasingly irrelevant goal to try and achieve.]

Horseless carriages have only been around for a little over a hundred years, [he says.] I come from further back for that. Short answer-- yeah, I can ride a horse. Been awhile, though. And my style might be off, compared to what you do here.