There is a fairly large body of scholarship on how cavalry might have functioned at various points in history; I am relating the conclusions that scholarship has come to. The tricky thing is effectively no one has real cavalry experience, esp. not pertaining to the Middle Ages.
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Consider, after all, sport rapier and sabre fencing can make all of the same claims of lineage that modern equestrianism can. They too are modern sport variants inspired by military arts which passed out of common military use in the first decades of the 20th century.
But compare them to the actual late medieval treatises and you realize that modern sport and ancient martial art do not necessarily coincide.
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And of course sabre fencing as taught in 1910 as a combat art for officers and cavalrymen was not the same as fencing as learned by a 15th century man-at-arms.
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Again, don't mistake me: experimental archaeology and modern practice have an important role to play in illuminating ancient or medieval practice. But it is not the paramount role: that role goes to the primary sources themselves.
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