"The tricky thing is effectively no one has real cavalry experience" This isn't true of modern cavalry. USPC was founded and helmed by Col. Howard C. Fair of the Royal Horse Artillery. Today's equestrianism had major influence from Cavalry veterans, such as Maj. Gen. Jonathan...
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But compare them to the actual late medieval treatises and you realize that modern sport and ancient martial art do not necessarily coincide.
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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Anyway, as far as experience goes, the last cavalry-on-cavalry engagement (the subject, I think, of discussion), the last was in 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War. There are, to my knowledge, no living veterans of that battle (given that if they were 18 then, they'd be 119 now)
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