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The “Cowboy Carter” album cover is an opening salvo, brandishing western and American symbols: Beyoncé holding an American flag while riding a white horse sidesaddle, with platinum-blond hair proudly streaming.

You already knew how to ride a horse, but you learned how to ride sidesaddle.

Mabel refused to ride sidesaddle — it was bad for the spine, she argued — so she dressed in a “bifurcated” skirt, mounted her horse like a man.

And like Ginger Rogers — applauded for dancing as well as her partner Fred Astaire, but “backward and in high heels” — Elizabeth rode in these spectacles sidesaddle.

For Pimienta, that can include trudging through the mud, galloping sidesaddle, practicing synchronized routines on horseback with her escaramuza team, which consists of eight women.