If you owned a horse that was about 25 years old, had been in a trailer only 3 times in her life, and the last time was about 14 years ago, how would you expect her to load today?
I was recently talking to somebody about the good ‘ol days when I was serious about competing in dressage and jumping. We swapped tall stories about our adventures.
While it is possible to have correctness and mental softness, it is NOT automatically true that one leads to the other. Yet so many instructors and trainers talk as if you can’t have one without the other.