If you need to get your horse home from a show and it won’t load into the trailer and you are running out of daylight, sometimes things don’t go according to the horse’s preferences.
There is a lot of discussion and lecturing about the use of energy when working with horses. Energy is certainly a factor in being an effective rider. But energy in itself does not tell a horse what to do or how to do it.
But, she is not like a Ferrari. She isn’t super sensitive. She isn’t lazy. She isn’t spooky or rushy or dull. She can be all those things, but they are not who she is. They are who I made her through my training and our shared experiences together.
Let me say that doing warm up exercise is never going to do harm. There is no reason to believe that it is a bad thing. But for most of us, it probably does not offer many advantages.
