One evening before a clinic, I sat around the dinner table with a few friends, catching up on news and talking about horses and the upcoming clinics. One friend asked me which of her horses I thought she should bring to the clinic.
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.
