The hoof is designed well enough to support the frame of a horse and allow movement. But it fails in other ways. Just because a mechanism such as a hoof is the culmination of many thousands of years of evolution, does not mean it is perfect and could not be improved with a little assistance from humans.
Teaching Responsiveness To Pressure
Learning and Un-Learning
Trust and Obedience Discussed Further
The thing that separates good horse people from second-rate ones, is this idea that the best horse people are always working on expanding the ‘contract of trust’, whether it is a first-time experience or the horse has done it a thousand times. The second-rate horse people are just satisfied with obedience and are okay with a horse working to simply avoid trouble.