It’s easy to kid ourselves that when we ask a horse a question and we reward for the answer we want, that we are teaching the lesson we want our horse to learn. That’s because we know the end game. We know why we asked the question. Horses don’t have that advantage. They don’t know the ultimate goal
Blocking A Horse's Thought
Connecting The Reins to the Hindquarters and Forehand
Evolution and Shoeing
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.