Throughout my career working with horses, one thing the old man taught me has remained a constant—if I was willing to fight with a horse, the horse was almost always willing to fight back. The thing was, there were always a couple of problems in fighting with horses. The first was that any time I fought with a horse, it usually ended up being meaningless to the horse in the end. The second was that anytime I argued with a horse, I always seemed to breach whatever trust that horse had in me. It usually took quite a while for me to prove myself trustworthy to the horse afterwards.
