All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1)

by James Herriot

It is difficult to define the term but I am convinced that horsemen are either born or acquire the talent in early childhood.

I had the knowledge of equine diseases, I believed I had the ability to treat sick horses efficiently but that power the real horseman had to soothe and quieten and mentally dominate an animal was beyond my reach.

Why had he filled the last years of those two old horses with peace and beauty? Why had he given them a final ease and comfort which he had withheld from himself? It could only be love.