he did a thing that surprised me. The horse was a biting horse. and
he positioned his crop and would pretend to try and tighten the girth
and when the horse would go to bite him he would "run into" Bills crop
and get a fairly healthy pop out of it. Bill would say "see like
this, make it look like he did it to himself" and then when the horse
stopped attempting to bite him he said "see? Didn't have to kill him"
haha. another thing he did that was very subtle and you dont see
anyone else do, if the horse gave him trouble, he would just leave
that for the time being and go work on another area. Like the horse
wouldnt lift his feet. So he'd work on a foot and if the horse
danced, he'd go back to the foot he'd had some success on. You could
see a calmness come over the horse... just seems to show in my
opinion that so much of what horses do is a power struggle and we
shouldnt even get into it with them!
Janice
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