Oh my -- this IS an astonishing article. Thank you Kim for posting the transcript.
Reading this makes me never want to interfere with where my horse wants to put her/his head -- especially on the trail! And doesn't it speak volumes about our equine partners -- that they can be so trusting to allow themselves to basically be blindfolded by us while at the same time, being asked to move at speed? Gawd. . . Besides the behind-the-vertical horses, think of those horses ridden like star gazers with their heads cranked up. This passage struck me too: > In science, just as in horse sports, it's easy to be > blinded by tradition. Just because something has been > in the textbooks for a hundred years, it must be true. > So to see what's really there, sometimes it takes > someone to come along and look at it through fresh > eyes. This put me in mind of all the crap that is often taught as necessary to raise, train, and ride Icelandic horses "properly". . . Here's to fresh eyes and inner wisdom. May we all have it when it comes to our horses. --Renee M. in Michigan
