The Door That Doesn't Ask

Four seconds. Four touches, too light to move a sheet of paper — and the horse they could not get to trot was collected before my seat met the saddle. There is a door into a horse that does not ask permission. Finding it was the part that frightened me.

Article Summary

You weigh a fraction of what your horse weighs. You have been run off with, or you have watched it happen, and you know exactly how much say you have when a horse decides otherwise. None. So why do they listen to us at all? You have probably answered that with trust, with relationship, with the years you have put in — and that answer is a good one. But there is another answer, and it does not need the horse to agree to anything. It works on a horse who met you four seconds ago. It works on a horse in the middle of saying no. What would you do, if you discovered you could take the no away?

This article is exclusively part of Kjrsos Magazine Volume 17.

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