Forget Black Beauty

Another thing I brought up with Clancy last week was that deep down I am a nice soft person. A bit of a girly girl. So, by nature, am I too soft around horses?

Clancy thought a bit about my question, then asked "Have you read Black Beauty and other similar books?"

"Well ... yes".

"Well, forget Black Beauty and all those books. It's not like that. A horse, is a horse", he said calmly, but firmly. Didn't Anna say the same thing recently?

(What does "a horse is a horse" mean? It means that horses live in a herd, which has a pecking order. If you want to be respected, you need to be higher in the pecking order than the horse. The minute you are lower in the pecking order, the horse will not respect you and may stand on you, bite you, kick you, and act like he is the boss.)