You can’t abuse a horse into giving that kind of effort,
I disagree, but a lot of that depends on what you call abuse.
She’s a hotter temperament than the black horse. I don’t think that means she hates what she’s doing.
I agree that from the sounds of the black horse she was hotter tempered. But, I also never said she "hated" what she was doing.
I was thinking, IMO, she just doesn't "submit" as easy, that might not be a bad thing, might mean she has a higher intelligence. Personally, I like the less hot horses. I'm just musing on the comments that "the mare LIKED" what she was doing....
But having said all that, I can't watch this sort of thing without wondering about the training techniques. I that about that with a lot of horses in all disciplines .
Becky
I don’t think the term liked is stupid. You could sub another word but it’s just people describing how they see a horse performing. The black horse seemed so trained that he was robotic. The white one knew her routine too and was following instructions but her rider was bringing her personality out too. I would think that would be the hardest to train. I saw her think about checking out the flower box and then getting checked and back to dancing. He was just trend setting (and sorry Hair) trying to take some of the stuffiness out. Maybe if the black horse had been expected to do something to win I might not be so unimpressed.