But he was that way to everybody. It was nothing personal. He was just a Bad, Mean Horse.
She eventually sold him to somebody who was going to compete him professionally in three-day. He was just too dangerous to keep, with all the little kids around the barn.
Some people say that there’s no such thing as a mean horse... that for a horse to be mean, someone has to make him that way. While I agree with that mostly, I also have to say that sometimes, sometimes a horse is just mean by his own nature alone.