“A horse can hear your heartbeat from four feet away. If your pulse is elevated, the horse will interpret it as danger. The notion of staying calm around a horse because they can sense your fear comes not from the worry it might exploit you, but from the chance it will become a nervous wreck and a danger to itself and to you.”
I wrote an essay about rediscovering horse riding as an adult and looked back at some horses of my past, and examined why horses are a source of beauty, romance, stress-relief and terror. Read it at Newsroom.
