Well, it might be a stretch, but is it possible that Samson (who I have always considered to be a little piggish and slightly less than brilliant...) may be smarter than the average bear?
I know. Horses are not geniuses. They supposedly are not intelligent enough to rationalize something like "faking", but I swear to god....
I was riding with Robyn last night, doing my rehabilitation regime, and I started to do a little bit of trotting down the long side to see how he was doing. He was acting incredibly off last week, and I had been spiraling into a dark and dramatic depression thinking we had taken eight million steps back in his recovery....well, he started trotting and tossed his head around a bit, and kept breaking back to a walk. I told Robyn it was frustrating, because I didn't know how hard to push him - if something hurts, or if he was just being a pig. As of his last exam, we have been cleared by the vet to start adding in small bits of trot work to his rehab routine. So I finally said screw it. I was riding bareback (both of my saddles are with Delilah since she has been the rideable one in training) and I asked him to trot. When he broke back to a walk, I threw my arm behind me and whacked him once on the butt since I didn't have a whip. Low and behold, he stretches out and forward into a gorgeous forward SOUND trot....
Can we say FAKER???!!!!! If I wasn't so happy, I might have been royally pissed.... So that's my theory of the day. Samson is smarter than the average bear, and he is a big fat phony fraud. Who has been outed. And will be going back to work, stat!
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