“It’s been doing xyz for xyz length of time, The horse should know better, they should be doing better by now. ”
Well. They do. At that moment, for whatever reason, what they are doing is what they know best. What they know best, and what they are most prepared for. If your expectations of the better they should be doing is different, help them learn this - either again, or for the first time, and you, the trainer should aim to “know better also.”
The horse is always right in this particular game of who knows best.
They will always do what is ‘best’ from what they know, from their perspective of being a horse - and it has very little to do with our plans, and everything to do with their previous experiences, previous learnings, or lack of.
Thats is. Thats the post.
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