The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.
I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.
Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic.
All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.
I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
Horses are like people - they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-working, or awkward, difficult and lazy. If horses were people, some would be on the dole, and others would be entrepreneurs.
My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.
Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.
My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.
