Years ago I read (in an offered mag while waiting to get some car repair done) an interview with a woman named Stacy Westfall where she described how she completely upended Horsemanship. Basically, and imperfectly remembered, she had a horse she bonded with, then had to let go of, then years later reunited with and the horse clearly remembered her.

After years of doing (whatever “show horsing” is called I can’t be bothered to look it up rn) she turned the whole pageantry on its head by demonstrating that you could master horsemanship without a saddle and without spurs….just by having a a communication with the horse between your thighs, knees, heels and hands.

I’m a jaggoff offering horsemanship lessons on Nostr…but that article has always stuck with me, because if its true it means she was communicating something important in the “domestication” of animals.