It was from that time that I realized it was far more important to make changes in the riders than to make changes in the horses.
TRUST
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT'S TRUST OR OBEDIENCE?
Trust and Obedience Discussed Further
The thing that separates good horse people from second-rate ones, is this idea that the best horse people are always working on expanding the ‘contract of trust’, whether it is a first-time experience or the horse has done it a thousand times. The second-rate horse people are just satisfied with obedience and are okay with a horse working to simply avoid trouble.