I have often said, “Training is something you do with a horse, not to a horse.” If I want my horse to be my employee then doing stuff to a horse to instil obedience is fine.
Fred was quoted as saying (paraphrasing), “I can teach them the steps. I need to teach them the steps. But just learning the steps does not make them a dancer.”
When I was a young fellow I would try to go to jumping clinics, eventing clinics, and dressage clinics, but it never occurred to me to enrol in a horsemanship clinic.
