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You know the obviously grumpy horse, the one that turns when he sees you coming or lays his ears back when he looks out his stall window? Some riders would say, “Yeah but he’s fine once you get on him.” Or they might shrug him off as just one of those “bad mood” horses. Some people might not even notice he’s being grumpy.
Yet, some riders might say, “Wait, are you sure he really wants to be ridden as much as I want to ride?”
And it’s this last group of riders whose ideas line up with the findings of a new study by French equine behavior scientists.