Horse behaviour blog posts

Do horses love being ridden? We need to talk about the elephant in the room. It might be hard to discuss, but it needs to be talked about. Ready? Horses (likely) don't love being ridden. I say “likely”, because while scientists have yet to devise a way to accurately ask large number of horses how they feel about being ridden, there has been research done that looks at horse preferences as it relates to ridden work. For example, whether horses prefer to stay and work in an