Show horses have difficult jobs. Learning to live life on the road; working long hours in the cold, rain, or shine; standing still for the braider in the wee hours of the morning. Oh, and then there’s that universal show horse experience: being tacked up frantically and trotted over to the ring, only to wait around for two hours for the…

This is what life is like on the circuit. And while most of our show horses have learned to read the emotions of their slightly less put-upon human partners (“What’s wrong? She looks like she’s panicking this morning. WHY IS SHE PANICKING?”) as riders, we very rarely take the trouble to try and read our horses’ minds. Until now.