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When Iacs and Haakon go out together, they have a little private conversation about when they want turn round to go home.  We always ignore this conversation and make them go on.

Apparently, though, I am only a passenger on my own horse – so I have heard.

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Today, Daisy and I decided to conduct an experiment to show the extent of our passive riding abilities.

Look – no hands!

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Yup, and me too!

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Daisy re-arranged Iacs’ mane so we could see his ear transmitters.  It all works through the ears.

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We will be going along perfectly happily when Iacs will flick his ear back, whereupon Haakon will reply.  If we ignore it, both Haakon and Iacs will make a circle/pirouette and suddenly we are facing the opposite direction going home very fast.

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Usually we stop this stunt before it happens but today, fuelled by the passenger remark, we wanted to see when the independent thought would occur.

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If you watch the film, you will see it happens twice.  The first is because there was a car which meant the horses wanted to ambulance-chase – total apologies to the driver who must’ve thought he being pursued by the Nazgûl.  And then there was a bolt for home at the end of the ride.

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Ok, we can do this because there are very few cars about and once the horses turn for home  we turn them back and make them go on, albeit grumbling.

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We came to the conclusion that if we rode as passengers, we wouldn’t actually get anywhere.  I think not.  To ride our horses, you have to have input and to anyone who thinks we are sacks of potatoes on horseback, I invite you to come and ride Haakon or Iacs.

Take your pick.

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