This was the first official mounting of the traumatized Knabstrupper horse. It took me nearly 3 weeks of "real" training on the ground to get to this point where I could finally get on his back without him going straight into his fight/flight mode. As you can see, the second I get on, his facial expression changes to extremely tense as he still expects the worst from me.. but then I reach my hand into a bag attached to his saddle, pull out a carrot and hold it up to his right eye. Completely sur