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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: I would not give much for their chance of victory. And it is just the same
with horses: you fret and worry their tempers, and decrease their power;
you will not let them throw their weight against their work,
and so they have to do too much with their joints and muscles,
and of course it wears them up faster. You may depend upon it,
horses were intended to have their heads free, as free as men's are;
and if we could act a little more according to common sense,
and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things
work easier; besides, you know as well as I that if a horse makes
a false step, he has much less chance of recovering himself
if his head and neck are fastened back. And now," said the master, laughing,
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