In the roughly 4,200 years since their domestication, horses have been devoted companions—charging into battle, racing chariots, hunting buffalo, logging timber, carrying the mail, and running and leaping at our bidding. Despite this long and intimate association, interspecies communication can be fraught. Horses can shy or bolt, buck or bite, or they can simply plant their feet and refuse to go forward.
That’s where someone like Sally Peacock comes in.
On a recent…