“You can’t force a pony to do anything,” explains Jessica Liu, a 34-year-old eventer who traded her thoroughbred for a 13.2-hand Welsh pony named Ponyboy Curtis . “You have to ask. You have to negotiate. You have to earn his trust. The moment you lose your temper, he shuts down.”

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