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Extract from my 1989 edition of 'Bluff your way in Motoring' :
No matter how well trained, the horse may feel threatened by a piece of paper blowing in the wind, a savage bush, a feral roadsign. Approach slowly, with mixed caution and mistrust. Riders govern only with the animal’s consent: in any trial of strength the horse will always win. Best thought of as three quarters of a ton of meat on the move with a brain the size of a walnut.
Although the book was sold as 'humour' that doesn't mean it is wrong...