Why we love them so.........

You cannot remain unmoved by the gentleness and conformation

of a well-bred and well-trained horse--

More than a thousand pounds of big-boned, well-muscled animal,

slick of coat and sweet of smell, obedient and mannerly,

And yet forever a menace with his innocent power

and ineradicable inclination to seek refuge in flight,

And always a burden with his need to be fed, wormed and shod,

with his liability to cuts and infections, to laming and heaves.

But when he greets you with a nicker, nuzzles your chest,

and regards you with a large and liquid eye,

The question of where you want to be

and what you want to do has been answered.

--Albert Borgmann, Crossing the Postmodern Divide, 1992

Given to me by my best riding pal Tina who understands undoubtedly, why