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In many ways, riding emulates life. There are no shortcuts to success. Quick fixes and easy cures rarely exist.

Consider your tack, for instance. If you discover that using a particular piece of equipment improves your riding or your horse’s way of going, use it for a while if you must. However, don’t stop there. Apply yourself to determining what caused the improvement. Ask yourself what underlying weakness in structure, experience, or schooling the new equipment is masking. Then work on devising a way to strengthen the inherent weakness, rather than simply patching it.

If you can fix the problem, then, when it is gone, the symptoms of that problem will also disappear. You will have spent your energies getting to the root of the matter, rather than trying to mask or cover one piece of the larger puzzle.

Let’s apply the principle of focusing on causes rather than symptoms to two cases—one where the underlying problem lies with the horse, and one where the problem is the rider’s fault: