Kate Hore RNutr(Animal). Snr Nutritionist at NAF Horses have well developed cognitive skills with a good ability to learn, and to remember previous experiences. They are emotionally developed, such that research has shown they can recognise human emotion from the facial expression alone, and even remember that person’s earlier demeanour when they meet them again later in the day. All this means that in horses we have an animal that, when trained correctly, in a calm, repeatable, positive way, can learn to cope with almost anything. However what about the unexpected? Ultimately the horse is a flight animal, and if...