During a lesson on a school horse, a rider fussed that the gelding was pulling the bits away from her, tugging her forward in the saddle. Jimmy listened, nodding his head as he evaluated the horse coming around the end of the arena toward him, and as the rider looked at him expectantly for a sympathetic solution.
"Did you notice him in the stall before you got on him?" Jimmy asked. "Yes," replied the rider, thinking Jimmy was trying to determine a medical cause of the horse's behavior. Jimmy continued, "Was he tossing his head then?" His rider dutifully responded, "No, he wasn't." Jimmy turned away, as he tossed the answer back over his shoulder:
"Then it's you."
