>>     Ain't it the truth!  Say, did you find yourself disagreeing
 >> with Melanie as often as my horsehoer and I did?
 >  ...
 > JM> What kind of disagreements do you mean?
 > ...
 >      Nope, not stuff like that, but the attitudes of the
 > horses.  Some horses that looked nervous as hell to me she
 > read as being calm, and some that she said were really upset
 > by the crowd didn't look that way to us.  But what do we
 > know!
 
Ah -- Melanie has the advantage of us there, in that she has probably seen a 
lot more of these horses than we have.  A horse that is usually pretty calm 
could be rattled by the crowd and not show any obvious signs of it to us -- 
only the person who knew the horse would see it.  And if a horse is usually 
really wired, they could still look nervous to us and be relatively calm on 
that day.
 
Or you guys could be right and she could be wrong.
 
I figure only the horse's groom and the rider knows for sure....
 
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