One of my newer customers is Nova. He is a miniature horse stud horse that is two years old. His owners said that he is about two inches short for his breed, so he should not pull a cart.
He was a little shy about getting his feet trimmed last year, but settling easily into it now. When they are young, no matter what their size, they don’t like to have their feet trapped (flight instinct) and they don’t know how to balance themselves.

I read a western novel last week called Holmes On The Range by Steve Hockensmith. His character, Otto Amlingmeyer, said "We had places to go and people to get the hell away from." I had a lot of fun reading this book. Two brothers are cowhands in the old west. One of the brothers had just read a Sherlock Holmes novel and thought he was an investigator. He worked hard at getting his brother and himself in a lot of trouble.