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Believe it or not, this ended up being a month-long discussion between me and the publisher in which I finally said that if they insisted on using the word Consider instead of Considering, I would need to pull out of the deal. They finally relented and things went along pretty smoothly after that. In fact, due to the book’s eventual popularity I found they seemed perfectly happy to allow me to choose the titles for the next six books that we did together with little or no input from them.

Fast-forward 25 years to this book: Finding the Missed Path: The Art of Restarting Horses. Because the word “restarting” is in the title, one can assume, and rightfully so, that the book is going to have some specific ideas on how to work with a horse that has had some unfortunate handling in the past. While that certainly is the case, I felt this book in particular needed to be much more than just a step-by-step manual on what to do with a horse whose training has gotten off track.

For those who have read one or more of my books, you probably already know that I’m not much of a step-by-step kind of guy. I really struggle with trying to read “how-to” books of any kind, but particularly horse books, so I’m sure not going to be able to write one. Besides, when it comes to horses that are struggling so much that they may need a restart, I find it is often some kind of step-by-step training program that got them into the fix in the first place.