The history the horse and man is the modern history of mankind itself and the history of war. . Without the horse, man would never have achieved. Without man, the like so many large animals, the horse would be gone or nearly so.
Millennia have been spent in developing a horse and human relationships. The methods used to develop these relationships has progressed over the centuries. Ideas forgotten are learned again. Methods once thought the bulwark of training give way to those that reemerge. Like pieces to a puzzle we find a piece that fits and then renew the search for the next.