Clenching the bit, horses, and Good Friday.
“Clenching the bit”. “Stiff necked”. Horse idioms we use for steely determination. So what’s this got to do with Good Friday? This week I saw a horse that’d had enough – took the bit between his teeth, locked his jaw and trotted off on a tangent out of the circle, toward the gate., neck and determination were set like stone. This riding session was over…