Shitty Ask Lemmy

I mean, I suppose this is at a minimum more ethical than conventional horse racing. Right to any kind of dignity aside, at the very least yours seems to present little risk of injury to the horse. Now, you would probably want the horses trained to just go rag doll when picked up. But could you train the horse to do that ethically? That seems so counter to a horse's natural instincts that I imagine it might be impossible to train without some serious animal cruelty. But, then again, I know nothing about horse training. Maybe there's someone out there who could figure out how to train that behavior through non-violent, reward-based conditioning methods, or other ethical training models.