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Horses are so smart! I have ine toshare with you as this is my most cherished moments of compassion from my fart head of a horse! Who might I add is also my heart horse who I love dearly

we were riding in a massive paddock doing some hill work because booty building(lol) and this paddock backed onto my rental home, my friend came out to watch so we thought we would ride over to say hi. Now we had to go through a little valley to climb up the other side and to my friend no problem, it’s been raining and I could see the ground was boggy I could see the cattle prints and they didn’t seem deep maybe halfway up his shin. *click click* my horse was never one to not listen to me so forward on he marched as suspect he sunk just bellow his knee, little deeper then I thought but nothing he can’t get through and within 2 steps *floomp* my horse was the size of a Shetland and my feet were touching the ground. I’m freaking out he (my horse) is freaking out he turns around, somehow and stars trying to move back towards the side we came from. My horse is panicking frantically and is dolphin jumping so I pull the reins in and ask him to calm down “ whoa boy you’re fine” he settled down and composed himself we are still a few meters from the edge but for some reason there is no solid ground (I assume from the way he has to move through the marshland) “okay I’m going to get off so that’s less weight on your back and maybe you can go through it easier” I tried to dismount this horse throws his weight against the ground and continues trying to jump through this mud. He stops to breath at this stage he is breathing like he has ran a marathon !! I tried to dismount again and again he slammed his weight against the ground causing me to fall back into the saddle and starts jumping through the mud again and then pauses to breath at this stage I’m screaming for him to “let me off it would be so much easier without me” I tried one last time to dismount and he repeated what he did the last few time but instead of stopping to breath he used all his momentum to buck me off to which I scrambled on my hands and knees to the hard ground. Now I get to see the bigger picture. Here is my 15.3hh Arab standing up to his stomach in mud, breathing incredible hard, he is looking at me with mud all over his face with the saddest eyes and I knew he didn’t have much more ompf left in him. So I start chanting him on. “Come on bosh! Come on! You can do it! GET UP! Huphuphup” this horse gives everything he can and continues to leap through this mud (ever seen a dog jump through snow this is what this horse looked like just less graceful and more traumatic) he gets to the edge where I can grab the reins and he is holding up his leg and shaking, I take off his boots to reveal slight swelling in the tendon I can see fur removed near his knee so he must have overreached whilst jumping and clipped his leg, it was a slow and limpy walk home but I legitimately made my horse walk it off by the time I got home the swelling had settled and bleeding had stopped. I still believe to this day that he was stopping me from getting off because then we would both be stuck in the mud