"Better than what I got"

Noah,

It all sounds good in theory, but here's the deal. You're taking a horse and training it to do something that a horse in it's natural environment, and without your direct influence would never do.

I'm taking a dog, and with the assistance of what I call well bred genetics I'm expecting it to do what it was strickly bred to do without ANY of my influence.

Now...if your knew there was a way you could breed all of what you described into your horses without influence of a human hand, wouldn't you do so?

I'll use THIS example. My hunting partner breeds a line of some of the finest BMC dogs I've ever seen go. He NEVER interacts with his dogs. Doesn't feed them himself, his hired hands do it every evening. He very seldom even goes down to the kennels. Most of these dogs (even 8, 10, 12 years old) don't even know their name. They are sometimes a bit wild...can be a bit hard to catch in the wood. They don't really care for people...they have honestly had very little human interaction. Having said all that, when you take any of these dogs to the woods, you better have your game face on and be ready to hunt. Drive like you can't imagine. Long range...care less about you or what anyone else or any other dog is doing. They have one thing on the mind...hog. NOW...what drives these dogs...trainer, or genetics? I've met a lot of good people who would consider themselves good trainers, but never one who could consistantly produce dogs as good as these.