the thinker ( 20 april 1978 – 4 april 1991 ) was an irish-bred british-trained thoroughbred racehorse , best-known for his win in the 1987 cheltenham gold cup .

the thinker ( horse )

the thinker was nine years old when jockey ridley lamb rode the horse to victory in the 1987 cheltenham gold cup . the thinker was trained by arthur stephenson and owned by tom mcdonagh .
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the current race record for the thinker ( nzl ) is 0 wins from 1 starts .
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the thinker , dr . jose santini , [ 3 ] keith dramn [ 4 ]
lee smith is a free - thinker in an age of herd mentalities .
doctor doom addressed to the thinker as
julius
. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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shoulder in at the trot with the shoulders coming in off the outside aids . like bonnie’s horse , it was shoulder in into voltes , keeping the horse’s attention .
subsequently , the mad thinker obtained an adaptoid in his next scheme . this adaptoid ended up in a clash with daredevil . when the adaptoid adopted dd ' s form , he convinced hit to help him track down the thinker and bring him to justice . [ 145 ] attacking the thinker in his secret hideout , daredevil was overpowered by the adaptoids that were hidden in the walls and floor of the hideout . during the struggle , daredevil realized the adaptoid he came to help was unable to harm his creator , and so daredevil tricked it into thinking that the thinker was really a robot duplicate . this overrode the programming and the adaptoid beat the mad thinker nearly to death . daredevil was forced to pull the android off of the thinker then convince it to shut down in order to save the thinker ' s life . [ 146 ]
while the mad thinker was recovering his old foes the fantastic four and the avengers were seemingly slain battling the psychic entity known as onslaught . [ 87 ] with the four freedoms plaza gutted of all reed ' s technology by his father nathaniel , [ 88 ] the mad thinker decided to target franklin richards instead . using another simulacrum and a newly revamped awesome android , the mad thinker attempted to kidnap the boy and prove his subconscious mind to try and learn all his father ' s secrets . the thinker was opposed by the newly formed thunderbolts who easily destroyed the thinker ' s simulacrum . [ 89 ]
the mad thinker was at some point contracted by doctor doom to be part of his attempts at uncovering the truth behind the incursions . thinker managed to tap into and map the mapmakers network , allowing them to locate the source of the incursions . [ 147 ]
iw : the heavy horses must not move heavily . you cannot say ‘i like this type of horse and not the other’ . each horse is different . every horse is nice in its own way and impresses through its own personality and that is what we try to encourage in training that the horse maintains its personality .
“in the first phase , matt , my helper , just stays on the horse very quiet , and he doesn’t do anything . he knows that i will control the horse , and stop the horse if it tries to do something stupid . of course if the horse gets out of my control , then matt will help himself for sure . ”
“the movement of the horse takes place here in the horizontal equilibrium within the natural movements with adaptation of the rider to the movements of the horse . the rider has only to influence the movements of the horse within this first stage of training , as he should make them energetic , which means striving for suppleness . ”
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“so , ” he told the stunned costas , “we got into horse racing . ”
the current race record for schifty thinker is 1 wins from 11 starts with prizemoney of $ 30 , 765 . 00 .
the mad thinker continued to plot against the vision after this . after getting out of prison again the thinker teamed up with the sound manipulator known as klaw . to this end the pair used klaw ' s solid sound constructs to make it look like the fantastic four attacked the vision ' s wife the scarlet witch . knocking the vision unconscious , the mad thinker inserted programming into the vision ' s mind to make him convinced the real fantastic four were responsible . the vision then went to the fantastic four ' s headquarters and attacked the group head on . defeating the foursome , the vision then allowed the thinker and klaw into the headquarters . as he was ordered to load the fantastic four into a ballistic missile , he began overriding the thinker ' s programming and assisted them in breaking free . klaw was easily defeated by the fantastic four , and when the thinker tried to use one of reed richard ' s inventions to incapacitate the group the vision disarmed him . coming close to slaying the thinker right there , the vision was stopped by the thing who convinced the android that it was not worth it . scared for his life , the thinker fainted and was turned over to the authorities .
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“the contact actually comes lighter as the horse moves more weight to the hindquarters and carries himself more . ”
“the rider has to adjust to seek by courtesy the horse’s suppleness . only a rider with a supple seat and subtle influence can regain the natural smoothness of the horse and then , through fine riding and fine help , make the horse’s regained suppleness under the rider’s weight ever - increasing . the entire riding program must be designed so that it does not crumble in an endless struggle for the subjugation of the individual body parts of the horse , but it should try from the outset to make the whole horse in all body parts , in all joints and muscle groups yielding . the constant absolute adaptation of the rider to the natural balance of the horse demanded by the so - called natural horsemanship , is no way for the mastery of the horse . this adaptation to the natural balance of the horse is useful only in the fast forward movement , for example in a race , and in fast riding over jumps , but does not create the balance between rider and horse in all movements and all situations , missing the basic requirement of the whole riding training process . therefore , during the first training , a new balance between rider and horse has to be established . constantly adapting the rider to the horse’s balance gives the horse the initiative , so it does not create obedience . in contrast , finding the center of gravity between rider and horse keeps this at the disposal of the rider and ensures the rider’s influence on the horse . ”
the horse ' s name is spelled leedes in gsb , as is ( usually ) the family name . however , 18th century records generally referred to the horse as
leeds .
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the mad thinker possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age , height , and build who engages in no regular exercise .
when the mad thinker completed making the inhuman torch fully operable , fell reneged on his word and had the thinker locked up with the torch and toro who were captured following the thinker to new berlin . however the thinker predicted treachery and injected their guard with a chemical that made him burst into flames , melting through the bars of their cell . the thinker then brought the torch and toro up to the lab where he exposed them to fresh air , allowing them to flame on again . seeing the inhuman torch on a rampage the two became determined to stop it . [ 120 ] as the two heroes battled the inhuman torch , the thinker attacked fell and forced him to lead him out of new berlin through a secret elevator . fell appeared to get the upper hand thanks to the defenses in the elevator that prevented the thinker from shooting fell , but when they went outside fell was horrified to realize that he was an android himself and summarily burst into flames . the thinker then took fell ' s supply of gold and bonds and teleported away . fell ' s inhuman torch was later destroyed by the human torch , ending it ' s threat . [ 121 ]
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“i walk in front of the horse , and say , ‘matt open the left hand rein’ and the horse goes to the left , open the right and the horse goes to the right . it starts with the horse going from the cavesson and the lunge , but eventually he goes not from me , now he knows legs , he knows hands , it is time for matt to ride him and for him to go free . ”
rau wrote some books about horse breeding and travelled a lot through countries like great britain , austria , russia , hungary , france , italy , the netherlands and belgium to study horse breeding . later on rau became a member of the prussian state commission for horse breeding .
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then into the trot . ”not fast , not fast , not too much forward . ”the softer the horse got , the bigger the stride became . big 20 metre circles at the trot , still with the position and control of the horse’s body taking priority ; longer rein , inside leg active , keeping the outside under control . when the horse got too fast , the extra tension stifled the swing a little . that didn’t mean the horse didn’t need to be reactive though .
later the mad thinker was hired by aim to build a weapon to destroy the town vretik , estonia . given an unlimited budget and resources the mad thinker took on the job , and grudgingly , an assistant named eugene toussaint . while he was working aim ' s dawntreader research platform it was infiltrated by the recently resurrected toro and the extra - dimensional being known as vision . toro had come to the platform seeking revenge against the mad thinker for his death . toro was easily subdued by the mad thinker who then decided to experiment on the mutant in order to learn the secrets of his flame powers . the thinker discovered that although toro was a mutant his powers influenced thanks to traces of the
horton cells
that also comprised of toro ' s former partner the android human torch . to study this further in order to weaponize the horton cell , the thinker had aim agents recover the dead body of the human torch . [ 114 ]
when the mad thinker was freed again , his obsession with androids brought him to seek out the original human torch , an android hero from world war ii who had been missing since the 1950 ' s . locating the inert android buried in the southwest where he went inert decades earlier and returned him to his lab to be repaired . [ 17 ] by this time , the mad thinker had developed a new computer dubbed quasimodo to assist in this task . quasimodo was an artificial intelligence which desired to have a humanoid body , but the thinker refused to provide one . [ 18 ] the mad thinker then used his genius to revive the original human torch , but clouded his memories in order to manipulate him into attacking the fantastic four through the torch ' s successor . [ 16 ] [ 18 ] the two human torches clashed drawing out the rest of the fantastic four . [ 18 ] [ 19 ] the mad thinker ' s plots began to fall apart when the fantastic four convinced the original human torch to fight against the mad thinker . when the thinker activated a self - destruct mechanism in his base , the original human torch sacrificed his life to save the fantastic four while the mad thinker once more evaded capture . [ 18 ]
the thinker
has long sat in front of the university of louisville ' s administration building , but it ' s ownership is in question .
cybrandian looked to have the best chance for a few seconds but he hung badly to the right as the thinker made his final effort and with lamb maintaining his driving finish all the way to the line stephenson had the greatest moment of his illustrious training career when the thinker triumphed by one - and - a - half lengths .
the mad thinker then began the next phase of the plan , sending toro to collect volcanic energy , causing massive volcanic eruptions along the pacific coast . this attracted the attention of the sub - mariner who then clashed with toro , the battle reviving his memories and making him realize how he was manipulated by the thinker . the pair then went after the mad thinker , who once again tried to flee . this time however toro sped after his escape ship , flying into its rocket engines and causing it to explode , slaying toro and seemingly the mad thinker as well . [ 26 ] the thinker ' s allies soon met defeat with the puppet master being bested by captain marvel and iron man [ 31 ] and egghead being defeated by the avengers who destroyed their satellite weapon . [ 32 ]
the past of the mad thinker is a complete mystery . a high executive of genetech named jinkins claimed to have met the thinker at college , not specifying details , and kept contact with him . [ 6 ] the thinker himself has claimed to have worked in the private sector over a decade before the modern age . [ 7 ] the thinker also has claimed to have a sister and a nephew named david . he had stated that early on in his career he allowed his nephew to observe his experiments . however , when he created a thermoconductor device , it killed his sister and mutated his nephew . the thinker then had david put in stasis while he tried to find a way to deal with him . [ 5 ]
from his cell in the vault , the mad thinker sought to obtain the asgardian sword known as the raven ' s eye which was in the possession of wealthy union leader victor prazniki whom the thinker had kidnapped . [ 83 ] when the the thunder god thor went after prazniki and the raven ' s eye , the thinker tried to hold him back with robots based on his half - brother loki , father odin and balder the brave . however thor managed to obtain the raven ' s eye and found himself and his allies transported to asgard , [ 84 ] the magics used to transport thor shattered the thinker ' s mind , seemingly beyond repair [ 85 ] .
working alone the mad thinker began utilizing criminals to commit robberies on his behalf . after the human torch and the thing thwarted one of his carefully planned robberies , the mad thinker developed a weapon dubbed the bouncing ball of doom to destroy them . when the two heroes were invited to the unveiling of a new hydroelectric dam , the mad thinker unleashed the bouncing ball of doom against them . during the course of the battle the human torch managed to use one of his nova blasts to destroy the device , foiling the mad thinker ' s revenge scheme . [ 11 ] the thinker was later manipulated by dr . doom ' s emotion changer device as part of a scheme to attack the fantastic four during the wedding of mr . fantastic and the invisible girl . the mad thinker and his awesome android joined an army of super - villains on the attack , but they were countered by the many super - heroes in attendance . the thinker and his awesome android were bested battling the avenger known as iron man . later he and his android were banished when reed richards used a time displacer device provided to him by uatu the watcher . [ 12 ] [ 13 ] the mad thinker went on a rampage through manhattan with his awesome android again soon after . this led to yet another clash with the fantastic four . the thinker was defeated this time thanks to the assistance of marvel girl of the x - men , who was under evaluation by the invisible girl for professor x at the time . after the thinker was apprehended , the fantastic four and x - men dismantled his secret headquarters hidden in a rock quarry outside of new york . [ 14 ]
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the chief beneficiaries of his courage were the connections of the thinker , trained at leasingthorpe near bishop auckland in county durham by the great arthur stephenson and ridden by ridley lamb .
“riding is a constant shifting of the centre of gravity between rider and horse , which depends on what the rider has to demand of the horse in the individual moments . whenever the rider is forced to take decisive influence on the horse , propel it in the field or on the dressage arena , to jump obstacles , make a change of direction , he must adapt to the natural balance of the horse , and facilitate rapid forward movement . sit up and go deeper into the saddle to secure the horse , that is , to be able to appeal to its suppleness . the rider’s upper body then approaches or reaches more or less the vertical . he brings the horse to the aids and can ensure its obedience . ”
next exercise was riding on the inside track , working on trot and canter transitions , alternating left and right strike offs , keeping the horse very straight , controlling the horse’s body and training counter canter on the short side . with the horse being more eager , things had to be slowed down , he had to wait more .
free once again , the mad thinker was hired by countessa stephanie de la spiroza to learn the secret identity of iron man , as part of a means to forcing stark industries owner tony stark to remain in a relationship for her . unaware that tony stark was really iron man , the mad thinker sent his awesome android to the stark industries office to capture stark . succeeding the android brought tony to the thinker ' s mansion hideout . when the thinker tried to open the briefcase that stark stored his iron man armor , it triggered a defence mechanism that enveloped the room with knock out gas . tony used this opportunity to change into iron man . while the mad think had prepared to battle iron man , he could not consider all the various devices that the hero could employ to defend himself and the golden avenger easily bested the awesome android and the thinker ' s defenses . after destroying the mad thinker ' s computers , iron man subdued him and turned him over to the authorities . [ 15 ]
a mad thinker construct was apprehended and placed in the prisoner known as the big house , where pym particles were used to shrink its prisoners down in size . this mad thinker construct attempted to stage a breakout . [ 102 ] but was defeated by the she - hulk who destroyed his body . the awesome android - - now working for the law firm goodman , lieber , kurtzberg & holliway and calling himself
awesome andy
- - recovered the thinker robot ' s severed head and kept it hidden away . [ 103 ] later when the glk & h owned excelsior apartments were attacked by the power gem enhanced titania , the building was decimated . the thinker was discovered by the she - hulk ' s ward southpaw [ 104 ] who ran away with it to learn to become a super - villain under the
thinker ' s
tutelage . [ 105 ] [ 106 ] eventually the severed head of the mad thinker construct was discarded , although the circumstances are unknown .
don’t overreact to tense situations . if you do , you can be certain your horse will do the same . you are the leader and if the leader is tense , the follower ( your horse ) will be tense as well !
with news that the human torch was going to marry his long time girlfriend alicia masters , [ 63 ] the mad thinker came to his old friend the puppet master and offered his services to assist in attacking the wedding . the old friends also enlisted the aid of the wizard , however during the ceremony the puppet master had a change of heart after seeing how happy his step - daughter was and tried to call off the attack . when the thinker and wizard refused to comply , the puppet master unleashed the android dragon man to fight them off , destroying the mad thinker android simulacrum before fleeing the scene . [ 64 ] the fantastic four soon learned of the mad thinker ' s involvement and raided his old headquarters for clues while the authorities also checked his prison cell but found no proof . later when he transmitted his mind into another simulacrum at the wizard ' s hideout the mad thinker was shown security footage that captured reed and sue ' s son franklin using his dreamform to project his image to the scene of the mad thinker ' s laid . when the wizard suggested they kidnap the boy and use him in their revenge against the fantastic four , the mad thinker calculated a 98 % chance the boy would be killed in the attempt . disgusted at the wizard ' s insistence of putting a child ' s life at risk the mad thinker terminated their partnership and detonated his simulacrum . the wizard went ahead with his plans but ultimately failed . [ 65 ]
“if we had a lot more people like ludger , we would have a lot less problems . here they learn not only the right way to ride , but the right attitude – in the handling of the horse , in the relationship to the horse . ”
dr s - b : the double jointed bit seems to work better and i can feel that they are softer . i cannot make the statement that one or the other is better , it is different from horse to horse .
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when the council next appeared at the forever city of the high evolutionary , where the council of reeds were battling the inhumans . the evil geniuses agreed to accompany the future foundation into battle . the mad thinker and his colleagues even adopted the stylized colors of the future foundation as a sign of solidarity . during the battle dr . doom attempted to betray the group to the council of reeds but was attacked by the thinker and diablo . [ 137 ]
the mad thinker next considered retirement again when he encountered a negative zone sorceress named threska when she ended up trapped on earth and attempted to steal some of his equipment to return home . the thinker agreed to work with her to return home and they began a plot to manipulate the fantastic four into helping the thinker and threska get to the negative zone . to this end , he had threska replace the wife of security designer andrew lewis . the thinker then used lewis ' office in the baxter building to access the fantastic four ' s headquarters where he planted subliminal suggestions that the fantastic four would be dead within two years if they did not stop all their foes all at once . [ 96 ]
“the frame of the trained horse can be further stretched , the horse’s neck can be worn longer and freer , the guidance by the rider loose , lighter . the highly trained school horse must , as soon as the rider gives him the impulse , again return to its natural attitude . and not be constantly shortened . just as it may not always be bent , but must always be quite straight . even the highest dressage level , as well as the first , must never result in a permanent shortening of the horse in the forehand , especially in the neck . it relies on greater suppleness and the possibility of the lowering of the hindquarters , as the joints reach greater flexion . the horse must never be forced into a form by the harsh action of the rider . the outer form may arise only from the absense of all resistance in the horse and the full suppleness thus obtained . as long as there are tensions in the horse , and resistances not overcome by suppleness , it is not permissible to proceed to collection and the pursuit of a posture that the horse can not easily adopt on its own . ”
“ludwig wittgenstein , ” reddam replied , and quoted the arcane austrian thinker : “after all the philosophical problems have been solved , nothing of importance will have been accomplished . ”
shortly after this , the thinker began working with the android known as primus and began assisting it on the android ' s path to self identity . the mad thinker was hired by the gentech organization to study the novice heroes known as the new warriors so that they might use the heroes for their own ends . the thinker agreed to examine the young heroes but would consider his options on what to do with the information he learned . this came at a time when the young group was on the bring of falling apart , so the thinker and primus then confronted each member of the team giving them cryptic hints that if they went to an important meeting place they will find new purpose . as per his calculations , the new warriors were all drawn to where they all first met to battle the cosmic being known as terrax . it was thanks to the thinker ' s interference that the group resolved to stay together . the thinker decided to leave the heroes to their destiny , revealing his gentech connections but assuring them that he would provide them no information . [ 69 ] unknown to the warriors at the time , the thinker believed that these young heroes might be the ones he was seeking that could train his nephew david how to use his powers . [ 5 ] using another simulacrum , the mad thinker then applied for a job repairing animatronic dinosaurs for an exhibit that was on display at the stamford mall . he began putting his own technology into the dinosaurs in the hopes of stealing the box office money from the exhibit to further fund his criminal operations . this plot was thwarted by the unforeseen presence of the power pack ' s destroyer and tattletale who thwarted the thinker ' s plans leading to his arrest . [ 70 ]
when daredevil went to investigate alex stone he was nearly killed in the fight . relaying this information to the thing as murdock prompted the thing to break out of prison and clear his name . none were aware that young juvenile calling himself
the kid
decided to leave the holding cell and follow the thing as well . infiltrating the mad thinker ' s lair , both the thing and daredevil were subdued and taken prisoner by his army of androids . thinking that daredevil was the individual with precognitive abilities he threatened to gas the thing to death in exchange for the use of these powers . [ 49 ] detecting
the kid
from behind a doorway with his radar sense , daredevil bluffed his way into saving the thing and convincing the mad thinker that he had precognitive abilities . with
the kid
taken prisoner , the mad thinker then revealed his plans to the thing and daredevil . using his hypnotic goggles the mad thinker hypnotized the thing and sent both him and daredevil to avengers mansion to capture the vision . the only other avenger at the mansion at the time was yellowjacket and he was easily knocked out . using the thinker ' s specially made weapons , daredevil was able to incapacitate the vision in an ionic barrier . ordered to collect containment module , daredevil went to do so . however along the way he revived yellowjacket and the two exchanged costumes . having daredevil hide in the containment module , yellowjacket posing as daredevil helped the thing return the vision to the mad thinker . there the two heroes sprung their trap , and freed the thing from the mad thinker ' s control . when the mad thinker unleashed his army of vision duplicates , the heroes freed the real vision who easily destroyed the thinker ' s army . the thinker was quickly subdued , and it was revealed that the
precognitive
that he actually sought was really
the kid
, who didn ' t have any special powers , only an instinct for determining the outcome of sporting events . [ 47 ]
it is important to prepare yourself and your horse by riding in challenging environments prior to your trip .
even today , it is a mystery where the young rau got his great knowledge about horses and breeding . in this time the german horse breeding didn’t have a good image , and german breeders sometimes faked the origin documents of their horses to make a german horse into a foreign horse , because foreign horses were much more favored in germany .
in the prose novel the baxter effect , the mad thinker ' s real name was given as max von scharf . this has not yet been confirmed nor denied in any other source .
cold easterly winds drying out the course have persuaded the management at cheltenham to water the ground in advance of one of horse - racing ' s great rites of spring , the four - day festival which starts tomorrow , but there is little prospect of a repeat of the conditions which prevailed when the thinker won the gold cup in 1987 .
the mad thinker recovered and using yet another one of his simulacrums , he once more targeted the hero spider - man in order to exploit his spider - sense . using one of spider - man ' s spider - tracers he incapacitated the hero and took him prisoner . however before the thinker could experiment on spider - man his simulacrum was destroyed by his old computer quasimodo . quasimodo then manipulated spider - man into fighting the silver surfer a plan that ultimately failed . the thinker meanwhile was rendered into another coma [ 86 ]
“his strengths are that he is a very well - informed guy and a disruptive thinker , ” said michael o’hanlon , a foreign affairs analyst at the brookings institution .
hypno lens : the mad thinker ' s only frequently used personal weapon is a monocle - sized hypno - lens , capable of mesmerizing anyone who looks at it .
all this was done on big , 20 metre circles , focusing on tempo control but keeping the quickness behind and balancing the horse . this continued as the horse was put into a higher head carriage . still the rein was long and the contact light as a feather .
after his defeat at the hand of the fantastic four , the mad thinker decided to stop using androids and use super - humans in his schemes instead . using his inventive skills , the thinker created the triumvirate of terror three criminals outfitted with strength enhancing weapons . he then set them against the avengers in order to take control of avengers mansion and all the stark technology that was contained within . while the triumvirate were easily able to defeat the avengers hawkeye , goliath , wasp , quicksilver and the scarlet witch , the mad thinker did not account for the fact that the olympian demigod hercules was a guest of the avengers at the time . seeing his plan doomed to failure once again , the mad thinker fled the scene leaving his triumvirate to fend for themselves . the triumvirate were easily trounced by hercules and the avengers and turned over to the authorities . [ 20 ]
“ aids to the collected trot : with braced back and knees down , legs immediately behind the girth , rhe rider asks the horse to move his hind legs energetically . the sensitivehand keeps the mouth fresh , the poll appears to have been oiled to complete flexibility . the horse is straight ! ”
“anyone who tries to force his horse into an artificial posture from the beginning of dressage always acts contrary to the wisdom of a sensible horsemanship . anyone who , in order to get the school walk , wants to force the raw horse from the beginning of the dressage into the attitude of the school walk , can only get a short , broken walk . the correct school walk can only be the result of the perfect walk in the fluid and supple horse . ”
the mad thinker resumed his latest revenge scheme against the fantastic four , kidnapping jose santini and taking his place . completely fooling reed richards , the pair worked on a supposed
cure
for the thing , instead the thing was made evil thanks to the machinations of the mad thinker . [ 21 ] while the thing attacked his teammates , the mad thinker took the opportunity to go through the reed ' s files and pilfer more of his scientific work . when the battle between the thing and the fantastic four took to the streets the mad thinker doffed his disguise and began exploring reed ' s lab , discovering his portal into the negative zone . figuring his calculations , the mad thinker decided not to take any more chances and fled back to his hideout in the event that the fantastic four survived his plot . [ 3 ] at his hideout , the mad thinker soon had to face off against the fantastic four and the police who had come to apprehend him . although locked in jail , the mad thinker still plotted to eliminate the fantastic four . using a signal watch he activated one of his newest androids and sent it to attack the baxter building . it arrived just as the fantastic four had yet another clash with the thing , and although they managed to cure him were in no condition to fight . [ 23 ] although the fantastic four were caught off guard , this android was defeated when reed managed to dump it into the negative zone [ 24 ] while incarcerated , the mad thinker ' s android man was accidentally unleashed by the police while they were securing his secret lab , but it was destroyed by the thing . [ 25 ]
“exactly , and if any time the horse doesn’t respond to the legs , i don’t increase the strength of the legs – i use the whip again . i reinforce , i go back to the basics , because if the horse doesn’t go from the light leg , then he doesn’t understand . little by little , the horse will go from the legs and not from the whip . in this time it is very difficult because the rider can’t touch on the bridle , he must not touch on the mouth . the horse must go forward and i say ‘whoa’ and go forward , push again , just teaching the legs . ”
start by teaching your horse to lead by looping a soft rope around its lower leg . apply pressure until he yields to your pulling pressure . continue until you can lead your horse by pulling on his leg .
going solo again the mad thinker set up operations in manchester , alabama to develop a weapon that utilized quantum molder as a weapon . his set up was located by s . h . i . e . l . d . who had then recently inducted the hulk into their ranks . the hulk was easily able to destroy the thinker ' s base and quantum molder weapon and the thinker was turned over to s . h . i . e . l . d . custody . [ 142 ] escaping captivity again the mad thinker rejoined the intelligencia and they recovered what they thought was alien technology but was in reality the earth built killer robot known as ultron . when the intelligencia accidentally freed ultron , the avengers arrived on the scene to stop the robot . [ 143 ] the mad thinker , back in custody again , was briefly used by general fortean to utilize she - hulk and his technology to track down the location of her red she - hulk counterpart . [ 144 ]
following his alliance with doom , the mad thinker retreated to la paz , bolivia , where he continued working on robotics . the reformed doom , now donning the armor and monicker of iron man , tracked the thinker down and confronted him in his secret lab . doom attempted to threaten the mad thinker into putting his intelligence to use for the good of mankind , but the villain refused to follow doom ' s path and instead confronted him with an army of robots , with no effective results . the mad thinker seemingly perished in the ensuing explosion caused by iron man that destroyed his lab ; [ 1 ] however , in reality he had secretly been captured and transferred into s . h . i . e . l . d . custody . [ 153 ]
“the horse already has contact with the side reins , and he accepts the side reins . once he starts to go from the legs forward , and the rider starts opening the inside rein , the horse by himself is in contact , we don’t think about it – it happens , he is there . without thinking he passes from the side reins to the reins , and when i say ‘matt , slow down the trot’ , matt takes and gives , takes and gives , and with my cavesson and lunge i slow the horse down . the horse begins to accept that hands are to slow down , to take contact , and little by little without matt having to think about it , the horse accepts the contact by himself . ”
the mad thinker survived once again and was approached by the black lama of earth - 7511 who was offering super - villains the golden globe of power in exchange for warring against one another to determine who was the superior villain . incarcerated at the time , the mad thinker broke himself and firebrand out of jail . charged with eliminating aim leader m . o . d . o . k . , the mad thinker quickly realized that he did not have the resources for a frontal attack . instead he used his genius to take control of iron man ' s armor and use him as his weapon . m . o . d . o . k . however deduced this attack and using a massive battle suit easily incapacitated the enslaved avenger . m . o . d . o . k . then traced the signal back to the mad thinker ' s hideout for a direct conflict . [ 37 ] the mad thinker then sent one of his androids against m . o . d . o . k . , who easily destroyed it . m . o . d . o . k . then seemingly crushed the life out of the mad thinker and left with iron man , intending to use him against his next opponent the yellow claw . in reality the mad thinker had switched himself and iron man with android duplicates and waited on the sidelines and began to prepare to face whoever won the battle between m . o . d . o . k . and yellowclaw . however while he was watching events unfold iron man managed to break free . [ 36 ] iron man easily incapacitated the mad thinker ' s remaining android and after knocking the thinker out disabled his headquarters . before the mad thinker could be turned over to the authorities , the black lama arrived with yellow claw and firebrand . a battle which ended with yellow claw fleeing the scene and iron man , black lama and firebrand being transported to earth - 7511 . [ 38 ]
1975 : rag trade , owned by society hairdresser ‘teasy weasy’ raymond , is victorious . a year later the horse won the grand national .
at this point , the horse appears to buck as this is clearly not a fun place to be and the horse did not choose this life . then the line - dancing threatener yells something about filming the cowboys and them
looking stupid ,
which , glass houses .
compound d had mutated creating a hive mind that sought to take over the world itself . [ 117 ] the mad thinker had retreated with toussaint to his hideout in red walls , arizona . there he was contacted by the nazi scientist who was involved in stealing horton ' s technology decades earlier , sigmund fell who offered the mad thinker sanctuary in his secret domain new berlin hidden deep in the wilds of brazil . just then the toro , the human torch , and johnny storm - - the torch ' s modern day successor - - arrived to and forced the thinker to give over the antidote for compound d . threatened with having his legacy destroyed , the mad thinker turned it over but teleported away to new berlin . [ 118 ] there he found that fell had created a nazi
utopia
with androids using horton ' s technology . however his people were unable to leave the sanctuary without bursting into flames and as such the atmosphere within new berlin required specially treated air . fell asked the thinker to perfect his creation the inhuman torch so that he might be used as a weapon . when fell refused to meet the thinker ' s demands , he tried to teleport away only to find that fell prepared for this and that he was trapped . with promises that he would be allowed to live , the mad thinker grudgingly began to work on making the inhuman torch fully operable . [ 119 ]
 bonanza boy was both the shortest priced winner ( 15 - 8 ) and the horse that carried the highest weight to victory ( 11st 10lb ) .
surviving the explosion , the mad thinker then went back to basics , focusing on destroying the fantastic four once again , in a plot to once again loot the baxter building of its scientific resources . creating android duplicates of the foursome , he was able to capture the torch , thing and invisible girl . when his android duplicate of mr . fantastic went after his target , it was the real reed richards who prevailed in battle . returning to the baxter building reed battled the thinker and his android duplicates . finding the thing , he revived him and the pair destroyed the thinker ' s androids and recover their missing teammates . after his defeat the mad thinker was turned over to the authorities by the thing . [ 33 ] escaping captivity again the mad thinker once again teamed up with the puppet master . utilizing the puppet master ' s clay , they created duplicates of all of the fantastic four ' s foes to date and ambushed the team as they were returning from the inhumans great refuge home . the fantastic four held their own against all the duplicates destroying all that were sent against them . the thinker and the puppet master ' s plans all fell apart when they created a clay duplicate of the hulk who proved impossible to control . when the puppet master tried to shoot the duplicate he missed and hit a batch of explosives causing a massive explosion that seemingly slew the pair . [ 34 ]
“then when i say , “matt walk’ or ‘slow down the trot a bit’ and matt sits a bit and takes and gives without legs , at the same time i go ‘whoa , whoa , whoa’ , and with the lunge line i make the horse slow down , and he comes to a shorter trot or a walk or whatever . the horse starts to associate matt’s hands with my aids , and very soon i don’t need to use my aids , and the horse is listening to the rider . again , any time the horse doesn’t respond , matt is not going to start pulling on the reins – it is always take and give , and if the horse doesn’t respond , then i provide the reinforcement from the ground . ”
this not only prepares you and your mount physically , but it will also prepare you mentally . when you make these rides , allow your horse to be a thinker . let them find the way out of a bad spot ; if he needs some help , you can always take control of the situation .
a duck , a goose , a goat , and a horse all entered the barn at different times one day last week .
the video starts on a nighttime shot of a horse walking away , wearing what appear to be white sports socks and looking wasted . i mean , this horse is all over the lane . in the background , we hear music and people yelling . it ' s a night out ! people are drinking and probably having some fun , and that runaway horse was probably heading home from the bar .
“sometimes when we say put the weight on the inside , it is not really to put the weight on the inside , it is not to put the weight to the outside . the rider has to try to be in the middle of the horse . of course you might have a horse that is resisting going to the right in half pass – then i might lean a bit more to the right , and help the horse to go more to the right . but on the other hand the horse can then start running to the right , rushing to the right , because he loses the balance because of my body . better to ask , why is the horse not going to the right ? because it is not bent , not engaged ? solve that problem and try to keep your weight in the middle instead of finding a trick and putting the weight more on the inside . ”
there was a point in the schooling of the young bay stallion that the horse started to get confused and bounce up and down on the spot , i suppose it was the point at which we mere mortals freak a bit and back off . rodrigo’s response was very different , he sort of ‘enclosed’ the horse , blocking all the options except the one he wanted , which was to go quietly forward . i remember watching the late great herbert rehbein schooling a horse , and he did much the same , channeling the horse’s energy ever so smoothly in the direction he wanted , quietly closing the possibilities of resistance . it is a rare quality .