Original sentence: Nevertheless, violence is still sometimes visited upon  horses in pursuit of the goal of breaking their spirits to make them tractable equine servants.Starting at least as early as the Greek equestrian Xenophon, people have had the knowledge that would let them conclude that the idea of horse breaking is a bad one, or at least that the term is extremely inappropriate to what the best trainers actually do
Edited sentence: Nevertheless, violence is still sometimes visited upon  horses in pursuit of the goal of a tractable equine servant.Starting at least as early as the Greek equestrian Xenophon, people have had the knowledge that would let them conclude that the idea of horse breaking is a bad one