No no, thank you for the pedantic rant! This is my first time reading PR and as I realised Ginty was trying to *ride* Catkin out of the float I assumed we were about to see a terrible accident!

I found it quite problematic. I think readers could tell that the cliff-walking of FL was bloody dangerous. But would the average punter know that riding a horse on/off a truck or into a stall is incredibly stupid? An actual pony book would have made that clear -- it would have been done by the pig-headed idiot character and she/he would have been set straight by the book's authority figure OR suffered the natural consequences.