Chapter Seventeen
Automatic Training
“This pony training is totally controlled ‘by wire’,” the Consortium Rep told the visiting buyers. “Which means that once the animals are in the area and the controls are set, the rest is automatic. They are exercised, trained in new moves, and totally cared for by the system.” The buyers watched as four individual ponies moved through the training area, nearly three acres of lushly landscaped property with trees, streams, jumps, and hedges all designed to bring the ponies to their trained best. The four in the area were working separately. Two were pulling two-wheeled carts with weight in them, and the other two were working on their jumping skills. The only indicator of their automation was the short antenna wire that extended from the tops of their
