Obviously, training an animal involves making sure it avoids danger.
In this instance, the woman in question claims to be 'reprimanding' the horse, which is arrant nonsense.
There is only any point in punishing an animal of you can re-enforce the lesson you are teaching, and that relies on the animal being able to make the connection between the punishment and the behaviour.
Obviously that cannot be true in this instance.
The time to discipline the horse was at the time of the danger, not minutes after as was the case here.
All this horse knows is that it is being punished, but it will have no connection as to why.
That's before we get to the appalling cruelty of kicking and slapping the horse.
There are numerous methods of controlling a horse's behaviour, this was neither of them.
This was the cruel and unacceptable cruelty of a bad owner, and the people defending her sound ridiculous.
She is clearly not a good horse woman, nor does she love her animals.
To defend her is to excuse her dreadful behaviour and that is as wrong as her taking out her nasty temper on a dumb animal.
Shame on all concerned.