A shaggy little horse

Each person has an inner horse that needs to be trusted. Often in old folk tales and myths the hero or heroine is entrusted with a shaggy, little horse that they must ride to complete their quest. Many at first doubt this horse, they don't trust it, they feel its to small and weak. This horse is not weak, it will always gets the job done and in those stories that small shaggy horse seems to know where it needs to lead us only if we can drop the reigns and trust our own inner horse.