 His methodology emphasizes the relationship between horse and rider as a partnership, in which the horse willingly takes direction from the rider, rather than a dominant rider directing a submissive horse.While Rashid is grouped as a practitioner within the field of natural horsemanship, he personally tends to avoid that classification and has publicly expressed discomfort with the term when applied to himself and to horsemanship in general.He has written a number of books on his philosophy, including "Big Horses, Good Dogs, & Straight Fences", "Horsemanship Through Life", "Life Lessons from a Ranch Horse", "Horses Never Lie", "A Good Horse is Never a Bad Color", "Considering the Horse," and "Nature in Horsemanship