Read the excerpt from The Land.
"You?" questioned my daddy. "Paul, you did this?"
"Yes, sir," I said, looking straight at him. "I did."
My daddy took a breath deep, then walked around Ghost Wind, inspecting him long and hard this time, before he came back and stood right in front of me. "Paul," he said to me, "you’re a good horseman, one of the best I’ve ever seen, and you know how to handle Ghost Wind. Now you going to stand here and tell me you rode this horse and let this happen to him?"
What Paul’s father sees most likely makes him realize that
Ghost Wind is more dangerous than he thought he was.
Paul is not the one responsible for Ghost Wind’s injuries.
Paul is not as experienced with horses as he seemed to be.
Ghost Wind is too injured to continue his training.