This sentence is giving me a hard time ...
(The sentence was uttered during a horse race when the speaker was passed by other competitors as he was saving his horse's energy while riding down a downward slope)
I was struggling with whether the relevant verb here is: 「休む」 or 「休まる」
I've read all of the questions and answers listed above, but can still not tell which verb is meant here.
Besides the verb in question I am not sure why 「を」 is used here.
All in all my questions are:
Which verb is used here and if 「休まる」 is used here, how does its passive voice function (isn't it kind of passive in itself)?
Why is the 「を」particle used here and could other particles be used here as well?
While searching around the internet for some further clues I came across this website:
My current level of Japanese is not high enough to get all of what is explained but I think one of the problems connected to my question is that 「休む」is sometimes 「自動詞」and sometimes 「他動詞」. I think it is mentioned that 「を」is used with 「自動詞」in a specific way applying here as well; however I am still unsure if I could put this in my own words (and whether I understood that passage correctly).