If proof were needed of just how much horses need to be able to move and enjoy the companionship of others, this is surely it. Having spent rather a lot of time in the stable since he was brought from the sales, B really needed to let off some steam and to engage with another horse in some fairly rough play. Without this, all of his pent up energy would have been turned on us as we tried to lead him out for the very first time in a car park full of cars. Horses need to be able to express themselves with other horses or they will turn their combative behaviour on the humans around them.
Once he had got that little lot out of his system, B was calm and amenable and ready to learn. Imagine if we had tried to work with him with all that energy inside him.
