Mares

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

Horses with hormones will be as well behaved as they are required to
be.  As I have often said, wild mares don't stop to pee when there's a
mountain lion on the cliff above, any more than stallions are interested
in breeding as the herd runs from danger.  Those sexual displays are
voluntary, but if they don't have to control them, why should they!  So
yes, Jan, it's training, discipline and time.  Actually, mares should be
handled like stallions when they are young.  Sexual display should be
discourage *while you are working with them* even before they're old
enough to be ridden.  Actually, it's better put another way - when a
person is working with a horse of any sex, the horse's attention should
be on the human.  Not on dinner, sex, playing on the other side of the
fence, or anything else.  Lif

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