Nip n’ Tuck

The safety of a horse herd depends on heavily on the structure or hierarchy of the herd. Horses fall somewhere along the spectrum between passive and dominant, with the exception of the lead mare. Rank is determined by who moves their feet to gives up space, which a passive horse will gladly do to get out of the more dominant horse’s way. The closer two horses are in rank the more likely there will be some scrapping to get it sorted out.

There’s no scraping here though, the mare in front is scooting out of the stud’s way, right quick and in a hurry!