Thanks for your responses. Susan, that video of the Black Horses is pure magic! No caste , I know how you love Black Horses.
My experience of Black Horses and also black cats is that they do appear to be a bit different, often agressive or troubled in some way. My daughter Hannah had a black mare we called Macy. She was an orphaned foal and was very spoilt having being reared by humans and not being subjected to a mothers natural discipline. So, as in a child reared with no walls of constraint of behaviour, she was very unsure of herself and agressive with other horses. She also thought she could boss any human around, that is, until she met my Hannah. I would watch Hannah from the house working with this stroppy mare. Macy standing on her hind legs pawing the air in front of Hannah. It just looked like a scene from "The Black Stallion" After many confrontations she finally bonded with Hannah and was a very willing, try her best for you, type of horse.
She was absolutely diabolical to put with other horses. She just beat the **** of them and had all other horses scared of her. She was also extremely jealous and hated Hannah riding any other horse. Her facial expressions were incredible, "if looks could kill!!'
Another of her little foibles was than she craved motherhood and would steal babies from any species, calves lambs!! I will never forget Macy walking toward me one day with a new-born lamb tottering at her big black hind legs. My daughter put Macy in a yard and quickly and carefully snatched the lamb back and gave it back to the mother. Macy was furious at losing her new baby, screamed around the yard, eventually jumping the fence, then another to get into where the ewes were, beat the **** out the ewe with 'her' lamb, and took the lamb back!!! It was a sight to behold, the big black mare with the tiny white lamb, being ever so careful with it.
She was a very safe horse to ride as she hated her rider falling off and refused to move forward well until she knew you could ride! Beginners were absolutely safe with her. I remember a beginner hanging under her belly when the saddle slipped once and Macy standing looking at this curious upside - down person as if to say "What the hell are you doing there!!"
Horse stories, I love em, and there is always a story to every horse!
Love
Carmen
