I'm no lover of horses. The only time I got close to any, one of them tried to bite me! Thankfully, I was smart enough to stop in my tracks and lucky enough to be wearing a leather jacket. The animal in question maintained a firm hold on my upper arm until a staff member noticed, came over and gently scolded her into letting go.

"She's always doing that!" I was told. "Do you want to ride her?"

I replied in the negative, informed my friends - who seemed unwisely disposed to trust their lives to these apparently psychotic beasts -that I would await their return in a nearby hostelry, got called a wimp, went for a pint or three and have never been near a horse since.

So my thoughts on the matter are, why not leave the poor creatures alone to frolic in fields as they were meant to? Use a quad bike instead. That way you can freely break every bone in your own body without damaging an innocent animal in the process!