HORSES is a Nature movie available from Netflix (and maybe elsewhere; I don’t know). It has two independent parts, "Horses and Riders" and "Wild Horses of Mongolia."

"Horses and Riders" is a compilation of horse training and use discussions encompassing Polo, Dressage and Cutting Horses. It was interesting to me who knows nothing of horses. (About 40 years ago I owned a horse but he was for a girlfriend, not me.)

The cutting involves the rider designating a particular cow or steer from a herd and then cutting her out and keeping her separated. It is psychologically cruel because the poor cow apparently feels vulnerable and endangered by being separated from her herd and tries her best to end-run the horse to get back to her herd. It is interesting because the horse is in charge, not the rider, once the cow is cut out. He spontaneously responds to the cow’s frantic attempts to end-run him, keeping himself always between her and the herd.

"Wild Horses of Mongolia." is somewhat of a schuck, starting w/ the title. The horses are not wild but rather are livestock living in a symbiotic relationship w/ nomadic herdsmen, a major part of whose diet consists of mare’s milk. The horses are wild only in the sense that they are generally not ridden and are not used to it. They are interesting because, not having been bred for riding for hundreds of years, they are much closer to wild horses constitutionally. For instance, they have the conformation of zebras rather than the horses we are used to. Doubtless with their bigger, sturdier legs they are much less subject to accidents than are the race-bred horses we are used to.