Cal said:
Glad all is well. Now get the nuts cut out of that horse before he does something worse.
You have a real good point there, Cal. The horse was her horse, we just agreed to keep it over the winter for her. She gave lessons to my girls and has given lessons on horseback riding, for walking horses, english and western style. She just needed a place to keep her horse for a while. She was a student in my wife's math class and an outstanding student at that. It was hard to say "no" to her when she asked us to keep it for her.
All our horses are either geldings or mares. We have young kids and really needed well behaved horses. Ours are very well mannered and our kids (under 13) have had no problem riding them bareback. They have never kicked at them and your point was a real consideration for us with our own horses.
I don't know what she is going to do with her horse as far as getting it cut. I bet this might have an impact on her decision. I had a school classmate in high school who was killed after falling off her horse during a competition. The risks are there, but there are a lot of risks in life we just can't control completely. Horses are one of them.