I was never much for riding horses, though all of my sisters liked to ride. My dad raised Belgians in retirement, but they weren’t really for riding. If nothing else, you’d need a stepladder to get up on one.
A movie was made pretty recently called “War Horse.”
A beautiful story about how a Hunting horse was bought
to aid the war effort.
Read more here from our friends @ Wikipedia:
(Spoiler Alert!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Horse_(film)
I do not wish to get into arguments about the Directer (Spielberg) and so on.
I will say that NO horses were killed or abused while making this movie.
It’s a nice way to spend an afternoon in the
cold winter, watching with your spouse and kiddos
and a good topic for discussion with young
ones about World War 1.
Enjoy!
P.S.
I would not recommend it to kids under 14 years of age
due to some graphic scenes.
It might however, show them that unlike video games-
some of the brave military, unlike their games-never got back up.