“Who is smarter?”
The loot-farming lawyer who will sue the rider and owner of the horse and the school official who was acting in loco parentis (sp) when said horse bit/stomped/kicked some unwary minor child who didn’t know any better.
I appreciate school spirit and pranks (we were going to steal a real live bull and bring it to school) but now as an adult who has been given great responsibility I see how quickly things can go terribly wrong.
Which still means that the horse is smarter than the children, because they haven’t learned how not to piss off a horse.
The original point, though, was the issue of whether horses are dumb. Have you ever owned a horse?