A Stallion in Spring

(c) Lynne Glazer

Life on a horse farm is always interesting, but when the farm has all genders represented, it’s just a little bit more interesting in the spring.

The English-speaking world has a distinct preference for geldings as riding horses. Entires–mares as well as stallions–suffer from a fair degree of sexism and overall negative bias. Mares are “mareish,” moody, hormonal. Stallions are hormone-crazed monsters. Geldings are, as the adage says, from heaven.

Not that there isn’t a grain of...