Gelding getting aggressive in field and obsessed with in-season mare?!

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My horse Ronnie has been a very chilled-out sort since I got him. Easy to do in most ways. A few months ago a new mare came to the yard and was put in the field next door to him (both on their own in their respective fields). That mare (T) seems to have wound a few of the horses up - she is permanently in season I think - she keeps squirting all the time and being bit of a brazen hussy
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Ronnie has fallen for her big time, but now seems to have turned aggressive. He's getting very wound up in the field and galloping about and up and down the fence. Yesterday another gelding was turned out with him and he chased the "new" gelding round the field constantly and was attacking him, and then got aggressive with YO and bit her badly. This is very unlike him.

I don't know whether it's something to bother the vet with (should he be blood-tested for being a rig?, could it be something like a stomach ulcer - he is an ex-racer, very hard to keep weight on even in summer and I've wondered about this before), or whether a calmer would help. I just don't know what to do. YO is going to turn him out on his own, and only half a day to try and solve the problem. But I'm worried he's going to injure himself/another horse/people. What can I do?
 
I think some mares are tarts! My shetland mare is a total whore - she goes into season as soon as I put her near my geldings and reverses into them etc. but then kicks them when they show interest! I had to split her off from the rest of mine (had to anyway due to other reasons) as one of my 3 geldings showed way too much interest in her, he'd actually mount her continually (he's 15.2hh, she's a shetland!) and ward the others off her. I dont think he was at fault, I think she just flirted way too much!

Is he like this with other mares or just this one? If only this one, then I certainly wouldn't think he was a rig. Ive had a rig, and you KNOW when you have one!!

Why can't the mare be moved elswhere, she sounds like the culprit especially if she's already "wound a few horses up"?
 
I don't think there are any other paddocks? Plus he's cut the ground up so badly in his paddock from all this business that YO understandably doesn't want him doing that and ruining another paddock as well.
 
Moving her would, I think, be the better option but there's just nowhere she can go, without having a big old shake-up of fields (which won't happen as people have had "their" fields for years).

Because of the problems with T, he was moved to another field away from her, but he just went loopy in there too, galloping about and getting himself in a lather about the horses in the field next door to him (one mare, one gelding - not sure which was his problem). It's like something's clicked inside him and he's gone from being Mr Lazy to Mr Loopy. He's still an angel to ride, laid back as ever.
 
Well if your horse can get moved to another field - why can't the mare??? Sometimes there just has to be some flexibility.
 
I'll ask. I'm sure the answer will be no as the paddock he went into was a last resort (it's very boggy) and not supposed to be used. But I'll try asking...
 
Some horses can be like this. At our old yard if my TB was with/near a certain gelding all hell broke loose, but with others they were fine. In the end we kept them at different ends of the yard until I left.
 
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she goes into season as soon as I put her near my geldings and reverses into them etc. but then kicks them when they show interest!

Sounds to me like a d**k tease more than a whore!
 
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