Gelding trying to cover mares

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I was at a local DIY yard today and a lady was chatting to me.... she has a horse that is in its late teens looks older he has just started mounting a mare in the field..... he has been tested and is not a rig (don't no when he was tested but she says he has)... she is really worried that he is going to get his legs stuck in the mares rug etc and or hurt him or the mare..... is there anything she can do other than split them.... maybe some drug..... noncovermarethatsnotarig type drug
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Idea?????
 
Separate them, my mare used to chase a gelding backwards round the field till he obligued (so may not be solely down to the gelding - takes two to tango and all that)!!!!
 
More common than you might think Bella3puff. My sweet innocent Highland x gelding fell deeply in love with a little cob mare when I moved to my last yard. She felt the same way about him. She was a tough little cookie and used to chase all the other horses out of the field shelter and would only let my Sullivan in! Well, one day we spotted Sully doing her a BIIIIG favour for letting him in the shelter and was I horrified! My innocent boy being USED by that tart! He he he!!! If you have any concerns at all that either one might get hurt, you need to separate them unless Robinsons do an equine chastitiy belt!!!! No gelding dangly bits means no babbies to worry about!!!
 
Maybe the horse was gelded late? I was at a yard with a gelding in my field with my new mare. I used to ride/share the gelding so I knew him very well. He had been gelded late but wasn't a rig. He had been in a field with mares in season before and he was a gent! Didn't touch them! One day me and my friend started talking in the gateway whilst I had my mare on her headcoller and leadrein.. Major came up behind her and tried to mount her!! She wasn't even in season. I have never looked at him in the same way again, he is 18 and she was 4 at the time! I was so shocked. He used to get "excited" when he walked past my mare too, we just had to seperate them and he hasn't shown these tendencies since!
 
I leave my gelding with my daughters mare until she comes into season because she encourages him to do the deed.Afraid they love each other a little too much but then the other mares on our yard flirt with him and make him pull silly faces as well.
 
What do you consider late Ive had him since he was 4 1/2 hes ex race horse not sure when they normally geld.He failed on the track at 3 to 31/2 so I suppose it could have been done then.
 
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