Stallion running with mares next to my field

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As I have no experience of stallions, I'd really like some advice. A young stallion has recently moved into the field opposite the field I keep my two gelding in. He is running with 2 mares, although initially there was also a gelding in with him too. There was mayhem for a couple of days until the owners moved the gelding but they have now settled. One of my geldings is a bit anxious, I guess he can tell the difference in the noise a stallion makes? The owners of these horses do not live locally and the horses are only checked from time to time. Would you be a little concerned or do you think I'm being a bit of a worrier? Their field has good hedges but the gate is low enough to jump although they have put a bit of battery operated electric tape to keep the horses from the gate. I have several gates into my field, good hedges on the road side and post and rail on the parts which border my house. My neighbour has several mares on fields adjacent to the road. Your thoughts please.
 
Do they share a fenceline with the neighbours mares? Can your geldings or mares touch the stallion? Or are they across the road from the stallion? Have to say my stallions ran with particular mares of mine and never bothered any other mares in adjoining fields, and certainly never bothered any of my geldings who shared fencelines. In my municipality stallions have to be two gates from a public road, I don't think you have any stallion rules in the UK though. What are you particularly worried about?
 
A lot will depend on the stallion. Mine is running with mares but next to a field with fillies in it. There is a ditch between with a fence on either side. On the other side is a field with two yearling colts and a gelding with just a single wire fence between them. There was some fence pacing next to the colts the first few days but the fence has an electric strand on offsets and all they did was pull rude faces at each other. They have all now settled down. So long as the stallion has his mares, I can't see there would be a problem.
 
Not all stallions are monsters!

I have 5, in a herd with 6 geldings. They're hacked out by young children, and have manners to die for - quiet enough to do pony rides at the local fete!
If this chap has his mares, and a bit of space, he'll most probably be no trouble.

In the past, when I have temporarily had one of my stallions in a field next to a mare (shared fence-line, too high for him to jump, but they could touch noses), he wasn't interested, but the mare took a few days to stop pissing all over the place giving him the come-on.
 
Ditto the others, as long as they cannot touch you should be fine.

My gelding was positively horrid to my stallion, so I needed to make sure they couldn't touch or get close enough to eye up each other (my stallion is ickle, so my money is on my gelding, who's rather aggressive!)
 
We have a stallion out with 2 mares in the field next to my gelding and his mixed herd. The stallion is very well behaved and he's content with his girls.
The only problem I've had in the past was when a stallion was out with just a gelding in the next field (somewhere else). He broke through the gate and caused mayhem.
 
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