Aggressive horse in field I have to walk through... Help?

[TinyDancingHoofer]

Hi, so there is a public footpath I have to walk through two times a week, it saves me about an hour of hiking and pushing through hedges so is worth it. I am horsey, have worked in show jumping and racing yards and ridden since I was four.

There are two horses in the field a lovely old bay and a grey. Normally they ignore me or a couple of times have slowly walked over but only got to me as I am climbing over the sty.

The last time I went through the field the grey trotted over and started circling, bucking and lunging forward at me. He was really aggressive, there were no ears back he was just really hyped up. He was kicking out and almost got me a couple of times. I had a dog lead on me so started swinging it and shouting at him, after a few more kicks he turned and cantered off. But even then he kept turning toward me and looking to come back, he didn't, mostly because I was growling at him really loudly.

I did nothing different from every other time I have been in the field, the only change was the grey had a grass muzzle on. Normally at dusk they are eating hay in the corner but they were still out in the middle of the field

I was honestly quite scared, I have been in fields of frisky horses plenty of times but I don't know this one and had nothing on me bar the silly short dog lead. I had no idea what to do and am now a bit worried about the next time I have to go through the field. Any advice would be really helpful. Sorry this is so long i just wanted to give you all the information. What would you have done in my situation?

[Katy007Lb]

No it's a public footpath i think the problem is these days the landowners generally don't get many people walking through the countryside or their land