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I can almost hear Father Ted singing "My Lovely Horse"
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The way the second horse side scuttles across it

Clearly lesbian horses.

I have much the same reaction.

Brilliant

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The way the second horse side scuttles across it

Yes I loved that bit, the horse gives it the side eye as if to say "you fucking stay right there, don't be following me!"

My dog does that when he passes something that gives him the heebie jeebies

Fantastic

I thought horses just saw blue/green and grey and that they couldn’t see red/orange. So they saw stripes? Maybe they though it wasn’t flat (like those 3D flat painted crossings they have to slow down traffic). Poor horses.

Zebras should be black and white! There’s a road near us with funky artsy ones. One is very sensibly made up of words stencilled onto the road which aren’t easy to read (so the tourists slow don’t and peer at the ground as they cross the road - not dangerous at all!)

Race horses near me freaked out at dd’s pink buggy. Their reaction makes a lot of sense to me. Since when was a rainbow on the ground? It belongs in the sky

Love it!

Kinda worrying though when the animals have more sense than the people...

Horses know wots wot

Pity the Pony Club's Equality and Diversity statement conflates sex and gender.

Love it.

That could have been a lot less cute if the horses weren't well trained - they both reacted so presumably it's something horses in general don't like for some reason?

I am actually curious as to what it was visually that upset them so much. Did it look like water or a vertical drop or something or was it simply the unusual nature of it on a road?

Me too, I'd love to hear from someone who knows horses.

They both had the same reaction, but do horses pick up on the body language of others horses, kind of like dogs do? Did the second one freak out just because he saw the first one freak out?

Not sure - my sister keeps horses and whereas one may get spooked by something, unless it’s something that should spook them, the rest can be blissfully ignorant, or just look as if to say ‘and what’s your problem?’.

They really didn’t like it though did they? The riders were wrestling them - and these are big, strong cuddies.

Horses can see blue and green shades, but not reds and they’re not good at intermediate shades.

I don’t know exactly what the horses reacted to, but assume that to them it appeared to be unknown and potentially unsafe footing, perhaps like a cattle grid.

Horses are careful about putting their feet into or into strange surfaces, because a stuck horse is a dead horse in the wild.

Tending off topic, but does that sort of rainbow paintwork have any legal significance? Has the law/highway code been changed to mean it operates as a pedestrian crossing, which I guess is the intent? Or can we treat it as decorative? Potential insurance complications in the event of pedestrian/vehicle collision?

As long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses

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Tending off topic, but does that sort of rainbow paintwork have any legal significance? Has the law/highway code been changed to mean it operates as a pedestrian crossing, which I guess is the intent? Or can we treat it as decorative? Potential insurance complications in the event of pedestrian/vehicle collision?

It's odd... there's a dropped kerb, but there doesn't seem to be any of the other stuff associated with zebra crossings (Belisha beacon, zigzags). It looks like there might be a wheelchair type of symbol on it but hard to see against the coloured paint - am I imagining that?

Tending off topic, but does that sort of rainbow paintwork have any legal significance? Has the law/highway code been changed to mean it operates as a pedestrian crossing, which I guess is the intent? Or can we treat it as decorative? Potential insurance complications in the event of pedestrian/vehicle collision?

I think it’s completely on topic. Uniform road signage, the Highway Code etc is there for a reason.

But clearly other things take precedent on the roads over road safety...

My imagination, I found a clearer picture.

sheffieldnewsroom.co.uk/news/rainbow-crossing-pride/

This made me laugh. I have horses. They don't spoil because another horse in their company has spooked. Mine have always been excellent on the roads,but I had one that wouldn't walk on a new patch of tarmac,because it was darker than the surrounding road,and another who wasn't impressed when the rumble strips on the way into the village were repainted blue. Oh and a little pony we had jumped the rumble strips as he thought they were higher than they were.
If those horses had patrolled the area frequently,and one day were suddenly presented with a rainbow on the floor,I'm not surprised that they reacted how they did.

We have the standard pride colours in Nottingham, they are on a semi-pedestrianised bit of road, don't seem to have a function beyond a spot for drunk students to lie down and have their photo taken.

Semi-pedestrianised as it's open as a road at times.