It is perfectly acceptable to cover a mare during foal heat, if she is in good shape.

Horses are not like humans. The mare has an extremely powerful hormonal cycle. This is evident in the fact that they give birth very quickly, unlike cattle.

These people were not good handlers in that they allowed an intense situation without having good control of either horse. Yes, you can have control over a stallion and NO, you don't have a foal underfoot when the mare is about to be covered.

I am sorry for the horses, the owner of the stallion, probably a Fresian and that the mare obviously didn't have his foal.

But, yes. Thus us exactly why we Artificially Inseminate, most stallions are far too valuable to risk being injured by a mare.

And this is good timing for this video, because we are in the midst of foaling/breeding season.

I was blessed to have a great mare foal a gorgeous filly this morning. And I have 7 mares to get in foal before the end of June. Yes, all of them AI.