Good grief! Any self respecting horse would dump them both and graze or run back to the barn.
Re: western horses being tied by reins, you see it all the time at rodeos and team penning/sorting events, to corral gates and such. Not all tie by a rein, some bring halters to tie, but it IS a thing. The horses pretty much just take a nap and chill. Not saying itâs a good idea but itâs pretty common, at least here in the South.
I used to work in a ER that was right on the outskirts of a very hick town. One night some young men brought in a deer (thru the ambulance bay doors) that had been hit and wanted us to take care of it. UmmmâŠthatâs gonna be hard no. It wasnât obviously damaged but was rather loopy. As we were trying to explain this to them, the deer got out the doors and headed for the open fields behind the facility. We used to get all kinds of stuff simply because there were no emergency vets nearby (nearest ones are nearly an hour away). But still - no. Just no.
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@moonlitoaksranch and @shiloh Iâm sitting here laughing at this. Reminds me of two reference questions I got, both when I was just a green young librarian.
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A woman calls up and wants to know how to get muskrats out of her basement. âI donât want to kill them; I just want to get them out of my basement.â
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On a Sunday, when I am librarian in charge, a woman comes in, carrying a young bird in a paper bag. The bird had flown into her kitchen window. She wants me to find out what kind of bird it is.
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Imagine my instructorâs face when her 3 year daughter tried this out! She obviously had seen it on TV. Luckily her mount was unaware of said cue.
This is the part that often confuses me. I get that they wouldnât have input into plot points, but someone is providing and handling these horses. Why is the bit upside down?
There are series that obviously have hired companies that do it all right, because the horses and tack, etc, throughout are gorgeous. Merlin & Peaky Blinders immediately come to mind. I have looked at some UK websites for these businesses- skilled riders, gorgeous animals.
Someone on here posted a link to video of the Three Musketeers learning some rudimentary skills. They tried and it wasnât too terrible at the end.
I think it was Sleepy Hollow, maybe it wasnât, but a Revolutionary War ghost riding a horse with white leather western tack. ick.
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Sleepy Hollow bothered me so much I couldnât watch it at all. ALL the horses wore western tack! 
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As much as I adore the LoTR movies, in the extended version of Return of King there is a scene when they are rallying to storm the Black Gate and one of the elaborate war harnesses must have had a metal component that was digging into the horseâs tail causing a really ugly looking gash. Like the harness fit when the horse was standing still, but at a gallop, the metal from the ornamental crupper just gouged this poor horseâs dock each stride.
It catches my eye every. single. time. Such a shame since Iâm sure that the equine and costuming teams probably put in tons of work for those films.
On Amazon Primeâs picture of âAll Creatures Great and Smallâ, the cast is pictured with what looks suspiciously like the head of a palomino Quarter horse.
Not quite right for the before and after WWll time period in Great Britain, that the show represents. 
Was just going to say this! I think Merlin did such a lovely job with all the horse-related action. The biggest error/issue I can remember is when Merlin leaves on a bay and arrives on a seal brown horse.
