Organized horse fighting

[2] Fights often take place in a fenced ring, which prevents the more submissive stallion from retreating, as it would do in a naturally occurring contest.

Two stallions and a mare in heat are brought into the ring by human handlers.

The mare is then removed, but kept in the vicinity so that her scent lingers, although in some fights she is tethered to a pole at the center of the ring.

[3] Horse fights may last between 15 minutes to three hours and have been criticized for their brutality and violence.

[7] Organized horse fighting has also been recorded in Thailand, in South Korea's Jeju Province, on Muna Island in Indonesia, and among medieval Norse settlers in Iceland, where it was known as hestavíg.