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Featured Video: Sharing Snacks

Even the kindest horses don’t typically part with their food, much less deliberately give it away. That makes the handsome bay in today’s featured video that much more exceptional.



This video circulated the internet a couple of years ago and is making the rounds on Facebook again this week. And why not? It’s pretty adorable. If anyone knows the original source and can confirm whether or not this bay horse is always this generous, send us a note.

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Leslie Potter

Leslie Potter is a graduate of William Woods University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Equestrian Science with a concentration in saddle seat riding and a minor in Journalism/Mass Communications. She is currently a writer and photographer in Lexington, Ky. Potter worked as a barn manager and riding instructor and was a freelance reporter and photographer for the Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar and Saddle Horse Report before moving to Lexington to join Horse Illustrated as Web Editor from 2008 to 2019. Her current equestrian pursuits include being a grown-up lesson kid at an eventing barn and trail riding with her senior Morgan gelding, Snoopy.

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  • Very cute! But I'm thinking he's bedded in straw, as by the color and texture of it. But generous of him/her never the less.

  • You might be right, Marion. In which case it's less generosity and more of a prank. "Hey, try this hay. It's reeeeeally good, I promise!"

  • How cute! But the Gray is bedded on shavings, and the bay is bedded on straw! I think she's trying to give it away and wants shavings for her bed.

  • Awh good friends, but I think that they other horse yes is giving the gray straw! Not good to eat however!

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