by Debbie Summerhayes Horses are designed to live in wide open spaces, roaming in herds many miles every day, grazing in open country.  They would get to run in open spaces, without hindrance of fences, posts or walls.  Their legs would be toughened from birth to cope with a range of footings, hills, rocky country and both hard and soft sandy surfaces. We then take them and shut them into small areas, paddocks with wire (either barbed or plain) or even smaller into stables.  We also separate them to keep them from hurting each other, or to make sure that…