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Horses can rear for several reasons.

1. Fear
-Horses are prey animals. Their natural instinct is to either fight or run away. If something frightens them, this instinct comes into play, and the horse may spook, rear, bolt, buck, or any number of fear-based reactions.

2. Anger
-If a horse is being mistreated, he may rear in an attempt to escape the situation, the pain, and the pressure their rider may be inflicting upon them.

3. Stress
-If a horse's emotions "bubble over" past the point where he can cope, such as in situations of excessive confusion, he may rear in an attempt to escape what is being asked of him.

Sometimes if you have really short reins and pull on them they will rear.

if you have a young horse or pony it may rear because it is not broken in yet

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