In reply to Big Ger:
If it wasn't for horses you wouldn't have most of the roads that you can drive on! Everyone, cyclists, pedestrians, car drivers, horse riders, have a right to use the roads and paths and tracks that they are permitted to use, it just needs people to be more tolerant of each other. I walk, road bike, mountain bike and horse ride, as well as drive a car ( not all at the same time I would add, before some wag suggests it), and experience problems with other users in every discipline. There are just a few (my experience suggests 1 in 10) selfish or unthinking people who think that they own the highway and no one else should be on it. My horse is pretty good in traffic and with bikes, dogs etc. but at the end of the day you are dealing with flesh and blood ( not a mechanical device) so there will always be an element of unpredictability with animals.