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An excitable horse has managed to calm down after he regularly threw off riders - by playing football.

Kariba, 16, was sold by his old owners, but horse psychologist Emma Massingale calmed him down by getting him to kick a ball about, The Sun reports.

Emma, who rehabilitates dangerous steeds at her training school in Devon, said: “I looked at footballers and thought my horse could do that. We led him to a ball and he took to it immediately.”

She says the thoroughbred Irish Draft Cross can now dribble, pass, shoot and head.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .