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There is example of a knight tournament from early 1600s, where two opposing pairs of knights instead of bypassing each other, experienced a head-on collision while charging at full speed.

The result was: 4 injured or dead people, but not a single horse died.

And it should be noted that in such case speed values of opposing horses are adding up and kinetic energy was thus 4 times greater than in case of a horse at full speed hitting a stationary object.

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Three head-on-collisions between horses charging against each other at full speed from opposite directions:

First video:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/227713/horse_collision/

Second video (collision can be seen in the background at 1:09 of the video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2AaxRGaKcY

Third video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujFEBsiwNk0

Please note that these are delicate / tender racing horses, not hunky Medieval war horses.

Such racing horses are not only delicate, but also much faster than war horses (their speed can be 20 m/s rather than 10 m/s typical for maximum speed of a horse charging during battle). Moreover, as in case of that tournament described above, speed values are adding up, both horses are charging at 20 m/s speed - kinetic energy is thus 16 times greater than in case of a horse charging at 10 m/s speed and hitting a stationary target. Despite this fact, and despite the fact that such racing horses are more tender than war horses, we can see that in 3 collisions (6 horses) only 1 horse died and 1 more was seriously injured (broken leg).

But these are your "intelligent" horses, which allegedly "refuse" to hit anything... :lol:

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And here a moving horse hits a stationary horse, description of the video says:

"Hilarious video of my friend colliding with someone else on horseback. (The horses were not hurt)"

So nobody was hurt here (neither riders nor horses).

If riders were hurt, the video would not be described as "hilarious":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdpMDW40vc8

And also this video - but it was already posted by me before in some thread on this forum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MZ7y-KqWSE

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