Thanks for that analysis of the LotR clip. Fascinating! Yeah I see the horse's nose pointing down toward his neck and that wouldn't be the way any animal would run flat out.

And what a difference between that and the Man From Snowy River clips!

I volunteered with dogs at an animal shelter so I know dog body language very well, and that makes all the movies with hell hounds amusing, because they're coming at someone with their teeth bared and supposed to be scary but their body language is saying "PEANUT BUTTER!"