Hind legs
Rear
Rear noun - A behind part or surface.
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- While those could be excused as Acceptable Breaks from Reality, your horse will also rear on his hind legs if you ask him to stop quickly; any horse who routinely did this would be deemed unsafe to ride and sent for immediate retraining, not leased out to the noob for a summer of fun.
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This is Odin's standard operating procedure in the Final Fantasy games: appear ominously out of the darkness while lightning flashes around him, raise his sword/spear, have his steed Sleipnir rear up on his hind legs and whinny, then charge the enemy with deadly intent.
Source: Horseback Heroism
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