I absolutely adore stallions. Yes, they can be more difficult to handle, but a partnership with a stallion is one of the most wonderful things you can have. Its like riding pure power.

Like that old saying 'You ask a mare, tell a gelding, but you must discuss it with a stallion'.

My advice is to get a young colt and work with him everyday. All the stallions at the ranch where I work are incredibly gentle and can be handled by children, because they are handled. Stallions need to be able to see what's going on around them, they like to know where their 'herd' is. A stallion in a small back pen will be harder to handle than a stallion who can see other horses and interact with them through a solid fence. A stallion needs to be lunged or worked nearly everyday, they get pent up energy and can be harder to control.

Stallions need to be taken out and brushed, especially during breeding season. Some stallions get it into their head that whenever they come out of their pen, they get to breed, and they can get really nasty. But if they're taken out on a regular basis, they don't know what they're being brought out for and look forward to it anyway. They either get to have sex, or they get a nice grooming.

A partnership with a stallion is amazing, and they make wonderful mounts. Good luck, and I hope this helped.