If you are just beginning to ride, I would strongly recommend at least half a dozen lessons on the lunge before you join the crocodile of horses marching nose to tail around a school.
They were proceeding north on the A5 when Mr Woodward’s attention was suddenly drawn to what he first thought were three buses stood nose to tail.
That said, those winter mornings found our Russian cars nose to tail in true Politburo style, and us half asleep, boxed in their cabins, yawning like a pair of pre‑packed orchids.
A closed van was coming fast from the other direction, and the Montego was nose to tail with the car in front of it. He kicked down the accelerator - he was in automatic - and against all his better instincts overtook a Vauxhall and slewed.