Roaming on the fringe of the main group, small bands of bachelor stallions practice the fighting skills and garner the necessary courage and strength to one day fight for and win the right to become a herd stallion with one or more mares. They are a constant threat to the dominant herd stallion, and he will always know where they are, and which ones pose the most lethal challenge to his position.

This frame was taken as two within the retreating band fought in the gathering glow of sunset after the passage of a desert rainstorm.