I took my time with this one. I worked on it here and there, about 1 hr and 30m each session (more or less). It has roughly been a week: so about 10 hrs and 30 m. I finally stopped horsing around and finally got to the main event (but note the lack of manes), here are a series of pictures of the completed horse battle:
I produced the fog at this tail end picture by using a photo editor. Nothing done in Blender, save saving a misty render option and using it as a photo layer.
Hi Ho Silver!
The simple horse bridle rope was based off of the rope used to hoist up the cross in my Myan project.