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> >How hard is it to learn to take care of a horse properly? Right now, no 
> room and no money but maybe someday....

Not so much.  First, hobby and show-horse type people are all friggin' 
loonies down to every one of them.  You'd think that every horse was a sickly 
hot 
house flower.  So if a person is mainly into showing or pasture ornaments, 
suspect insanity, and check out anything they have to say against reality.

But a horse isn't a dog either.  Some people are surprised horses actually 
survive as it is, it is so unlikely to have an animal that depends on grass 
for 
its survival having a straight gut and one stomach.

I'm not a horse person, but I was able to learn enough pretty quickly.  
Knowledge and sense account for a lot more than medicine and equipment.  It 
is much 
harder to keep a horse confined than it is to "free range" it.