When I did my snakes, I made two versions - one with the head as base and one with the centre segment as base. I followed the rules above on both. They look fine, though in some renders you can just see the absence of curve dials in the central three segments. Since there are thirty something segments overall though, it's not really that noticeable. The horse does break those rules, yes. I said they're the rules I follow, not the ones other people do. I often want to do odd things with my stuff, like parent a tool figure to the final segment of a tentacle and be able to apply a MAT pose to the tool. Under those circumstances a curve dial will make some really strange things happen when you apply the MAT pose. Probably nobody wants to do that to a horse tail. I'm also usually making things like tentacles or ropes etc, not horses, so my approach is different. You've already seen what happens when you put curve dials either side of the hip equivalent in a snake/tentacle/rope type of figure.

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