A stallion is a male horse
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A mare is a female horse
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A foal is a baby horse of any sex.
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A filly is a young female horse.
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A colt is a young male horse.
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A foal is a yearling after it's first birthday.
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A sire is the word used for the father of a horse.
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A dam is the word used for the mother of a horse.
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The average life span for a horse is around 20-25 years.
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Horses fall into four main groups:
Light: Horses with small bones, thin legs and weighing less than 1300 pounds
Heavy Horses: Draft horses which can weigh up to 2000 pounds are strong with large bones, sound hooves and sturdy legs.
Ponies which are usually not more than 58 inches tall (14.2)
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A mustang is a feral horse.
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Horses are measured by the width of a human hand-4 inches or 10 centimeters. Measurement is taken from the ground up to the withers, the highest point on the horse's shoulder.
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The oldest pony reliably recorded was named Teddy E. Bear, and lived to be 55. He was owned by Kathy Pennington of Virginia Beach, VA. He was still alive as of 1998.
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The smallest breed is the Falebella of Argentina. The tallest of the breed stands about 74cm (30 inches) at the shoulder.
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World Record for log pulling was set in 1893. 2 Clydesdale Stallions hauled a sledge stacked with timber weighing 128 tonnes. The equivalent of pulling 22 African Elephants.
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The record for the longest jump over water is 27 ft., 6 3/4 in., by Something, ridden by Andre Ferreira (South Africa) in Johannesburg, South Africa on April 25, 1975.
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There are over 350 different breeds of horses and ponies.
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The longest tail measured was 22ft long was grown by an American Palomino named Chinook.
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The longest mane was 18 ft long and grown by a Californian mare named Maude.
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Horses have 2 blind spots. One is directly behind them and the other is directly in front of them.
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A horse's heart weighs about 10 pounds.
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The average horse's head weighs 11.84 pounds.
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Most foals are born at night under the cover of darkness and away from prying eyes and possible danger.
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In the wild, the mare decides when and where the herd will go while the stallion takes up the rear.
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Horses can drink up to ten gallens of water a day.
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It's impossible to predict a horse's color from the foal coat color. They generally will go through several color changes. The color finally becomes fixed around two years of age.
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The difference between a mule and a hiny. The mother of a mule is a Mare and the father is a Jackass. The mother of a hiny is a Jenny and the father is a Horse.
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Horses expend more energy lying down than they do when they are standing up.
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Rabbits are more closely related to horses than they are to rats or mice.
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Jumping is not a natural activity for horses and left to their own devices most will go around obstructions.
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China not only has the most people in the world, but also has the most Horses with 10,000,000
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The fastest Pony Express ride was 7 days, 17 hours and was carrying Lincoln's inaugural address.
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There is no such thing as a white horse. They are all called gray horses because they have little black and white hairs that combine to make them look white. Horses which are white with blue/brown eyes, a pink mouth, and pink ears are called Extreme Tovero, Cremello, Perlino or American Cream.
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There is no such thing as an albino horse. To be a true albino one must have pink skin, white hair, and pink eyes. Pink eyes are not seen in horses, and horses in fact lack the albinism gene.
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Horses cannot vomit.
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The male seahorse is the one who gets pregnant and delivers the baby seahorses
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EQUINOPHOBIA - Fear of horses.
HIPPOPHOBIA - Fear of horses.
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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds re ceived in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Horses cannot breathe through their mouths.
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The only horse to defeat the great race horse Man'O War was named 'Upset'
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The tallest documented mule was Apollo. Foaled in 1977, measures 19.1hh, and is the offspring of a Belgian mare crossed with a mammoth jack. _________________________________
Showjumping was first televised in Great Britain in 1948 during the Olympic Games in Wembley, London.
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The smallest horse ever recorded is "Little Pumpkin". Foaled on April 15, 1973; he stood 14 inches high and weighed just 20 pounds a year later.
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The oldest horse ever recorded was Old Billy. Foaled in 1760, he died on November 27, 1822, having reached an incredible 62 yrs. of age.
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The tallest documented horse was a shire gelding named Sampson. Foaled in 1846, he measured 21.2hh in 1950 weighed 3,360 pounds.
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The oldest horse to ever win a race was Revenge, who won at Shrewsbury, England, in 1790, at the age of 18.
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The fastest horse ever recorded was Big Racket, who on Feb. 5, 1945 reached the amazing speed of 43.26 mph, in a quarter of a mile race in Mexico City.
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Buffalo Bill Cody was given a snow white horse by the painter, Rosa Bonheur, whom he treasured named Isham. When due to bankruptcy, Isham was to be auctioned off, a friend bought him and gave him back to Buffalo Bill.
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Horses hooves grow approx. 0.25 inches a month and take nearly a year to grow from coronet band to the ground.
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The Book of Revelation has 4 symbolic horsemen which represent the evils that come at the end of the world. the man of conquest rides a white horse, the man of famine rides a black horse, the man of war rides the red horse and the man of plagues rides a pale horse. These men are referred to as the Four Men of the Apocalypse.
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St. George, St. Steven and St. Anthony are patron saints pf the horse.
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A healthy adult horse should have a resting pulse rate of 36-40 beats per minute.
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The highest prized horse race in the world is the Dubai World Cup in Japan which has a purse of $2.4 million.
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Arabians have one less rib, one less lumbar bone, one less tail bone than any other breed of horse. This acconts for their compact conformation through the back and the high tail carriage.
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The Romans are thought to have invented the first horseshoe. Called a hipposandal, it was not nailed on but tied with leather strings and therefore, removable.
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One of General Washington's favourite Chargers was called Nelson. He rode Nelson throughout the American Revolution. When the General retired to Mount Vernon, so did Nelson.
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The highest show jump ever recorded was 2.47 metres, (8ft 1 inch) cleared by Huaso, ridden by Capt. Alberto Larraguibel Morales at Santiago, Chile, on Feb. 5, 1949.
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The word 'Dressage' comes from the French verb "dresser" meaning to train.
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An old name for the chestnuts found on the insides of horses' legs is, "Night Eyes". It is ancient chinese myth that horses can travel at night because they have 'night eyes' on their knees.
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The smallest horse to ever win the Grand National was Battleship, sired by Man O' War. He was 15.2hh and ridden by Bruce Hobbs, who at 17 yrs. old and 6ft. 3 inches tall was both the youngest and the tallest jockey to do so.
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In 1040, Lady Godiva struck a deal with her husband Leofric the Dane, to make him reduce the heavy taxes he had imposed on the townsfolk. It was agreed that if she rode a horse naked through the streets and all the townsfolk remained indoors to spare her dignity, then he would reduce taxes. They both kept their sides of the bargain and Lady Godiva rode 'clad in nought but my long tresses' and Leofric cut the taxes.
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In 1875, 1000 tonnes of manure was removed from London's streets daily.
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The small intestine of the horse is about 75.5 ft. long.
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Epona is the mythological goddess of the horse, the ass and the mule.
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King Alexander III of Scotland, 1249-86, died when he rode his horse over a cliff in the middle of the night.
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In the wild, a horse will eat for 20-22 hrs a day and sleep for 2-4 hrs.
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In 1931, a brown mule named Pal in Oregon, U.S.A, saved his owner from an attack from an enraged bull, earning him the Latham Foundation's Gold award for animal heroes.

 

Horse vs. Human Age Chart

Horse Age	Human Age
1 year	6 years
2 years	13 years
3 years	18 years
4 years	20 years
5 years	24 years
7 years	28 years
10 years	35 years
13 years	43 years
17 years	53 years
20 years	60 years
24 years	70 years
27 years	78 years
30 years	85 years
33 years	93 years
36 years	100 years