Horse Records
December 29th, 2007
- Tallest Horse: 21.2 hands (7 feet, 2 inches) tall. He was a Shire named Samson born in 1846 in Toddington Mills, England.
- Oldest Horse: 62 years. “Old Billy” was an English barge horse born in 1760.
- Highest Jump: 8 feet 1 1/4 inches. Huaso, ridden by Captain Alberto Larraguibel, set this record on February 5th, 1949 in Vina del Mar, Chile.
- Longest Jump: 27 feet 6 3/4 inches. Something, ridden by Andre Ferreira, set this record on April 25, 1975 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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How many teeth does a horse have?
November 12th, 2007
Horses are adapted to grazing. In an adult horse, there are 12 incisors (six upper and six lower), adapted to biting off the grass or other vegetation, at the front of the mouth. There are 24 teeth adapted for chewing, the premolars and molars, at the back of the mouth. Read the rest of this entry »
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Ansür Saddlery
November 11th, 2007
Ansür makes the only saddle sold in most parts of the world that doesn’t use large pieces of metal, wood, fiberglass or other hard materials to form the pommel and cantle, or a “tree” connecting those two raised portions, Weidner said.
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Were you born the Year of the Horse?
October 21st, 2007
The Horse is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac which is related to the Chinese calendar. Persons born within these date ranges can be said to have been born in the “year of the Horse,” while also bearing the following elemental sign:
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Horses in Oregon once again being used for logging
October 15th, 2007
CORVALLIS, Ore (AP) — Horses are helping loggers reduce their impact on the environmentally sensitive areas of a wildlife refuge.
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Horse Sleeping Patterns
October 15th, 2007
How much sleep does a horse need?
Do horses sleep standing up?
When does a horse sleep?
Horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down. They are able to doze and enter light sleep while standing, an adaptation from life as a prey animal in the wild. Lying down makes an animal more vulnerable to predators. Horses are able to sleep standing up because a “stay apparatus” in their legs allows them to relax their muscles and doze without collapsing. Read the rest of this entry »
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Wind
September 24th, 2007
The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.
-Arabian proverb
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Chris Cox 2007 Road to the Horse Champion
March 6th, 2007
Chris Cox (Mineral Wells, Texas) was named champion of the 2007 Road to the Horse Sunday March 4 at Murfreesboro’s Tennessee Miller Coliseum.
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In the Saddle
December 4th, 2006
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
Winston Churchill
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Horse sense
December 1st, 2006
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
~W.C. Fields
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