Everything You Need To Know About Horses

Interesting Horse Facts

Did You Know…………

Draught horses are the world’s strongest animals apart from elephants, but proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Horses dislike windy days not only because of what they can hear but also what they CANT hear.

It’s been said that horses, like humans, have one leg (or in the case of horses, two legs on the same side) shorter than the other and that the mane falls towards the shortest side.

Did You Know……

Equinophobia and Hippophobia means “fear of horses” while a person who loves horses and riding is said to be a “Hippophile”. Notice how two of these words start with “hippo” which is the greek word for horse

During the American Civil War, enlisted soldiers were paid 50 cents a day for providing their own horse.

Rhinoceros are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.