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Horses
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HORSE TRIVIA
Monday, 16 March 2009
• In the wild, foals will suckle until they are a year old, and sometimes longer.
• The horse has the largest eyes of any land animal.
• A horse’s teeth occupy more space in its head than its brain.
• Horses have memories that put elephants to shame.
• Adult male horses generally have 40 teeth, but females only 36.
• Barley is thought to be the first grain to be domesticated, and probably the first to be fed to horses.
• There were no horses in Australia until 1788.
• The sequence of the horse’s footfalls at the walk was correctly described by Aristotle (384-322 b.c.) in the 4th century B.C.
• Selective horse breeding has been practiced by the Arab tribes since at least the 7th century.
• Caspian ponies probably existed in Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C.
• A coltpixie is believed to be a spirit horse which lures mortal horses into bogs.
• The oldest horse on record is Old Billy. Foaled in 1760, he died at age 62 in 1822. He was a draft cross bred in Woolston, Britain.
• Women rode astride until the 15th century, then followed the period of sidesaddle.
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