Horse and van and were replaced, in the main, by motorised delivery vehicles from around the 1920s. When did vehicles replace horses? By 1908, entrepreneurs were producing cars in earnest and their work couldn’t have come at a more fortuitous time. By the late 1910s, cities became inhospitable to the Read more…
Horses have proven useful to other species they share the range with: in winter months, they have the instinct to break through even deep crusted snow where the grass cannot be seen. They also open up frozen springs and ponds with their powerful hooves, making it possible for smaller animals Read more…
Wild horses provide a diet for predators and scavengers; such has mountain lions and bob cats as well as coyotes, foxes and vultures. The impact of wild horse hooves may help improve aeration of the humus and keep fungi down. What is the value of a wild horse? To those Read more…
As we have established, horses help our planet in more ways than one. They are helping the grass grow, they are cleaning up land by eating it, and they are carrying us all over the place. Another way in which they are saving our environment is their contribution to renewable Read more…
A growing body of research suggests that horses can enter a depression-like state as a reaction to their environment or chronic pain. Research from France suggests that horses can develop something akin to depression in response to social or physical discomfort. What are the signs of a depressed horse? 9 Read more…
The Environmental Protection Agency excluded horse manure from solid waste regulation because it contains neither significant amounts of hazardous materials nor exhibits hazardous characteristics. Horses do not carry any of the 120 viruses and pathogens that create risk for humans from carnivore and omnivore species. Is horse poo clean? Horse Read more…
Likewise, horses fart so much because their diet is mostly plant-based, and their fibrous food gets digested through fermentation in the back half of their digestive tract. (Elephants and rhinos do this too.) Do horses pass gas? Normal horses produce tremendous amounts of gas as a byproduct of the breakdown Read more…
So it’s only appropriate that the speed record for the Belmont Stakes is held by the one and only Secretariat, perhaps the greatest horse that ever lived. In 1973 Big Red finished the Belmont in an incredible 2:24 flat, blowing the doors off the rest of the field by a Read more…
Russell Dilday. Leading Riders Rank Rider Earnings 1 Russell Dilday $193,417 2 Robert C. “Bob” Avila $143,333 3 Ted Robinson $140,033 4 Jake Telford $124,933 Who is the best horse riding in the world? The 10 most famous horse riders & equestrians of today. Charlotte Dujardin. Born on July 13, Read more…
1. Chetak. The courageous stallion who has poems written in his name was Maharana Pratap’s saviour. He was the real hero of the battle of Haldighati where he saved his master’s life by taking over a mighty elephant. Who is the most famous War Horse? But during the 1950-53 Korean Read more…