Hayley Turner. With more than 860 winning rides worldwide and £8,000,000 in career prize money, Hayley Turner is the most successful professional female jockey in history. Who is the most famous female horse rider? The Top Female Jockeys of All Read more…
Thomas Jefferson was a fine horseman who rode horses almost daily for exercise while president. Which president was good with horses? George Washington Thomas Jefferson called him “the best horseman of his age and the most graceful figure that could Read more…
While hair and fur are terms that are used interchangeably for some animals, you will never hear an equestrian refer to their horse’s coat as fur. A horse’s coat is known as hair, however, it is often referred to as Read more…
An Oglala Sioux war chief, American Horse opposed the white settlement of Sioux land his entire life. The son of Smoke and cousin of Oglala Sioux, American Horse fought in many of the skirmishes and battles of Red Cloud’s war Read more…
What do they look like? Horses have oval-shaped hooves, long tails, short hair, long slender legs, muscular and deep torso build, long thick necks, and large elongated heads. The mane is a region of coarse hairs, which extends along the Read more…
Rabicano, “ticking” or “skunk tail” is a white pattern in horses that can vary in expression from a small “frosting” over the tail to an almost roan appearance. Yet, its genetic causes are still unknown. Can a horse be rabicano Read more…
A horse’s coat has a few different types of hair. Temporary hair is your horse’s body hair – the majority of the coat! Manes and tails are permanent hairs, as they don’t shed as their temporary body hair does. Does Read more…
Extinct, but not lost Before that, wild horses roamed through most of Europe’s ecosystems, from deserts, steppes and savannahs to deep forests and high mountains. It was exterminated and domesticated by our ancestors. Where do horses live in the wild? Read more…
The American Paint Horse Association and American Paint Horse Association both acknowledge ‘brown’ as a distinct color. Casual observers often represent bay or chestnut as ‘brown’. In fact, brown includes different shades like chestnut, bay, buckskin, silver dapple, and dun. Read more…
Today, wild horses and burros are present on 179 different BLM Herd Management Areas (HMA), covering 31.6 million acres in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. Each HMA is different in size, geography, and Read more…