A trap, pony trap (sometimes pony and trap) or horse trap is a light, often sporty, two-wheeled or sometimes four-wheeled horse- or pony-drawn carriage, usually accommodating two to four persons in various seating arrangements, such as face-to-face or back-to-back. What Read more…
Shetlands top out around pulling 900 pounds. How much weight can a horse cart pull? Horses can typically pull about 1/10 of their body weight in “dead weight,” such as a plow or fallen log. If you add wheels to Read more…
The horse brain weighs between 600 and 800 g. There is an old myth which says that the horse’s brain is only the size of a walnut, which is by no means true, but the horse’s brain is smaller than Read more…
Horses can see only two of the visible wavelengths in the light spectrum because they have only blue-sensitive cone cells and yellow-sensitive cone cells. Thus, they see blue, green, and variations of the two colors, but do not see red Read more…
Though it may make some riders anxious, there is no reason to restrict riding to daylight hours. Open fields and lightly wooded areas can be traversed easily in the dark. Dense woods or pitch-black nights aren’t ideal, but a horse Read more…
Horse eyes also have more rods compared to cones than humans. Cones determine colour vision whilst rods determine night vision, a high proportion of rods to cones and a tapetum lucidum give horses their superior night vision. Can horses see Read more…
With these in mind, I wanted to share the main reasons for failing a pre-purchase examination, and explain a bit more about them. Lameness. This is by far the most common reason I fail a horse presented to me for Read more…
It would take about five hours for a horse to travel 20 miles at an average walking pace of around four miles an hour. However, exceptionally fit and trained endurance horses can travel twenty miles in about one and half Read more…
Horse riding is a great exercise that checks all the boxes, fun, outdoor, and strenuous. It strengthens your core, improves your balance, and provides a cardio workout when performed at higher intensity levels. Still, even light riding provides exercise, and Read more…
Horses will be able to hold 2 players / mobs, (possibly at the cost of a slight speed reduction). Just like in boats, the second player riding will not be able to control, but when the driver dismounts, the second Read more…