Horses can thrive with a combination of being stabled and having free rein of the pasture. Being pastured during the day and stabling your horse at night helps ensure time outside whilst staying safe overnight. Should you stall your horse Read more…
Draft horses are the gentle giants of the horse kingdom. Also called heavy horses and workhorses, these are horses whose primary purpose is to pull heavy loads. There are many dozens of draft horse breeds throughout the world. The most Read more…
Sometimes a sport horse is described with ‘flashy’ movement because it throws the front legs out in an extreme way in the trot. While it is a good thing for a horse to have a free shoulder and be able Read more…
two horses. The ancient Egyptians used chariots — typically with one or two riders and pulled by two horses — for hunting and warfare as well as in processions. How many horses can a chariot have? chariot racing, in the Read more…
A stallion is a male horse that is over the age of four that has not been castrated. What is a male horse over 4 called? A stallion is a mature male horse at the age of four or older; Read more…
Horses aren’t like cars; four horses can’t go any faster than one horse of the same breeding and quality, and these four would be dragging a heavy cart behind them. Does more horses mean more speed? Horses have an inherent Read more…
24/7 turnout means that the horse spends all day and night at pasture and lives primarily on forage, the way his ancestors did in ancient times. Knowing this, one could think that 24/7 turnout is the optimum in horse husbandry, Read more…
In Greek mythology Phaethon was the son of Helios, the sun-god. Helios drove his golden chariot, a ‘quadriga’ yoked to a team of four horses abreast, daily across the sky. What were Apollo’s horses called? THE HIPPOI ATHANATOI were the Read more…
Many horse breeds grow close to their final height by the age of 4 or 5 years old, then fill out more over the next 2 or 3 years. Large horse breeds like draft horses don’t stop growing until they Read more…
What is another word for horse-drawn carriage? stage-coach stagecoach hansom landau stage thoroughbrace tallyho horse-drawn coach carriage cart What’s another name for a horse carriage? chariot. a vehicle with two wheels and no roof that was pulled by horses in Read more…