Horses

• A horse can't see the end of its nose.
• If a horse has a small white patch near the muzzle, that's called a "snip." A narrow strip down the center of the face is called a "race."
• A skewbald is a two-color horse...white under any color except black. A piebald horse is mottled, mostly with white and black.
• The pulse rate of a horse at rest is about 40. In a race it can go up to 200.
• Hernando Cortez brought horses to the Western Hemisphere . . . ten stallions, five mares, and a foal. In 1519.
• George Washington swapped his race horse "Magnolia" for 5,000 acres of Kentucky's greenest land.
• Horses don't have fleas.
• Pope Gregory III in A.D. 732 banned horseflesh from Christian tables because pagans of northern Europe ate it in their religious rites.
• Clydesdale horses sold for 39 cents each in the south of Australia during World War II. Wasn't enough feed for them.
• A horse has 17 muscles for ear twitching. Humans have only nine.
• Pennsylvania's horse curfew is midnight.
• Horses don't get cavities.
• A grown horse normally has 10 more bones in its body than a grown man.
• In quicksand, a mule floats, a horse sinks. Seems the mule tends to lie still and relax, but the horse jumps hysterically until it goes under.
• George Burns once did the voice of the horse on the old "Mr. Ed" TV show.
• The horse ties with the ostrich as being the land animal with the biggest eyes.
• Horse collars weren't invented until about A.D. 1000. Earlier horses pulled loads with their tails.
• A horse's intestinal tract is 100 feet long.
• A horse's height is calculated in hands, one hand being equal to four inches. The measurment is taken from the ground level to the highest point on the horse's withers.
• Horses make only three sounds (from their mouths): snort, whinny, neigh.
• A horse can live bout 46 years. A cow, 30. Hog, 27. Sheep, 20. Goat, 18.
• Horses aren't very smart. In fact, they're ranked with gophers and guinea pigs. Claim is that even some turtles are smarter than horses.