On April 7, 1933, the Clydesdale horse became the Anheuser-Busch brewery symbol.

Male horses generally have 40 teeth, while females have 36.

Nearly 90% of all thoroughbred race horses are descended from a seventeenth-century English stallion named Eclipse

Never, never, never allow the horse’s lead rope to be tied around your arm or waist, in case the horse spooks and runs- funerals have been held for people who have done this.

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Centuries ago, classic schools of equitation were started in European countries by royal decree. The Royal Riding School in Spain and the Spanish Riding School in Vienna are two such equitation schools that focused on riding as a highly specialized art and science.

Most of the time, a horse’s ear points where the horse is looking.

Unlike ruminants, horses do not need to rest after grazing. This is because they have an organ in the gut called a cecum, which breaks down indigestible cellulose in grass. Cows need to re-chew what they graze. Horses share this “eat-and-run” capability with tapirs and rhinoceroses

Even after gelding, some horses still act like stallions-herding or even mounting mares, charging “rival” geldings, showing reluctance to separate from mares, and so on. Traditionally, these geldings are referred to as “proud cut”. It has been claimed that this was because the veterinarian had neglected to remove all of the testicular tissue. More likely, the behavior is due to overactive adrenal glands, which also produce testosterone.

A horse’s stomach only holds 2-4 gallons at a time