Fun Horsey Facts and Trivia

• There are over 350 different breeds of horses and ponies.
• A horse is considered adult at age four.
• Horses usually live to be 20-25 years old. The oldest horse lived to be 62.
• The longest tail measured was 22ft long, and was grown by an American Palomino named Chinook.
• Anything under 14.2 hands high is a pony.
• Horses have 2 blind spots. One is directly behind them and the other is directly in front of them.The average horse's head weighs 11.84 pounds.
• Horses can drink up to ten gallons of water a day.
• Horses lose more energy lying down than they do when they are standing up.
• The smallest pony ever recorded is "Little Pumpkin". Foaled on April 15, 1973; he stood 14 inches high and weighed just 20 pounds a year later.
• The tallest documented horse was a shire gelding named Sampson. Foaled in 1846, he measured 21.2hh in 1950 weighed 3,360 pounds.
• The word 'Dressage' comes from the French verb "dresser" meaning to train.
• Rabbits are more closely related to horses than they are to rats or mice!