During the middle ages in Europe horses became used for
agricultural purposes, before that they were used for
transportation and warfare.
The grandson of Genghis Kahn, The Great Kahn, kept a herd of
10,000 pure white stallions and mares, these horses were
treated as sacred.
The Celts regarded the horse as a sacred animal in their
beliefs.
In Arizona it is illegal for cowboys to walk through a hotel
lobby wearing their spurs.
At one time it was a Japanese custom to hang the head of a
horse at the entrance to a farm house for good luck.
Big Racket was the fastest horse ever recorded, he reached a
speed of 43.26 mph in a quarter of a mile. This
happened in 1945 in Mexico City.
The Dubai world cup has the highest prize money for horse
racing, the first place horse gets $2.4 million dollars.
The highest show jump ever recorded was 8 feet and one inch
tall, it was jumped clearly by a horse named Huaso who was
ridden by Captain Alberto Larraguibel Morales in Chile in
1949.
Egyptians had depictions of horses on the outsides of their
tombs.
White horses are always referred to as being "gray."
