Horse Facts

[kopend]

i need some unusual horse facts please

[seadogg]

I know two things about a horse
And one of them is rather coarse

[DTCwordfan]

"Onoitsmymothernlaw won't go away.." - great name for a horse.....

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4icm6Ia5D0

[tamborine]

an old nag could be her indoors

[Svejk]

The longest race run during the flat season is the Grand National.
The longest race run under Jockey Club Rules is the Boat Race.

[chrissa1]

Or this one:

http://youtu.be/tQRlZw4Rad0

[-Talbot-]

Reading some of your perms, DT ......it sounds like every night is a good year for Burgundy wines.

[Tilly2]

Horses for Courses.

[BlackadderV]

The Grand National is over the jumps, not a flat race.

[-Talbot-]

It's run in the flat season though, Blackadder.

[Svejk]

It's run during the flat season, blackadder. That's kind of the point.

[BlackadderV]

I see what you mean, just as the FA Cup Final is played during the cricket season.

[Svejk]

Not really. ;-(

[Sam1960]

esha ness wins the Grand National that "never was"
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/apr/03/esha-ness-1993-grand-national

[hammerman]

I once read somewhere that horses only need 2 hours sleep a night.

I think !!!

[Baldric]

http://www.racingnsw.com.au/default.aspx?s=naming-racehorses

[pixie373]

There's a racehorse called -Jafeica.... Standing for Just Another *** Expense I Can't Afford...

[whirlyhurly]

That quirky situation American comedy series of the 1960's about a talking horse called "Mr Ed".

[mallyh]

100/1 horse foinavon won the 1967 grand national after most of the field fell over .also has a jump named after him.

[mallyh]

not sure of this one ......foals are born with the leg length it will have as a full grown horse

[Retrochic]

Horses are incapable of being sick (vomiting)

Foals are born with a small hook on their hooves to help break the birth sac

Arabian horses are never called 'ponies' even though many are under 14.2hh

all Thoroughbreds descend from three stallions imported from the orient