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... that the record-setting Finnhorse trotter Reipas was originally a thin, weak foal of unknown parentage?
... that racing wins by the American racehorse Luke McLuke, including the Belmont Stakes, made owner John Schorr the leading owner for 1914 and his son, J.F. Schorr, the leading trainer?
... that the American Thoroughbred Gen. Duke was named for General Duke, the racehorse that won the Belmont Stakes in 1868, as well as for Confederate General Basil Duke?
... that the early Britons were skilled horsemen and faced Julius Caesar with a well-organized force of 4,000 horse-drawn chariots?

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Portal:Horses/Did you know/1

...that Thoroughbred racehorse Gallant Man lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby by a nose after his jockey stood up to celebrate?

...that American Thoroughbred Kingston won eighty-nine races, the most by any horse?

...that Skowronek was an Arabian stallion who became a lead horse in the Crabbet Arabian Stud?

...that because the horse does not have a gall bladder, they can only have up to 20% fat as part of their equine nutrition?

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...that, owing to Henry Babson's selective breeding work, thousands of Arabian horses today have "Babson-influenced" bloodlines?

...that a galloping horse must breathe with every stride, due to the movement of the gut contents pushing forward and back on the diaphragm?

...that an easy keeper is a term used to describe a horse, pony, or other equine that can live on relatively little food?

...that near the end of World War II, American soldiers conducted a raid behind Soviet lines to rescue the bay stallion Witez II from a Czechoslovakian stud farm at the behest of captured German officers?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/3

...that Equine Hippique Canada, Canada's official national equestrian federation, describes itself as a "little known and hardly recognized" entity in Canada, despite the fact that it selects the country's Olympic teams?

...that the Budweiser Clydesdales were first introduced to the public on April 7, 1933, to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition?

... that, being a descendant of Pliohippus, Astrohippus is not considered to be an ancestor to modern horses?

... that the Equus Survival Trust is the only conservation organization in the world that specializes in equines?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/4

... that although the Jersey Act of 1913 limited the registration of American-bred Thoroughbreds in the British General Stud Book, it wasn't actually a law?
... that British equestrian Anne Dunham won her first individual Paralympic gold medal in the 2008 Games at the age of 59?
... that McDynamo won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase in five consecutive years, with the fifth win coming as a 10-year-old, the oldest horse running that day?
... that coach builder Jim Frecklington had to mortgage his house to pay for the estimated £620,000 building costs of the State Coach Britannia?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/5

... that following show jumper Denis Lynch's Olympic ban for doping offences, the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland threatened to ban the equestrian team from participating in future Olympic Games?
... that a rules dispute during the first all-cowgirl rodeo, held in 1948 in Amarillo, Texas, led to the formation of the first rodeo association for women?
... that the Texas saddlemaker Tooter Cannon's work is so prized by ranchers and rodeo performers that it is held mostly in private collections and unavailable on the open market?
... that the term maverick, referring to an animal without a brand, came from Texas land baron Samuel Maverick who was notorious for not branding his cattle?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/6

...that the purse won by a claimed horse in a claiming race usually goes to the former owner?
... that 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird had the second highest odds of a Derby winner?
... that horseshoeing was among the courses taught at the Masonic University?
... that early favorites in the 2009 Kentucky Derby include the filly Stardom Bound?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/7

...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
... that Garrett's Miss Pawhuska, a Quarter Horse racehorse, lost a match race by running over a stake 50 yards from the finish line?
... that according to her groom, when the racehorse Chicado V stood in the starting gate, she looked like a rabbit because all you could see above the gate were her ears?
... that 2009 American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee Miss Meyers was the mother of the first American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Supreme Champion, fathered by fellow AQHA Hall of Famer Three Bars?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/8

... that although the Quarter Horse Lightning Bar is known as a racehorse and father of racehorses, he won a roping contest once?
... that before the Quarter Horse Barbara L became a racehorse, she demonstrated horse trailers for her owner, a trailer salesman?
... that Calcutta Polo Club which was established in 1862 is considered as the oldest polo club of the world which is still in existence?
... that dominant white, a collection of related genetic conditions, causes horses to be born with no skin pigmentation and completely or partly white coats?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/9

... that former Olympic show jumper Marion Coakes won a silver medal on a pony and learned to ride on a donkey?
... that Rob Smets suffered a broken neck three times before retiring for good from the sport of rodeo bullfighting in 2006?
... that a modern hippodrama, featuring 32 horses, will be shown in London in September 2009?
... that the prize fund for chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede has grown from $275 at its inception in 1923 to $1.15 million in 2009?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/10

... that African-American groom Eddie Sweat is depicted with Secretariat in a life-sized statue at the Kentucky Horse Park?
...that a Lithuanian Heavy Draught horse could weigh up to 920 kilograms (2,030 lb)?
... that the Quarter pony horse breed was developed from horses that did not meet the American Quarter Horse Association's original height requirement of 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm) high?
... that thoroughbred horse Lord Avie, bought for $37,000 in 1980, was put to stud after retiring in 1981 and by 2002 had sired 578 starters, including 429 individual winners with total earnings of $35 million?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/11

... that Hall of Fame jockey Jorge Velásquez won the Young America Stakes four times; in 1978 with Spectacular Bid, in 1979 with Koluctoo Bay, in 1980 with Lord Avie and in 1987 aboard Firery [sic] Ensign?
... that Czech jockey Josef Váňa won his sixth Velká pardubická steeplechase at the age of 56?
... that as of 2005, theories of foul play still have not been ruled out in the 1976 death of jockey Michael Hole?
... that Swiss equestrian Gustav Fischer won a medal in every team dressage event held at the Summer Olympics between 1952 and 1968?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/12

... that some Australian rodeo shows have been called Bushmen's Carnivals?
... that Kasztanka, Polish Marshal Józef Piłsudski's favorite combat mare, was stuffed upon her death in 1927 and after World War II was destroyed allegedly on the orders of Piłsudski's enemy, Marshal Michał Rola-Żymierski?
... that by kneeling before a cross the renowned 16th-century English performing horse Marocco saved his master from death by burning as a witch?
... that Alice Greenough Orr became a rodeo star after she found her preferred job of forest ranger largely unavailable to women during the era after World War I?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/13

... that the Byzantine general Saborios began a revolt against Constans II, but was killed by his horse?
... that The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand was the first painting to demonstrate, based on systematic photographic analysis, how horses move?
... that the Piber Federal Stud breeds Lipizzan horses and is the primary source of the stallions used by the Spanish Riding School?
... that former State Senator O.H. "Ike" Harris was honored in 2009 by the horse racing industry for his work in legalizing parimutuel betting in Texas?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/14

...that the horse Authentic has won three Olympic medals and two World Equestrian Games medals?
... that colitis-X is a fatal form of acute colitis in horses, with severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, shock and dehydration, and near 100% mortality in less than 24 hours?
... that American racehorse Goldsmith Maid set a world harness racing record at the age of 17?
... that the American thoroughbred racehorse Meridian won the Kentucky Derby in 1911, establishing a new record time?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/15

... that the White Horse Temple is, according to tradition, the first Buddhist temple in China, established in Luoyang in 68 AD?
... that the legend of Krishna killing the horse demon Keshi may have its origins in the tale of Greek hero Heracles slaying the horses of Diomedes?
... that the district Øvrevoll has Norway's only track for gallop horse racing?
...that Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon ordered that the Living Museum of the Horse be built, believing he would be reincarnated as a horse?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/16

... that the horses in the Minneapolis Police Department mounted patrol commute to Minneapolis from a nearby ranch?
...that Paul C. Barth, former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?
... that racehorse Clyde Van Dusen, winner of the 1929 Kentucky Derby, was named after his trainer?
... that Lookingglass, Oregon, became nationally famous in the 1970s when a parking meter for horses was installed in front of the general store?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/17

... that the white horse in mythology is associated with the sun chariot, warrior-heroes, fertility or an end-time saviour?
... that after endangering himself to control the imperial horse, Qi Ying was made an imperial attendant by Emperor Dezong of Tang?
... that an enterolith is a calculus found in the intestine of an animal, usually a horse or human?
...that the discovery of horse bones at the archaeological site of Hallur in south India refuted the theory that horses were introduced to this region as part of the Indo-Aryan migration?

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...that according to Hindu mythology, the deity Revanta was born from the union of the sun-god Surya and his wife Saranya in the form of horse and mare?
... that Ageratina adenophora, a plant native to Mexico which has invaded Australia, India and the United States, causes respiratory failure called "blowing disease" in horses?
... that Camarillo Ranch House, headquarters for "the largest bean ranch in the world", was renowned for its Arabian stallions that led the Rose Parade?
... that McDynamo won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase in five consecutive years, with the fifth win coming as a 10-year-old, the oldest horse running that day?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/19

... that Eurythmic was a versatile Australian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won over distances ranging from 5 furlongs (1,000 metres) to 2 miles (3,200 metres)?
... that Sheila Varian of California is an Arabian horse breeder who is also a horse trainer in the vaquero tradition, and was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2003?
.....that Tranquil Star is the only mare to have won the double of the Caulfield Stakes, now known as the Yalumba Stakes, and the Cox Plate?
... that a modern hippodrama, featuring 32 horses, was shown in London in September 2009?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/20

... that the owner of the American Quarter Horse stallion Poco Pine once bet against his horse winning a Grand Championship, and lost the bet?
... that Uchchaihshravas is declared the king of horses in Hindu mythology?
.. that the American Quarter Horse stallion Zan Parr Bar was a three-time World Champion in halter as well as excelling at steer roping?
... that the tragic death of Bonnie McCarroll at the 1929 Pendleton Round-Up led to the cancellation of women's bronc riding from rodeo competition?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/21

... that in 2011 the American Quarter Horse stallion Mr San Peppy will join his son Peppy San Badger and his full brother Peppy San in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame?
...that Orlov trotters were the fastest racing horses of Europe until they were superseded by American Standardbreds in the 1870s?
... that athletes in the 1928 Winter Olympics competed in skijoring, a demonstration sport in which the competitors wore skis while being pulled behind horses?
... that the hipposandal was a metal shoe laced to horse hoofs in Celto-Roman countries?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/22

... that by kneeling before a cross the renowned 16th-century English performing horse Marocco saved his master from death by burning as a witch?
...that in Greek mythology, Arion (or Areion) was an extremely swift immortal horse that could talk?
...that Muhamed, a German horse, seemed to extract cube roots and tap out the answer with his hooves?
...that in 2007, the first Australian outbreak of equine influenza caused all horse racing to be cancelled?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/23

... that the American Quarter Horse stallion Skipper W got his chance as a breeding stallion when his sire slipped on some ice and broke his neck?
..that the Ferry County Carousel in Republic, Washington has 24 jumping horses with colors ranging from Appaloosa to Red Sorrel?
...that the Birdsville Races in Queensland, Australia used to have separate races for horses that ate grass and those that ate corn?
... that despite his racing career cut short by two wars, Finnhorse trotter Eri-Aaroni sold in 1946 for the equivalent of 680,000 euros, the all-time highest price for a horse in Finland?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/24

... that the record-setting Finnhorse trotter Reipas was originally a thin, weak foal of unknown parentage?
... that racing wins by the American racehorse Luke McLuke, including the Belmont Stakes, made owner John Schorr the leading owner for 1914 and his son, J.F. Schorr, the leading trainer?
... that the American Thoroughbred Gen. Duke was named for General Duke, the racehorse that won the Belmont Stakes in 1868, as well as for Confederate General Basil Duke?
... that the early Britons were skilled horsemen and faced Julius Caesar with a well-organized force of 4,000 horse-drawn chariots?

Portal:Horses/Did you know/25

... that the British racehorse Simonsig (pictured) won his début in steeplechase by 49 lengths, then followed that up with a 35-length victory a few days later?
... that, because of their unique genetic makeup, the feral horses on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range "may be the most significant wild-horse herd remaining in the U.S."?
... that until 1959, the Finnhorse was the only horse breed allowed to be raced in Finland?

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