Beautiful Horse

- horse knee = human wrist, horse stifle = human knee, and horse hock = human heel

- a horse uses a liter of oxygen a menit when walking, and almost 60 liters of oxygen per menit when galloping

- kuda use 10 percent less energy standing up than they do lying down.

- when people groom kuda and ponies in the areas where kuda "groom" each other (the neck, back, and shoulders), their jantung rate decreases oleh about 11 percent.

- Xenphon (circa 430-355 BC), a general and historian from Greece, wrote a book about riding and training kuda which described procedures still used today.

- kuda and...

This is a real story and a real horse hero.

In Greenup county, Kentucky, Robert Denlinger has a farm down oleh the Tygarts River. He raises sheep, and works his land with Percheron draft kuda instead of tractors. He has kuvasz livestock guard anjing to help him on the right and when he has time, he gentles horses, especially wild horses.

His big Percheron mare Rosie had a filly named Phoebe. One hari after a terrible storm, when the ground was muddy and slippery, Phoebe slipped and fell into the river. Rosie didn't hesitate -- she jumped over a ten foot bank into the river. It was so deep she had...