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The Argentine Polo Horse is a breed developed from crossing purebred racehorses with rustic country horses, resulting in a horse prized for its agility and skill rather than beauty. With a long neck, slender body, strong limbs, wide and smooth legs, and an elegantly implanted tail, these horses are built for the demands of polo.
A Friesian horse with a "natural" mane and tail Tail braided for a hunter class Clipped, braided and wrapped tail on a polo pony, a safety measure Basic tail grooming begins with simply brushing out foreign material, snarls, and tangles, sometimes with the aid of a detangling product.
On horses, the mane is the hair that grows from the top of the neck of a horse or other equine, reaching from the poll to the withers, and includes the forelock or foretop. [1] [2]: 247 [3]: 311 It is thicker and coarser than the rest of the horse's coat, and naturally grows to roughly cover the neck. Heredity plays a role, giving some horses a ...
The Arabian horse can be shown with a full mane and tail. Before the show, usually within 12–24 hours of the class, the horse will be bathed and hair on its mane, tail, legs and head trimmed or clipped to meet the style standard for the particular breed of horse. Often special conditioners are used on the hair to make it extra shiny or silky.
The long-roached manes of Fjords clearly show the light, outside primitive guard hairs. The dorsal stripe runs through the mane and tail of a dun horse, so the center of the mane and tail are darker. The outer edges may be significantly lighter, even close to white. These paler hairs are seen at the base of the tail and on the edges of the mane.
Eumelanin predominates in the legs, mane and tail of bay horses. By contrast, horses which lack a functional agouti gene cannot produce such alternating bands, and thus have wholly black coats with no visible phaeomelanin. Chestnut horses lack the ability to manufacture eumelanin altogether, and so have wholly red coats devoid of true black ...
A horse's tail. Horsehair is the long hair growing on the manes and tails of horses.It is used for various purposes, including upholstery, brushes, the bows of musical instruments, a hard-wearing fabric called haircloth, and for horsehair plaster, a wallcovering material formerly used in the construction industry and now found only in older buildings.
High-stepping action is typical of the Saddlebred, as seen in this "five-gaited" horse, performing the rack.. American Saddlebreds stand 15 to 17 hands (60 to 68 inches, 152 to 173 cm) high, [1] averaging 15 to 16 hands (60 to 64 inches, 152 to 163 cm), [2] and weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds (450 and 540 kg).