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Extinct equids restored to scale. Left to right: Mesohippus, Neohipparion, Eohippus, Equus scotti and Hypohippus. Wild horses have been known since prehistory from central Asia to Europe, with domestic horses and other equids being distributed more widely in the Old World, but no horses or equids of any type were found in the New World when European explorers reached the Americas.
Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed. Planned matings can be used to produce specifically desired characteristics in domesticated horses. Furthermore, modern breeding management and technologies can increase the rate ...
“In the past, you had many different lineages of horses,” said Pablo Librado, an evolutionary biologist at the Sp Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that ...
For example, Fell ponies, believed to be descended from Roman cavalry horses, are comfortably able to carry fully grown adults (although with rather limited ground clearance) at an average height of 13.2 hands (54 inches, 137 cm) Likewise, the Arabian horse is noted for a short back and dense bone, and the successes of the Muslims against the ...
The largest horse in recorded history was probably a Shire horse named Mammoth, who was born in 1848. He stood 21.2 1 ⁄ 4 hands (86.25 inches, 219 cm) high and his peak weight was estimated at 1,524 kilograms (3,360 lb). [28]
History of horse domestication theories; History of the horse in Britain; History of the horse in the Indian subcontinent; Horse culture in Mongolia; Horse name; Horse symbolism; Horses in Brittany; Horses in Cameroon; Horses in Cuba; Horses in East Asian warfare; Horses in Jamaica; Horses in Slovenia; Horses in Sudan; Horses in the Napoleonic Wars
World War I (1914 — 1918) and the Russian Civil War (1917 — 1923) caused a major disaster for horse breeding in Russia. Many horses died in battle, yet more were eaten for food, and there was a general collapse of the economy, making horse breeding a luxury few could afford.
WP:LOCALCONSENSUS of WikiProject Equine is to generally use the {} conversion template or, where the nation of origin measures the breed in metric units, {} may be used as in this example: {{convert|148|to|152|cm|hand in|2}}. However, if there is no reliable source for a measurement in hands, omission of the template may occur on a case by case ...