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Sampson, the tallest horse ever recorded; a Shire; stood 21.25 hands (86.5 inches; 220 cm) high. Spanker was a 17th century sire of many important horses. Thunder, Red Ryder 's horse. Traveler, mascot of the University of Southern California. Trigger, Roy Rogers ' Palomino.
Riding horses were used by a variety of people during the Middle Ages, and so varied greatly in quality, size and breeding. Knights and nobles kept riding horses in their war-trains, saving their warhorses for the battle. [12] The names of horses referred to a type of horse, rather than a breed. Many horses were named by the region where they ...
Arion, an immortal, extremely swift horse. Balius and Xanthos, Achilles ' horses. Hippocampus, a sea horse that pulled Poseidon 's chariot. Mares of Diomedes, which fed on human flesh. Pegasus, flying horse of Greek mythology. Phaethon, [ 15] one of the two immortal steeds of the dawn-goddess Eos. Rhaebus, the horse of Mezentius in Roman myths.
Palfrey. A medieval painting of a palfrey. A palfrey is a type of horse that was highly valued as a riding horse in the Middle Ages. It was a lighter-weight horse, usually a smooth gaited one that could amble, suitable for riding over long distances. Palfreys were not a specific breed as horse breeds are understood today.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... This is a list of notable jockeys, ... covering jockeys who have competed worldwide in all forms of ...
Mountain and moorland pony breeds, abbreviated "M&M," a specific group of pony breeds native to the British Isles. New Zealand Warmblood, a developing warmblood type based on Hanoverian and KWPF breeding. Oriental horse, the "hot-blooded" breeds originating in the Middle East, such as the Arabian, Akhal-Teke, Barb, and Turkoman horse.
Horses in art. George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, c. 1762, National Gallery, London. Horses have appeared in works of art throughout history, frequently as depictions of the horse in battle. The horse appears less frequently in modern art, partly because the horse is no longer significant either as a mode of transportation or as an implement of war.
The horse ( Equus ferus caballus) [ 2][ 3] is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, close to Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today.