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3. A group of horses owned by one individual or group. [8]: 455 stable hand (US), stable lad/lass (UK) A groom employed to look after horses, especially for horse racing. [8]: 456 "Lad" and "lass" in this context do not imply youth. stable vice Any of a number of repetitive or nervous behaviors seen most often in horses kept in confinement.
Equidae (commonly known as the horse family) is the taxonomic family of horses and related animals, including the extant horses, asses, and zebras, and many other species known only from fossils. The family evolved around 50 million years ago from a small, multi-toed ungulate into larger, single-toed animals.
Grade horse, a horse of unknown or mixed breed parentage. Hack, a basic riding horse, particularly in the UK, also includes Show hack horses used in competition. Heavy warmblood, heavy carriage and riding horses, predecessors to the modern warmbloods, several old-style breeds still in existence today.
Horses, plains zebras, and mountain zebras live in stable, closed family groups or harems consisting of one adult male, several females, and their offspring. These groups have their own home ranges, which overlap and they tend to be nomadic. The stability of the group remains even when the family stallion dies or is displaced.
The term brumby refers to a feral horse in Australia. [8] Earlier nineteenth-century terms for wild horses in rural Australia included clear-skins and scrubbers. [9]The earliest known use of brumby in speech (1862, recorded 1896) is on the plains around the Barwon River and Narran River in northern New South Wales. [10]
The following horses have earned over $10 million in prize money. Most of them raced (at least in part) in Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and/or Dubai due to large purse sizes. [485] Where applicable, the conversion to US$ was made at the time the horse raced so does not reflect current exchange rates.
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The cold-blooded group also includes some pony breeds. [111] "Warmblood" breeds, such as the Trakehner or Hanoverian, developed when European carriage and war horses were crossed with Arabians or Thoroughbreds, producing a riding horse with more refinement than a draft horse, but greater size and milder temperament than a lighter breed. [112]