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In the wild, a horse may travel up to 50 miles (80 km) per day to obtain adequate forage. While horses in the wild cover large areas of terrain, they usually do so at relatively slow speeds, unless being chased by a predator. [4] They also tend to live in arid steppe climates. The consequence of slow but nonstop travel in a dry climate is that ...
The necessity of protecting the horse hoof was recognised by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and written about by Xenophon. [4] An early form of hoof protection was seen in ancient Asia, where horses' hooves were wrapped in rawhide, leather or other materials for both therapeutic purposes and protection from wear. [5]
The first literary mention of nailed horseshoes is found within Ekkehard's Waltharius, [3] written c. 920 AD. The practice of shoeing horses in Europe likely originated in Western Europe, where they had more need due to the way the climate affected horses' hooves, before spreading eastward and northward by 1000 AD.
Horses only returned to the Americas with Christopher Columbus in 1493. These were Iberian horses first brought to Hispaniola and later to Panama, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, and, in 1538, Florida. [55] The first horses to return to the main continent were 16 specifically identified [clarification needed] horses brought by Hernán Cortés.
There were about 3.3 million horses in late Victorian Britain. [104] In 1900 about a million of these were working horses, [105] and in 1914 between 20,000 and 25,000 horses were utilised as cavalry in WWI. [106] Six-horse Royal Horse Artillery team with 13-pounder cannon at speed, World War I
“Horses have been part of us since long before other cultures came to our lands, and we are a part of them,” a Lakota chief said. Horses were part of North America before the Europeans arrived ...
In the increasingly urbanized world, few people still ride horses for reasons beyond sport or leisure. However, on horseback, people, goods and ideas moved across vast distances, shaping the power ...
Horses were ridden and used for work by humans for thousands of years before horseshoes were invented. The Ancient Greeks did not shoe their horses, and Xenophon in his classic work on horsemanship [ 4 ] wrote, "naturally sound hooves get spoiled in most stalls," and advised measures to strengthen horses' feet: