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My horse is called Tommy.

A female seahorse lets her husband store her babies inside his stomach.
Sea horses pull themselves around with their chins leading them.
Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.
No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike.
Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions.
A horse will respond to your emotions/feelings mainly because they are very sensitive animals. Example: if you are angry / frustrated the horse will be frustrated also. But if you are happy and smiling the horse should be good in your lesson or ride.

There are no two zebras who have stripes that are exactly the same.
There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world.
It's not only zebra's fur that is striped, their skin is also striped.
All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on January 1st.
A full grown horse's intestines are approximately 89 feet long.
If a horse rests it head on your shoulder it means the horse trusts you.
When you hold your hand out to a horse and the horse comes over and blows out warm air onto the palm of your hand it normally means that the horse wants to be friends with you.
Horses have stomachs also and they need to eat. Horses should be fed two times a day.

James Watt, a Scottish engineer who lived from 1736 to 1819 chose
the expression HORSEPOWER to describe the rate at which an engine
works. In order to define the power of an engine he performed
experiments using heavy dray horses. He discovered that a horse
could lift a 100 pound weight at the rate of 220 feet per minute
- this equals 22,000 foot-pounds per minute. He increased this
figure by one half (33,000 foot-pounds per minute or 550
foot-pounds per second) and called it one Horsepower. 550
foot-pounds per second is equivalent to an imperial unit of power
equal to 745.7 watts or the US standard equivalent of 746 watts.
In an adult horse or pony the normal TEMPERATURE is 100 - 101
degrees F. (38 degrees C). The PULSE (or heart rate) is between
36 and 40 beats per minute and the RESPIRATION (or breathing
rate) is between 8 and 16 times a minute. At work, both the pulse
and respiration rate will be increased.
The amount of BLOOD in a horse's body is equivalent to one
eighteenth of its total weight. It's distributed approximately
one quarter in the heart and larger blood vessels, one quarter in
the liver and intestines, one quarter in the muscles and the rest
divided amongst other parts of the body. The blood is carried
around by arteries from the heart, which acts

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