Gypsy Vanners! Breath Taking...

- horse knee = human wrist, horse stifle = human knee, and horse hock = human heel

- a horse uses a liter of oxygen a minuto when walking, and almost 60 liters of oxygen per minuto when galloping

- cavalos use 10 percent less energy standing up than they do lying down.

- when people groom cavalos and ponies in the areas where cavalos "groom" each other (the neck, back, and shoulders), their coração rate decreases por about 11 percent.

- Xenphon (circa 430-355 BC), a general and historian from Greece, wrote a book about riding and training cavalos which described procedures still used today.

- cavalos and...

This is a real story and a real horse hero.

In Greenup county, Kentucky, Robert Denlinger has a farm down por the Tygarts River. He raises sheep, and works his land with Percheron draft cavalos instead of tractors. He has kuvasz livestock guard cachorros to help him on the right and when he has time, he gentles horses, especially wild horses.

His big Percheron mare Rosie had a filly named Phoebe. One dia after a terrible storm, when the ground was muddy and slippery, Phoebe slipped and fell into the river. Rosie didn't hesitate -- she jumped over a ten foot bank into the river. It was so deep she had...