Sport Horse Portrait

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SPORT HORSE FINE ART PRINT

This coloured pencil is a recently completed work. I spent most of my youth riding and training horses for over 20 years. They are my favourite animals on earth.

HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING FACTS!

• They can sleep both lying down and standing up.
• A horse’s digestive system is a one-way street, unlike cattle and other ruminants who regurgitate food to re-chew it.
• You can estimate their age by their teeth.
• They have the largest eyes of any land mammal.
• At one-time people thought horses were colourblind. They’re not, though they are better at seeing yellows and greens than purples and violets.
• male horses have 40 while females have 36.
• A 19th-century horse named ‘Old Billy’ reportedly lived 62 years.
• From 1867 to 1920, the number of horses shot up from 7.8 million to 25 million.
• Because their eyes are on the side of their head they are capable of seeing nearly 360 degrees at one time.
• The fastest recorded sprinting speed was 88 kph (55 mph). Most gallop at around 44 kph or 27 mph.
• An adult horse’s brain weighs 22 oz, about half that of a human.
• There are only one species of the domestic horse, but around 400 different breeds that specialize in everything from pulling wagons to racing.
• They can see better at night than a human. However, it takes their eyes longer to adjust from light to dark and from dark to light than a human’s.
• Wild herds generally gather in groups of 3 to 20 animals.
• The record for the highest jump is held by a horse named Huaso who jumped 8 feet, 1 and 1/4 inches on February 5th, 1949 in Vina del Mar, Chile.

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