Strange Facts
Horses like classical music.
The oldest horse was named Old Billy. He was a cross breed, he was
born in 1760 and he lived to be 62.
The World's Largest Horse was a Shire gelding named Samson, bred
by Thomas Cleaver of Toddington Mills, England. Foaled in 1846, this horse measured 21.2 1/2 hand high in 1850, and weighed
3,360 pounds.
Horse Superstition
Horshoes are supposed to be lucky.
The luckiest horse shoe of all is one off the hind leg of a gray
mare.
If you hang a horseshoe upside down, the luck runs out.
Gray horses are supposed to be lucky, while piebalds are unlucky.
According to superstition in Lincolnshire, England, if you
see a white dog, you should stay silent until you see a white horse.
