Horses are the foundation of military power, the great resources of the state but, should this falter, the state will fall. Ma Yuan (14BC - 49AD, Han Dynasty Military General and horse expert When Emperor Wu came to power, the Chinese had been using cavalry for the previous 200 years. Before[...]
Horse coats are fascinating. There's bays, grays, chestnuts, blacks, and palominos. But then there's even more variety - there's variations on those basic coat colors, modifying colors and giving some horses unique patterns. Horse coats are so important to us, we even have whole breeds that were cr[...]
Quick! What do horses and gigantic stone statues of people and heads have in common? If you answered, "nothing," well, prepare to be surprised. They do have something in common. They both reside on Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui to its native population. Famous mostly for the huge statues,[...]
In the desert heat of Aleppo, Thomas Darley was checking out a horse. He was in Syria working as the British Consul, but he knew a beautiful horse when he saw one, and this one was particularly striking. He was a young colt, 1 or 2 years old, a bay Arabian, which was common to the area, but taller[...]