What experiences Do you know

Horses have you had with

horses? Have you
how old a
horse can
ever owned live to? Do
one/met one/ridden you know
one/ groomed one? what they
eat? How
Do you have a favourite fast they can
animal? If so, which gallop?
one? Why?
What reasons could there be
Think of some words
for people being frightened
to describe the looks
of horses?
and qualities if a
horse.

How have horses been used

throughout history? Think of at
least FIVE uses. Look back at our struggle for freedom,
Trace our present day's strength to its source;
Wherever man has left his footprint And you'll find that man's pathway to glory
in the long ascent from barbarism to Is strewn with the bones of the horse.
civilization we will find the hoof ~Author Unknown comment
print of the horse beside it.
~John Moore There is something
comment about the outside of a
horse that is good for
Many people have sighed for the the inside of a man.
'good old days' and regretted the ~Winston Churchill
'passing of the horse,' but today, comment
when only those who like horses
own them, it is a far better time It is not enough for a
for horses. ~C.W. man to know how to
Anderson comment ride; he must know
how to fall.
~Mexican Proverb
A male horse is called a stallion. comment
A female horse is called a mare.
A young male horse is called a colt. Horses have bigger eyes than any other mammal that lives on
A young female horse is called a filly. land and because a horse’s eyes are on the side of their head
Vocabulary they are capable of seeing nearly 360 degrees at one time.

Any marking
equine family
on a horse's
to groom a horse
forehead is
to muck out
called a star,
gait: trot, canter, gallop
even if it is not
tackle: bridle, saddle,
shaped like a
stirrup, halter,
star
riding bare back Did you know
a farrier, horseshoe that a horse
colours: bay , chestnut, can sleep
grey, piebald, roan, standing up as
a horse:- neighs, snorts well as lying
rears, bucks, kicks down?