Horses in Battle The horse have been used for thousands of years to carry soldiers and knights into battle.
In Agriculture
The heavy horse supplanted the Oxen as the first choice for ploughing and other cultivations and as a draught animal. The chief breeds used on British agriculture were the Shire, Suffolk Punch, Clydesdale
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Horses in Religion In revelation the four Horsemen of the apocolypse bring woes upon the earth, Jesus Christ is depicted in the same book as coming on a white horse and a long sword protrudes from his mouth to strike the nations. Horse were the great sacrifice in some cultures particularly those who depended heavily on them. and sometimes the queen had a mock scene of bestiality and connection with the horse.
Horse Racing
Famous Horses It is not known when humans first started to name horses however the practice goes back at least 2,400 years Buecephelos: Alexander the Great
"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921
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