Horses ( and other equids such as mules and donkeys ) are used for non-competitive recreational riding such as fox hunting, trail riding or hacking.

The control of the Mississippi River by the Union prevented the sugar crop from going to market, Horses and mules were seized by the Union forces, and crops were left unharvested in the fields, so the sugar industry was bankrupt at the end of the Civil War.

Horses and mules were bought, sold and traded just as automobiles are today.

Horses or mules were essential, in sufficient number for a riding horse for each man and at least one for carrying supplies and furs.

Horses and mules carried them, pigs fed them and dogs fought for them.

* Horses & mules: 5, 818

* Horses & mules: 3, 838

Horses and mules, their heads crowned with chaplets made of flowers, also took part in the celebration.

* Palio di Sant ' Antonio abate in Pignola, on January 17, a race with Horses, donkeys and mules

Horses and mules, gravity and stationary steam engines on inclines, were the first motive power on Moncure Robinson ’ s railroads.

* Horses and mules are used as well as bike and horse drawn carriages with taxi licenses are numerous both in rural and urban areas.

Traditionally, this has meant a sizeable tobacco base and cattle ranching, but in recent years, as traditional agriculture products have come under the dominance of agri-corporations, growth has been seen in non-traditional products such as American Quarter Horses, ostriches, and marijuana.

Horses are used for ceremonial purposes only, most often when the dragoons take part in the changing of the guards at The Royal Castle in Stockholm.

Horses are sometimes used as pack animals to carry goods, but this is relatively uncommon.

Horses such as the Trakehner were used in World War II which, at the end, nearly destroyed the breed as Soviet troops advanced from the East, causing flight and expulsion of Germans during and after WWII.

It has also been used as a common motif in popular music, including Hank Thompson's " Humpty Dumpty Heart " ( 1948 ), The Monkees ' " All the King's Horses " ( 1966 ), Aretha Franklin's " All the King's Horses " ( 1972 ).

Its letters around the outside edge, starting from the point of entry and moving clockwise, are A-K-E-H-C-M-B-F. A number of mnemonic devices are used to remember this sequence, such as the phrase " All King Edward's Horses Can Make Big Fences.

* 2000 BC: Horses were tamed and used for transport.

* 3100 BC – Horses are tamed and used for transport Botai Egypt

Horses are also used for therapeutic purposes, both in specialized paraequestrian competition as well as non-competitive riding to improve human health and emotional development.

Horses continue to be used in public service: in traditional ceremonies ( parades, funerals ), police and volunteer mounted patrols, and for mounted search and rescue.

Motorists have to share the roads with Horses and Buggies used by the county's large Amish population.

Horses were used for pulling wagons and for farming and most of the prairie was broken up with walking plows.

Horses were generally used as universal standards of barter.

The Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 prevents the capture of mustangs from the wild for commercial use, and though the law has been weakened in recent years, " wild " mustangs and other completely untamed horses are still no longer used on the rodeo circuit, as bigger, more powerful animals that are sufficiently domesticated to be handled from the ground for veterinary care, travel, and stabling in small pens are more desirable as rodeo stock.

* In a feature-length episode of the British sitcom, Only Fools and Horses, entitled " Miami Twice ," Derek is mistaken for a Mafia don who is his spitting image, and he is used by the Mafia in an attempt to fake the don's assassination ( though several tries fail ).

The phrase was popularised by Derek Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, who used the phrase a number of times when referring to his long-term partner, Raquel Turner.

Horses were introduced by the Hyksos in the Second Intermediate Period, and the camel, although known from the New Kingdom, was not used as a beast of burden until the Late Period.

Among his novels were The Horses, Ballantyne's Folly, Jericho Road, and Beat the Devil ( originally under the pseudonym James Helvick ), which was made into a film directed by John Huston with script credit to Truman Capote ( the title was later used by Cockburn's son Alexander for his regular column in The Nation ).

Horses and carts are a very common sight in Paraty and are frequently used all around the city.

A short excerpt of " 3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters " was used as a sample at the end of The Moon & Antarctica's " A Different City ".

*" Pulstar " was used as the theme music for a children's BBC television programme, Horses Galore.

The BBC Television series Only Fools and Horses, which was filmed in and around Bristol, used the allotments for the episode ' Mother Nature's Son ', and BBC wildlife and gardening programmes and the Casualty have been filmed in the area.

Periodically, since the release of the 2005 edition, minor rules changes have been added into the rulebook, such as a new automatic fire system and a chapter about Horses ( which is used as a general term to describe any steed or vehicle which only carries one person ).

While the colorful coat pattern is essential to the identity of the breed, American Paint Horses have strict bloodline requirements and a distinctive stock-horse body type.

A registered Paint horse should conform to the same " stock horse " body type desired in Quarter Horses: a muscular animal that is heavy but not too tall, with a low center of gravity for maneuverability, and powerful hindquarters suitable for rapid acceleration and sprinting.

Horses heterozygous for the Ile118Lys mutation on the equine endothelin receptor type B gene — carriers of lethal white syndrome — usually exhibit a white-spotting pattern called " frame ", or " frame overo ".

Horses are not allowed to wear a noseband or cavesson, nor any type of protective boot or bandage, except during some tests that require a reining pattern.

In the mid-20th century, a stallion named Old Tobe, owned by a prominent breeder, was used to develop the modern type ; today most Rocky Mountain Horses trace back to this stallion.

Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses, Flash Harry from the St Trinian's books and films, Private Walker from Dad's Army, Arthur Daley from Minder and Harry Robinson from The Ladykillers are all fictional examples of the wide boy type.

The second type is known as the ranch-type or National Park Ranch, more closely resemble early " foundation type " Quarter Horses, and generally stand from.

Horses shown hunt seat may be of any breed, although those of Thoroughbred and Warmblood type are most common, except in pony classes.