Horses are obligate nasal breathers which means that they are different from many other mammals because they do not have the option of breathing through their mouths and must take in oxygen through their noses.

Horses do not normally eat fresh ragwort due to its bitter taste.

Horses do not need lengthy times to raise steam in the boiler, and can also take short cuts from one siding to another.

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Horses that are heterozygous carriers of the gene do not develop the condition and are physically healthy.

However some episodes of Only Fools and Horses do not support this ; in " Big Brother ", 1981, Rodney states to Del that he is 23 years of age, which would make his year of birth 1957 or 1958.

Horses do not run the races by themselves.

Horses do not correlate punishment to a specific behavior unless it occurs immediately.

* Horses that trot fast with high, erect neck ( like Standardbred race horses ) do not develop strong, active back muscles.

However, modern DNA testing has revealed that some breeds do possess genes for spotting patterns, such as a non-SB-1 sabino pattern in Arabians, and sabino, overo, and tobiano in Quarter Horses.

Horses do not produce any goods, but can be ridden, sold, or entered in the horse racing circuit.

Some breeds have been developed through centuries of crossings with other breeds, while others, such as Tennessee Walking Horses and Morgans, developed from a single sire from which all current breed members descend.

Horses have been selectively bred since their domestication.

Horses guiding vehicles by means of a pole, such as two-horse teams pulling a wagon, a hay-mower, or a dray, will have pole-straps attached to the lower part of the horse collar.

Horses and humans are two of the few animals capable of sweating on most of their body, yet horses are larger and still have fully developed fur.

Horses and tapirs both evolved in North America ; rhinoceroses appear to have developed in Asia from tapir-like animals and then recolonised the Americas during the middle Eocene ( about 45 Mya ).

Several establishments in Soho, London, have associations with well-known, post-war literary and artistic figures, including the Pillars of Hercules, The Colony Room and the Coach and Horses.

* 1254 – The Horses of Saint Mark, once supposed to have adorned the Arch of Trajan in ancient Rome, are installed at Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice.

Horses sometimes also have to jump fences from an angle rather than straight on.

* The Horses of Saint Mark, once supposed to have adorned the Arch of Trajan in ancient Rome, are installed at Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice.

Horses are not permitted to have bangles, ribbons, or other decorations in their mane or tail.

Horses maintain visual contact with their family and herd at all times and have a host of ways to communicate with one another, including vocalizations, scent marking, and a wide range of visual and tactile signals.

Horses owned by Windfields Farm have won the Queen's Plate eleven times, but the most successful was the stable owned by Joseph E. Seagram, a prominent distiller from Waterloo, Ontario.

" Horses shall I have, and chivalry ; and my lord and kinsman King Arthur | Arthur will obtain for me all these things.

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The Eagle has been joined by, among others, The Peasant, The Coach and Horses, and The Gunmakers and The Green, which as part of a nationwide evolution of the traditional public house have since converted to gastropubs.

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.

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

He was further frustrated by his studio contract, which dictated that he did not have a choice in directing films like My Brother Talks to Horses ( 1947 ) and Little Mr. Jim ( 1947 ) despite his lack of interest in their subject matter.

Artists who have taken part in the Llangollen Fringe include Sir Clement Freud, Lesley Garrett, Rhys Ifans, The Damned, Cerys Matthews, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Juan Martín, The Black Seeds, John Cooper Clarke, Will Self and Race Horses.

They have been the sponsor for several major events in Traverse City, including The Beach Bum Games, Horses by the Bay, the Make-A-Wish Motorcycle Tour, and the Traverse City Easter Egg Hunt.

Around half a dozen shops on Commercial Street have been fully redeveloped and will be occupied soon, most notably the former Coach and Horses pub, which will become shops and flats.

In his role running Bella Union and signing bands to the label, he has discovered such artists as Laura Veirs, Fleet Foxes, Midlake, Lift to Experience, The Low Anthem, I Break Horses, The Czars, John Grant, and the label is renowned for its long-term relationships with its artists, like Beach House who have released all four of their albums with Bella Union, as have Dirty Three, Midlake etc.

Horses may have different initial speed, but must not exceed the starting line before the start signal sounds.

Horses and chariots require a lot of time and upkeep, so their use was mainly confined to a small nobility.

Horses also sweat, and they are larger, hairier, and expend more energy running than human males, so there may not be any connection between the ability to sweat and the apparent hairlessness of humans.

Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was ... Horses died like so many flies on sticky fly-paper.

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.

Like the grounds and buildings of the Campground ( so designated in April 2005 ), the Flying Horses were designated a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior.

After angering several gods and coming to the attention of the Jade Emperor, he is given a minor position in heaven as the Keeper of Horses ( 弼马温 ) so they can keep an eye on him.

There are three ways to handle signs with plural nouns such as " The Coach and Horses ": ( 1 ) agree that any ill-defined plural noun counts as two of that object ( so two horses, for eight points ); ( 2 ) count the horses on the picture outside the pub ( e. g. four horses get 16 points ); or ( 3 ) agree in advance that ill-defined groups such as " The Coach and Horses " or " The Cavaliers " count a certain number of runs ( e. g. six or ten ).

The most famous export from the region were the ' blood-sweating ' Heavenly Horses which so captured the imagination of the Chinese during the Han dynasty, but in fact these were almost certainly bred on the Steppe, either west of Bukhara or North of Tashkent, and merely brought to Ferghana for sale.

Links to shock sites are generally looked down on at b3ta, so quite often people post links that lead to the site of I Love Horses Magazine, as it automatically loads the girly theme song, often leading to embarrassment for the reader if they have the volume turned up and other people are in the vicinity.

If so, he must have been a good one, because we first encounter him as Master of the Imperial Horses (' Phronistes ') according to Zonaras.

Buster Merryfield died in 1999, and so, when a new series of Only Fools and Horses began in 2001, the character of Uncle Albert also died in " If They Could See Us Now ".

In Rock & Chips, a prequel to Only Fools And Horses, the teenaged Slater is a prefect at his and the gang's school, where he does his best to try to keep Del and the others in line so as to avoid trouble, leading to a strain on his friendship with them.

Horses working in riot control wear facial armor, made of perspex so that the animals can still see.

Neither the Native American name (" Place of the Basswoods ") or the French name (" River of Horses ") survived so the current name likely dates to the British occupation which began with the capture of Fort Niagara in 1759.

Horses were so common and of so little use that they were often destroyed to keep them from eating the grass needed by the cattle.

Horses develop immunity to parascarids between 6 months age and one year and so this condition is rare in adult horses.

Horses continued to grow larger and sturdier so that chariots were no longer needed as the horses could carry men with ease.

Horses were ferried by flat-bottomed scows across flooded areas, wearing large boards on their hooves so as not to sink into the soggy ground.

The breed was considered so useful and valuable that when the Germans established the Commission for the Purchase of Horses in October 1914 to capture Belgian horses, the Ardennes was one of two breeds specified as important, the other being the Brabant.

He takes up residence in the Coach and Horses Inn in the village of Iping, so he can reverse his experiment in a quiet environment, but complications arise with locals unnerved by his appearance.

* The muscling of the forearm should be not bulky unless the breed known for this ; i. e. Quarter Horses and more so in the Draft breeds

Horses that tend to be lazy or behind their rider's leg will also become more so if ridden in double bridle before they are consistently forward.