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Grey horses are considered auspicious and tend to be the most valuable, with piebald and skewbald horses the second-most favoured. Black horses are considered unlucky, as the colour is a symbol of death and darkness. Horses with a blaze and four white socks are considered lucky. [15] Detail of Marwari ears
Horse-drawn chariot carved onto the mandapam of Airavatesvara Temple, Darasuram, c. 12th century. Krishna, Arjuna at Kurukshetra, 18th- to 19th-century painting.. The horse has been present in the Indian subcontinent from at least the middle of the second millennium BC, [1] more than two millennia after its domestication in Central Asia. [2]
Rugged Lark, famous quarter horse owned by Carol Harris, in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame; Sampson, the tallest horse ever recorded; a Shire; stood 21.25 hands (86.5 inches; 220 cm) high; Spanker was a 17th-century sire of many important horses. Thunder, Red Ryder's horse; Traveler, mascot of the University of Southern California
The term "wild horse" is also used colloquially in reference to free-roaming herds of feral horses; for example, the mustang in the United States, [15] and the brumby in Australia. [16] These feral horses are untamed members of the domestic horse (Equus caballus), not to be confused with the truly "wild" horse subspecies extant into modern times.
Bankura horse is the terracotta horse, produced in Panchmura village in Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It has been praised for “its elegant stance and unique abstraction of basic values.” Originally used for village rituals, it now adorns drawing rooms around the world as symbols of Indian folk-art. [1]
The largest horse in recorded history was probably a Shire horse named Mammoth, who was born in 1848. He stood 21.2 1 ⁄ 4 hands (86.25 inches, 219 cm) high and his peak weight was estimated at 1,524 kilograms (3,360 lb). [28]
This is a list of some of the breeds and types of horse considered in India to be wholly or partly of Indian origin. [1] Some may have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively Indian.
The true horse included prehistoric horses and the Przewalski's horse, as well as what is now the modern domestic horse, belonged to a single Holarctic species. [11] The true horse migrated from the Americas to Eurasia via Beringia, becoming broadly distributed from North America to central Europe, north and south of Pleistocene ice sheets. [11]