- horse knee = human wrist, horse stifle = human knee, and horse hock = human heel
- a horse uses a liter of oxygen a dakika when walking, and almost 60 liters of oxygen per dakika when galloping
- farasi use 10 percent less energy standing up than they do lying down.
- when people groom farasi and ponies in the areas where farasi "groom" each other (the neck, back, and shoulders), their moyo rate decreases kwa about 11 percent.
- Xenphon (circa 430-355 BC), a general and historian from Greece, wrote a book about riding and training farasi which described procedures still used today.
- farasi and...
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