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﻿ Running With The Wind by Sarah K =Introducing the Horse=

Beautiful, strong, graceful, willing, and patient, the horse is an amazing creature!
=The Life Cycle of a Horse= Horses and ponies grow till they are about five or six years old, that is usually the time a horse matures. In- foal mare: "In foal" means that a mare ( a female horse who is older than 4 years old) is pregnant. She will hold her foal for 11 months, and at the end of 11 months she looks very big. Newborn foal: When a foal is born, the mare makes sure the foal is completely clean by licking it. The foal usually gets up on its feet within an hour, when it will take its first sip of milk. Although, a foal is wobbly at first, foals born in the wild can walk, trot, and even gallop alongside of their mothers after just a few hours of birth.

Inside of a Horse
The inside of a horse is very much the same as a human's insides, they have a vertebrae, femur, rib cage, shoulder joint, and a hip joint! But horses can also have some things that humans do not have like a wall of a hoof. So in most ways an inside of a horse is very much the same as a human!

The Outside of a Horse
There are many different markings of a horse like the face markings, the leg markings, and the hoof markings.Types of face markings are the star, stripe, snip, blaze, white face, white muzzle, and lip marks. the star isn't really shaped like star it is more shaped like a grotusque diamond. The stripe and the blaze are just a stripe going down the horses face except the stripe is thinner than the blaze because the blaze is much thicker than the stripe. The snip is a small white spot in between the nostrils of the horse. A white face looks just like it sounds, the horses face is entirely white! The white muzzle and the lip mark are the same but the muzzle is much thicker and and the lip marks are much thinner. Now, the leg markings, there are the ermine, sock, stocking, and the zebra. The ermine is just a very small snip around the hoof and a little above the hoof too!. The sock and the stocking are pretty much the same but the stocking is a couple inches higher than the sock, the sock and the stockings are just the same as they would be on humans. The zebra is higher in the leg, it has lots of stripes up the leg, just like a zebra. Last the hoof markings, there is only three types of hoofs. There is the blue hoof, white hoof, and the striped hoof. The blue hoof isn't actually blue, it is more black than blue. The white hoof is more of a creamy color, sometimes different on horses there is a bit of a stripe on the point of the hoof. The striped hoof is gray and black striped and sometimes there can be different colors than just gray and black.

Paces
There are many different types of paces, maybe you have heard of some, and maybe you haven't. There are four different types, the walk, the trot, the canter, and the gallop. The walk is the slowest pace and is four beats by the placing of each lateral pair of hooves. The trot is the second fastest pace of all and is a two beat pace in which one diagonal pair of legs is placed simultneously and then the horse jumps onto the other diagonal pair. The third fastest is the canter, the canter is a three beat pace, the horse leading with the right foreleg when circling to the right and vice-versa. The gallop is the fastest of them all, most people think that it is a four beat pace, but sometimes it varys depending on the sequence according to the speed.

Breeds
There are three different types of breeds and those are the hotblooded, warmblooded, and the coldblooded. An example of a hotblooded horse is an Arabian, the light- boned, quick creatures evolved from desert climates. A couple examples of a warmblooded horse is an American Quarter Horse and a Trakehner. A couple examples of a coldblooded horse is a Clydsedale and a Perchon.

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As you can see, the horse is an extremely beautiful creature, amazing and quick! From an Arabian, the hotblooded, light- boned, quick creature to the coldblooded horses like Clydsedales and Perchons! The horse is a wonderful creaturre and you must go and check it out because it is nothing to be afraid of !!=====