Horses Facts

A single gallon of gasoline contains enough energy to move a 3,000-pound car about 30 miles, equivalent to the work output of roughly 500 horses running for one minute.

In 2004, The Japanese Ice Cream Association promoted "raw horse flesh" ice cream in hopes that it would boost the popularity of ice cream!

Thumbelina, the smallest horse in the world, was about the size of a dog.

Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of a house cat, weighing only 8.5 pounds, and roamed North America around 56 million years ago during the Eocene epoch.

Old Billy was a barge horse in 18th-century England who hauled canal boats for a living. He was born in 1760 and died in 1822 — at 62 years old. The average horse lives 25 to 30. His taxidermied head is still on display at the Manchester Museum.

Tommy Lee Jones has a USPA 2-goal handicap, an official rating for competitive polo players. He breeds his own polo ponies on his 3,000-acre ranch in San Saba County, Texas. He funds two full polo teams, six professional players and about 50 horses. In 2007, at age 60, he competed in the Stanford U.S. Open at Palm Beach.

Mouse, a quarter horse, went missing on a backcountry trip in Wyoming in July 2025. He vanished into the Wind River Range, a rugged stretch of mountains near Moon Lake. He survived completely alone through the entire winter. A snowmobiler finally found him alive seven months later. Rescuers floated him out in a whitewater raft towed behind a snowmobile.