Today I continue my quest in creating and posting one block a day of the fabulous That Town And Country Quilt by the lovely Susan-Claire Mayfield. This is day three hundred and twenty-three of that project.

The amazing horse.
This is a lovely silhouette of a horse. I think everyone can appreciate the beauty and majesty of the horse, but only someone who has had a relationship with a horse can understand how smart, loyal, and generous they are.
Horses can detect a calm happy face on a human or an angry face. Their heart rates rise when they see angry faces. When a bond is made between a human and his/her horse it’s much like the bond of a really good dog.
Both will virtually die for you. I was raised on an Arabian horse ranch. It is with sadness that I have never had a relationship with a horse.
I was dreadfully allergic when I was a girl and the drugs we have now we didn’t have then so it wasn’t meant to be. However, I have some fun facts for you about horses:
- Horses can’t vomit or burp.
- There are more than 600 breeds of horses on the planet. They can be divided into 4 groups.
- Hot-blooded (Arabian, Thoroughbred and Barb breeds with origins in the Mideast)
- Cold blooded (heavy horses, draft horses and ponies, breeds developed in Northern Europe)
- Warm-blooded (Horses crossbred between any hot-blooded and a cold-blooded breed)
- Miniatures are the last group and are scaled down versions of the big boys.
- The tallest horse ever was a shire horse named Sampson. He stood over 7 ft. tall at the withers. He was born in 1846. He also weighed a whopping 3360 lbs.
- The oldest horse ever was Old Billy 1760-1822, that’s 62 years old. The average life-span is 25-30 years. Some ponies will go beyond 40.
- Horses have nearly a 360-degree visual range. They have the largest eyes of any land mammal. Their eyes can move independently from each other.
- The most popular breed is the American quarter horse.
- Horses can only breathe through their nose.
- Tiniest horse ever was Thumbelina, a dwarf miniature that was only 17.5″ tall.
- The highest jump ever made by a horse was 8′ 1.25″.
- Arabian horses have 1 less vertebrae, set of ribs and tail bone than any other breed.
- A foal is a baby horse. A filly is a little girl horse and a colt is a little boy horse.
Giddy-up!