Sometimes I think about horses that come into town from other areas to run at local events and they don’t do well or leave in a sorry condition because of weather alone. Really makes you think about those Pony Express mustangs and how tough they were
That is true it is highly individual horse dependent. I’ve had some horses that would go off their feed and pull up lame if you looked at them wrong, and then I’ve had other horses that were tanks.
My childhood pony was a rescue from a hoarding situation who was missing half of an ear due to frostbite and who’s back haunch was pretty much just solidly a scar and I think that horse could’ve survived nuclear winter.
Kind of but not really. There are pony breeds and horse breeds. However they are the same species. Also if you get technical, any equine under 14.2 hands high is a pony. Any equine over 14.2 is a horse, regardless of breed. However, some folks will argue on this.
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u/Funny-Minimum-920 Jun 19 '26
Sometimes I think about horses that come into town from other areas to run at local events and they don’t do well or leave in a sorry condition because of weather alone. Really makes you think about those Pony Express mustangs and how tough they were