Horses can sleep both lying down and standing up.

Foals can run shortly after birth.

A horse from the 19th century is said to have lived to be 62 years old, although the average life expectancy of a domesticated horse is 25 years.

Horses have 205 bones in their bodies.

Horses have been domesticated for over 5000 years.

Horses have larger eyes than any other mammal on land.

Because horses have their eyes on the side of their head, they have a field of vision of almost 360 degrees. They just can't see directly in front of their nose and directly behind them.

A horse gallops at around 44 kilometres per hour. The fastest documented speed of a horse was 88 kilometres per hour.

There are around 60 million horses in the world.

Horses have evolved from much smaller creatures over the last 50 million years.