Horse FunStories-Fables-Myths

Wilma was busy scampering around her room as she nudged herself trying to wonder as to what will be the presents that she would be receiving the next day. She just could not sleep because her birthday was sonly a few hours away and she was whole heartedly expecting gifts to flow in from mid night itself. Children have strange desires and very innocent ones too. She waited for too long, but just before it was twelve, she dozed off merrily on her soft cushion bed. Her brother, Eric slowly crept into the room, placed a box beside her bed and stepped out of the room stealthily.

One would think that Wilma was asleep but in reality, she had just begun her journey to a different world.

Wilma stepped out of her golden boat, floating on the shimmering water – and in front of her she could see the gleaming sun. However, this sun was not burning – it gleamed, but with a certain heavenliness about it. Pale yellow – almost fading away – that soothed the eyes, welcomed Wilma. As her feet touched the water, sparkling little fairies covered her face and ushered her into a beautiful little water palace. A little fairy dressed in pink, held Wilma’s hand ad led her to a special chamber – where Wilma could see a beautiful creature playing around in the water. Its pale golden, copper like fur glittered in the dancing waters – its huge wings in pure golden fluttered happily – and its tail that flowed into a million threads of gold – danced in rhythm too. The single horn on the creature’s head shone as if it were a piece of the sun itself! Wilma was stunned to see such stupendous beauty in front of her eyes. She softly whispered of herself, “I can’t believe this – this is a unicorn!”

The creature turned towards Wilma, took a gentle stride and bent down ear her feet. The unicorn squashed its face into the water and sat still. Wilma sat on her knees, into the water – and touched the unicorn’s face, its mane and said – “Good Lord, you are gorgeous!”

“I know. Thank you. The word is handsome, by the way.”

Wilma was out of her wits! She could not believe what she heard. She nodded her head violently, trying to convince herself, that it was only a figment of her imagination.

“Hey stop doing that! Your hair is way too fluffy and it itches my face!”, complained the unicorn, as it stood up.

“What…What..”, Wilma was trying to figure out what to say.

“You don’t like English? Alright, maybe I should try some French? Spanish? No? Okay!”, and the unicorn unfolded its wings and flew across the palatial room.

“Hey hey wait! Are you not a unicorn?”, Wilma asked.

“Of course I am! Can’t you see, silly little girl!”, it said as it flew more.

“Then how do you talk!”

The unicorn dropped near her again and jabbering his jaws, he said, “See, like this.”

The little fairies began to laugh. Wilma was so confused and sad that he thumped her feet and sat down to cry.

“Okay little girl! Now don’t cry! It’s your birthday, don’t you see?  Alright, so should you like a tour of Fairyland enough o stop you from crying again? Or should I just go..”

“No wait. I would like it.”, Wilma said, rubbing her tears away.

The unicorn and the fairies with lightening speed carried Wilma across the berry fields, where the berries were made of gems – the many other fantasies that Wilma would never forget. Soon it was time to be back, the fairies told her.

“No..I don’t wish to!”, she said.

“Little girl, you can not sleep forever, can you?”, Said the Unicorn smiling.

And before she knew, Wilma found herself sitting straight on her bed.

She wondered if she just had the best birthday dream one could see and smiled to herself. She looked around for gifts and lo! There was a huge blue box with a birthday card on it. She read the card and then quickly undid the wrapping to discover her gift. It was a huge glass ball with water filled within it – and it had a palace, fairies floating within it – and at the bottom, sitting comfortably, was a Unicorn. Suddenly Wilma noticed the tail flutter and glimmer and she screamed “Mom!”. But when her mother arrived, the fluttering was gone.

Soon after her mom left, Wilma was looking at the glass ball carefully and wondered if porcelain ad life in it. Then suddenly the unicorn winked at her – and she knew, indeed her dream was more than just a dream.

A horse is a mammal which belongs to the family of Equidae. This animal species has evolved over the past 60 million years. It is referred as a single toed animal in today’s time. The horses’ anatomy helps them to figure out their predators. The expected life of the horse is from 25 to 30 years. The age depends upon the breed as well as on the environment which they live in. As a matter of fact in 19^th century “old Billy”, a horse lived till the age of 62. There are various definitions which can be used to define a horse age, such as:

• Foal- a horse with either sex is less than one year old.
• Yearling- a horse with one or two years old.
• Colt- a horse under the age of four.
• Filly- a female horse under the age of four.
• Mare- a female horse of four years and older
• Stallion- a male horse of four years and older.
• Gelding- a male horse with any age.

The horses exhibit in various colors. They also have distinctive markings of their own. Interestingly a horse is recognized first by its color then by the breed or sex. A horse with the same breed is alternatively distinguished by its markings. Researchers have founded about the genes which create these coat colors and still the research is going on to identify many distinguishing features of the horses. The height of the horses in measured in hands. The height depends upon the breed which a horse belongs to. For example, height of a light riding horse is usually from 14 to 16 hands and also they weigh from 330 to 550 kilograms. The horse that still holds the record for the maximum height is “Mammoth” with 21.5 hands i.e. 86.5 inches and weighing 1500 kilograms. And the smallest horse named “Thumbelina” with a height of 17 inches and weighing 26 kilograms. A very important thing about this species is that they can sleep by standing as well by lying down. These species have a very old relationship with the human beings. Human beings in earlier centuries used the horses for domestic purposes. This practice evolved during the time. These domesticated horses are trained in the harness between the ages two and four. They reach the adult stage by five. Interestingly, today there are 300 breed of horses in the world.

Horse breeds are divided in three categories:

• Spirited hot bloods – speed
• Cold bloods – slow
• Warm bloods – developed from hot and cold blood

These species are used for various purposes such as for agriculture, competitions, working activities etc. In history horses were used for various purposes as well like in war, riding. The riding of horses led to development of techniques on how to ride a horse and also many methods were developed to control them. Horse also produces various products such as milk, meat, hairs etc. in order to keep a domesticated horse healthy one has to provide it with a good food, shelter as well as good environment to live in.