- horse knee = human wrist, horse stifle = human knee, and horse hock = human heel
- a horse uses a liter of oxygen a minuto when walking, and almost 60 liters of oxygen per minuto when galloping
- cavalli use 10 percent less energy standing up than they do lying down.
- when people groom cavalli and ponies in the areas where cavalli "groom" each other (the neck, back, and shoulders), their cuore rate decreases da about 11 percent.
- Xenphon (circa 430-355 BC), a general and historian from Greece, wrote a book about riding and training cavalli which described procedures still used today.
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