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Amazing Horse Stuff

Sometimes the amazing feats of our four legged buddies are kept on video. Here are the proofs:

100 horse rescue in the Netherlands - 6.5 minute run time with editorial comments and musical soundtrack, poor image quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n9wd7P5Apw

100 horse rescue in the Netherlands - 18 minute run time, original soundtrack, good image quality.
http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen/2006/11/3/031106_paarden.html

Another, while you're at it, is Lorenzo The Flying Frenchman, doing a truly impressive Roman chariot routine sans tack:
http://www.lorenzo.fr/page2.html and more at http://canecorso.com/lorenzo.htm

4 minute promotional video, very popular, seems to have been severely downgraded in image quality to minimize bandwidth use since it first appeared. Dailymotion has the better viewer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9_mdwvU1Gc
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/1254371

A mounted police drill team "activity ride" involving some fun stunts.
http://www.olympiahorseshow.com/show/metvideo.htm

Another great musical drill ride by the Metropolitan Police:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE4YU2QY_Yw

Top 10 Weather Indications by Horses

10. You're walking across the pasture and run smack-dab into a Shetland pony - Heavy fog in low-lying areas.

9. The horse swishes his tail and knocks you unconscious - Icy conditions.

8. A 14-hand horse appears to be about 16 hands tall - Snow with possible accumulation up to 8 inches.

7. The ground looks wet but the hoofprints are dry - Very light showers.

6. Your horse bites and kicks you - well, that really just means you were an idiot for buying him.

5. The horse looks hungry because his big round bale floated away - Possible flooding in some areas.

4. Your sorrel horse has turned roan - Snowfall with little or no accumulation.

3. He's slow to leave the hedge row even though you're rattling the feed bucket - Excessive heat warning.

2. The horse is hanging onto the fence with his teeth - Blustery winds (or you've got a cribber).

1. The front half of the horse is wet and the back half is dry - Isolated showers.

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