[muawiyah]

It is highly probable the first horses to be domesticated were intended to be used as a source of meat.

Back in the day horses were so small a large man could not possibly ride one. You will see them teamed together to pull small chariots which were built as light as possible.

The modern horse is a product of selective breeding for larger, stronger animals.

[hinckley buzzard]

Fossilized bones of eohippus, the ancient precursor to the horse, were found here in the New World. The horse evolved on the plains of the American desert. What happened to them that they disappeared, and when the Spaniards re-introduced them, the Indians were amazed? They had no knowledge of such an animal. In prehistoric days, horses disappeared from North America because they were eaten by the ancestors of indigenous peoples. Nothing new under the sun.