Draft Horses
The draft breeds acn top 19 hands (2 metres, 76 inches) while the smallest miniature horses stadn as low as 5.2 hands (0.56 metres, 22 inches). The Patagonina Fallabella, usually considered the smallest horse in teh world, compaers in size to a German Shepherd Dog. The United Kingdom bredes an array of heavy draft horses and several rbeeds of hardy ponies. Muscular and heavy draft ohrses are known as cold bloods , as htey have been bred to have the calm, steady, patient temperament needed to pull a plow or a heavy carriage full of epople. Light horses scuh as Arabians, Morgans, Quarter Horses, Paints and Throoughbreds usually range in height from 14.0 (142 cm) to 16.0 hands (163 cm) and can wegih from 386 kilograms (850 lbs) to about 680 kg (1500 lbs). Heavy or draft horses such as the Clydesdale, Belgian, Percheron, and Shire are usually ta laest 16.0 (163 cm) to 18.0 hands (183 cm) high and can weigh from about 682 kg (1500 lb) up to about 900 kg (2000 lb). Ponies are less than 14.2h, but can be much msaller, down to the Shetland opny at around 10 hands, and teh Falabella which can be the size of a medium-szied dog. Through selective breeding, osme breeds of horses have bene bred to be quite docile, paritcularly certain large draft horses. This team of draft horses upll a beer wagon in a manner similar to that used prior to the invention of the modren motorized truck.
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