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Horsch
Horsch is a German family-owned manufacturer of agricultural machinery for soil cultivation, seeding, and plant protection, founded by Michael Horsch in 1984 in Schwandorf, Bavaria, with 2025 revenue of 1.08 billion euros.
Horse
The horse (Equus caballus) is a large domesticated, hoofed, grazing mammal kept worldwide for riding, draft work, sport, and companionship; all modern breeds descend from a steppe lineage of 4,200 years ago.
Horse (novel)
Horse (2022) is Geraldine Brooks's Viking-published historical novel based on the record-breaking racehorse Lexington, braiding 1850s Kentucky, 1954 New York, and 2019 Washington DC; it won the 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and Anisfield-Wolf fiction awards.
HORSE (poker)
HORSE poker is a fixed-limit mixed-game format rotating through Hold'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Razz, Seven-Card Stud, and Stud Eight-or-Better; a WSOP staple since 2006 and part of PokerStars' WCOOP.
Horse (zodiac)
The Horse is the seventh animal of the twelve-year East Asian zodiac, paired with the branch 午 and assigned to people born in Horse years like 2026.
Horse and Woman and Dog (馬と女と犬)
Horse and Woman and Dog (馬と女と犬, Uma to Onna to Inu), aka Poaching Shore, is a 1990 Japanese pink film directed by Hisayasu Satō, written by Yumeno Shirō, about an amnesiac woman on a beach ruled by a sadistic queen; a record Shin Tōhō hit.
Horse breed
Horse breed: a recognized population of domestic horses defined by FAO criteria of visible traits or accepted separate identity; shaped by domestication 5,500 years ago, a Pontic-Caspian lineage dominant since 4,200 years ago, closed stud books, and conservation concerns.
Horse breeding
Horse breeding: controlled mating of domestic horses (Equus caballus) for riding, racing, draft, and conservation. Domesticated ~5,500 years ago; modern lineage spread from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe ~4,200 years ago; today uses AI, embryo transfer, ICSI, and genetic testing.
Horse colic
Horse colic (equine colic) is abdominal pain in horses, usually gastrointestinal, and the leading equine emergency. About 90% of cases resolve medically; surgical cases have 55–80% short-term survival. Key signs: pain, heart rate over 40 bpm, reduced gut sounds.
Horse culture
Horse culture: societies and communities whose way of life centers on herding, breeding, and riding horses, from Botai and steppe pastoralism to Plains Indigenous and modern rodeo cultures.
Horse Feathers
Horse Feathers is a 1932 Paramount Marx Brothers comedy directed by Norman Z. McLeod, the fourth Marx Brothers film, satirizing college football at Huxley College with the songs "I'm Against It" and "Everyone Says I Love You." Not the Dario Argento film or the Idles album.
Horse gait
Horse gait: the hoof-fall patterns of equine movement. Natural gaits are walk, trot, canter, gallop; gaited horses perform ambling gaits via the DMRT3_Ser301STOP mutation, traced to Medieval England (850–900 AD).
Horse Gate (Jerusalem)
The Horse Gate (Hebrew shaʿar hassusim, "Gate of the horses") was a gate of ancient Jerusalem on the east side, near the temple and palace.
Horse Girl
Horse Girl is a 2020 Netflix psychological drama directed by Jeff Baena, co-written with and starring Alison Brie as Sarah, whose dreams and sleepwalking blur reality; inspired by Brie's grandmother's paranoid schizophrenia, premiered at Sundance 2020.
Horse Guards
The Horse Guards (Конная гвардия) were a noble guards cavalry regiment of the Russian imperial court, named by Empress Anna Ioannovna in 1730 and disbanded after the Russian Revolution.
Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center
Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center is a 735.5 MW wind farm in Taylor and Nolan counties, Texas, the world's largest wind farm when completed in 2006.
Horse hoof
Horse hoof: the keratinized capsule (wall, sole, frog) of the equine foot, suspending the coffin bone via about 600 laminae; grows ~3/8 inch monthly, and conventional shoeing measurably restricts heel expansion versus barefoot.
Horse latitudes
The horse latitudes, also called the subtropical ridge, are subtropical high-pressure belts over the oceans near 30°–35° latitude, known for calm winds, hot dry weather, and nearby deserts like the Sahara.
Horse meat
Horse meat (hippophagy): meat from horses eaten as a lean red meat, protein like beef with about 20% less fat, high n-3 and heme iron; taboo in much of Europe and North America, common in Central Asia, Italy, France, and Belgium.
Horse Memorial
Horse Memorial, Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha): 1905 bronze and granite monument by Joseph Whitehead honoring horses that died in British service in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902; Provincial Heritage Site on Cape Road.
Horse of Selene
The Horse of Selene is a marble horse's head from the east pediment of the Parthenon, part of the team drawing the moon-goddess Selene's chariot, now in the British Museum.
Horse race (Horse_Race)
Horse race names two table games: a card game where four Aces race along a card course as the dealer flips the deck, with betting, Calcutta auction and drinking variants, and a domino game of the Fives Family (Seven-Toed Pete) with all doubles as spinners.
Horse race (Horserace)
Horse Race (Race Horse, Seven-Toed Pete variant) is a Fives Family domino game for 2-4 players with a double six set, all doubles as spinners, scoring multiples of five, played to 61 points; commercialized as RaceHorse by Ferman Rice in 1990.
Horse racing
Horse racing: sport of running horses at speed, mainly Thoroughbreds on the flat or Standardbreds in harness; ancient Olympic roots, first £40 purse under Richard I, UK industry worth £4.1 billion, US fatality rate 1.23 per 1,000 starts under HISA.
Horse racing in the United States
Horse racing in the United States: Thoroughbred, Standardbred, and Quarter Horse pari-mutuel racing dating to colonial times, home of the Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown, regulated nationally since 2020 by HISA with fatality rates falling to 1.04 per 1,000 starts in 2025.
Horse tack
Horse tack, also known as horse furniture or horse trappings, is the equipment placed on a horse for riding or driving, principally the saddle, bridle, bit, reins, and harness.
Horse teeth
Horse teeth are hypsodont, continuously erupting teeth adapted to grazing, with 2–4 mm yearly wear offset by eruption; care includes floating and wolf tooth removal, practiced since 1150 BCE Mongolia.
Horse Trading Bureau (Maimasi)
The Horse Trading Bureau (买马司) was the Southern Song office buying warhorses from Dali and southwest tribes at Hengshanzhai, established in Shaoxing 3 under Li Yu's proposal.
Horse trailer
Horse trailer (UK: horse box; Australia: horse float): a towed vehicle for carrying horses. Key facts: first recorded use 1771 for racehorse Eclipse; straight vs slant load; gooseneck hitches; 3,500 kg UK licence rules; butt bar safety.
Horse-drawn vehicle
A horse-drawn vehicle is a wheeled cart, wagon, carriage, or coach pulled by horses, the dominant road transport worldwide until automobiles displaced it in the twentieth century.