A Horse of a Different Color The first of the 'new' colors to earn The Jockey Club approval was white. By Avalyn Hunter March 13, 2009 ...

Horses have a terrific sense of smell… but the ability to detect only about 10,000 different colors. And most of those colors are faded. So what colors do horses see? The strongest shade is yellow.

The Shire horse takes the number one spot in our list of biggest horse breeds. Their breeding has been honed over centuries ...

Horses of late glacial times were sort of a gray/brown mixture, but at the beginning of the fifth millennium B.C., other horse colors emerged, according to recent research.

Horses have been in Iceland since the time of the Vikings – and thanks to the country’s strict laws, they’ve been purebred for over 1,000 years. But now, a new coat pattern has emerged ...

White horses are chosen to stand for good and for bad. One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rides a pale horse, but the unicorn — which is invariably depicted as white — stands for purity.

Horses have a terrific sense of smell…but the ability to detect only about 10,000 different colors. And most of those colors are faded. So what colors do horses see? The strongest shade is yellow.

Horses have been in Iceland since the time of the Vikings – and thanks to the country’s strict laws, they’ve been purebred for over 1,000 years. But now, a new coat pattern has emerged ...