Horse Classification Paper

Essay by EssaySwap ContributorHigh School, 10th grade February 2008

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Everyone saw the Clysdale horses on the super bowl commercial, and Ill bet everyone looked at them in wonderment at their size, beauty, and grace of those horses. Millions of people bet on Thourobreds as they race down the track, their slender bodies flattened out against the wind, and don?t even know that there are other type of racing, using different horses. And lastly has anyone besides me ever marveled at the nimbleness, or the graceful way Arabian prance around and never seem to loose their breath? These three different types of horses that I just mentioned are the three categories in which horses are classified today, the Workhorse, the Racehorse, and the Endurance horse.

The workhorse, more commonly known as the Draft horse is a horse with little use in today?s world. Back before farm machinery, these massive horses were used to pull wagons filled with children and families; plows through muddy fields, and pull stumps out of the land.

Since these horses have been replaced, they can only be seen pulling small carriages, for wedding couples, or formals dances, or in pulling contests where team s are hitched to a machine called a Dynamometer, which measures in pounds a team can pull. Or they participate in shows, where owners prance their horses around judges to be judged on their beauty and size. Draft horses can be anywhere from six to twelve feet tall, and weigh in excess of 2 tons. They have heavy feathering on their feet to protect them from coarse bog grasses, and muddy swampy ground. The smallest breed of draft horse is the clysdale standing on average just over six feet tall. The clysdale is used more for shows, because of its attractive gaits, and can also be used for light urban work.