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... that in 2011 the American Quarter Horse stallion Mr San Peppy will join his son Peppy San Badger and his full brother Peppy San in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame?
...that Orlov trotters were the fastest racing horses of Europe until they were superseded by American Standardbreds in the 1870s?
... that athletes in the 1928 Winter Olympics competed in skijoring, a demonstration sport in which the competitors wore skis while being pulled behind horses?
... that the hipposandal was a metal shoe laced to horse hoofs in Celto-Roman countries?